After listening to Sauron's words.
A middle-aged man next to him frowned and looked at the corpse. There are very few drows in the Ice and Snow Kingdom, and there are no passages connecting to the Underdark. If the Snake Head Whip hadn't been in the Underdark for a long time, he probably wouldn't have been able to recognize it, because the priests of the Spider God Queen rarely fought. It can make people feel a strange pleasure in pain. In Sauron's memory, apart from the believers who whipped the girl, only the succubus in the abyss can do it.
The Lash Maiden is one of the gods who are best at using whip weapons, only slightly worse than the Succubus Queen.
The Spider Queen's use of the Serpent's Whip is all about torturing her enemies.
The others were still holding funerals. The middle-aged woman invited Sauron to the location of the Temple of Agriculture. A small town could be seen ahead, but it was closed on all sides, and there were many guards nearby. A burly man dressed as a sheriff came over, glanced at Sauron in front of him, then leaned slightly towards the priest of the Goddess of Agriculture, and said, "Priest Tinar. Who is he?"
The middle-aged woman glanced at him, and slowly said: "A traveling adventurer, maybe he can help us. Those evil depraved people have become more and more rampant recently, and now the number of people killed is almost ten. Many people, the residents of the town are a little panicked, we must stop this crazy behavior."
The sheriff obviously opened his mouth to say something, but swallowed it back.
Since this incident happened more than half a month ago, the security team has not had the slightest clue. The number of people killed has increased one after another. At the beginning, it was only one person. However, the number of people killed later became two, and recently three people were killed at the same time. Even idiots now know that this is definitely not a simple murder case. Judging from the injuries on their bodies, they don't look like some crazy perverted killers, but more like victims of some evil ritual.
Sauron's gaze swept over him, and then stopped for a moment on a young man not far behind him. The other party dodged a little after noticing his gaze. Although he didn't know why, he seemed a little guilty. It was a thin young man with brown hair and brown eyes, and his legs and feet seemed to be somewhat inconvenient, as if he was a little disabled.
Sauron stopped, looked at the young man and asked, "Who is he?"
Hearing Sauron's inquiry, the young man obviously took half a step back subconsciously, his eyes slightly flustered.
The middle-aged woman seemed to have sensed something, and frowned, "He is a blacksmith's apprentice, and one of the victims outside was a blacksmith."
Sauron suddenly grabbed the young man's arm, and then twisted his backhand to push him to the ground.
This unexpected situation caught everyone else off guard. Before they could ask, Sauron said in a deep voice, "Have someone take off his clothes."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, but then the middle-aged woman ordered people to do it with a solemn face.
"What are you doing!... He is just a foreigner!... You actually let him do it to me!..." The young man visibly panicked, struggling desperately, and shouted at the same time: "I didn't kill anyone!... Everyone Knowing that I have a handicap!... how could I kill Master Karna!... let alone kill other people!... I am not a murderer!... "
The sheriff obviously frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Let him go. Kerro is just a poor kid. He has never received combat training, and he can't even beat a wolf. Among the people who were killed were trained guard. He can't be the murderer!"
Soran glanced at him indifferently, and directly removed the young man's arm, and said slowly, "I didn't say he was the murderer."
"Take off his clothes!"
The two guards glanced at each other and took off the young man's clothes, revealing many scars on his back. The others couldn't help showing their faces when they saw it, because the young man had many scars on his body. beaten. The status of apprentices in this era was very low. Sauron glanced at the scar on his shoulder, which seemed to be left from being beaten in the past. The sheriff said he was a poor child, probably because he knew what happened to him before.
But this is not what Sauron is looking for!
He directly tore off the young man's clothes, and then saw a hideous scar. The other scars were all left a long time ago, but this scar was very fresh, and it should have been left in the last month.
Sauron directly pushed the young man down, stepped on his neck, and said in a deep voice, "Has he been whipped recently?"
Caning.
A very common penalty used to punish someone who has committed a crime.
"No." It was a middle-aged woman who answered Sauron. She glanced at the wound and frowned. "No one has been whipped recently. Our laws rarely use caning."
Sauron retracted his feet, looked down at the silent young man on the ground, and said slowly: "Don't tell me you whipped yourself for nothing, and you still whipped yourself hard with a barbed whip A bit!"
"He's a believer in whipping girls."
"It should be a ceremony held within the last month. The believers of whipping girls have a whipping ceremony. People whip themselves with a thorny metal whip, so that they can feel the power of pain and torture. I don't need to teach you next. ? Find a way to pry his mouth open and let him tell who are the other believers? The whip girl should have developed her faith here!"
Sauron's expression was cold, and he didn't pay attention to the ashen face of the sheriff. He found the clue just after he came over, but they had been busy for half a month without any achievements. This was a blatant slap in the face!
"Take him down."
The middle-aged woman's face was ugly, and the priest would become very cruel when it comes to matters of faith. She said in a deep voice, "Torture him! Let him tell who else has fallen into the camp of evil gods!"
The young man was picked up by two guards. He stared at Sauron and other people nearby with vicious eyes, and finally looked at the middle-aged woman with a ferocious expression and said: "You will all die! After the goddess of pain comes, she will be cruel. Torture you hard! Kill you all! You hypocritical bastards! Hypocritical devils! You hypocritical bitch! You watched my mother die but refused to save her! You watched me being beaten by the blacksmith But do nothing! You hypocrites! I curse you! I curse you all to hell!!!”
Degenerated to become a worshiper of the Goddess of Torment.
This young man must have experienced something bad, but Sauron had no interest in knowing about it.
He didn't have that strong sympathy either, he just said in a deep voice: "The believer who tortured the goddess has a strong tolerance for pain. I think you'd better use some clever methods when you torture him."
The middle-aged woman gave a look to the person next to her with a livid face, then nodded slightly to Sauron and said, "Thank you, adventurer."
"If it weren't for you, I'm afraid it would be difficult for us to find someone who has fallen to such a degree so quickly."
She led Sauron towards the temple, and the guard next to him dragged the young man away. The sheriff's face was cloudy for a while, and he followed, and kicked the young man hard. Now that some people have fallen into the camp of the evil gods, there must not be only one. There are believers of the evil gods here to develop their beliefs, but as a sheriff, he doesn't know anything about it. This will definitely cause his prestige to plummet!
Temple of Agriculture.
There is a fountain in front of the temple, surrounded by pools, and plants are planted. There are many pictures carved on the wall. In the center is a goddess with a beautiful face and a soft smile. She spread her hands as if to embrace something. Inside the temple There is a faint light, this is a place shrouded by divine power, and it seems that people often hold dedication ceremonies here. As a powerful deity, the Goddess of Agriculture is more powerful than many deities shrouded in her temple.
The middle-aged woman asked someone to bring a glass of water, and raised her hand as an invitation gesture.
Sauron glanced around and saw the statues of the Goddess of the River and the Goddess of the Lake in the side hall. Farmland needs water to irrigate. These two weak gods are the most important gods of the Goddess of Agriculture.
The middle-aged woman glanced at him, smiled and said, "There should be news soon."
"I am very grateful for your help. If you need it, I can arrange for your accommodation. You seem to have been traveling for a long time. Maybe you need to take a good rest here."
Sauron nodded slightly, picked up the water glass and took a sip.
The clear water has a hint of sweetness. This is the raw material for making the holy water of the temple. The water source is purified by divine power when it passes through the temple.
The background of a temple is the accumulation of hundreds of years.
As expected, the magistrate didn't keep them waiting for too long, but what he brought was not good news. He walked in with an ugly face, leaned slightly and said, "Pastor Tinar, no matter how much we torture him, he won't open his mouth. keep cursing us."
"I think he has been controlled by the evil god!"
The face of the middle-aged pastor turned ugly in an instant. She glanced coldly at the sheriff in front of her, and said slowly, "I only care about the result, and I don't want to hear your incompetent excuses!"
The magistrate's expression turned livid, as if he wanted to open his mouth to refute but dared not speak.
Officials are not aristocrats, but just elected managers. Their status will not be higher than knights, let alone an abbot priest of a temple.
Sauron stood up frowning, and said slowly, "Let me do it."
"The Flogging Girl is also a goddess of torture. His followers have some special abilities after performing the ceremony. Many tortures can't destroy their hearts. If there is no special method, there is no way for normal torture to make them speak."
The middle-aged woman nodded, and immediately said, "Excuse me, Your Excellency."
"When this group of fallen people is resolved, the temple will definitely reward you with the reward you deserve."
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