After listening to Søren's words.
A middle-aged man next to him frowned and looked at the body. There were very few drows in the Frost Kingdom, and there was no passage connecting to the Underdark. If he hadn't been in the Underdark for a long time, he wouldn't have recognized the Snake Head Whip because the Priest of the Queen of Spiders rarely fought. In Soran's memory, in addition to the believers of the Maiden of Pain, only the succubi in the abyss could give people a strange sense of pleasure when they were in pain.
The Maiden of Pain was one of the gods who was best at using whip weapons, only slightly worse than the Queen of Succubus.
The Queen of Spiders used the Snake Head Whip to torture the enemy.
The others were still holding funerals. The middle-aged woman invited Søren to the location of the Temple of Agriculture. There was a small town in front of them, but it was closed on all sides, and there were many guards nearby. A burly man who looked like a sheriff came over, glanced at Søren in front of him, and then bowed slightly to the Priest of the Goddess of Agriculture and said, "Priest Tina. Who is he? "
The middle-aged woman glanced at him and said slowly, "A traveling adventurer. Maybe he can help us. The evil degenerates have become more and more rampant recently. Now the number of people killed has reached more than a dozen. The residents of the town are a little panicked. We must stop this madness. "
The sheriff obviously wanted to say something, but he swallowed it back.
Since this happened more than half a month ago, the security team had not had the slightest clue, and the number of people killed increased again and again. At first, it was only one person. They could quietly cover it up and blame it on the ferocious bandits. But later, the number of people killed became two, and recently, three people were killed at the same time. Now, even an idiot knew that this was definitely not a simple murder case. Looking at their injuries, they didn't look like crazy murderers, but more like victims of some evil ritual.
Søren's eyes swept over him, and then stopped on a young man not far behind him. The other party noticed his gaze and avoided it. Although he didn't know why, he looked a little guilty. It was a skinny young man with brown hair and brown eyes. His legs seemed to be somewhat inconvenient, as if he was disabled.
Søren stopped, looked at the young man and asked, "Who is he?"
Hearing Søren's question, the young man subconsciously took half a step back. His eyes were slightly flustered.
The middle-aged woman seemed to have noticed something. She frowned and said, "He is a blacksmith's apprentice. One of the victims outside is a blacksmith."
Søren suddenly reached out and grabbed the young man's arm. With a twist of his hand, he pinned the young man to the ground.
This sudden turn of events caught everyone off guard. Before they could ask, Søren said in a deep voice, "Get someone to take off his clothes."
Everyone was stunned for a moment, but then the middle-aged woman gave the order with a serious expression.
"What are you doing? He was just an outsider! … You actually allowed him to attack me! The young man was obviously flustered. He struggled desperately and shouted at the same time, "I didn't kill anyone! … Everyone knows that my legs are inconvenient! … How could I kill Master Kent! … Not to mention killing the others! … I'm not the murderer! … "
The sheriff frowned and said in a deep voice, "Let him go. Corro is just a poor child. He never received any combat training. He can't even beat a wolf. There were trained guards among the victims. He can't be the murderer! "
Søren looked at him indifferently. He directly took off the young man's arm and said slowly, "I didn't say he was the murderer."
"Take off his clothes!"
The two guards looked at each other and took off the young man's clothes. Immediately, the scars on his back were exposed. The others couldn't help but feel sorry for him because there were many scars on the young man's body. It seemed that he was beaten a lot in the past. The status of an apprentice in this era was very low. Søren looked at the scars on his shoulder. They seemed to be left behind by someone in the past. The sheriff said that he was a poor child. It was probably because he knew what happened to him in the past.
But that wasn't what Søren was looking for!
He directly tore off the young man's clothes and saw a hideous scar. The other scars were left a long time ago, but this scar was very fresh. It should have been left in the past month.
Søren directly pressed the young man down, stepped on his neck with his foot, and said in a deep voice, "Has he been whipped recently?"
Whipping.
It was a very common punishment used to punish people who committed crimes.
"No." It was the middle-aged woman who answered Søren. She looked at the wound and frowned, "No one has been whipped recently. Our laws here rarely use whipping."
Søren retracted his foot, looked down at the silent young man on the ground, and said slowly, "Don't tell me you whipped yourself for no reason, and with a barbed whip!"
"He's a follower of the Maiden of Pain."
"It should be a ceremony that was held in the past month. The Maiden of Pain's followers have a whipping ceremony. They let people whip themselves with a barbed metal whip so that they can feel the power of pain and torture. I don't think I need to teach you what to do next, right? Find a way to pry open his mouth and make him tell you who the other followers are? The Maiden of Pain should have developed her religion here! "
Søren's expression was cold, and he didn't care about the sheriff's pale face. He had found a clue as soon as he arrived, but they had been busy for half a month without any results. This was a slap in the face!
"Take him away."
The middle-aged woman's face was very ugly. When it came to matters of faith, the priests would also become very cruel. She said in a deep voice, "Torture him! Make him tell us who else has fallen to the evil side! "
The young man was lifted up by two guards. He stared at Søren and the others nearby with vicious eyes. Finally, he looked at the middle-aged woman with a ferocious expression and said, "You will all die! After the Goddess of Pain comes, she will torture you severely! In the end, she will kill you all! You bunch of hypocrites! What a hypocritical demon! You hypocritical bitch! You watched my mother die of illness, but you didn't want to save her! You watched me being beaten by the blacksmith, but you didn't do anything! You hypocrites! I curse you all! I curse you all to hell!!! "
He had fallen to become a follower of the Goddess of Pain.
This young man must have experienced something bad. Unfortunately, Søren had no interest in knowing.
He also didn't have such strong sympathy. He just said in a deep voice, "The followers of the Goddess of Pain have a high tolerance for pain. I think you'd better use some clever means when you torture him."
The middle-aged woman's face was pale. She gave a look to a person next to her, then nodded slightly to Søren and said, "Thank you. Adventurer. "
"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have found someone who had fallen to this point so quickly."
She led Søren to the temple, and the guard next to her dragged the young man away. The sheriff's face was gloomy for a while, then he followed them and kicked the young man hard. Since someone had fallen to the evil god's side, there must be more than one. There were actually followers of evil gods here, but as the sheriff, he didn't know anything about it. This would definitely cause his prestige to plummet!
The Temple of Agriculture.
There was a fountain in front of the shrine, and there were pools on all four sides. There were also plants planted there, and many pictures were carved on the walls. In the center was the statue of a beautiful and refined goddess. She had a gentle smile on her face, and her arms were spread out as if she was hugging something. There was a faint light inside the shrine. This was a place that was enveloped by divine power. It seemed that people often held sacrificial ceremonies here. The Goddess of Agriculture was a powerful goddess, and her temple was covered by more power than many other gods.
The middle-aged woman asked someone to bring a glass of water, then raised her hand and made an inviting gesture.
Søren glanced around and saw the statues of the Goddess of the River and the Goddess of the Lake in the side hall. The fields needed water to irrigate, and these two weak gods were the most important gods of the Goddess of Agriculture.
The middle-aged woman looked at him and smiled, "There should be news coming soon."
"I'm very grateful for your help. If you need, I can arrange for your accommodation. You look like you've been traveling for a long time. Maybe you need a good rest here. "
Søren nodded slightly and took a sip of the water.
The water had a hint of sweetness. This was the raw material of the temple's holy water. The water was purified by divine power when it passed through the temple.
The foundation of a temple was the accumulation of hundreds of years.
The sheriff didn't let them wait too long, but the news he brought was not good. He walked in with a gloomy face, bowed slightly and said, "Pastor Tina. No matter how we interrogated him, he wouldn't speak. He just kept cursing us. "
"I think his mind has been controlled by the evil god!"
The middle-aged pastor's face instantly turned gloomy. She glanced coldly at the sheriff in front of her and said slowly, "I only care about the results. I don't want to hear your incompetent excuses!"
The sheriff's face suddenly turned pale. He wanted to refute but didn't dare to speak.
The sheriff was not a noble. He was just an elected administrator. His status was not higher than a knight, let alone an abbot of a temple.
Søren frowned and stood up. He said slowly, "Let me do it."
"The Maiden of Pain is also the Goddess of Torture. Her believers have some special abilities after the ceremony. Many cruel tortures can't destroy their minds. If there is no special means, there is no way to make them speak through normal torture. "
The middle-aged woman nodded and immediately said, "Thank you, sir."
"When we get rid of this group of fallen, the temple will definitely reward you."
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