"Did you find a clue?" Frod hurriedly pressed. "Did you find out who they were sacrificing to?"
From what Frod had learned from Little Saim, it had not been just the farm owner conducting sacrifices back then. Many of the town's influential figures had taken part as well.
This was a typical case of collective sacrifice, with humans as the primary offerings, steeped in a primitive style. In past records of the Wizarding World, such cases had a high chance of involving an evil god from another world, using sacrifices to deepen its connection with the Wizarding World and eventually enter it.
Such situations were common among the primitive tribes of the Feran Continent. Thus, every so often, wizard organizations across the lands issued missions for their subordinates to purge such sacrificial incidents from the primitive tribes of the Feran Continent.
Dru shook his head. "We still don't know whom they were sacrificing to."
Frod's brows furrowed slightly. "Then the clue you found was...?"
Dru looked somewhat embarrassed. "The clue was found by the Royal Knights. Even now, we cannot confirm whether it is related to the collective sacrifice incident. But based on certain conjectures, the two might be connected in some way we have yet to discover."
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Dru adjusted his reading glasses and gestured for Frod to enter the castle first.
As they walked into Star-Lake Castle, Dru began recounting the clue the Royal Knights had discovered in Dawn Town of the Silver Yun Duchy.
Dru's account was clear and straightforward, and Frod quickly grasped the general situation.
It began with the Royal Knights' investigation into the farm owner's sacrifices.
Since the Silver Yun Duchy was a vassal state of the Central Empire, the Silver Heron Royal Family's knights enjoyed lofty status in the