Sacred objects did not reveal any obvious Path characteristics while sealed.
Minister Griffiths had clearly not finished unsealing it. Otherwise, Lily should have been able to "loot" it from the corpse.
Therefore, it was hardly strange that the Arbitration Hall, the Inspectorate, and the Bureau of Supervision had investigated it three times without discovering anything. After all, no one dared casually lay hands on a holy statue. They probably did not even dare touch it.
Although the Nine Pillar Gods and the Heavenly Angels were limited in number, there were by no means few Apostles.
The Nine Pillar God Church allowed worship of all nine current Nine Pillar Gods and their Apostles, and did not restrict belief in the Heavenly Angels or their Apostles. Only formal worship of the Heavenly Angels and their Apostles by dwarves, or outright offering sacrifices to them, was considered illegal.
There were so many Apostles—who could tell which ones were lawful and which ones were illegal? Perhaps some inconspicuous holy statue was actually the worldly visage of a Heavenly Angel or even a Nine Pillar God, or an incarnation they had once used! For example, placing a holy statue from the era of Arthur, the Silver Crowned Dragon, in a room, then putting a holy statue of a Bear Angel and a holy statue of another Nine Pillar God at the same height above it would unquestionably constitute blasphemy. And if one was not well versed in religious studies, one might even mistake Arthur for a knight under the Silver Crowned Dragon and throw Arthur's statue away along with the Bear Angel's statue.
No matter how it was handled, it was easy for something serious to happen.
Therefore, according to procedure, such matters were usually left to professionals from the Nine Pillar God Church.
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