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"Impossible?!"

A short-haired young man stepped forward, disbelief written all over his face.

"Didn't Fei Ye go take part in a Public Challenge? With her strength, how could an ordinary Public Challenge possibly kill her?!"

A young woman beside him frowned tightly. "And she had a Holy Crystal on her. That was a divine artifact bestowed by the gods!"

Fei Ye was not the strongest of the seven core priests, but she certainly had plenty of means to save her life. More importantly, her faith in Audela, the Goddess of Light, was exceptionally devout, and she could already use the Holy Crystal to pray over vast distances.

Even if she truly encountered danger she could not resist, as long as she successfully prayed to the goddess, she might still have had a chance of survival.

But the facts lay before them. Her Soul Lamp had gone out.

The leading woman stared at the completely extinguished wick. After a moment, she spoke calmly.

"Fei Ye can die. That item cannot be lost."

The temple immediately fell silent.

The Holy Crystal was no ordinary item. It was a divine artifact bestowed by the gods, steeped in the power of the God of Light for a long time. It was also one of the few mediums through which Crimson Moon could pray to Audela across immense distances. Even Crimson Moon only possessed a handful of them.

If Fei Ye had merely died to the rules or monsters within a challenge, and the Holy Crystal had been permanently lost when the challenge space closed, there was nothing they could do no matter how heartbroken they were.

But if she had died at the hands of another player... then that Holy Crystal had most likely fallen into someone else's possession.

The leading woman instructed the