Layers upon layers of pale green light barriers descended from the sky.
Salia-Na's phantom appeared, carrying God-Blessed Archbishop Ude with it!
Most of the restrictions within the city converged here, exerting their suppressive force.
Not long ago, while Ude had been arranging an investigation into the suspected infiltration of a god within the city, he received word.
The treasury of the central temple had been robbed.
An inspection revealed that
the [Crescent Ornament] and several other treasures had vanished without a trace.
Astonishingly, no one in the entire temple had noticed!
Had the temple in the Outer City District not received a suspicious anonymous tip, they would likely have remained in the dark.
Who could sneak into the temple treasury without anyone noticing?
Ude immediately thought of that furtive god who had slipped into the city.
From that fleeting sensation of divine power, he could tell that the other party was a weak god.
In the lower realm, without the guidance of a specific ritual, a god's power was usually greatly diminished.
Could that unknown deity have sneaked in merely to steal a demigod artifact?
But considering the anomaly in the moon phases and Prince Ayub's assassination attempt, Ude had no choice but to connect these incidents.
After all, conspiracies never acted alone.
Sneaking in so mysteriously and furtively—if they were not an evil god, then they harbored evil intentions!
But the Crescent Moon Cult and the Golden Unfallen Imperial City were not to be trifled with either!
Salia-Na had merely lost contact temporarily.
The foundations they had accumulated over the years were enough to deal with an ordinary weak god.
Then Ude heard that a Garrison outpost in the city had been attacked.
Coincidence upon coincidence was no coincidence at all.
Acting on the principle of killing by mistake