A show of force!
There was no doubt about it.
Whether the three "Arbitrators" before him were acting on someone's orders or on their own initiative, they had already begun showing hostility.
And given the restrictions placed on the "Arbitrators," the former was far more likely.
Then who had given the orders?
The answer was obvious.
Certain people within the Sacred Heritage Society who had once opposed the Griffin Church and did not want to see it return.
Qin Ran knew little about the Griffin Church's past conflicts with certain churches within the Sacred Heritage Society. If possible, he wanted no part in them.
But that did not mean he would show mercy to anyone who approached him with hostility.
Whatever their motives, hostility was hostility!
Whoosh!
An aberrant aura swept toward him like a fierce wind.
Yet when it came within a few steps of Qin Ran, it abruptly stopped, as though it had struck an invisible wall.
Everyone froze.
Rodney, Yuwuna, and Dan, who knew what the three "Arbitrators" were capable of, looked particularly surprised.
But that surprise immediately turned to horror.
After coming to a halt, the aberrant aura surged back toward its source.
With more than ten times its previous force.
If the aberrant aura had been a fierce wind before, it was now a towering wave, bearing down on the three "Arbitrators" with crushing power.
The roar ringing in the onlookers' ears made its terrifying force unmistakable.
Facing the aberrant aura head-on, the three "Arbitrators" felt their vision darken. They seemed to see a seven-headed monster roaring at them.
Their brains reeled.
Their thoughts dissolved into a muddle.
Their bodies stumbled backward uncontrollably until they struck the steps behind them and fell to the ground.
The box one of them had been holding flew into