Chapter 908: Reputation
For five days in a row, Navia City had been steeped in an inexplicably strange atmosphere.
Any priests, deacons, or servants of the Wealth Temple who dared leave the Temple District met violent deaths, each in a different bizarre manner.
Throat-slitting, backstabbing, poisoning—there was no end to the methods.
It was not just the Wealth Temple. The Sin Temple, which had deep ties to the Wealth Temple, suffered the same fate.
Moreover, what surprised everyone most was that the killer made no attempt to hide anything.
On the corpses, green stones stood out with striking clarity.
Greenstone, an organization that already made people in Navia City pale at the very mention of its name, had in just a few days gained a reputation beyond the reach of other organizations.
Yet people were very interested in the organization's origins.
Rumors had always circulated in Navia City that Greenstone was a subordinate force of some Temple.
Over the past few days, many people had begun declaring with absolute certainty that Greenstone was a subordinate force of the Thorn Temple.
It was simply too obvious!
Every assassination targeted the Wealth Temple and matters or people connected to it.
As for the Thorn Temple hiring killers?
That was impossible.
No one believed that the Thorn Lady would do such a thing.
In fact, even the possibility that Greenstone was a subordinate force of the Thorn Temple was shocking enough.
If another rumor had not emerged, many followers of the Thorn Temple would likely have wavered in their faith.
And compared to the previous rumor, this new one was far more captivating.
This rumor had spread from within the Temple District—
A female deacon of the Thorn Temple had encountered Greenstone's leader while investigating the theft of the Thorn Grail. During their