Escalated

This piece of crucifixion is first notified to the priest of a local monastery by a passing by merchant. The priest is a veteran that retired after losing his ability to fight in a naval engagement with the pirates, and so he got allocated here to be a priest and he instantly realised the importance of this message. He went to the spot and check for himself, upon reaching the piece of crucifixion he instantly realised one thing, that is the corpse being hang upside down is donning the standard inner cloth of the Thessaloniki Army.