Forty Lessons: Money Has Never Been a Hot Potato

Colin covered his nose as he entered the underground area of the abandoned fortress—although they hadn't stormed in with troops last night, the Pantheon Church had long since considered this fortress a thorn in their side, and the individuals who had reported the issues were problematic; the Church's Proxies had confirmed their status overnight, discovering that their memories were either altered or they had been paid to make malicious accusations.

The former were immediately thrown into a treatment center—memory modification is a fairly dangerous Spell Formation; if the modification is done with good intentions, the safety of the subject is taken into greater consideration during the process, whereas malicious modifications involve the insertion of certain special memories into the subject's mind, which can be used not only for deception but also to kill—after all, the dead usually don't speak.