Dark magic enveloped the entire temple
A few minutes after passing out, Lindel gains consciousness. Finding out that all of them have passed out, he finds Makoto and Eiko first. Searching other buildings, other floors, he could not find those two. Hoping that Ludociel and Ailester can help in search of Makoto and Eiko, he returned to the main building only to find men in black killing the gatherers mercilessly as they are unconscious. Due to anger, he tackled them head using divine magic where that puts him to a disadvantage against numbers. He is standing alone wherein the men in black are fifteen in numbers. However Lindel believes quality over quantity which is no matter the numbers, he knows he is stronger. He fought only for his strikes to be dodge making his attacks useless.
The leader of the group then walk towards him then instantly killed him.
News spread far and wide of the greatest massacre ever known concerning the temple,those men in black killing over 200 priests and priestess declining the people needed to run the Great Temple and the other ones as well. What's more to the people's surprise is that the head priest Ludociel getting killed, the grandmaster of holy knights Ailester getting killed and the great hero who have saved the capital from ferocious and aggressive monsters died.
Five more years have passed the temple is unable to recover from that loss, and still have not discovered the location of Makoto and Eiko.