Chapter Twenty-Three: The Evil Spirit Cult Haunts
"Master!"
Kalijie knelt on the ground and looked up at the Cult Master of the Evil Soul Sect who held the Book of Evil Spirits.
"Lost Lamb, offer your praise for tonight."
The Cult Master of the Evil Spirit Sect looked at Calijie, his blue-gray face, his lips moving slightly, and he said a prayer.
"Yes, Master!"
Kalize's eyes were dull, and when he heard the words of the Evil Spirit Sect Master, he suddenly stopped his body and pulled out the short knife on the waistband of his pants.
"Wow"
With a swipe, Calijie made a huge cut in his wrist.
Blood flowed down the mouth, the inscription that ran from his wrist all the way to the ground, pouring into an eye of truth beneath the statue of the evil ghost.
"The truth is with me."
Kalijie's face turned pale, and he let the blood flow, but did not stop it.
"Get up."
The Evil Spirit Sect Leader felt a fresh force surging into his body, and his expression was full of joy and sickly madness.
"Go and kneel."
As soon as Kalijie stood up and didn't say a word, a serving Evil Spirit Sect nun beside the Evil Spirit Sect Master reached out and pulled Kalijie over.
"Wait."
"Sect Master, I still have something to report!"
Khalijie, who had already been pulled away by the nun for some distance, suddenly broke free from the nun's pull and knelt down in front of the leader of the Evil Spirit Cult again.
"Oh."
"Lost lamb."
"Is it news about that Highness Romney?"
The leader of the Evil Spirit Cult raised his head and closed his eyes as he listened to the prayers of the hundreds of Evil Spirit Cultists in front of him.
At this point, Callie said again that he didn't open his eyes, just a faint response.
"Yes!"
Kalijie looked up at the high Sect Master, his tone determined.
"Hmm."
"I know about him."
"You go back."
The sect leader hummed and said no more.
Hearing the sect leader's words, Kalijie was a little stunned, and then before she could ask any questions, the nun next to her pulled Kalijie away again.
Kneeling between the cultists, Callie was full of doubts.
But soon, the sound of prayer and faith in the church once again annihilated her reason.
She spent the night in prostrations and prayers.
Early in the morning of the second day.
Khalijie is dead.
Died of blood loss.
The Cult of the Evil Spirit did not spare Khalitier's corpse.
Her body was sacrificed to the messengers of the spirits, the devourers.
The City Lord's Mansion did not know that Cality was dead, and the City Lord did not care about the departure of his assistant, or did not realize that one of his more than a dozen female assistants was missing.
The town of Shining Gold continues to be quiet, calm and steady.
Until one day, thousands of corpses were dug up in a Mithril mine in the east of the city.
The corpses were all shriveled, and some even had no internal organs.
After an on-site investigation, the city guards of Shining Gold Town reported a report on the cult sacrifice ceremony.
The city lord in charge of regional security was shocked to find out that there was a cult in Shanjin Town.
The matter of cults is related to faith.
As soon as the excavation began, the Holy See immediately sent the Archbishop of the Duchy of Violet, the closest to the province of Lodos, Pablo, to take charge of the matter personally.
Pablo arrived quickly, and within three days he brought the Holy Knights, the Holy Word Priesthood, to the town of Shining Gold and launched a detailed investigation.
The investigation made people panic, and chickens flew and dogs jumped.
Originally, the miners and blacksmiths who were divided into mining, smelting, and casting were all shocked by the sacrifice of this cult.
Many people packed up their homes and began to flee from Shining Gold Town from afar.
Just when everyone was in a panic, the Holy See was investigating closely but could not find anything.
Romney arrives at the sacrificial point of the Mithril Mine.
"Are you sure it was the Evil Spirit Cult that did it?"
Romney stood in front of the Truth of the Sacrificial Circle, looked at the altar that had been cleaned up, and turned back to his red-haired men.
"Sure it is."
"The Lord said that he would leave with a false intention and lead the serpent out of the hole."
"As soon as you left on your front foot, the Evil Spirit Cult appeared on your back foot."
The red-haired man is the leader of the Hunters, one of Romney's most capable men.
"I thought it would be the Celestial Exorcist who drew it out."
"I didn't think the Cult of Evil Spirits was here."
"This little Shining Gold Town is really a Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger!"
Romney looked at the red-haired man and muttered to himself.
Things did turn out in a way that Romney had expected.
After capturing Xiao Aba at the beginning, he had a plan, ready to come and attack the west, plus return the horse pistol, and catch the heavenly exorcists who might come to the rescue by surprise.
But he never thought that as soon as he left, the first person to appear was not the Heavenly Exorcist, but the Evil Spirit Sect.
But it wasn't the most unexpected for him.
The most unexpected thing for Romney was the presence of traitors in the hunt.
The traitor also left the little Aba who was used as bait.
"Lord."
"Are you going to hunt down that traitor?"
The red-haired man was half-kneeling on the ground, looking up at Romney seriously and reproachfully.
"That's it."
"It's more important for you to go back and check the team than to hunt down the traitor."
Romney waved his hand, not bothering about the fleeing hunters.
The team is big, and the expansion is too rapid.
Naturally, people with ulterior motives will be mixed in.
I haven't found it before, but it hasn't reached the critical moment yet.
At this time, he would rather be exposed than save Xiao Aba, and you can imagine Xiao Aba's status among the Heavenly Exorcists.
With such an important rescue, it is impossible to have no backhand.
Hunting again, the poor man counterattacked, increasing casualties.
It is better to take this opportunity to check the team and solve the potential hidden dangers.
"Yes!"
The red-haired man clasped his palms together, got up, and left the altar.
"Alan Sid."
Romney watched the red-haired man's voice lead the way away and whispered his name.
Alan Sid.
The Ninth Knight under Bane Hamm.
Rank Great Knight, good at using fire-based fighting energy.
He once followed Bane Hamm to fight against the Northern Barbarians, and participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Hydra Demon Dragon.
The achievements are great and the reputation is far and wide.
After following Romney, he has always been Romney's most powerful left arm and right arm in charge of hunting.
But when Romney recited Alan Sid's words at this time, there was a deep suspicion.
That's not conviction, and it's suspicious.
Romney himself knows why he is suspicious.
When he left Shining Gold, he didn't inform the hunters, and naturally he didn't tell Alan Sid.
But when he came back to Shining Gold Town again, the leader of the hunters suddenly came to report halfway to report that Xiao Aba was arrested, the Evil Spirit Sect haunted, and the Holy See sent people to suppress the demons.
These things are not trivial, but they should not be reported by Alan Sid at all.
Even, it shouldn't be his care.
But Romney didn't say much, he just watched all the way to this altar.
He was waiting, waiting for this chess piece, the moment it exploded.
But this way, it was uneventful.
Romney, who was a little uncertain, could only press his doubts for the time being and deal with the incident of the Evil Spirit Sect first.