Before the door was fully opened, a strange sound came from within it.

Seeing the door to Rotes' hideout gradually open, the mercenaries have different feelings, ranging from anticipation of the battle to worries about Rotes' strength

Soon, the structure of the temple was revealed.

Judging from the layout of the temple before, the most central area of the temple should have been a flat land. But now, a building that is clearly only recently built has appeared.

The building is not very tall, about three meters long, but because it is in the temple, this slightly abrupt building almost reaches the roof of the temple. The shape is square, a huge eyeball that is tightly closed is exposed through the gap in the front of the building, and on the side, there are dozens of octopus tentacles hanging weakly on the ground. Apparently, the Apostle Lotus was 'hiding' in this building.

In addition to this, there are dozens of people in the temple dressed in GBL religious costumes. The eyes of these people were red, but they were surprisingly not as aggressive as the people in the camp, but were neatly carrying out repairs to the building where Lotus was hiding, and it was here that the strange sound came from.

So, Lotus controlled the cultists in order to build him a house?

After entering, without saying a word, the mercenaries began to hunt down those GBL cultists. This is the lair of the Apostle Lotus, and for now, it is clear that these people are under the control of Lotus. If these cultists were allowed to exist, once the battle was lost, Lotus controlled them to turn into octopuses and join the battle, and this sudden increase in power was enough to turn the tide of the battle.

"Are you here for revenge again? It took a long time to gather forces this time. After killing more than a dozen GBL cultists, the huge eyes on the front of the strange building slowly opened, and glanced at the mercenaries who were still slaughtering GBL cultists, and an idea was sent out by Lotus towards the mercenaries, which was the ability of Lotus to launch a telepathic transmission to the mercenaries.

However, the effect of this skill, which belongs to spiritual power, is greatly resisted by the bracelets worn by the mercenaries. Eventually, the transmission that reached everyone's hearts became extremely vague.

As a result, the mercenaries couldn't understand the specific meaning of Lotus Transmission. In the mercenaries' understanding, it was clear that this was a sign that the terrifying octopus monster, which was twice the size of the black octopus, was ready to attack.

Thinking of this, not only did they ignore Rotes' transmission, but the mercenaries' actions to kill the cultists became a little faster.

I'm afraid that the only two people here who can hear Lotus can hear the sound are Nia and Stara. After the transformation, the original inferior bracelet has been transformed into an artifact-level item 'Interference Launcher'. At the same time, due to the limited materials required for production, Nia only made her own and Sitana's part.

[Interference Launcher] Artifact quality, immune to Rotus' psychic attacks, and reduces the effect of other Apostles' control skills by 15%.

But whether they want to avenge the controlled GBL cultists or return to the continent of Arad, they must kill the enemies in front of them. Therefore, even being able to hear Lotus's telepathic voice is meaningless.

"You're asking for your own suffering." Lotus can be said to not care much about the cultists outside who have completely turned into octopuses, but these cultists who are still in the pre-to-mid-conversion stage are an important force that can help it survive the difficult winter. Because of this, seeing the mercenaries killing the disciples, Lotus finally couldn't sit still.

Because of the lack of physical strength, Lotus is now more accustomed to using mind control to attack, but when it controls as usual, it unexpectedly discovers that the tricks that have been tried and tested before have not had the desired effect this time.

"This can't be, how can you not be controlled!" Seeing that his attack was completely ineffective, Lotus cried out in surprise. But no one paid any attention to it.

Watch as the number of cultists rapidly decreases under the hunt of intruders. As a last resort, Lotus eventually had to wave his tentacles to perform physical attacks that he was not very good at.

The huge tentacles that had been hanging around the building began to tremble. Immediately afterward, several of the tentacles finally broke away and shot out towards the mercenaries with a strong wind. In fact, due to the extreme scarcity of water here, and the fact that it had not used its tentacles to fight for a long time, Rotus's attack was much stiffer than it used to be.

Taking advantage of this gap, Lotus quickly controlled the remaining cultists and hid behind him. If he wants to survive the winter, these humans who can dig up underground water sources and build a 'big bath' for him are indispensable. Because of this, it is easily reluctant to let these people become combat power.

The results of the attack were soon apparent, and several deep craters appeared on the temple floor. In terms of power alone, Rotus' attack power is even twice as high as that of the Black Octopus.

But with the exception of a handful of people, no one was harmed in the attack. The reason is simple, the speed of the Lotus tentacle is not very fast, and coupled with the single attack path, Nia just jumped back slightly, and easily dodged the octopus tentacle that shot at her.

If you can't hit, what's the use of an attack, no matter how high the damage is?

And after dodging the first wave of attacks, the mercenaries' eyes immediately lit up with a light called hope. If the battle had remained at this level, it would not have been difficult for them to defeat the huge monster in front of them, which was obviously immobile.

Although the tentacles did not cause much damage to the mercenaries, at least under the cover of the attack, the controlled GBL cultists managed to hide behind the building where Octopus Lotus was hiding.

After controlling the GBL cultists to hide, Lotus immediately changed his attack method, and before it was mainly worried about accidentally injuring the cultists, it had only used stabbing attacks, but now, it finally did not need to have any scruples.

Originally, if all these people could be controlled to help him build a hiding place, it would definitely be the best solution, but since the mind control was ineffective, in order to keep his own territory, Lotus could only kill the killer.

Several tentacles were entangled, and a huge meteor hammer with a diameter of one and a half meters and composed entirely of tentacles appeared. Then, the tentacle sledgehammer swept sideways towards the mercenary.

Although in terms of speed, the Meteor Sledgehammer is not much different from the previous stabbing attack, but trying to dodge this attack is far from being as easy as before.