Chapter 8: Emergencies
Maria, who was staying on the sofa at home and resting in her regular clothes, found that her body was out of control again, and she almost lost her tension.
'The World'! I just got out of the shower!
As the saying goes, the white-haired girl certainly knows what state she is in at the moment, and she immediately wants to greet the 'world' that claims to be the savior.
But considering that the outer gods are all capricious existences, she still didn't recite them silently from her heart.
The Transcendent World Mind Reading Technique is not a means that is difficult to reproduce, and if you read it, you may be downgraded into a 'Chaos Egg' that can only hatch your clans in the next second.
[Ah, I was going to be played with less than half a day after being trained by the devil, what a hard life. 】
The girl has only one thought in her heart at the moment, destroy it, hurry up, tired.
The left hand summoned the Great Arcana brand 'chariot' and crushed it, and the magic pattern on the body activated the armament and the whole person entered a state of standby.
Picking up the crossbow and greatsword on the weapon rack, a burst of light lit up from the ground and enveloped her body, transporting Maria away from the room.
……
A corner of the slum on the outskirts of the city.
In the middle of a remote church there is an old stone altar, the edges of which are torn by age.
"Woo......"
Five little girls with their hands and feet tied, blindfolded with black cloth, sat on the altar crying.
The altar was surrounded by red candles, the light of which reflected on the white, abnormal, unwavering faces of the men in black.
They formed a circle around the altar and opened their mouths together.
"Good and evil are illusions, but vanity is eternal."
"O O All-Knowing and Almighty, our servants have sacrificed five pure maidens to you today......"
Led by the black-clad priest in the center with a hint of gold thread, the cultists chanted in unison.
They are not summoning gods certified by the Gaia World 'Alliance', but one of the notorious extraterrestrial gods who roam the void, the 'Lord of Nothingness'.
The priest was scrawny, but his eyes were shining, he was the priest of this Order of Nothingness. Today will be the biggest ceremony to date, and the closest he will get to the 'Lord of Nothingness'.
"The daughter of a nobleman, the daughter of a parliamentarian, the daughter of a rich man, the daughter of an ordinary man, the daughter of a poor man...... Man's identity, man's good and evil, and all that man knows have no meaning before the eternal Lord, and everything will eventually come to nothingness. ”
"This sacrifice will be a great success, and we will be one step closer to our Lord!"
The more the priest spoke, the more excited he became, and he even began to think of finding five more young boys of the same status to perform another sacrifice after this sacrifice.
The little girls' cheeks were covered with tears, and their bodies were shaking.
They were gagged and unable to speak normally, and could only whimper on the altar and wait for the tragic end of being sacrificed to the evil gods.
If nothing happens, within a few minutes a part of the evil god will descend here, causing indelible damage to the entire area.
Of course, there are usually guests in such episodes that the cultists don't expect, guests who can stop their crazy behavior.
Rumble! The door of the ruined church was knocked to the ground by a huge external force, and a fully enclosed but extremely well-fitting 'chariot' with a bow and a large sword broke into the place.
Seeing this, the priest reacted the fastest, and hurriedly wanted to take out the enchanted weapon and attack.
But Maria was faster than him, and quickly raised her left hand to pull the trigger and shoot a crossbow arrow that covered her magic power and pierced the priest's chest.
This is not over, with the increase in the attributes of the construct, she rushed forward with a brisk stride, clenched the big sword in her right hand and swung it.
Swish!
The sword light flashed, and the priest's whole person, along with the weapon that had not yet been taken out, was instantly split in half by the great sword.
"Lord Priest!"
The rest of the cultists who had seen it all screamed and roared, and they all attacked the uninvited guest.
But in front of Maria, who was already different from before, these enemies who were the entry level of the transcendent were completely not enough.
Dodging incoming attacks, the crossbow and the big sword cooperate with the body to dance a "dance" that opens and closes.
The little girls' eyes were blocked by a black cloth, and they didn't know what was happening outside of them at the moment, so they could only lean together and fear the unknown.
The dark purple figure was like a symbol of death, and the great sword quickly harvested the lives of these cultists.
Of course, these operations were not carried out by Maria herself, but by the mysterious Mr. 'World'.
To be honest, the experience of watching "yourself" kill the enemy is really very subtle, anyway, now the girl is still a little confused and doesn't know where she was teleported to Chenghai.
Why did you suddenly come to kill the cultists?
If I'm not mistaken, these seem to be the Order of the Void dedicated to the 'Lord of the Void', a group of regulars on the Bounty Quest of the Transcendental Realm.
But because of his bad reputation and his crazy work, except for some extremely capable 'knight' rank bounty hunters, no one dared to take revenge on him for fear of being retaliated against by a group of crazy people.
The one who entered the door and killed him at the beginning seemed to be a priest, so it can be said that he got into trouble.
Originally, the enemy was formed by a dark star, but now if nothing else, it must be another mortal enemy.
Well, if you have a lot of debts, you don't have to be overwhelmed, anyway, these cultists with abnormal brains deserve to die. And if you calculate carefully, you can still be regarded as a professional counterpart, after all, the guys from the Dark Star Society also believe in a notorious outer god.
Anyway, that Mr. 'World' dared to manipulate himself to provoke them, presumably because he was not afraid of the organization to create a new enemy.
I'm a marionette, so there's no need to think about it so much.
And Maria, as an adult, naturally knows that there are many stories in the world where hard work may not be rewarded. Since the 'world' will give itself the strength to have the capital to take revenge, it must pay some price to be worthy of the "investment".
Horizontal and vertical is a reward for paying, and it is considered a job that there is no way to refuse.
At least, for now, the 'world' has not manipulated itself to force itself to do what it doesn't like, and is still in the realm of acceptance.
The killing ended in Maria's thoughts.
By the time she reacted, the corpses of cultists were all around her, and the structures on her body were splashed with bright red blood.
At the same time, the girl found that she could move.
Is this the end?
The helmet popped up whether to teleport back to the safe area, but Maria couldn't help but look at the five little girls trembling on the altar.
They didn't know what was going on because of the blindfolds, but they were still scared enough from the screams.
After thinking about the little girls, Maria felt that the slums were too dangerous, and out of human kindness, she had to take them to a safer place.
Putting aside the option of teleporting back for now, she put away her weapon and stepped forward to untie the girls' hands and feet, keeping her blindfold to prevent the bloody scenes around her from giving them a huge impact on them.
……
Maria drives a car stranded by the cultists and follows the map to take the girls out of the cluttered slums to a safer part of the city.
Anonymously report the situation and address to special law enforcement in advance, and then stop in front of a convenience store.
Leaving the driver's seat, he turned back to the little girls gathered and said, "I'm going to take off your blindfolds now, don't be afraid, don't scream, someone will take you home soon." ”
With that, she took off the girls' blindfolds one by one.
The latter looked at the girl curiously one by one, and then they were greeted by the appearance of wearing a fully enclosed face to cover their faces, but extremely cool and slim armor.
The hand crossbow on the waist, the storage box that comes with the armor, and the big sword that is about to be a man tall behind the back.
Suddenly, this sassy image left a very deep mark in their hearts.
"Go to the store and wait, someone will be taking you away soon." Although the voice was processed a little noisy, this did not prevent the girls from thinking that Maria was handsome at this time.
Finally, she gently touched the head of the leading girl to appease, and the huntress Yu Guang saw the vehicles of relevant law enforcement officers approaching around her, and hurriedly pressed the option to teleport, and then was taken back to her original home by Bai Guang.