Chapter 61 Pale Ashes <TOC> Chapter 63 Soul Worms
Translator: SumTLMan
The cultist opened his eyes and disconnected from the soul connection with Night Owl 79. He still couldn’t figure out where these marauders came from.
The Soul Sect had been monitoring the armed forces in the Orissa jurisdiction through the tight monitoring of the flying blood beasts and blood owls. He was one of the titled cultists in charge of controlling the blood owls. This was originally to guard against Shen’s surprise attack.
With the imposing momentum of hundreds of marauders, it was unlikely that they could escape the monitoring of the blood owls if they entered the cultist jurisdiction.
Thinking of this, he shook the boulder with his psychic energy, and his figure in the black robe blurred for a moment, then disappeared into the air.
There was a peculiar item of the Soul Sect hidden in this boulder, called the Key to the Door-317. The owner of the Key to the Door could record other people’s psychic energy on it. Once the recorded person touched the Key to the Door with psychic energy, they could be directly transmitted to the other end of the Key to the Door.
However, because the number of this Key to the Door was too low, it could only transport people and objects to within ten kilometers.
Not long after, three hovercrafts appeared in the sky above the Key to the Door. One hovercraft was filled with fully armed soldiers, one hovercraft was crowded with restless bloodthirsty beasts, and the last hovercraft had five cultists in black robes and various heavy weapons.
They didn’t know that there was someone monitoring them a kilometer away.
Putting down the telescope, Li Mu took out a crumpled piece of paper and wrote on it with a pencil.
“Now there is only one fourth-level titled cultist and six fifth-level cultists left in the monastery, with about thirty-two reserve cultists and forty ordinary armed disciples.”
The three cultists in Orin Town had long been corrupted by the comfortable life in Orin Town. Before the execution, Li Mu had interrogated them and obtained a lot of valuable information, mostly about the monastery where the Soul Sect cultivated cultists.
Li Mu compared the testimonies of the three people and determined that the authenticity of this information was very high.
“The success rate of the raid is not low. This deal can be done.”
He made up his mind.
After mobilizing so much power, the strength in the monastery was already very weak. The existence of the Key to the Door made the Soul Sect subconsciously not consider the possibility of the monastery being invaded when planning their designated plans.
“Invading the Soul Sect’s monastery, this plan is very crazy, but I like it very much.”
Shen Luoyan was very excited.
“Now is not the best time, let’s wait a bit longer.”
Li Mu sat down cross-legged.
Not long after, another messenger sent by Susanto arrived, and he directly ignited the fireworks on the white boulder. Not long after the fireworks exploded, the cultists in the monastery appeared on the boulder.
“What’s going on?”
He knew that a group of marauders had appeared in Orissa, but how could there be a reply so quickly when only the Night Owl cultist had left with his people?
The cultist took the letter and found that the contents were exactly the same as the previous one sent.
“We have already received this letter.”
He questioned in a cold voice, and the sticky, cold psychic energy wriggled into the messenger’s body like maggots.
The messenger immediately let out a miserable scream.
“Be-because the marauders have been intercepting messengers, so Lord Susanto sent out many messengers.”
The cultist withdrew his psychic energy. Susanto’s operation was very reasonable, and he dispelled his suspicion.
“Get out of here! Tell the other messengers not to send any more letters.”
The messenger swallowed hard, wanting to explain that all the messenger routes were different, but seeing the cultist’s forbidding expression, he chose not to say more.
The cultist’s figure flickered and returned to the monastery.
About an hour later, fireworks once again lit up the sky above the giant rock.
The cultist appeared on the giant rock and snatched the letter, took a glance and tore it to shreds.
“Tell the others not to send any more letters. If anyone still sends a letter, I’ll find you in the town of Orin and skin your entire family alive.”
He said through gritted teeth in a cold and sinister tone.
“Y-yes, Lord cultist.”
The messenger was frightened and couldn’t stop shaking. He nodded repeatedly, then stumbled and ran towards the wilderness.
About half an hour later, fireworks once again exploded above the giant rock.
The cultist appeared on the rock holding a curved knife, his face filled with uncontrollable killing intent.
“Lord cultist, has a messenger already delivered the letter before me?”
The messenger saw the cultist’s murderous look and quickly shouted:
“Lord, I can guard the edge of this giant rock and intercept other messengers. I swear I won’t let these lowlifes disturb you! If any more fireworks go off, you can capture me and feed me to the thirst-blooded beasts.”
The cultist hesitated for a moment and put the scimitar back into its sheath.
“You’re lucky this time. I’ll give you a chance. If that damn fireworks go off again, I’ll show you how sharp the fangs of a thirsting beast can be.”
He glared and disappeared behind the boulder. The fireworks ignited by these messengers were specially made by the Soul Cult. After being lit, the key to the other side of the door would trigger a piercing scream. If they didn’t come out to investigate, the scream wouldn’t stop.
This was to prevent the duty cultists from being lazy and missing important messages or locking other cultists from other dioceses outside.
About half an hour later, the damn fireworks went off again.
The three messengers were right next to the boulder, and the first messenger was pinned to the ground.
“Lord cultist! Lord cultist! They don’t believe me, and they beat me up.”
As soon as he saw the cultist, he shouted at the top of his lungs.
The cultist in black robe directly removed his hood, revealing a head full of tattoos. He squeezed out a terrifying grin.
“You can all go in together and become food for the bloodthirsty beasts.”
He activated his psychic energy, confirmed that there were four people being teleported, and directly started the teleportation. When using the key to teleport, the key would feedback the number of people that needed to be teleported each time to prevent awakened individuals with invisibility ability from sneaking in.
The surroundings suddenly changed. In the dizziness brought about by the spatial transformation, the cultist turned his head and prepared to send these damn commoners to the source of blood in the depths, to feed the thirsting beasts.
He was met with a palm.
A hand like a pair of iron tongs tightly gripped his cheek, almost crushing his facial bones.
“Ugh! Ugh!!!”
He struggled violently, but before he could erupt with psychic energy, a high-voltage current ran through that hand.
The cultist’s body convulsed violently, then his eyes rolled back, and he was directly electrocuted unconscious. Li Mu casually threw his body aside and looked around.
“Finally came in.”