Chapter 14: Mother Goddess’ Mission
In fact, Rand was hesitant about whether to complete the Mother Goddess's mission.
Judging from the previous situation of the cultists, it is obvious that the Goddess of Fertility is undoubtedly an evil god.
He was just a fake messenger of God who was trying to take advantage of the bug. If he really fulfilled the will of the evil god, he doubted whether doing so would cause the development of the hideout to be out of his control, or whether the world situation would change if he was a little too self-indulgent.
In his previous life, he was a modern man, but he had heard of the butterfly effect.
After testing his new temporary abilities, Rand returned to the hideout and sent for Tanner to come over.
Due to the arrival of the tax collector, the intelligence personnel that Rand had sent out had been reduced, so it was not clear that the nearby villages had been preparing for war for a long time.
However, since he had already guessed it before, Rand did not neglect to arm and train the people in the hideout.
Q: How to arm villagers cost-effectively?
Answer: No armor! Spear and big shield!
Q: What about cheaper?
Answer: Small shield and sling!
Nowadays, everyone in the hideout has a slingshot, and small shields are still being made. This kind of shield is very simple to make, as it only requires splitting the wood into pieces and then adding a handle, but it can still block arrows shot from ordinary people and even withstand one or two flying axes.
Seeing Taner coming, Rand immediately asked him to get ready and go hunting the cultists together.
"Lord Messenger of God, what are we going to do?" As a paladin who is good at thinking and likes to make full preparations before taking action, he naturally has to make full preparations before taking action.
"We go hunt cultists."
"Okay, I'm ready to go!" As a paladin, hunting cultists is naturally his area of expertise.
He had no choice but to do it! After saying that, his mind suddenly came to its senses. What did you just say? If I heard correctly, we were going to hunt down the cultists? Then what are we now? So we are not cultists?
The Paladin thought for a moment and frowned. He seemed to understand, just like when he was in the Torch Church, he called the Mother Goddess Sect a cult.
If the Mother Goddess sect calls the Torch Church a cult, wouldn't that mean they are also calling them a cult?
Now it seems that the real difficulties of being an undercover agent are about to appear. Although he has made mental preparations, it is really painful for him to turn swords against his former comrades.
Or, could he get out of this? Rand saw that Taner was in a daze and reminded him. Taner quickly came to his senses and apologized, "I'm ready."
According to the perception of the mission target given by the Mother Goddess when she bestowed the new blessing, Rand took Tanr with him.
In fact, it would be safer if the elves could be brought along, but Rand was worried that she would just go up and die, so after thinking about it he gave up. If she just defected, it would be more trouble than gain.
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In Karba Village, the nearest village to Takina Village, which is a little far from the den but can also be considered a neighboring village of the den, two people in red robes are preaching here.
The desperation that grew here attracted them.
As the chief of Takina and Rand had expected, all villages were equally taxed with lethal amounts of tax.
The villagers here have also realized that it is impossible to survive until the harvest relying solely on the remaining supplies.
But they did not have a village chief capable of leading them to rob, so most of them were in despair. In the end, they might even pick up farm tools or hidden weapons to rob passing merchants or attack nearby villages.
But now, they haven't adjusted so quickly.
Now is a good time to spread the faith in the God of Struggle. The red-robed people came to the gate of the village. The clothes of the Torch Church were also red robes, but unlike the warm red color of the Torch Church, their red robes seemed to be soaked in blood and were full of a disgusting smell of blood.
Looking at the confusion in the eyes of the villagers who looked up, the two red-robed men smiled under their hoods.
At the same time, Rand and Taner also faced two red-robed men. Their target was the village of Takina, but they were blocked by Rand and Taner halfway.
When he saw the two red robes from afar just now, Taner's heart was actually struggling violently, because he could not defeat this god's messenger who seemed weak but could easily subdue the highest-level elven ranger.
Therefore, it seemed that he was powerless to stop the death of his two comrades. He even thought about begging, but when he thought of the conflict between the two sects, he painfully suppressed the thought.
It wasn't until I got closer that I realized it was actually a cult.
He Taner announced that this three-headed sect topped the list of cults he hated the most. How could a cult like to wear red robes? Wouldn't it be better to wear green or black robes?
The person wearing a red robe and looking from a distance made him think that he was a member of the Torch Church, which caused him inner distress and confusion for a long time, and he almost exposed the fact that he was an undercover agent.
So the situation now is a dog-eat-dog situation between the two cults.
Although calling himself a dog sounds a bit unpleasant, he has no psychological burden in participating in such a fight between cults.
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Of course, Rand didn't know that Taner's inner thoughts were so rich at this moment. He was already concentrating all his attention at this moment. In order to help him defeat the two cultists, the Mother Goddess even personally gave him another blessing, which meant that these two cultists would definitely not be easy to deal with.
The two red-robed men looked at Rand and Taner, then turned their gazes to Taner. This man, whose armor style looked very similar to that of the Torchlight Church Paladin, was obviously a greater threat.
They lifted their red robes and bowed, "Gui An, may I ask what can I do for you?"
Seeing that the two cultists could actually communicate, Rand was about to ask them what they were trying to do that made them be targeted by the Mother Goddess, hoping that he could get some information out of them.
But the moment Rand opened his mouth, the two red-robed men took action.
An arrow of red liquid with a strong smell of blood pierced Rand's face, but the knight beside Rand was prepared. He drew the short one-handed sword at his waist and cut off the blood arrow.
Seeing that the two cultists had no intention of communicating, Rand activated the Mother Goddess's Blessing 2 without hesitation. After releasing it, he immediately said to Taner, "Let's move away."
He had no idea about the wills of the two cultists, but he estimated that his ability was not low.
Sure enough, after Rand and the confused Taner stepped back, one of the cultists froze.
At this moment, apart from endless thirst, his mind could not think of anything else, of course, except for the companions around him.
Another man tried to rush over, but at Rand's signal, Taner kicked his leg and broke it.
Then some unspeakable events happened.
Now Taner regretted why he had eyes and was forced to watch such an explosive scene, a grown man gasping for breath, another one screaming, doing things that were too shameful to watch.
Until their lower bodies were covered in blood and there was no sign of stopping, Rand scratched his head awkwardly and signaled Taner to give them a quick death.
Taner remained silent, raised his sword, and removed the two heads from their necks.
I got another chance to perform today, but I’m not happy at all.
(End of this chapter)