Linde quickly activated his active vision and began to sense his surroundings.
"Really, there isn't a single cult member in the entire town, or to be precise, not a single living person."
But when Linde's animated vision extended to the area below the altar, Linde couldn't help but gasp.
Below the altar, a massive number of cult members were densely packed together.
The sheer number of them made Lin Deguang's scalp tingle.
Each wriggling, undulating purple dot represents a deeply sinful soul.
Soon, Lind discovered something even more surprising.
These points of light representing cult members are gradually decreasing!
Although the number of these cult members was extremely large, Lind could sense that their numbers were decreasing one by one, slowly but methodically.
Is it a sacrificial ceremony?
Lind told Alice and Astaire everything he had sensed.
"We can't worry about anything now. Before their ceremony is over, let's quickly settle the crystal remains."
Linde sensed the speed of the cultists' sacrifices and estimated that it would take about a day for them to finish, which would be enough time for Linde and his team to complete the arrangement of the crystal remains.
The three set off immediately. Alice secretly left behind a small familiar, which, like an eye, was hung on the eaves of a nearby building, just enough to see the area around the altar from afar.
Upon arriving outside the cave, everything around them was exactly the same as when they entered.
However, a strange man wearing a half-silver mask and holding a bizarre scepter appeared silently in front of the cave entrance.
The strange man's eyes glowed with a faint, eerie green light. He tapped his scepter twice and said:
"Hehehe, I didn't expect Lord Saen's guess to be correct. Sending me to patrol here did indeed uncover some things..."
Before he could finish speaking, an unstoppable silver light struck him from behind the head.
The masked mystery man twisted his neck in an extremely contorted way, barely dodging Astaire's attack.
Even as he dodged, he didn't forget to continue saying:
"Little mouse."
Instead of continuing the pursuit, Astaire retreated, moving away from the man.
The man was still wondering when he heard a light, melodious girl's voice.
"Spirit of the wind, suppress my enemies."
With a surge of magical energy, a powerful force emerged above the man's head.
The celestial wind, seemingly from the highest heavens, cascaded down from the man's head like a waterfall, forcefully pressing the once smug man to the ground. Even the ground around him cracked under the force.
"Ugh—ah!"
The man pinned to the ground defiantly roared in fury.
Then, a strange purple wave emanated from him, enveloping him and forming a purple light shield that isolated Alice's suppression magic.
He felt a great weight lifted off his shoulders as he climbed out of the crater and casually dusted himself off.
"Well, it seems I underestimated you. I didn't expect there to be two Gold-level players."
The masked man looked at Lind beside him and smiled:
"You must be Baron Lind."
"Oh, right, let me introduce myself." The man scratched the hand holding the scepter vigorously, then continued:
"I am the head of the Church of Blasphemy, K..."
The man's voice stopped abruptly; his mind was as if a puddle of paste had been poured out, his thoughts were unfocused, and everything around him seemed to drift away.
"K...K...Ah..."
His ego completely disappeared, and so did his protective shield.
Alice and Astaire were both taken aback, not knowing what had happened.
The cult leader, who was just moments ago full of energy, suddenly turned into an idiot.
"We don't have time to listen to your nonsense, and we don't care what you're called."
Lin De breathed a sigh of relief, followed by a pleasant surprise. He hadn't expected his mental magic to be so powerful, ridiculously powerful.
In almost an instant, the cult members' spirit and consciousness were completely destroyed.
The only downside is that, as it stands, Linde can only cast this spell if the target is casting a spell in order to harm their mind by following their mental energy.
If the other party doesn't use magic, you won't be able to find a way to control your mental energy to enter their mind.
It can only be used brute force to create a sense of disorientation or intimidation in others, but it cannot cause any psychological damage.
Linde stepped forward and pinned down the dazed man in front of him.
The two people beside him also came to their senses.
"Linde, did you do that? What did you do?"
As Linde groped the cultist, he answered:
"I used a counterspell to destroy his mind, and he became an idiot."
Upon hearing this, both of them gasped in shock. Wow, what a terrifying ability.
Soon, Lind found quite a few things on him: some gold coins, a religious text, and a ceremonial whip.
After confirming that there was nothing there, Lind activated his Deconstruction Aura, completely disintegrating the cultist in front of him.
Why do this? Lind had just discovered after killing him that although the leader's mind and spirit were dead, his body still carried the dark aura unique to the Church of Blasphemy.
Unlike the Dedication Church, the Church of Blasphemy uses torture and abuse to blaspheme souls in order to enhance its evil power.
Therefore, in order to prevent a situation like the previous leader of the dedication council from transforming, Linde adopted this method of destroying the spirit first and then the body.
And so, right before everyone's eyes, the enormous living person vanished, leaving behind a pile of matter and a howling purple soul.
Almost immediately after the decomposition, the purple soul completely dissipated due to the annihilation of its physical body.
…………
At this moment, the priest of Saen inside the mountain seemed to sense something.
"Cliff is dead?"
His face showed no trace of grief over the death of his colleague, only calm.
He said to the waiter beside him:
"Speed up the process, the Vatican's lackeys are probably coming soon."
As he spoke, he unleashed several spells, sealing off all the passages connecting the outside of the mountain.
One of the caves experienced an unexpected and massive explosion, which shook the entire cavern into a cloud of dust.
Although Saen had doubts, he couldn't concern himself with such trivial matters.
"The ceremony continues!"
…………
After Linde miraculously revived, the two recovered from their surprise at Linde's power and began preparing to place the crystal remains.
Suddenly, a violent explosion came from the cave behind us.
Linde then realized that the cultists in the mountains must have discovered something amiss, so they blocked all the passages, triggering the crystal remains they had buried.
"Let's go, let's quickly settle the crystal remains. The cultists inside should know that someone is coming."
After leaving all the crystal remains at this location, the three immediately headed towards the next destination.
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