In his divine kingdom, Xi Wei's sphere was flashing incessantly like an Ultraman timer that was about to run out of three minutes.
It was a sign that he was thinking.
At first, Xi Wei didn't think much of Lia's discovery of the cultists.
For one, he had been focusing most of his attention on the Twin City Cup over the last two days, while keeping an eye out for the Ocean Goddess on Fishmen Island.
Secondly, Xi Wei shared Marni's thoughts, believing that there wouldn't be any large-scale cults in Lancaster.
After all, the Players were his eyes, and he wouldn't even have to pay attention to places where the Players were, as if opening a map would reveal itself to him even if he didn't deliberately pay attention.
On the other hand, Lancaster was a place where many Players gathered, and there were no shadows over the entire map. It was completely exposed to his eyes, and if Xi Wei wanted to, he could even directly control his Divine Eye to observe places in the city that his believers couldn't easily enter, such as civilian houses.
That was also why Xi Wei didn't directly assign Lia's group a quest at first.
In the end, Xi Wei only realized that something was wrong when they found the secret room where the cultists were hiding and ran into the cultist leader.
Without using his Divine Eye, he couldn't see the leader's face clearly from the Players' point of view.
Such a situation was actually a form of divine grace. It was neither rare nor powerful, and could be easily seen through with the Divine Eye. However, such divine grace itself was a form of protection the gods had for their believers, as well as a declaration to other gods that 'this person is under my protection'.
Theoretically speaking, one could obtain such basic divine grace as long as they held a high enough position in a church, and many believers from other churches who participated in the Twin City Cup were in a similar situation.
In other words, the cultist definitely had an evil god behind him.
Still, the weirdest thing was that Xi Wei couldn't sense the existence of faith from the cultist leader. On the other hand, the cultists he had bewitched in the secret room had divine energy, and they were definitely believers of Aojo, the evil god they were talking about.
It was almost impossible for a person without any faith to become a leader of a cult in this world where the gods truly existed.
Moreover, the memories of the God of Games' divinity didn't contain any information about Aojo, which meant that it wasn't a famous evil god and was at most a third-rate like Rotten Bones.
That was why Xi Wei had ascertained that there must be something wrong with the cult leader, which was why he assigned a new mission to Lia and the others, having them try to capture or simply kill the culprit. After all, the gods could glean a lot of information even from a corpse.
In the end, Xi Wei and his believers witnessed it together.
Lia watched as the cultist leader spat out blasphemous words and stabbed the dagger into her eye socket.
A large amount of black blood spurted out from his eye sockets in a manner that defied common sense. It splashed onto the roof like raindrops and dyed the embassy's roof black.
Immediately after, his body rapidly inflated like a balloon, and finally exploded on the lightning rod with a bang!
The mushroom cloud of the explosion soared into the sky.
Even though the cultist leader was blown into pieces, it was not the end. Instead, it was just the beginning!
After the cloud of explosion dispersed with the wind, the black blood that spurted out of the cultist leader's body did not continue splashing down. Instead, it flowed upwards in an arc that could infuriate Newton to death, finally gathering in the air above the embassy and forming a huge black sphere.
Holding the thought of 'I don't know what's going on, but I definitely can't let the cultist continue', Edward unleashed his most powerful Black Dragon Hellfire at the sphere in the air.
However, the moment the black flame dragon touched the sphere, it was completely devoured. Not even the slightest bit of flame was left behind!
The other Players tried to attack the sphere as well, but it was to no avail.
The sphere slowly expanded, and was almost a hundred times larger than the cultist's body. There was no way to explain how a person's body could hold so much black goo.
At that very moment, the black sphere hung in the air like a massive meteor, and the pressure that seemed capable of destroying heaven and earth when it crashed down made the immortal Players feel pressure that they hadn't felt in a long time.
In the very next instant, the meteor split open in the middle, and the entire sphere slowly opened up, revealing a scarlet pupil within …
That's right. The sphere was not a meteor, but a colossal eyeball!
"What monster is that …" Lia couldn't help feeling her scalp tingle as she looked up at the horrifying eyeball in the sky.
That was when the System page appeared before her again.
[Ding! [Side quest: Investigate and capture the Mystery Cultist] failed, new sudden quest activated.
[Quest name: Manmade Divine Abomination: Aojo Crusade]
When the gigantic eyeball appeared, Xi Wei immediately sensed the peculiarity of that thing.
It was not a naturally occurring monster, but a vessel created after being imbued with a certain degree of divinity through some unknown method.
Its purpose must be to contain the impure divine energy of the cultists.
If Xi Wei's hunch was right, that was what the blasphemer was relying on. Even if he claimed to banish the gods, the monster he created was essentially a clumsy imitation of the gods, and the reason he created such a cult was to collect divine energy.
However, this monster still lacked the most important part, which was the Godhood that could purify the power of faith and convert it into divine power.
Moreover, it also lacked the ability to touch the Laws, as well as the divine domain that manifests it.
The divinity that was used to shield the gaze of other gods and to contain divine energy was itself a derivative of the three elements of the gods.
This kind of artificially created fake of the fake was not even at the level of the lowest Evil God, let alone a God.
If he had to describe it, it was merely a new type of Divine Abomination.
"Be that as it may, to be able to touch the domain of the gods at the level of mortals … That level of skill is comparable to the goblins who rebelled against the gods in the last era …" Even an outsider like Xi Wei could not help being surprised at how unbelievable it was. "The humans of this generation are really surprising …"
"Finnia? Silver Oak? There's no such term in the God of Games' divinity … I should ask the Great Lion. But before that, let's let the Players resolve the situation before us … "
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Chapter 307
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