Seeing the roof appear in the mist, Brando couldn't help but feel a little impatient. What he wanted to do most now was to find a place to take a bath and get rid of the weird smell on his damn clothes. Although the sulfur smell on the robes of the Sheepshead Cult members was a way to identify each other, the smell of sweat on the robes and some unknown stench was superfluous. Although he had only been in the swamp for a few hours, Brando was already feeling a little dizzy.
It wasn't that he didn't disguise himself as a Sheepshead Cult member in the game, but the game was still a game. Although it claimed to be 100% realistic, there were still a lot of things that weren't realistic. Just this little difference made the once naive him almost cry.
There were many inns in the town. In the end, Brando chose an inn called 'Token's Boots' that didn't look very good. It wasn't that he couldn't stay in the most luxurious and comfortable inn in the town, nor was it that he didn't want to find a clean and comfortable place to take care of his belongings in this damp and cold place. In fact, when Magadal, the Nun Princess, passed by the cleanest and most comfortable inn in the town, she almost couldn't walk.
His student, Miss Phoenix Flame, also showed a look of reluctance as she stared at the luxurious inn opposite them. She wanted to speak a few times, but in the end, she held back and didn't say anything.
Because everyone knew that they were now playing the role of a group of poor and destitute Sheepshead Cult members. In fact, like most cults, most of the Sheepshead Cult members were poor. Except for a few people, they would obviously attract attention if they stayed in the most luxurious inn.
Brando didn't want to attract attention, so he could only bear with it. Fortunately, although the inn was small, it had all the essentials. There was also a slightly clean single room and a place to bathe. The Wetland swamp was cold and wet, and for travelers, it was a necessary requirement to have a clean and comfortable bath.
Brando first sent the two ladies and his student to deal with his' personal matters'. In fact, it was to take a bath and change clothes. Fortunately, there was magic in this world, and cleaning clothes only required a little space and a few minutes, so it wouldn't delay things.
While he and Mr. Liu went to the hall on the first floor of the inn to inquire about information. After a drink, he asked about some information about the Holy Land of Atuk. As Brando expected, this information wasn't a secret, because the Sheepshead Cult members gathered in Tauqike was actually because of this holy land.
This holy land was one of the sealed places of the Great Demon Akentu. Like the Disciples of the Black Flame, the Sheepshead Cult members worshipped demons, but they didn't worship all demons. Their real master was actually only one, and that was the King of Purgatory – Sheepshead Akentu.
Sheepshead Akentu once led a demon army to invade the surface world, but was defeated by the Dark Dragon. His soul was put into a crystal ball by the Bugas and secretly sealed. The location of this sealed place was unknown after the War of the Holy Saints. There were many areas in the world of Wohnde that were suspected to be sealed by Akentu, and Tauqike was one of them.
Brando then understood why so many Sheepshead Cult members gathered in this place. Obviously, the living sacrifice ceremony held in Hardland was to open the seal of the Holy Land of Atuk. This was not the first time such a situation had happened in Tauqike. There had been several other ceremonies in the past, but they all failed without exception. But what surprised Brando was that according to the Sheepshead Cult members, the host of the ceremony, the Hoduli family, seemed to be particularly confident in this living sacrifice ceremony. Half a month ago, the Gray Scepter issued a summons to all the Sheepshead Cult members in the entire Tauqike area and even the surrounding areas.
Speaking of which, it was not the first time he had seen the cult's living sacrifice ceremony even in this world. He had seen such a large-scale ceremony once in the capital of the Cruz people, Rushta. At that time, the host was the Tree Herders, and the ceremony was quite successful. Not only did the Dragon Queen successfully summon the evil god Fredrich, but she also almost used Fredrich to kill the will of Dusk.
Recalling the various experiences in the Elemental Frontier, he could not help but be a little distracted. Fortunately, at this time, Delfien came down from upstairs. She seemed to have dealt with her personal problems. She came to Brando's side and cleverly took over the conversation. She talked to the owner of the inn, who was also a Sheepshead Cult member in a black robe, about the ritual and the Holy Land of Atuk.
There were few common languages among the Sheepshead Cult members. The only common language they had in common was their beliefs, so Delfien's question did not attract any attention. Although the prime minister's daughter had never heard of the Holy Land of Atuk before, when she talked about this place, it was as if she had seen it with her own eyes and knew it well.
The boss was convinced. Before the conversation, Delphine quickly got more information out of him. The three learned that the Holy Land of Atuk was not in the Tauchik Swamp, but in the sea outside Hadland Port, in a sea called the Green Sea.
This information immediately attracted Brando's attention. Before this trip, he had learned from Queen Madara that the Stagnation Realm might be in the central area of the Dead Moon Inner Sea, which was undoubtedly on the sea. The location of the Stagnation Realm was related to the mystery of the emerald. The sea called the 'Green Sea' obviously provoked the nerves of the three people.
Brando turned his head. Delfien's face was hidden under the hood, so he could not see her expression, but the prime minister's daughter was silent for a moment. She dipped her finger in the wine and quietly made a few numbers on the table. Brando saw that it was the result of a few calculations. The results were the angle of the sun. After discussing with Delfien every day for a month, he was already familiar with it. The location was obviously the Hadland Outer Sea.
Brando immediately understood what the prime minister's daughter meant. Obviously, she also thought that the Holy Land of Atuk might be the place the mystery of the emerald pointed to, or at least it was related. Otherwise, how could there be so many 'secret places' in this world?
After the three of them exchanged opinions, Brando turned the topic back to the ruler of Hadland and the upcoming live sacrifice ceremony. In fact, in any other area of Wohnde, the topic of such a cult's live sacrifice ceremony would not be discussed. However, Tauchik was obviously such a strange place. This was the true territory of the Sheepshead cult. Here, beliefs other than the Dusk and the Devil were taboo.
When Brando inadvertently asked the head of the Holduri family why he was so confident this time, the hotel owner had a strange look on his face. Brando was stunned for a moment, and then realized that this person might know something. This surprised him. He did not expect to get an answer to this question.
Of course, the information that the person had could be unreliable, but it did not matter. At this time, the more information he had, the better. So, after Brando paid the extra 'money for the drinks', the hotel owner also let go of his mouth.
He told the three of them with a mysterious look on his face that his cousin was living in the Hardlands and was deeply trusted by the city lord. Of course, Brendel believed that the owner of this run-down inn that looked like it was about to close down due to poor management was a trusted aide of the Hoduli family's head. The latter continued to tell them that his cousin had sent back a secret message that the Hoduli family had accidentally captured a Dragon.
A real dragon, not the kind of dragon that had the word 'dragon' in its name but had little to do with the Golden Bloodline.
Brando did not believe it at all. The dragons in this world were truly creatures that were second only to the gods. Even a young dragon like Aloz was extremely powerful, let alone a real adult dragon. Legendary dragons like Owenlos and Fusia were even more powerful to the extent that demigods would tremble before them.
A mortal slaying a dragon?
That was just a story in the legends. Although there were a few cases in history, the story's owner was not a legendary hero like the Azure Knight. Who was the head of the Holduri family? How could he be compared to those heroes in the legends?
Not to mention, the Holduri family dared to use a dragon as a living sacrifice? Unless the followers of the Sheepshead in the Tajik region were really tired of living, once this news spread, even if it was false, the dragons would probably raze this place to the ground because of the humiliation.
But just when Brando thought that he had bought a meaningless fake news with money, there was suddenly a commotion in the hotel.
Then he heard a curse from the direction of the hall.
"Damn brat, ahhhhh —"
The voice abruptly stopped.
Then there was a scream and the sound of tables and chairs being flipped over.
Brando subconsciously turned his head, thinking that his student had gotten into trouble again. He, Mr. Liu, and Delfien pushed their chairs away and stood up. The three of them held the hilts of their swords under their robes.
But as soon as Brendel turned his head, he froze for a moment, because what he saw was not the Phoenix's Flames, but a scene that surprised him.
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