Chapter 1048: Those in the Game
"This is a Ritual Book of Initiation..."
Han Dong spent an entire One Hour carefully reading everything in the book.
He also came to understand what old Vogt had meant before his death when he said, "I failed."
The old man's spiral transformation had largely been caused by studying the Ritual Book of Initiation, spiraling his own body.
Because his willpower had been insufficient, he had ultimately failed to meet the ritual book's requirements.
This caused an irreversible deep spiral transformation, until his flesh completely transformed into a vortex, absorbed himself, and vanished into the void, doomed to eternal oblivion.
According to the Ritual Book of Initiation, as long as one fulfilled the ritual's requirements, one could initially grasp the power of the "vortex" and become a probationary member of the Vortex Cult.
One sentence on the book's final page was heavily circled by Han Dong.
Any probationary member who met the standards could travel through the vortex in London City to reach the cult.
Sitting before the desk with his hands interlocked beneath his chin, Han Dong spoke with a grim expression:
"Do you remember what the miners said when we first came to London City? The villages outside the city all used Black Churches as their central buildings and existed around their cults.
These night cults only recruited death-row prisoners as followers.
Could they be connected to the Vortex Cult? If so, this would involve London City's upper administrative ranks, wouldn't it?
And in the Dark Forest beyond the city, many Otherfiends belonging to other Old Kings still wandered about, trying to infiltrate London City.
Their primary goal should be the 'Vortex Incident.'
Or perhaps some Old Kings had already noticed that something was wrong with London City and deliberately sent people