The Splendor of Netheril
Chapter 701

Caught in a Trap

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"So this was the Red Sands Cult's ritual? These were the Red Sands Cult's believers? Hmph! They were nothing but a pack of headless flies buzzing about. It was hard to imagine that such a pile of trash had ravaged the Redstone Plane for thousands of years!"

Walking across the blood-soaked canyon altar as if strolling through a courtyard, Fisk moved with light, steady steps. From beginning to end, he merely gave the surrounding "slaughterhouse" a disdainful glance before silently heading toward the raised platform at the center of the canyon.

As for the devout yet overconfident cultists he encountered along the way, Fisk casually killed them with ease. With nearly every step, he trod over a mangled corpse.

At the center of the altar stood the old priest and the "saintess." Fisk intended to kill these two key figures first.

Killing the old priest would make the chaotic Red Sands Cult believers collapse completely, while killing the "saintess," who was still only a little girl, would ensure that the Red Sands Cult had no chance to rise again.

Fisk had heard of the fame of the Red Sands Cult's "saintess." Legend said that Saintess Gollania possessed the finest soul aptitude discovered in the Redstone Plane's thousands of years of history. Letting her grow meant allowing the Red Sands Cult to have a leader who was destined to reach the Master level in the future.

Naturally, Fisk could not tolerate such a thing. He would snuff out the "saintess" while she was still at her weakest, never giving the Red Sands Cult's evil flames a chance to rekindle.

"Fanatics are a pack of evil lunatics. Even if she is just a little girl... from the moment she joined the cult and became a believer, she became a crazed and dangerous

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