"Hundred-Eye Cult!"
When they saw the three large eyeballs of Levitation, the pursuers immediately shouted the name of this evil sect.
Just like Twin Snake Cult "betrayed humanity and worshiped Two-Headed Serpent, in the third Alien Star Among Impact, there are also some humans who worship the Alien Star creatures because of their power. One of them especially worships those Beholder monsters of Alien Star, and has formed a special sect organization, which is called "Hundred-Eye Cult" by the outside world.
Compared with the notorious Twin Snake Cult", although Hundred-Eye Cult" is evil, it has not reached the point where humans and gods are angry. Even some small places and countries will secretly collude with them in order to obtain the combat power provided by the sect.
It is extremely difficult to cultivate a formal third-level professional. Only about 200-300 First Order Transcendent will give birth to a formal third-level professional. Such an extremely low success rate makes some small countries particularly hungry for combat power and talents, but ordinary organizations cannot satisfy them.
The great thing about Hundred-Eye Cult is that as long as they successfully perform Demon Eye Ritual, they can briefly open a passage to another world, allowing a third-level Beholder to come to this world, and achieve Demonic Beast Contract with the believer who performed the ceremony, allowing it to stay in the world temporarily and gain the combat power of a third-level creature.
Of course, this method also has many shortcomings. First of all, Demon Eye Ritual "goes against the will of the world, and the success rate is not high. Once it fails, the person performing the ceremony will suffer severe backlash and die."
Secondly, even if Beholder is summoned from another world, how to reach a contract and how to stabilize Core Secret Art are all difficult problems. Failure in one of these links will result in serious injury or even death.
Generally, only fanatical believers who are not afraid of death dare to participate in this kind of sacrificial ceremony.
"Why are Hundred-Eye Cult people here?" Both the pursuers and the rescued princes and princesses were a little surprised.
It is true that Hundred-Eye Cult is respected by people in some small places, but it is a wanted target in various large organizations and countries on the surface. This time, it actually dared to appear in the territory of the Regas Kingdom.
"Your Highness the Prince, and the Princess, please come with us."
In the woods, a group of people wearing dark red robes walked out. Their robes were printed with eye patterns of different sizes, which made people uneasy.
Seeing this, the remaining personnel guarding the prince and princess hesitated. Although the pursuers were dangerous, the Cultist in front of them was not someone they could trust.
They were hesitating, but the pursuers would not hesitate. After seeing this group of people with hundreds of eyes Cult, their actions became more urgent.
Several assassins in the shadows no longer hid, but jumped out from the dim corner and rushed towards Prince Jabs who was hiding behind.
When facing the gray-white barrier blocking them, the figures of these people instantly became hazy and blurry. Under such circumstances, the gray-white barrier that they were originally resisting seemed unrecognizable. They were allowed to pass through. In the danger, Princess Musa hurriedly knocked away Jabs, and he was struck by several swords.
"No!" Jabs yelled.
His eyes were blood-red in an instant, and he turned to Cultist in the distance.
"Kill them, kill these pursuers, whatever you want me to do, I will agree to it!"
In response to this, Cultist among these shadows discussed in a low voice, and then nodded.
The three Levitation and Beholder turned on their rays again, scanning continuously and penetrating the bodies of the pursuers. In the shadows, multiple assassins in cult robes also rushed out. They fought with their pursuing colleagues in the shadows, and soon many enemies were left behind.
A few minutes later, the chasing team was defeated, and only a few people saw that the situation was bad and escaped. At this time, the dark woods became quiet again.
Surrounded by the members, the leaders Cultist slowly came to the prince. They bent down and bowed, and then looked at Princess Musa who was seriously injured.
"We have a solution Princess Healing, please come with us, Your Highness."
At this time, Jabs glanced at the alert Knight and attendants beside him, and made up his mind.
"Okay, I'll go with you. I hope you keep your promise."
Seeing that the prince agreed, the remaining Knight had no choice but to obey the order. In fact, they were at the end of their rope and exhausted, and there was not much room for resistance.
Half an hour later, the group of people left the place and disappeared into the distance. A black owl arrived belatedly, squatting on a branch and looking at the corpses and traces below, a strange light flashing in its eyes.
Soon, several more night birds arrived in the woods. They squatted on the branches and made eye contact.
Prince Jabs should have escaped from here."
"But now the trace has been lost."
Most of the pursuers are dead. It seems that the injuries were not caused by Knight or the soldiers."
There are not many groups with ray attack capabilities. They are either Mage or some strange creatures."
"Mage Alliance wouldn't care about the life or death of a little prince. It should be a strange creature with the residual aura of Alien Star. The trees along the way are also partly contaminated by Distortion. I guess it should be a Alien Star creature."
Hundred-Eye Cult, it's them."
How dare you snatch people from our Witch hands? You really don't take us seriously.
Let the news go and they are wanted."
Yes."
At the end of the year, before the winter was over, Royal Capital White Cliff City of the Regas Kingdom fell, Grand Duke of Regas and the eldest prince died in the battle, and the rest of the nobles surrendered in large numbers. So far, there was no strong resistance force in the Regas Kingdom, and it was a foregone conclusion that it would be divided between the Anti Kingdom and Eagle-Scorpion Khanate.
Although Regas Kingdom no longer exists, the royal bloodline has not been cut off. Some people say that Prince Jabs and Princess Musa escaped before the fall of White Cliff City. According to many people's speculations, the prince and princess should have gone to Secret Forest took refuge. Regarding this speculation, Secret Forest did not answer directly, and Anti Kingdom and Eagle-Scorpion Khanate no longer sent people to track down Prince Jabs, as if they were sure that he would not appear again.
Within World of Shadows, Dark Mist Mountains.
After several days of arduous trek, Sylutia and his party finally arrived at the frontline station Firestone Fortress".
The tall city gate was slowly lifted by the pull of the hinges, and then Sylutia and his group slowly drove in with supplies and personnel. They were greeted by several members in black robes.
"Welcome, classmate Sylutia." The leader, the man in black robe, pressed his hand on his chest and saluted briefly.
"My name is Dickens. I am the quartermaster of the fortress. Please come with me."
He called Sylutia and his group to the tower at the bottom of the fortress, arranged for them to unload the goods, and then registered them one by one.
"I'm very grateful to classmate Sylutia for sending me precious food, but this is not part of the expected supply plan. I wonder what Sylutia's plan is?"
After the other party put the things in storage, he asked Sylutia what he wanted to order. It seemed that no matter how the girl mentioned it, the other party would never spit out this batch of food.
In response, Sylutia shook his head slightly indifferently, and then started talking to the quartermaster.
"I want a batch of fuel. I also want to know what your main output is and what supplies you are lacking."
Hearing this, Dickens seemed to have met some kind of close friend, and he talked endlessly with the young girl. Listening to his story, Sylutia also gradually compiled the intelligence information.
Firestone Fortress" is the stop point in the third gorge channel under the Dark Mist Mountains. It is rich in a strange black stone. If the edge is rubbed off, the dark red inside will be revealed. But strangely, if it is completely cut, the inside will be completely black.
The characteristic of this kind of stone is that when it collides with each other, it will generate heat and can be used for ignition, so it is called "Firestone". Unfortunately, they cannot Burn themselves. Only violent collision can generate heat.
In addition to Firestone, there are many Distortion woods growing around this fortress, that is, trees contaminated by Distortion"Aspect Power, they can also Burn, but Burn will bring polluting black smoke. You need to burn charcoal first to remove the pollution, and then use purer charcoal to be a qualified fuel.
"We can provide you with charcoal, but each time Sylutia needs to be exchanged for food. We can exchange five pounds of charcoal for one pound of food."
"Five kilograms is too little, seven kilograms." The girl shook her head, this exchange ratio was too low.
"This----" the other party hesitated.
"If you don't want to, I'll go to other stations and ask." This frontline station is not the only one with charcoal.
"Okay, just seven pounds." The other party agreed directly. In fact, they also made a profit. After all, charcoal is only valuable here. If it is a resource-rich rear station, no one will buy it.
After that, Sylutia learned about other specialties here.
"Frontline stations will participate in battles with monsters. If you want to buy materials for these monsters, it will be especially cheap." The other party informed directly.
"Secondly, we also produce a kind of black crystal associated with Firestone". Its properties are extremely Sturdiness, and it is also suitable for inscribing runes and imprints, and for making special utensils."
"I haven't heard of it before. Did you discover it recently?" Before Sylutia came, he also read a lot of the Dark Mist Mountains's information.
"Yes, this is a special gem that was discovered in the mine just two months ago. It is not for sale yet. If you can bring food of rare or higher quality, we will consider exchanging a small part of it."
"That's it, I understand." After agreeing, Sylutia and the members took a good tour of this magnificent fortress. It is reported that there are about 2,000 people stationed here, most of them are second-level Transcendent, and there are more than 40 third-level professionals. The highest commander of the station is General Saifan of Fifth Order.
"Master Saifan has been busy fighting against the monster Impact outside the fortress all year round. He patrols around and checks. He doesn't have much time to rest while living in the fortress. On weekdays, he is mainly managed by a few deputies." Dickens and Xilu Tia introduced.
"If your station develops better and can provide more food, our manpower here will be slightly more abundant."
"There are two biggest obstacles to expansion into the depths of the Dark Mist Mountains. One is the massive and dangerous monsters, and the other is the long and difficult-to-supply supply line."
"This is the distribution map of various locations in the Dark Mist Mountains. Just treat it as my personal gift to Sylutia." Before leaving, Dickens gave her a map with detailed markings.
"I hope to see classmate Sylutia again in a few months."
With the car full of charcoal and some monster materials, Sylutia waved goodbye to the other party and embarked on the return journey again.
At the same time, after more than a month of hiding in Tibet, Prince Jabs, led by members of Hundred-Eye Cult", arrived at World of Shadows below Surface Continent in a special way.
Seeing that the trees around him were twisted and weird, and the sky above his head was filled with thick dark clouds that would never dissipate, the usually pampered prince finally realized that he was no longer in the sunlit surface world, but in the shadows under the mainland.
"Is this—the home you call home?"
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