After Julia, who called herself a priestess of the Moon Mother Goddess Cult, gave a stirring performance of a "miracle" that frightened off the Vampire spawn, calm returned to the town.
After all that turmoil, the adventurers no longer planned to finish the commission and agreed to leave together the next morning.
They had truly been scared out of their wits. The enemy had far surpassed anything they could handle. If not for their good luck, they would probably all have died here—without even getting the chance to become Vampires.
A spawn biting someone could not transform them. It was purely for bloodsucking.
They even agreed to leave together during the day. There were too few of them to dare travel the "day road" alone.
Jia Xiu, who had secretly watched the entire affair, could not help asking, "What do you think that priestess is after?"
"Boss, are you asking me?"
Ram asked back in confusion.
"Logically speaking, after putting on a fake miracle, shouldn't she immediately start preaching? While these people still haven't figured things out."
When people were in danger, they were most likely to place excessive trust in outsiders.
"Could it be that her goal isn't to expand the number of believers? That's way too unprofessional. Has she even run a cult before?"
"Uh, Boss, you've run a cult before?"
Bubu asked that.
"Don't tell me running a cult also has something to do with knightly virtues."
Bubu had begun to grasp just how "all-encompassing" and "embracing of every river" the knightly virtues in Jia Xiu's mouth truly were.
"No, I haven't. I've had some contact with them—the ones you saw when you woke up."
Bubu's eyes immediately widened.
"They were a cult!"
"Isn't that realization coming a little too late?"
Jia Xiu continued pacing around the