Chaos descended upon the Cult of the Moon Mother Goddess's castle church.
As night fell, Vampire spawn suddenly attacked. Adventurers fled for their lives in panic, believers bowed their heads in prayer and begged for the Mother Goddess's protection, while the priests and clerics still looked as though everything was under control.
Of course they were not nervous. They had written the "script."
More precisely, the high priestess had written it.
The other clerics had barely participated in writing the script. At most, they had filled in a few details.
When Jia Xiu had previously spoken with Samantha's corpse, he had asked about the cult's plans afterward.
The answer he got was that more spawn would assault the church tonight, and at the most critical moment, the Mother Goddess would manifest her divine power and save the people hanging by a thread.
It was the last-minute rescue routine they had used so skillfully before.
As for exactly how she would manifest her divine power and what effects it would produce, Samantha did not know.
She was not part of the inner circle yet.
Perhaps the entire cult's inner circle consisted only of the high priestess herself. Everyone else was merely tools helping her play this little religious game.
Since he knew the Mother Goddess would put on a performance now, Jia Xiu watched the scene with full concentration, wanting to see what this so-called divine manifestation was really about.
Was there truly such a Mother Goddess, or was the high priestess merely relying on some divine artifact to pull tricks, with all of Csejthe Town being one enormous scam?
Though this was a world where gods truly existed, there were still cases of people acting under the banner of gods that did not exist.
Take the fishfolk, for instance. It