Li Wei had never expected a simple expedition into an underground sanctuary to bring him face-to-face with the legendary Disaster Cultists. Apparently, not only were these people still alive, they also seemed to be cooking up something nasty down here.
And judging by the information he had gathered earlier, the Empire's traces in this underground sanctuary were very likely connected to the Holy Lord Church.
The destruction of Third Haven had also involved the Holy Lord Church.
Then was it reasonable to assume that the Holy Lord Church knew of quite a few sanctuaries and sent its people inside to destroy them from within?
After all, Third Haven was clearly done for, and this underground sanctuary looked like a complete mess. Only Second Sanctuary, located in Mericia, lay beyond the Holy Lord Church's reach.
As for First Sanctuary-it might simply have been too small to attract their attention.
But what was their motive?
Could there be Disaster Cultists within the Holy Lord Church who had deceived it with some lie, persuading it to send people into these sanctuaries so they could trigger disasters and destroy them?
Li Wei finally understood why the entire continent had once banded together to hunt down the Disaster Cultists.
The very concept was simply too terrifying.
You could accuse absolutely anyone of being a Disaster Cultist and claim that everything they did was intended to create disasters. Even if there was no disaster now, their actions might cause one later. That left everyone on the continent fearing for their own safety, afraid that anyone else might be a Disaster Cultist. Anyone could accuse someone else of being one to further their own interests.
And for the Disaster Cultists, that might have been exactly what they wanted! That was their doctrine, after all.
Only by overcoming