The Bandit Lord continued, "Those believers vomiting up tainted blood were probably performing some kind of worship ritual. The blood likely came from people they killed and devoured, before offering it to the portrait of the Lord of Darkfall."
"One look at that kind of worship tells you this god is bad news."
"Xu Kid, take good care of your Bandit Lord, and I'll take you out to slaughter gods and demons someday."
Xu Ye ignored the Bandit Lord's boasting and pushed the scene of the ritual out of his mind. It had been far too eerie, enough to make his skin crawl. Then he began reviewing the information he had just obtained.
This Wang Han was the man who appeared in that shop earlier. The shop owner was probably a believer of the Eternal Church too.
They were planning retaliation.
At six tonight... It's a little past three now, so there's still some time.
Aside from the captain, Lu Mingwang, and the others, I can't notify anyone else. Judging by how meticulous Wang Han's plan was, they seemed to have complete information on our squad and the Eighth Team's members, including their movements.
That means they have a mole in the squads.
"The remaining Eternal Church believers don't seem particularly strong. They're all Sequence 9 or Sequence 8... Mostly Sequence 9, with some ordinary people mixed in."
"But... what's the deal with that Bishop Ace of Hearts from the Land of Exiles? Could they be making the final preparations for the Lord of Darkfall's projection to descend?"
Xu Ye clearly remembered that the Eternal Church's believers in Night Spirit City used spades as their code names. Did they have branches elsewhere?
Something else struck Xu Ye as odd. Throughout this assassination plot, he had never seen Ace of Spades,