Chapter 320 The Lost City IX
"Doomsday Cult?"
Hearing Zhan's words, Steve couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"What do you mean, sir, these guys who attacked us are cultists?"
"They are indeed cultists."
Zhan En nodded, but his eyes were always fixed on the badge in front of him. Most people think that so-called cultists are believers in the Demon King. But in fact, this is a huge misunderstanding. There are many cults on the Klein Continent.
There are hundreds of them, and only two-thirds of them belong to the category of believers in demon kings, because demon kings do not need to draw power from faith like gods. On the contrary, they are more specialized in sects on the main plane.
Adding obstacles to the gods, such as massacring a village today and sacrificing a few virgins tomorrow, will have an almost negligible impact on the increase in the devil's power. But for those who believe in the gods, they have to go to war, plan a conspiracy, and tease everyone.
This war is just entertainment for the Demon King when he is bored, but tens of thousands of people have died fighting for it. In fact, many times it is not even the Demon King who actively intervenes in matters on the main plane, but human beings who fight for power and status*
*Even taking revenge and taking the initiative to borrow the power and existence of the devil. Therefore, many times, most devils even just stay idle and sleep in their palaces, and they can feel the evil and twisted evil coming from the distant main plane.
Will. As for these idiots, the people of the lower world can summarize their fate and ending in just one sentence.
If you don't take the road to heaven, you will have no choice but to fall into hell.
Among these cults, the five cults that are most valued by the Templar Order are the Non-God Society, the Doomsday God Cult, the Mother of Chaos Cult, the Eye of Despair, and the Dark Temple.
The irony is that among the five major cults listed as the focus of attention by the Templar Order, except for the Dark Temple, which belongs to Sauron, the Lord of Darkness, the other four have nothing to do with the demon king of the lower world. The Chaos
Zhan, the Mother Cult, has already dealt with the other party in Cassandra. The other party believes in the ancient gods, and the ancient gods are completely different from the current gods and demon kings. These ancient god believers are the joint attack of all gods and demon kings.
The target. Because the return of the ancient gods they are obsessed with means taking away the status of the current gods and demon kings at the same time. For such a group, neither believers who believe in gods nor cultists who believe in demon kings will look good on them.
As for the Eye of Despair, it is an organization that gives all the forces on the main plane a headache. Their organization has one and only one creed - that is, everything in this world is meaningless, gods are meaningless, and hope is meaningless.
Meaningless. Countries are meaningless, ideas are meaningless, even life itself is meaningless. And in order to make others realize this, followers of the Eye of Despair will do whatever they can to screw up what they can perceive.
Everything, whether it is a conspiracy or a plan, whether the country is strong or declining, it doesn't matter to them. For these desperate people, committing to a plan and then letting it be completely destroyed is its own value.
The only manifestation. And for this group of guys who not only break their own cans, but also drag everyone along with them and make their efforts go to waste. Almost no organization will have a good impression of them. What's worse is that they are desperate.
The Eye, like the Order of the Mother of Chaos, is a very well-disguised organization. You can't tell who is a desperate person at all, even if they often fail. These desperate people will lurk in every place they can think of.
Organizations. Then they conceal their identities and do everything possible to climb up. When they reach the apex of power, they give it a go and completely wipe out everything that their predecessors have spent hundreds of years accumulating.
Fortunately, temples and cults are rarely invaded by the Eye of Despair, because reaching the top of these religious groups requires pious faith, and the desperate people's thoughts that everything is meaningless are obviously unlikely to produce any pious faith.
So most of them hide among the bureaucracy, trying to subvert a country and demonstrate their extreme beliefs.
Among the five major cults, the one that attracts the most attention from the Holy Church is the Non-God Society. They openly declare that the current gods are all a group of liars. They are not supreme beings, but just a group of mortals who have gained great power.
They are not the creators of this world. Everything in this world, including the gods, were created by an unknowable, unimaginable existence. In their eyes, the real gods are unknowable and cannot be known.
It is impossible to observe an existence with a specific form and name. The real gods are beyond all understanding, and it is impossible for such small existences to obtain the information of those high-level existences.
As for the current gods, they are just false gods who have stolen the power of the true god. They have no glory at all. The divine power they use also comes from that unknown existence, and they are just its slaves and bound by it.
.The real God will not be hurt, will not die, and will not argue with each other like children!
Although such remarks made the Holy Church very angry, if it were just that, it would be impossible for the Non-God Society to overshadow the other four major cults and "top the list". The biggest reason that really makes them stand out is that--these non-Shen Guilds
Members of the Divine Guild can use an unknown power to counteract the effects of divine magic!
And this power is enough to shake the cornerstone of the Holy Church's faith, and it is also the reason why the Holy Church ranks non-gods as the first of all cults. After all, even the fight against the Demon King organization can be summarized as light and darkness, justice.
The war with evil. But the existence of the Non-God Society is shaking everything they believe in. For the gods who rely on faith to draw strength, this is obviously not a good thing. Not to mention one of the three major goals of the Non-God Society
It is to weaken and eliminate the power of gods. It can be said that they are the natural enemies of the gods.
However, destroying non-gods is a more difficult task than conquering the world. Non-gods know that their beliefs are heresy on the continent of Klein, so they carefully protect their existence and avoid all temple cults.
And open conflicts between priests. In addition, many cult groups also secretly help non-gods under the instructions of demon kings. After all, demon kings do not rely on faith to draw power like gods. For them, non-gods
The existence of the Society is simply the best thing for their enemies. Of course, these demon kings did not try to capture a few non-members of the God Society to study the source of their power, but nothing was gained. Although there are rumors that these very
The reason why the members of the Shenhui are able to counteract the effects of divine magic is entirely because their will is strong enough. But this obviously cannot be the answer to all mysteries.
In addition to being cautious enough and having the secret help of the demon kings, the strength of the non-god society itself is also one of the reasons why it is difficult for the Templar Order to succeed - many members of the non-god society are mages, and they are powerful mages.
This alone is enough to make it difficult for the Templar Order to take action. Although in the territory controlled by the Templar Order, non-gods exist as underground cult organizations, and in the magic country of Corencia, the country of mages,
The Non-God Society is a semi-public legal organization. The Holy Church is extremely angry about this, but there is nothing they can do about it.
The Doomsday Cult is somewhat similar to the Mother of Chaos Cult. Both parties strive for the destruction of the world. But in essence, their beliefs are completely opposite. The Mother of Chaos Cult believes that the end of the world is to return to Nicholas.
Embracing it, all things are unified and re-integrated into a whole. However, the Doomsday Cult believes that the end of the world is the end of everything in this world. The passing of a life, the fall of a god, and the dispersion of a plane. This is the ultimate embodiment of the truth of the universe.
.Think about it carefully, the complete destruction of everything means that you can be completely freed from all constraints, so what is more attractive than this?
If the Mother of Chaos Cult just pushed them into the abyss in the process of decline, then the Doomsday Cult is the black hand that pushes people off the cliff. They are active in all worlds.
All classes are dedicated to all conspiracies, commotions and riots. And everything they do has only one goal. That is to accelerate the destruction of the entire world.
Like the other four groups, the reason why the Doomsday Cult stands out among hundreds of groups and ranks in the top five is not because of their ideas. It is because of their strength - the Doomsday Cult is the one with the most people on the main plane.
An evil faction of alien creatures because they believe that the complete destruction of the world is a huge and distant project. And the destruction of a mere continent of Klein is not the ultimate goal of this faction at all. The complete dispersion of the multiverse is their goal. Therefore.
The Doomsday Cult is full of creatures from the lower world, the star world and even other creatures such as the shadow plane. They are all united under the same goal and work hard to destroy their own plane and the world. Of course.
, sometimes these alien creatures will also "exchange their needs" and go to other worlds to assist their companions in completing tasks. And to a certain extent, members of the Doomsday Cult also specialize in the "Alien Summoning" spell. In this way
Once that happened, Zhan could understand why they summoned a fiendish mephit to serve as a scout.
The Doomsday Cult actually appeared in the Lost City at this time, most likely for the fragments of the Gate of Shadow of Death. Considering the nature of their faction, this is not a strange thing. And according to Zhan En's guess
, this is probably the rumor that Lilicia released to lure the other party here. She is the best at doing this kind of thing, and Zhan En doesn’t give a second thought to it. In addition to Lilicia being able to do such a shameless thing,
No one else has this method either.
Of course, Zhan didn't think Steve Kopp was so terrible about the cult. You must know that in the Doomsday Cult, there are not only humans, but also creatures such as dark elves, Balor Balrogs, and even black dragons and shadow trolls.
.According to the characteristics of the Doomsday God's Cult, there must be alien creatures accompanying this trip, but I don't know what race they are. Of course, Zhan En is not worried about these guys. Although the Doomsday God's Cult is ranked first in the Klein Continent,
He is in the top five, but he is also the son of the Demon King. It would be really embarrassing if he was even afraid of these pretenders. But it is hard to tell these adventurers. Once they know the true identity of the other party, I am afraid these guys will turn around.
Let's go. Zhan still expected them to block his gun. Naturally, he couldn't let them go. Therefore, he just briefly told Steve some characteristics of the Doomsday Cult. Regarding their strength, Zhan kept silent.
After listening to Zhan's description, Steve frowned and thought for a moment before asking.
"So what do we do now? Master Zhan?"
"I suggest that we find a place to rest for the time being and not move forward immediately."
Jenn quickly gave the answer.
"I don't remember that I have anything to do with the Doomsday Cult, and you probably don't have this ability either. The reason why the other party came to attack us is probably because we were discovered by them when we were fighting the Harpy. If that's true.
, then I suggest that we find a place to hide temporarily and check the situation. If their target is not us, but something in the Lost City, they will not make a big move against us. After they leave, we can move on.
alright."
"OK."
Hearing Zhan's words, Steve was obviously relieved. After all, Zhan was right. If the target of those cultists was not them, they would naturally not go to war to trouble them again, and by that time, they would
Chapter completed!