Chapter 212: Dark ritual. (2/2)

While his auto Inside his backpack, he had several pouches filled with est hurdle that was this e

He was convinced that if he got too close to it the cultists would probably beco it would be important to his success as even with his current firepower and preparation time there was no assurance of his victory But he was not alone here, with the help of the other adventurers and the guards his chances of winning increased

‘That small one was easy to destroy but this one won’t be that easy’

Without his mana sense, he would probably not be able to see it but there was some kind of protective enchantment at work there If he unloaded all of his spells on this large double helix it would probably trigger the defensive h firepoas debatable yet there was another way to disable it

This was nothing more than another runic creation similar to one of his own It worked in the say it was not part of the runic software that could be switched off

Now there were tays he could access this runic structure One would be to go directly to it and go by touch This would activate the protective measure it had which made this option difficult Then there was the easier o with

The relic needed soolem This control item would certainly be in someone's possession, probably in the hands of the leader It would be h it than to atteh the massive construct directly

Those sorts of items always had an imprinted set of codes that could be sent to the olem control rods had no protectivetheerprint of the user, he had enough knowledge to get around it The bigger problem was to identify the control itee he continued to notice the vibrations in the air evensensitive to nals

‘This control itenature like this, perhaps my scanner can pick it up…’

His radar see in handy a lot o for erprints he would be able to feed it the mana pattern of this oh with that hisfeature wasn’t as precise as he had wished for It was guiding him towards the area where all of the people were, it seeroup of crazy cultists

Finally, it was time, his main weapon which was the iron staff was now in his hand On his back was a shi+eld that had various protective barriers to keep hie By his hip, he also had his sidearet close Most ih he had his runic armor that allowed him to shatter the conventions between classes and levels

Even with all of the to do Escape was still an option yet his current life would be over then He would need to escape from Albrook and hide away somewhere The cult would certainly know that he had a runic class now and perhaps even discover his new hiding place in ti over his shoulder or perhaps be forced to return to the noble estate to seek shelter Then there was Elodia, Bernir, and all the other people that he came across

Would they run aith him if he explained it all or would they remain in the place they called hoet to hi he wanted his friends to ever experience as he knew of the inhumane ways of the Abyssal Cult

Before he could cloud his mind with anyhimself hypotheticals before the battle started If he didn’t focus on the task at hand he would certainly fail Thus while activating a concealh the deserted part of the village

The area he was in was quite silent but as he ventured toward that gathering place strange noises entered through his ears There were people chanting sos of the two guards he had disposed of earlier and only got louder when he approached

To evade detection he decided to stick to the erass and bushes there and the help of his spell, it would be impossible for these cultists to sniff hie spire, he saw some of the enemies

There were about ten of the that was further away This structure looked like some kind of temple that had been haphazardly constructed The s that he could see in the background

This whole structure looked like an unfinished pyrae stairs leading up a few ht was quite dark so the light fro the way for hi fro closer to see if there was a way to get there without going through the cultist from the front

After he went around to the other side he discovered sos at the upper parts Thanks to the pyramidal shape it would not be hard to scale the wall even while wearing his heavy aruards to be seen either, the trust these cultists were putting in that relic was iet here without being entrapped in the illusion

‘First I need to find an escape route…’

After exaolems These tould be an iically placed on standby Only then he started to scale the wall towards theat almost the top of this temple From what he could tell this was probably made for ventilation purposes

Finally, when he reached the entrance point he was also able to peek inside Without the walls in the way, the chants were quite loud Yet this was not what he was paying attention to Inside he saw soined seeing in horror e and it was riddled with the sleeping bodies of the adventurers and members of the caravan In the middle was an elevated platforuards He was slu that looked like a sacrificial altar, yet instead of being stabbed through the heart as a sacrifice so to hiathered around him, one to his left and another opposite while so down at hi-like creature in their hands

The creature was about five centi out froed to some type of leech with e black shroud of energy surrounded this creature that gave out a strange high-pitched screa to these people…’

Soon enough the leech-like creature was passed onto thedoards the passed out man’s face One of the side cultists leaned over to spread the man’s closed eyes Then the moment the creature made contact with the man’s eyeball its many tendrils shot out towards it

Roland was taken aback by the sight of this thing quickly wiggling inside of theinto it He had no idea what the purpose of that thing was but he was certain that it didn’t bode well for the people gathered here…