"Cult of Doom?"

Hearing Jenn's words, Steve couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

"Your Excellency, you mean, these guys who attacked us are cultists?"

"They are indeed cultists."

Jenn nodded, but his eyes were fixed on the badge in front of him. Mortals think that the so-called cultists are all believers who believe in the Demon King. But in fact, this is a huge misunderstanding, there are hundreds of cults on the Klein Continent, and only two-thirds of them belong to the category of believing in the Demon King, because the Demon King does not need to draw power from faith like the gods, on the contrary, their sects on the main plane are more specialized in adding blockage to the gods, such as slaughtering a village today and sacrificing a few virgins tomorrow, which has almost no visible impact on the power of the Demon King. But for those who believe in the gods, they have to go out of their way, plot a conspiracy, provoke a war is just the entertainment of the demon king when he is idle and bored, but the number of people who die fighting for it is thousands. In fact, in many cases, it is not even the Demon King who takes the initiative to meddle in the affairs of the main plane, but human beings who take the initiative to borrow the power and existence of the Demon King for the sake of power, status, and even revenge. Therefore, many times, most demon kings are even just idle and bored to sleep in their palaces, and they can feel the will from the distant main plane, full of evil and twisted**. As for these fools, the people of the lower realms can sum up their fate and fate in just one sentence.

There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no way to go to hell.

Among these cults, the five cults that are most valued by the Templar Order are the Non-Divine Society and the Doomsday Cult. The Order of the Mother of Chaos, the Eye of Despair, and the Dark Sanctum.

And ironically. Among the five cults that the Templar Order has listed as a focus of attention, except for the Dark Sanctuary, which belongs to Sauron, the Lord of Darkness. The other four have nothing to do with the Demon King of the lower realm. The Order of the Mother of Chaos, Jenn, had already dealt with the other party in Kassandra, and the other party believed in the ancient gods, and the old gods were completely different from the current gods and demon kings. These followers of the ancient gods are the targets of the joint attack of all the gods and demon kings. Because the return of the ancient gods that they have never forgotten is equivalent to seizing the status of the current gods and demon kings at the same time, for such a group, whether it is believers who believe in gods or cultists who believe in demon kings, they will not give them a good look.

As for the Eyes of Despair, it is an organization that gives all the forces on the Lord's plane a headache, and they have only one creed -- that is, everything in this world is meaningless, the gods are meaningless, and hope is meaningless. The state is meaningless, the mind is meaningless, and even life itself is meaningless. And in order for others to realize this, the believers of the Eyes of Despair will do their best to mess up the qiē they are able to perceive. Whether it's a conspiracy or a plan, whether the country is strong or in decline, it doesn't matter to them, to these desperate people. Throwing yourself into a plan and then letting it end is the only manifestation of your own worth. And for this group of guys who not only broke the jar themselves, but also pulled everyone to be unlucky and made their efforts come to naught. Hardly any organization will have a good opinion of them. To make matters worse, the Eyes of Despair, like the Order of the Mother of Chaos, belong to a particularly camouflaged institution. You can't tell who is desperate, even if they often fail. These desperate people lurk in every organization they can think of. Then conceal their identities as much as they can climb upwards while they reach the pinnacle of power. They gave it a free go, and the one that had taken their predecessors hundreds of years to accumulate was completely wiped out.

Fortunately, both temples and cults are rarely invaded by the Eye of Despair, because the ascension of these religious groups requires a pious faith, and the hopeless people obviously cannot have any devout faith in a meaningless thought, so most of them are mixed up in the bureaucracy in an attempt to subvert a country in order to show their radical beliefs.

Among the five cults, the most concerned by the Templar Order are the Non-Divine Order, who openly claim that the current gods are a bunch of liars, and that they are not supreme beings, but mere mortals who have gained great power. They are not the creators of this world, and the qiē of this world, including those gods, are created by an unknowable, unimaginable being. In their eyes, the true God is unknowable, unobservable, and cannot have a concrete form and name. True gods are beyond comprehension, and it is impossible for these small beings to know the information of those who are high up in the world.

As for the current gods, they are just false gods who have stolen the power of the true gods, and there is no glory at all, and the divine power they use comes from the same unknowable being, and they are nothing more than their slaves, bound by it. The true God does not hurt, does not die, and does not quarrel with one another like children!

Although such remarks annoyed the Templar Order, if it were just like that, it would be impossible for the Non-Divine Order to overshadow the other four cults to "top the list". The biggest thing that really makes them stand out is that these non-members of the Divine Society are able to use an unknowable power to counteract the effects of the divine arts!

And this power is enough to shake the foundation of the Templar's faith, and it is also the reason why the Templar Order lists non-divine orders as the head of all cults, after all, even the struggle against the Demon King can be summarized as a war between light and darkness, good and evil. But the existence of non-gods is shaking the one they believe in, which is obviously not a good thing for the gods who rely on faith to draw strength. What's more, one of the three major goals of the non-god society is to weaken and destroy the power of the gods, and it can be said that they are the natural enemies of the gods.

However, it is more difficult to destroy the non-gods than to conquer the world, and the non-gods know that their faith is heretical on the Klein Continent, so they carefully protect their existence from open conflicts with the Qiē Temple Order and the priests. In addition, many cult groups are also secretly helping non-gods under the instructions of the demon kings, after all, the demon kings do not rely on faith to draw power like the gods. For them, the existence of non-divine beings is simply a good thing for their enemies. Of course. These demon kings did not fail to try to catch a few non-members of the Divine Order to study their sources of power, but to no avail. Although it is rumored that these non-members of the Divine Church are able to counteract the effects of the divine arts, it is entirely because they are determined enough. But this obviously cannot be used as an answer to a qiē mystery.

In addition to being cautious enough and the demon kings secretly helping, the strength of the non-divine order's own power is also one of the reasons why the Templar Order is difficult to get hold of -- many of the members of the non-divine order are mages, and they are powerful mages. That alone was enough to make it difficult for the Templar to get started. Although it is said that in the territory controlled by the Templar Order, the Non-Divine Society exists as an underground cult organization, while in Colensia, the country of the mage's country, the Non-Divine Society is a semi-public legal organization. The Templar Order was annoyed, but helpless.

The Cult of Doom is somewhat similar to the Order of the Mother of Chaos. Both sides are fighting for the end of the world. But in essence, the two sides believe that the end of the world is a return to the bosom of Nicholas, where all things become one and merge into oneness. However, the Doomsday Cult believes that the end of the world is the end of all things in this world, the loss of a life, the fall of a god, and the dissipation of a plane, which is the ultimate embodiment of the truth of the universe. If you think about it, a complete ruin means that you can be completely freed from all bondage, so what could be more attractive than this?

If the Order of the Mother of Chaos was just pushing them in the process of decay, allowing them to fall into the abyss faster. Then the Cult of Doom is the black hand that pushes people off the cliff. They are active in all walks of life in various worlds, dedicated to a qiē conspiracy, riots and riots. And everything they do is only for one goal. That is to accelerate the destruction of the whole world.

Like the other four groups, the Cult of Doom is not in the top five out of hundreds of groups because of their philosophy. It's because of their strength -- the Cult of Doom is the evil faction that has the most heterogeneous creatures on the main plane, because they think that the total destruction of the world is a huge thing. Distant engineering. And destroying a single Klein continent is not the ultimate goal of this faction at all, the complete dissipation of the multiverse is their goal. As a result, the Cult of Doom is filled with creatures from the lower realms, the astral plane, and even some other creatures such as the shadow plane. They are all united in the same goal, fighting with all their hearts and souls to destroy their own plane and world. Of course, there are times when these otherworldly creatures will also "communicate with each other" and go to other worlds to assist their companions in completing their tasks. In a way, members of the Doomsday Cult also specialize in the "Otherworldly Summoning" spell. That way, Jenn was able to understand why they had summoned a Hellbat to be a scout.

And the Cult of Doom actually appeared in the Lost City at this time, mostly for the fragments of the Death Shadow Gate, which is not surprising given the nature of their faction. And according to Jenn's guess, it is estimated that it was Lilicia's rumor that lured the other party here, she is the best at doing this kind of thing, and Jenn doesn't think twice about it at all. Except for Lilicia, who was able to do such a shameless thing, no one else had the means.

Of course, Jenn wasn't so terrible about the Order as Steve Cop, considering that in the Cult of Doom there are not only humans, but even creatures like the Dark Elves, the Baror's Flame Demons, and even the Black Dragons and Shadow Trolls. According to the characteristics of the Doomsday God Cult, there must be alien creatures accompanying this trip, but I don't know what race the other party is. Of course, Jenn is not worried about these guys, although the Doomsday God Cult is also ranked in the top five in the Klein Continent, but he is also the son of the Demon King, and even these guys who pretend to be gods and ghosts are afraid, it is really embarrassing. But these adventurers are not easy to say, once they know the true identity of the other party, I am afraid that these guys will turn around and leave, and Jenn still expects them to block his guns, so it is naturally impossible to let them go. Therefore, he only briefly told Steve about some characteristics of the Cult of Doom, and Jenn was silent about their strength. After listening to Jenn's description, Steve frowned and thought for a moment before asking.

"So what do we do now? Lord Jenn? ”

"I'll find a place to rest for the time being, don't move forward immediately."

Jenn was quick to give the answer.

"I don't remember anything to do with the Cult of Doom, and you probably don't have the skills to do that. The reason why the other party came to attack us is probably because they discovered us when we were fighting the Harpy before. If that's the case, then I'll suggest that we can find a place to hide for the time being and see what happens. If their target wasn't us, but something in the Lost City, they wouldn't have made a big fuss about us, and we'd have moved on when they're gone. ”

"Okay."

Hearing Jenn's words, Steve was obviously much more relieved, after all, what Jenn said was right. If the goal of those cultists was not them, they would not have made a big fuss to trouble them again, and at that time, they would have moved on. (To be continued......)