——"You successfully tricked a cultist into thinking you were an ally."
——"Negotiation +3, Deception +5, Performance +3."
As a line of data quietly appeared in front of Woody's eyes, his tense body relaxed slightly.
The first hurdle has passed.
But this does not mean that his identity can be disguised safely until the end. Next, he has to look directly at that guy.
A cultist who has transformed into a perfect form.
How to perform at that time will be a huge difficulty.
In addition to praising its charm to the monster covered with tumors and abscesses, it may also be like in the game CG, as a reward given by the superior to the inferior, which is to let the subordinate's servants suck the juice from the tree trunk like a cicada.
, sucking his cysts and abscesses.
Double pleasure.
Unless they are true believers in the Corruption Mother Tree, no one can regard this reward as an unparalleled delicious gift.
Normal players may be able to praise the greatness of the Corrupted Mother Tree to Grandia, and use the prayers that are familiar to them from the previous game and are recited by every profane person.
But those who can achieve the latter simply by virtue of their charm are probably rare.
Woody naturally also considered the possibility of the latter, so he also made some adjustments after entering the secret shop for the second time.
The purpose is to further reduce the probability of exposure.
"By the way, I haven't asked you what your name is yet? My name is Grandia, but it seems that you already know it.",
"where u from?"
"Is your mask made of a winter wolf skull? And can I see your face?"
Wait until the coachman wakes up.
Woody had already gotten into the black two-cabin carriage at Grandia's invitation, and received a warm greeting from Grandia as soon as he entered.
If it weren't for the fact that there were only single seats inside and the two of them were separated by a table, Woody would even feel that she couldn't help but touch her body.
"……."
Woody didn't know how to answer for a while, but what is certain is that the less you say, the less likely you will be wrong, and the more you say, the more likely you will be wrong.
Therefore, when he talked about the knowledge about the Corrupted Mother Tree in Grandia, he answered with part of the knowledge he learned from his past life memories.
But to be honest, Woody didn't have access to the high-end combat power of the Corruption Mother Tree in his last life.
Levels 1 to 3, including all monsters including profaners.
From the "corruption aberration" with challenge level 2 and personal level 4 at the bottom to the "corrupted soul" with challenge level 10 and personal level over 15.
He has basically encountered them all, and also killed them.
Those profane cultists even had their underwear taken out with the help of enthusiastic players on the forum.
Even the cysts on their body parts splattered with putrid juices accurate to the centimeter.
It shows how thoroughly and skillfully it has been studied.
Although a long time has passed, it is still more than enough to face Grandia, who is also just getting started with the Corruption Mother Tree and is not very knowledgeable.
After all, this is the advantage that accumulation of knowledge brings.
But what Woody didn't expect was that the aristocratic girl in front of him who was only gentle and comforting in a few moments in Woody's memory was now like a fan meeting a star, extremely enthusiastic, and the questions came one after another.
This kind of experience was something I had never experienced before, and I have to say it was very ironic.
But Woody remained calm, mostly keeping his eyes closed and concentrating, and would only occasionally answer Grandia's questions.
But those few words satisfied Grandia.
After all, she was determined because her appearance was too close to the creature created by the hypocritical gods, so she was ignored by the man in front of her.
Being able to reply a few words is already a great gift for her.
…
As the carriage stopped, a man wearing a wolf-head mask and cloak and a cute girl with blond, waist-length wavy hair and wearing a light pink palace dress stepped out of the carriage at the same time.
"Mr. Gallon, I am going to inform my mother now, please wait a moment."
Grandia cheered and seemed eager to share the good news with her mother, while Woody, whose pseudonym was "Garen", observed the surroundings of the house.
We are observing which places are suitable for hiding "corruption anomalies", generally speaking.
As the Corruption Mother Tree, most of its worshipers are core believers who have advanced from "Profane Cultists" to "Fleshweaver" spellcasters.
In addition to their own strength, they are powerful.
There are also a group of "corrupt monsters" who were transformed from humans who are not afraid of death.
Among them, if the corpse of a professional is transformed, it will even be stronger than before life.
If Woody kills the caster behind the scenes, then these creatures will have no restraints, and any movement may alarm them, especially the approach of creatures.
Therefore, Woody had to seriously find a way out for himself.
Of course, Grandia's mother, at this point in time, and based on feedback from the city, is at best in the middle level of the Profanity Cult.
His strength is far from the crazy limb modifier that Woody remembered, who could sew the wings of a white dragon, the eyes of a beholder, the arms of a snake man, and the chest of an undead into his own body.
There is no large group of monsters that can destroy an entire army.
It is estimated that there are only about a dozen corrupt monsters at most, plus the degree of appearance distortion, and at most a few special abilities brought by the distorted limbs. Other than that, they are actually no different from normal third-level spellcasters.
The only thing that is difficult to deal with is that her weaknesses have disappeared with the deformation. The two fatal weaknesses of her heart and head have changed with the corruption of her whole body.
Moreover, advanced spell casters of the Profanity Cult have almost no pain and their concentration is extremely high.
Therefore, if you want to interrupt his spellcasting, you must start from the root cause, such as cutting off her arms, or making her mouth silent.
This is why Woody chose a scroll of "Lani's Laughter".
This spell not only makes all intelligent creatures that can make sounds laugh, but also forces the limbs of the creatures to make the same hilarious movements.
Some people have even used this to stop the dragon's breath, but the dragon's magic immunity is very high, so they want to do this.
A spellcaster's unique metamagic expertise "Spell Upgrade" must be required, and a certain price must be paid to increase the strength and level of the spell.
Of course, Lani's Laughter can also be placed in a high-level spell slot to have the same effect.
However, this spell is not that easy to cast. Even opening the scroll takes a certain amount of time, and the recipient's will to resist is not required to be too high, so the timing of casting the spell is extremely critical.
Moreover, the maintenance effect of the Laughing Technique is only six seconds. Originally, if Angelena was there, the six seconds of vulnerability perception given by the monk would be enough for him to stab three or four vital points, but now...
I can only hope that the scroll can have a good effect.
Before Woody went in, he continued to observe the points where the corrupt monsters might be buried to prevent them from hitting the escape route later. Those guys had no sense of fairness and pounced on them like hounds.
Many novice spell casters did not pay attention to the hidden corruption monsters. The moment they were knocked down, they could no longer cast spells and their health bars were emptied.
Woody may be able to deal with spellcasters, but there is really no way to deal with such a group of corrupt creatures that are stronger and faster than sahuagin.
Grandia didn't let him wait long. When Woody's escape route was just halfway observed, the aristocratic girl with skin like a porcelain doll took the initiative to hold Woody's hand and pulled him into the mansion.
"Mom wants to see you. What is the "Feast of the Stars" you are talking about? Why did she understand it as soon as I said it?"
The girl with long wavy golden hair and dragging her palace dress with both hands looked curious and innocent, as if she had an endless thirst for knowledge.
If she wasn't asking about cult information, and if he wasn't going to meet a cult caster, it would be very nice.
"Feast of the Stars" is of course a glorified term within the Blasphemy. In the player files, it is a cruel and bloody evil sacrifice.
——"Scavenger Hunting"
This was done to please and attract evil sacrifices from the Corrupted Mother Tree.
All leaders of the Blasphemy Cult will, after a certain period of time, lead their subordinates and monsters transformed into corrupt aberrations to collect living creatures, including members of the race of intelligent creatures.
Woody remembered that in the twenty-four months after the Golden Year, they repeatedly abducted and kidnapped women and children in various cities and city-states in broad daylight, and also stole precious plant specimens and various magical powers in the forest.
Creatures take action.
The scope of the sacrifice spans from the "Star Swirl Mountains" in the south to the great glacier known as the "Tooth of the World" in the north. Almost all players at the time were swept in, but it still failed to prevent the arrival of the corrupted mother tree.
But it is also related to the fact that at that time, the drow and gray dwarves, as well as the overlapping Shadowfell Underworld, and the creatures of the Fey Wilds were all showing their prominence.
At that time, no one would have thought that such a massive world-ending disaster would come later.
It wasn't until the end that some people knew that what these cultists were attracting in their sacrifices was not the local evil spirits who wanted to become gods, but the evil spirits that existed in this ancient wild world long before the birth of the gods and could cause positive energy distortion.
Ancient evil object "Corruption Mother Tree"
At that time, I didn’t know if players still wanted to use the same methods to deal with undead creatures to deal with the Corrupted Mother Tree.
It turns out that when a bottle of holy water is poured down, the opponent becomes more powerful.
So much so that at that time, many evil lichs and other undead creatures joined the army to resist the corrupt mother tree for their own safety.
After all, under the distortion of positive energy, these undead creatures born from negative energy are also its targets.
Thinking about it, Woody had already followed Grandia to the door of the basement.
Grandia knocked on the door, and a hoarse intermittent voice came from inside.
"come in."
At this time, the double iron doors in the basement were opened by invisible force.
