Woody's voice was extremely cold, like the biting cold wind blowing from the tundra. Oriana seemed to be frozen and said nothing.
Because what he said is right.
Once "Scavenger Hunting" is started.
All profane cultists must respond simultaneously.
This is why in the previous life, Woody could receive commissions about this blasphemous cultist no matter where he was in Asenland.
They are like weeds in the wilderness. When the first spark blooms in them, there is no turning back.
"Impossible! It's only been two months since the last separation. Both the Mage Association and the Silver Hand in Neverwinter Port grew up eating gravel? Sanbeilin has started the Feast of the Stars? It can't be so fast!"
"And he didn't notify me either!"
Oriana still couldn't believe it and said two or three times that it was impossible.
When Woody saw this, he already knew that the most critical moment had come.
So I threw the last sentence that had been brewing in my heart for a long time to the profane cultist in front of me.
"Madam, I have come on the order of Lord Sanbelin! If you still don't believe it, there is an altar here. You can ask the Great Mother yourself, let His will come, and ask Him if the north has already appeared.
Got a coordinate!"
The completion of the "Scavenger Hunting" will cause severe panic in the local area, and this panic will also form the source of the signal that guides the Corruption Mother Tree to come to Asenland.
When there are enough signal sources, they can attract the corrupted mother trees wandering disorderly in the star realm.
"You don't need to tell me, I will verify this myself."
"But, stranger, what is your name, and how do you know San Beilin?"
The bloated body shrouded in a red velvet cloak moved, and Orianna finally took a good look at this stranger who had come from afar.
A good young man, even if he is not a believer now, his achievements will not be low in the future.
Oriana already believed Woody's words in her heart, but she just refused to bow her head.
The reason for trust is also very simple.
After all, besides themselves, who else in this world knows the Shapebreakers so well?
"Garon comes from the small town of Hardet in the North, where Lord Sembelin rescued me and brought me into the arms of the Star Mother."
Woody stared intently at the mural not far away, as if his beloved was depicted on it.
"It was only after getting to know him that I realized how wrong the world was!"
"At that time, I swore that I would devote my limited life to all the infinite causes of correction!"
"For the radiance of the Mother of Stars to come and purify this wrong world! I will do whatever it takes!"
"Even those hypocritical gods can't stop me."
When talking about the latter part, Woody's voice was trembling a little, as if there was an indescribable excitement and enthusiasm in his chest.
However, he had the reasons for these emotions at his fingertips.
It's because "he" has rich experience, and the memory and experience of the "previous owner" have been integrated by Woody...
"Okay! Garen, come to the altar and stand next to me. After the ceremony is completed and the "mother's" will comes, you can repeat your words again. After confirming that they are correct, I will perform it for you at that time."
"Baptism" allows you to truly appreciate what His grace is."
"When the time comes, you will become as beautiful as me! Hoho"
When she said this, Oriana showed a hint of laughter, which caused her to tremble with the tumor-like abscesses that spread from her forehead to both sides of her cheeks, like countless necrotic eyeballs.
"I think San Beilin sent you to me for this purpose, to give you an advantage!"
"……."
Woody really didn't realize that the cultist in front of him could automatically make up so much.
However, he would not deny it, but would still pretend to be his most devout believer who was willing to devote himself to the Corruption Mother Tree.
"Then come! The banquet of stars cannot be delayed! This is related to whether mother's eyes can stay here!"
"You should know the stakes involved! We can't keep Lord Sanbeilin waiting for too long."
Finally, before the ceremony began, Woody also urged Oriana in front of him.
Sanbeilin is indeed a real person, and it was he who started the "Scavenger Hunting" that spread throughout Ashenrant. He is also the core figure in the Order of the Blasphemer. The oaths he recited about the Corrupted Mother Tree are also true.
It's true, he heard it with his own ears.
There is only one thing that is wrong.
That is, he has advanced the start time of "Scavenger Hunting" to October this year, but the real start will occur in June next year.
There is no communication tool in this world that can allow people from the north and the south to communicate. Most of them rely on letters. Even for Masters, it is extremely difficult to transmit messages thousands of miles apart.
Therefore, if the cultists in front of them want to prove the truth, they can only rely on the will of the supreme "Mother Tree" in the cult as a ruling and judgment, which is also the source of the divine magic of their cult of the Blasphemer.
However, Woody, who understood the truth, knew that the so-called will was actually a trunk fragment intercepted from the corrupted mother tree. After being enshrined by the believers of the Church of the Blasphemer, it became the core of their faith and psychic power.
There are similar cases in the multiverse, such as a group of cultists who worship the heart of a certain ancient red dragon as their faith, but the ancient red dragon never responds to their calls and is not as conscientious as the Corrupt Mother Tree.
What Woody has to do now is to wait for the profane cultist in front of him to start the ritual.
As the noble lady fiddled with all kinds of deformed limbs, flesh and organs from unknown corners.
Black eyeballs as big as a baby's head, two palms growing out of the elbows, an arm with ten fingers, and two heads at the base of the man...
After placing them according to their directions, the ritual to please the will of the corrupt mother tree begins.
Woody stood sideways by the altar, looking strange at first glance, waiting for the will of the mother tree to come.
In fact, when the profane cultists sing the praises of the Mother of Stars, let her gaze be cast to the future and prepare to descend.
Woody was stuck at this point in time, and then he had a parchment scroll tied with small but complicated precise knots.
——"Lani's Crazy Laughter Technique!"
As the knot loosened, the light of the spell bloomed in a corner of the altar.
As a result, Oriana, who was concentrating on singing her prayers, found that what came out of her open mouth was no longer a pious hymn, but an almost blasphemous laughter.
"Hohohoho~"
Oriana, who was laughing wildly in shock, looked in disbelief at the location where the spell wave just came from.
That damn foreigner!
How dare I do such an unclean thing in such a solemn ceremony.
What she is thinking about now is not revenge on the culprit who caused her to do such a thing, but "mother's will" has come.
If she doesn't chant now, it's a forced interruption.
The consequences of interruption are extremely serious...
An act of blasphemy.
And the divine punishment was also interrupted along with the ceremony.
