"Who are you?"

Reid also noticed the man outside who mastered the "hero" swordsmanship. These two people, a puppet master who could compete with him, and a man who was obviously not strong but mastered exquisite swordsmanship that did not match his own strength. Such a person could not be unknown in this kingdom. But he had never heard of such a combination. What puzzled him even more was that this place was a base of the Goddess Cult, which was a secret. You have to know that his current identity was still a junior captain of the "Eight Fingers". This place was originally the base of that organization. Only people within the Goddess Cult should know that this place was actually occupied by the Goddess Cult.

"..."

Alice stared at the other party coldly. Not only did she fail in her first fight with the puppets, but she also lost Xiao Xiaohong. This made her no longer in the mood to talk to the other party, and she decided to end this battle as soon as possible.

"It seems that if I want to know your origins, I can only torture you after defeating you." Reid did not sense the danger.

He looked at the puppets beside Alice, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and just when he was about to activate the guidance explosion technique he had just left on them.

This moment.

An invisible heavy blow hit him in the face, and his face was sunken, blood spurted out, and the whole person flew backwards with a bang. A tall black knight kept punching, slowly retracted his fist, and made a running posture. Instantly, there was a bursting sound in the air. The black knight came from behind and rushed to the back of Reid, then kicked Reid back with a roundhouse kick.

Shock was evident on Ryder's swollen face.

What it is?

Doll?

In front of him, Alice's body was bursting with lightning. The terrifying magic reaction made Reid unbelievable. They were clearly evenly matched just now, why did this woman's strength suddenly increase so much? ! Alice punched Reid's stomach. That punch seemed like a thunder gun. It was more like a shock wave than a punch.

Ryder fell to the ground.

Staring at Alice with his eyes wide open.

Then, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his body emitted a scorching light.

[Chapter 67: A Cold Heart]

I have to say that the bomber is very powerful. The power of his self-detonation even blew up the entire village.

If Si hadn't used teleportation magic to take Hanta and Alice out, they might have been buried under the mountain. The bomber had placed a lot of gunpowder in the mountain village in advance, and a series of explosions were as powerful as high-level magic.

The whole mountain collapsed.

The fact that the bomber, who was once only a small captain of the "Eight Fingers" organization, could improve to this level shows how powerful the "Witch Factor" is. If Si hadn't felt that she couldn't control this power, she might have been unable to resist studying it. But if the price of obtaining this power is to pollute her self-consciousness, the price is too high.

"Huh..." Hanta looked at the collapsed mountain, sweating coldly on his face. He said with great relief, "It was a close call just now. I didn't expect these people to be so crazy. They buried so much gunpowder in the mountain village, and they didn't hesitate at all about self-destruction. They were just like death warriors. Are all the people in the Goddess Church such difficult guys? Then I finally understand why the nobles of the kingdom can't do anything to them."

With strong strength, huge numbers, and all members being death warriors, such an organization is simply invincible. Unless you use absolute strength to eradicate them, you will never be able to resist such a powerful and invincible religious group.

Even if the Goddess Cult appeared in their empire with strict military discipline, it would definitely cause unimaginable disasters, not to mention the kingdom that had already reached the end of its rope. If there were no reinforcements to help the kingdom this time, he had no doubt that this terrifying Goddess Cult would be able to destroy this already corrupt kingdom.

No wonder the Sword Master would take the initiative to find the Goddess Church. Although the destruction of the kingdom is not a matter of concern to the people of the Empire, the teachings of the Goddess Church are to destroy the world, so they must not let these dangerous guys do whatever they want.

Moreover, the Goddess Cult can gain strength through continuous destructive activities. If they are allowed to destroy the kingdom, then other countries will have to face the Goddess Cult becoming more powerful because of the destruction of the kingdom, and it will become even more difficult to deal with.

This time, the Sword Saint is tasked with the mission of "saving the world"! Hanta was a little excited when he thought of this, because he is now a member of the Sword Saint team. Although his main job is now a coachman and attendant, even if the ground

He is also a member of the team and has set out on a journey to destroy the evil cult. There is nothing more exciting than this. Although he knows that he is weak, he will strive to be a small character who can leave his name in the story. Just in this way, he will have no regrets in life.

However, Hanta was the only one who was enjoying himself. Si teleported the two of them back to the carriage and returned to the air-conditioned carriage without saying a word. Before entering the carriage, Alice corrected Hanta's words: "You are wrong. With the master here, those humans are not dangerous at all. And you'd better reflect on yourself for following me without permission. Your behavior is of no help to me."

"......Yes."

Hanta's excitement was suddenly dampened. Before, the Sword Saint had only asked Miss Alice to deal with the cottage, and he had followed without permission. Although he felt that he had helped her, Miss Alice obviously did not think so, and he did not think he could refute her. After all, he did not know how much strength Miss Alice had just used, and even now he could not feel how strong Miss Alice was. So if Miss Alice thought he was a burden, then the answer must be this, but his strength could not discover this.

Si heard the conversation between Alice and Hanta, but she didn't say anything. She also knew that what Alice said was true. Hanta's actions might be out of a desire to help, but with his strength, he couldn't help Alice at all.

As for those goddess believers that Hanta had eliminated before? Even if those ordinary goddess believers united together, it would not be a big deal for Alice. But Hanta had to go all out when fighting those goddess believers, and even a single mistake could cost him his life. So at that time, Alice not only had to deal with the tough bomber, but also had to pay attention to Hanta's situation. Fortunately, Hanta had some self-awareness and did not touch the battlefield between the bomber and Alice, otherwise he might become Alice's weakness and drag her down in the battle.

But Alice's mind is really pure.

Si didn't expect Alice to remind and warn Hanta, which is something she would never do.

If she were Alice, she wouldn't care what Hanta did. But if Hanta became a burden to her, or even threatened her safety, she would abandon Hanta without hesitation.

After all, Hanta was just a servant to her, and they had a trading relationship. Even though Hanta's ability was a bit of a waste for a servant, she never forced Hanta to do this job, and it was Hanta who came to her door to fight for this job.

She never deducted the slightest bit from Hanta's salary, and never asked him to do anything beyond his job. So the relationship between them was just that simple, a pure employer-employee relationship. Of course, Hanta was her man now, and she would teach him swordsmanship based on this relationship, and would help him if he was in danger, if she could. But if Hanta took the initiative to seek death, that would be Hanta's own problem.

Don't say that his original intention was to help her. Since she didn't let Hanta take action, she had her reasons for making such an arrangement. However, Hanta didn't obey orders and even made things worse. There was nothing to say. The relationship between them was so simple, and they didn't have a deep friendship. She couldn't pay for Hanta's mistakes just because of his self-righteousness.

But Alice thought differently.

Although Alice is very cold towards outsiders, she is too gentle to people in her own camp. Although Alice usually looks indifferent to Hanta, the status of Hanta in Alice's heart may be only below those dolls, at the same level as cleaning tools. If Hanta is destroyed by the enemy, Alice should be angry.

[Chapter 68: Current Situation]

Recently, all branches of the Goddess Cult have suffered heavy losses.

The losses were extremely heavy.

Therefore, the activities of the Goddess Cult became more restrained, and their actions became more secretive.

But it’s no wonder that they can’t be arrogant, because the people who attacked them were simply too strong.

An adventurer who came out of nowhere, the "dark hero" Momo, destroyed the Goddess Church's plan, saved a city, and single-handedly defeated the superior angel summoned by the Goddess Church in the city center at that time, showing extremely powerful strength. Afterwards, he was promoted to a fine steel-level adventurer by the Adventurer's Union. At the same time, the Goddess Church also has another extremely powerful enemy, "The Empire's Peerless Swordmaster" Si Astraea. If the dark hero is a strong man in the human field, then this swordmaster is a god in the world. Once, three bishops jointly attacked the swordmaster. They performed the tenth-level summoning technique together and summoned the strongest angel so far, but the angel was killed in seconds before the swordmaster could not even withstand a single sword.

The three bishops who sacrificed most of their strength suffered a huge psychological blow, and then no one from the Goddess Church dared to attack the Sword Master anymore. The Goddess Church was even forced to abandon its former stronghold, and each of the believers concealed their identities and went into hiding.

Finally, there is an unknown knight.

This knight in silver-white armor is extremely powerful. Although he is not as powerful as the Sword Master, he is also a powerful enemy that the Goddess Church cannot deal with. His image looks very much like a hero in the Legend of the Thirteen Heroes.

There were also some evil demons and vampire progenitors who suddenly came out to besiege the Goddess Cult.

For a time, the Goddess Cult became the world's public enemy.

One by one, powerful people who had been heard of or not heard of appeared, and all of these powerful people acted with the goal of sniping at their Goddess Cult.

Even though the Goddess Cult was very arrogant in the beginning, after suffering huge losses in the past few waves, they finally stopped holding on and began to truly move underground.

They don't usually wear religious clothes.

They all started living in anonymity.

He secretly plotted a plan to destroy the kingdom, and also learned how to hide the aura of dusk.

On the way to the kingdom's capital.

A black carriage was moving steadily towards the capital, with Astraea's family crest printed on the outside of the carriage, as it swaggered through the kingdom.

Now no one in this world dares to disrespect the owner of this carriage, and the nobles will no longer be so desperate as to test the sword master's strength as they did last time. Because in the past few months, the Empire Sword Master has already built a reputation that is unparalleled in the world.

In that battle, the Goddess of the Church summoned a high-level angel far superior to the devil. The mere presence of the angel's magic power was enough to cause huge damage to the city, making people despair. But even with such a god-like existence, the swordsman only used a sword, as if cutting through the sky and the earth, the night and the dawn, and the space-slashing skill to kill the angel. It was an act witnessed by the people of a city, and the authenticity could not be faked at all, so now the people of the whole continent have re-evaluated the strength of this swordsman.

At this moment, when the guards of the royal capital saw the carriage from afar, they immediately went up to report and opened the city gate, not daring to be negligent at all.

As for whether this carriage might have been pretended by someone else, that was none of their business, and they didn't think anyone would dare to pretend to be the Sword Saint at this time.

The Sword Saint and the Goddess Cult are now in an irreconcilable relationship. Anyone who dares to disguise himself as the Sword Saint and spread rumors and cheat people will probably be hunted down by those crazy people from the Goddess Cult immediately.

The Goddess Cult cannot defeat a real Sword Master, but it will not show any mercy to a fake Sword Master. If someone dares to pretend to be a Sword Master, then we can only admire him and call him a ruthless person. After all, although the Goddess Cult has moved underground, it is still very active. Often, we can hear news of the Goddess Cult's followers appearing in various cities.

However, they have also learned to be smart. They now act alone and will never reveal the location of their organization. Moreover, every believer will self-destruct and sacrifice themselves. Even using sealing props cannot stop the Goddess Cult from using these two skills. They cannot even capture a Goddess Cultist for torture. No one can understand why the people of the Goddess Cult have no fear of death.

Si opened the window and looked outside. The capital city had not changed much from the last time she came. She had heard that the Goddess Cult had blown up the main gate of the capital city before. It seemed that after some time, the main gate had been repaired.

The carriage had just entered the city not long ago when it was stopped by an elite army galloping towards the city.

The leader of the team was a fully armed warrior captain. Because there were countless bishops hiding in the capital who might attack the kingdom at any time, as the warrior captain with the highest combat power in the kingdom, his treatment was much better now than before. In the past, those nobles would not allow him to carry the treasures of the kingdom with him, even though those treasures could only exert the greatest effect on him.

"The one sitting in the carriage in front is Her Highness Astraea, the Imperial Sword Saint. I am the Kingdom's Warrior Captain Gazef Stronoff. His Majesty the King invites you to come with me into the palace!"

Hanta heard the words of the Warrior Captain and was about to turn around to ask the Sword Saint for his opinion when he heard the Sword Saint's voice coming from the carriage through a sound-enhancing spell:

"No time, get out of the way."

Today, Si is no longer the novice she once was. She no longer knows nothing about this place. She already knows who the high-level fighters in this world are, and she also knows the situation of the kingdom. There is nothing in this country that is worthy of her attention. If it weren't for the Goddess Church's activities here, she would not want to come to this terrible place again. After all, this country is targeted by the demon god Ainz Ooal Gown and the Church, and the kingdom itself has no people or treasures worth mentioning, so she naturally has no interest in meeting the king of this country.

This time she came to the capital because she received an invitation from Ainz Ooal Gown to discuss the matter of conquering the Goddess Cult. She didn't care about anything else.

The sword master's voice fell into everyone's ears without any disguise, and some soldiers became angry when they heard it.

Gazef had not expected the Sword Saint to answer like this. In fact, in his impression, although the Sword Saint was cold, he was not a difficult person to get along with. When the Sword Saint challenged him to a duel, he also gave him some advice on swordsmanship at the end. However, it seemed that the Sword Saint did not have a good impression of their kingdom. He also knew about the nobles' attempt to test the Sword Saint. Thinking of this, he shook his head helplessly and gestured to the troops to make way.

"Sword Master, if you need our help

If you need help, please contact us. As soldiers of the kingdom, we also want to contribute to the eradication of the Goddess Cult for this country."

Gazef said to the Sword Saint.

But the carriage just moved forward calmly.

[Chapter 69: The headquarters of the Goddess Cult? ]

"right here."

Hanta looked at the hotel sign.

"..."

As one of the most luxurious hotels in the capital, this is also a place where high-level adventurers in the kingdom like to gather. However, in the past two days, this place has been booked by a mysterious rich man and is temporarily closed to the public.

The hotel security guard saw Hanta driving a carriage and stopped in front of the hotel. Seeing the family crest on the carriage, he seemed to have thought of something and hurriedly trotted forward: "Excuse me, are you the adults of the Astraea family? Master Gong has been waiting for you for a long time. Please come in, everyone."

Si came out of the car, and her devilish beauty made the surrounding sunlight seem to dim a little.

But the most impressive thing was the cool breath emanating from her body, which made people feel a little chill even in this hot summer. The security guard didn't dare to look at her any more. As a warrior, his intuition told him that Miss Astraea was extremely dangerous. She was just like the Mr. Gong in the hotel, and they were both people they couldn't reach. The security guard just became more respectful and stretched out his hand to signal: "Please follow me, sirs."

Hanta said at this time: "Then I will stay outside to look after the car and luggage."

"it is good."

Tsukasa and Alice followed the security guard into the hotel.

After the security guard led them into the hotel, he handed them over to the hotel waiter and led them all the way to the private room on the second floor. Then they waited there for a while before Ainz Ooal Gown led two servants to open the door of the private room and walk in.

Ainz Ooal Gown was very enthusiastic from the start.

"Thank you for responding to my invitation. Today is my treat. Please feel free to order whatever you want."

Two menus were placed in front of Si and Alice respectively. Alice looked at the host. Si didn't even look at the menu, and Alice didn't look at the menu either when she saw it.

Si looked expressionlessly at the two people behind Ainz Ooal Gown. One was Albedo, whom she had met last time, and the other was a very cunning man with glasses. This man did not look like a human either, and he must be a powerful demon. She looked at the face of Ainz Ooal Gown with a strange mask. Because her strength had become stronger, she brought new combat power to this meeting to maintain the balance of power between the two sides.

"Demon King, let's get straight to the point. You said you found a base of the Goddess Cult?"

Ainz had originally wanted to get closer to the Sword Master at the dinner table before discussing this matter, but he didn’t expect that all these arrangements would be of no use at all. After a moment of silence, he calmed down and replied, “Yes, we have found that many of the Goddess followers are related to the rumored underground organization ‘Eight Fingers’. This organization is engaged in various illegal activities in the kingdom, including the banned slave trade and the betrayal of poisonous weeds. Although the kingdom wants to eliminate this organization, its actions are secretive, and the strength of each cadre is not weak. In addition, some nobles are in cahoots with them, so the kingdom’s actions have failed several times…”

Tsukasa interrupted Ainz.

"No need to continue introducing this organization. I have also heard of this organization. Let's get straight to the point. Do you have any evidence that Eight Fingers is related to the Goddess Cult?"

"Please let me explain this."

The man with glasses stood up and said:

"Nice to meet you, Master Swordmaster. I am Master Gown's servant, Demiurge. I am responsible for following up on all missions related to Eight Fingers. So, to answer your question, is there any evidence to prove the relationship between Eight Fingers and the Goddess Cult? Yes. According to my investigation, many members of the Goddess Cult were once members of Eight Fingers. Master, do you still remember the bomber? He was a team leader of a department under Eight Fingers."

Upon hearing this, Si became slightly more alert.

It's amazing that they were able to investigate to such a detailed level.

This meant that the other party had a very large intelligence network behind them. If they could find out who the original Archbishop of the Goddess Cult was... At this moment, a strong killing intent emerged in Si's heart. She wanted to eliminate Ainz Ooal Gown and the others, but she quickly suppressed this impulse. She knew very well that doing so would not do any good except exposing her identity.

Moreover, the Goddess Cult was more troublesome than she had imagined. She originally thought that as long as she destroyed the Goddess Cult in time, the witch factor would not awaken.

But as she killed more and more Goddess followers, she realized that it was not that simple. Stopping the Goddess followers' actions could indeed delay the process of the witch factor awakening, but because the Goddess followers would sacrifice themselves to the Goddess after death, this would promote the awakening of the witch factor.

In other words, no matter what she does now, she can't stop the progress bar from moving forward.

The only way left is to kill all the Goddess followers without leaving a single one alive before their power is sufficient to fully awaken the witch factor, thus forcing the progress bar to stop.

This is why she has become anxious recently. She wants to destroy the Goddess Cult as soon as possible more than anyone else.

Although the goddess's followers can enhance her power by sacrificing their power, this power

With the bomb of witch factor tied to the back, it is extremely deadly.

The Sword Saint only leaked a little bit of his aura, but Ainz and his companions felt a chill. Originally, Ainz thought that he was safe enough by bringing Albedo and Demiurge with him, but at this moment, he felt that he was too confident. The Sword Saint's strength was not that simple at all. The little bit of aura that had just leaked out made him feel like he was facing a boss in a game version.

"Could it be that... the Sword Master's level has actually exceeded the upper limit of 100?"

Si calmed down.

"Where is the base of the Eight Fingers?"

Demiurge lowered his head and said calmly, "It's in an abandoned factory in the capital. Their executives are having a party recently, and all of them will be there at that time."

Although his face remained expressionless, he was actually sweating coldly on his back. At that moment, he felt that the Sword Master could kill him at any time.

Even though his mind told him that this was impossible and that he could not be killed instantly, his instincts still kept giving him warnings.

He thought of the warning given by Lord Ainz before he came, and after hesitating for a moment, he decisively trusted his survival instinct and decided that if he met the Sword Master alone in the future, he would never make any meaningless attempts.

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