Chapter 6 Hunting
On the white snow, two polar chocobos with white feathers that almost completely blend into the surrounding environment are running fast on the snow.

Roland controlled one of the snow chocobos with one hand and held a simple map with the other.

While looking at the map, he also looked at the small snow-capped mountains not far away.

After seeing the secret marks of several cultists, Roland confirmed that the small snow mountain in front of him was his target. He decisively put away the map and drove the Snowstrider towards the snow mountain.

Meanwhile, Hela, riding another chocobo, followed Roland silently.

Soon, the two arrived at the foot of the hill, pulled the Chocobo and found a hidden place to tie it up.

Then, the two opened the package and took out the weapons and supplies.

Roland took out a black sword, several bottles of alchemical potions and a dozen spell scrolls. In addition to taking out a black sword, Hela also took out a bag from the package and hung it firmly around her waist.

After packing up his things, Roland simply set up a simple warning magic circle around the Chocobo.

Then he looked into the depths of the snow-capped mountains and walked forward.

"Let's go."

Hearing Roland's words, Hela nodded and followed Roland with her sword in hand.

While climbing the mountain, Roland also followed the path opened up by the cultists and went deep into the snow-capped mountains without any hindrance.

Deep in the snow-capped mountains, dozens of cultists were gathering in a cave, kneeling around an altar and praying along with the priest on the altar.

As the prayers began in unison, some gray-black air slowly floated out from the altar.

As these gases emerged, the priests on the altar became more and more crazy, twisting their bodies and dancing in an irregular manner.

Under the altar, the cultists looked at the priest with increasingly fanatical and crazy eyes.

As the black gas continued to spread and gradually filled the entire cave, the cultists who were kneeling on the ground praying frantically absorbed the strange gas. Their faces gradually turned red and their expressions became crazy.

Since all the cultists in this stronghold were praying here, Roland and Hela arrived at the entrance of the cave very smoothly as if they were in an empty place.

Looking at the leaking gas, Roland frowned slightly and simply put up a shield to block the gas, while Hela on the side chose to hold her breath.

The two walked into the cave.

After absorbing the black gas, the cultists, including the priests, fell into a state of madness, and no one noticed the arrival of Roland and Hela.

After taking a quick look at the cave, Roland glanced at Hela. She understood and nodded slightly. She walked silently through the wall and blocked the other exit of the cave.

After Hela was ready, Roland finally took action.

As the magic power surged in his body, Roland cast a first-level transmutation spell in less than three seconds.

The surrounding water elements began to gather and turned into balls of water, which, under Roland's micro-manipulation, fell silently on the feet of every cultist.

Then, Roland cast a spell once again, and countless ice elements turned into a visible cold wave that poured into the cave.

Under the cooling of the cold wave, the water mass wrapped around the cultists' feet froze instantly, trapping everyone in place.

But even though they were frozen in place, the cultists still had red faces and looked crazy, without any extreme reactions.

"boom."

At the same time, on Hela's side, a sound of weapons clashing rang out. The priest who was on the altar just now reacted without knowing when, dodging Roland's spell while decisively fleeing in Hela's direction, and was then stopped by Hela.

When the priest was caught off guard, Hela raised her sword to block his attack. Before he could react, she pushed him away with force, and with a change of move, she pierced his right shoulder directly.

At the moment when the priest screamed, Hela took advantage of the situation and directly cut the nerve in his arm.

When the priest pounced towards Hela, a ball of black light gathered on his right hand and tried to hit Hela, Hela simply raised her right leg and kicked him away.

After Hela kicked him towards Roland, Roland calmly cast a spell. Ten ice spikes gathered around him and then stabbed the priest.

Since the priest was unable to adjust his posture in mid-air, his limbs and various organs were hit by Roland's targeted attacks.

As his limbs lost control, the black ball of light in the priest's hand also lost control and exploded, blasting his arm into pieces.

Then, Roland rushed forward for a distance, grabbed the priest's head as he screamed, and poured a mental shock directly into his defenseless head.

Roland showed no mercy and shocked him into a fool.

Anyway, in the dark elemental sub-plane, as long as the body is alive and the soul is not damaged, it doesn’t matter whether the person is a fool or not.

After making him a fool, Roland threw him aside and walked directly to the altar. Hela silently put away her sword, stood outside the cave, and waited silently.

Standing on the altar, Roland set up the sacrificial ceremony very skillfully.

In less than ten minutes, the familiar terror descended, taking away the cultists who had been drugged and driven insane, and the priests who had been shocked and stunned, and also took away the altar that the cultists had built at great expense.

Except for a few who are at the level of mage apprentices, the cultists are basically ordinary people, and the priest is only relatively better, being a first-ring mage.

Roland waved his hand and drove the addictive psychedelic gas out of the cave. Then he opened the map in his hand and took out a hair pen to cross out the stronghold under his feet.

"What number is this?"

Hela walked up to Roland and asked in a low voice.

"Thirteenth, only eleven left."

Roland looked at the map and responded in a low voice.

Since the sacrificial rituals mastered by the cultists are rather crude and require the assistance of an altar to perform the sacrifices, the cultists' activities are basically carried out around the altar.

Although Roland did not participate in the main storyline of the previous life in which the player and the moon elves worked together to strangle the cult organization, he had played the dungeon that appeared after the main storyline many times, and naturally knew the secret codes, secret words, and location of the altar of the cult organization by heart.

This is why Roland can accurately lock their position.

"The next one isn't far from here, let's take care of it today and then rest."

Roland pointed to a nearby altar marked on the map and made a suggestion.

"Ah."

Hela nodded, agreeing with his idea.

Soon, with a loud roar, the cave dug by the cultists collapsed and was filled with mud again. Then Roland and Hela went down the mountain, rode on their chocobos again, and rushed towards the next target.

(End of this chapter)