Chapter 7 Infiltration
As an evil organization that cheats and deceives people, cult organizations are naturally not welcomed by the civilized world.

Even the Northern Kingdom, which was considered barbaric, hated these organizations that killed people and caused trouble everywhere. Otherwise, if it were not for the fear that the Rose War would affect itself, the Northern Kingdom would have deployed its military forces to the southern border. These evil organizations would have been killed by the Northern Kingdom long ago and there would be no room for development at all.

And now, with the end of the Rose War, the Northern Kingdom will soon be free to deal with them, and their good days are almost over.

It was precisely because of this that, in order to accumulate more strength and escape as soon as possible, the cult's high priest took advantage of the time when the Northern Kingdom was not yet available to order his subordinates to slaughter and sacrifice everywhere, trying to sublimate and be promoted to the fourth ring.

However, the limit of sacrifice is only three rings. It is basically impossible to reach the fourth ring level purely by sacrifice.

Therefore, the high priest's order was nothing more than deathly madness.

In addition, according to the previous life, the gradually desperate high priest finally went mad and kidnapped a moon elf, which provoked the moon elf clan. As a result, in the main storyline of the previous life, it was the player and several moon elf hunters who surrounded and killed the high priest, rather than the orcs of the Northern Kingdom.

Of course, in this world that Roland has stirred up and changed, the high priest probably won't be able to wait until the day when he is surrounded and killed by the moon elf hunters. Roland is planning to use his head to sacrifice to his parents in this life.

As the two snow chocobos rolled up snowflakes on the snow, Roland and Hela arrived at the new altar in a dusty state.

Just as Hela was about to tie up the chocobo and take the weapons and bag as before, Roland beside her suddenly spoke.

"Take everything with you."

Hearing Roland's words, Hela turned her head and looked at him. There was some confusion in her eyes as she watched Roland take out all the spell scrolls he had prepared.

"The high priest is not a fool. We have destroyed more than half of the altars. He should have discovered it no matter how slow he is."

Roland explained as he stuffed the spell scroll into his arms.

"He will most likely ambush us. We'd better be fully armed before going up to each altar from now on."

After hearing Roland's words, Hela didn't say much. She nodded obediently and took out the props Roland had prepared for her from the package.

There were also some spell scrolls and alchemical potions made by Roland himself.

After spending a few minutes getting ready, the two looked at each other, and then walked up the snow-capped mountain along the secret passage in an orderly and tacit understanding.

Compared to the previous altar where there were few people, this altar is relatively lively.

Since this altar is close to a small town, with sufficient logistical supplies, this altar can naturally support more people. It will not be like the previous altar, which had only a few dozen people in the entire altar due to insufficient logistics.

In the secret passage alone, the two encountered more than a dozen secret sentries and several patrols.

"Hey."

Roland waved his right hand, and several ice spikes accurately pierced through all the patrol members passing by, directly piercing into the gaps in their bodies and nailing them all to the mountain wall.

Roland walked up to them and looked at their unwilling expressions without any change in expression as he calmly examined their bodies.

Looking at their light armor and strong bodies, Roland said with a serious expression.

"Those who can be equipped with light armor are not ordinary soldiers. It seems that we are likely to run into the high priest this time." In a barren place like the Northern Kingdom, it is good enough not to starve to death, let alone eat as much as they do and be equipped with complete light armor. But it is clear without thinking too much that these must be the elite guards specially trained by the high priest.

However, the high priest was too stingy and did not use any blessings on them.

Roland reached out his hand, pinched the light armor on their bodies, and broke it off with a little force.

He then threw the broken pieces aside and spoke casually.

"The quality is too poor, there's no need to change it, let's move on."

Hela poked their bodies with her sword. After hearing Roland's words, she silently put away the sword and nodded.

According to Roland's experience of clearing dungeons many times, generally after destroying about half of the altars, the high priest will most likely refresh randomly in the remaining altars. Among the remaining altars, the more people there are on the altars, the higher the probability of refreshing.

However, the appearance of the high priest's personal guards was an obvious clue that he was most likely lying in ambush at the altar in front of them.

Since Roland himself has rich combat experience, and Hela's combat effectiveness has also been significantly improved after his targeted training and several actual combats.

Therefore, any sentries, patrols, or passing cultists they encountered along the way were killed cleanly and efficiently by the two without even having the chance to issue a warning.

Relying on killing along the way, the two men quickly broke into the mountain village on the snow-capped mountains through a secret passage.

In a secret room in the mountain village, Roland gently lifted the floor of the tunnel. After a crack was revealed, Roland immediately cast a spell to scan it.

After a life check confirmed that there was no one in the secret room, Roland pushed open the floor and walked out of the tunnel. Then he turned around, held Hela's hand, and pulled her up.

While closing the floor again, Roland pulled out a spell scroll from his arms and threw it in.

Roland stood up again and made a few gestures to Hela, who nodded and walked quietly to the door.

Roland also walked to the door of the room, squatted down, and used life detection on the outside world through the crack in the door.

Soon, Roland determined the number of people outside. He stood up again and stretched out three fingers to Hela.

Then, he raised a finger and pointed at the door, indicating that there was a guard on the other side. Hila naturally nodded in understanding.

Roland put his hand on the door and looked up at Hela. When he saw that Hela was ready, he pushed the door open.

Since they had never thought about the possibility of invasion, the guards outside the door were basically not on guard.

When Roland pushed the door, the three guards outside thought that a senior official had come in from the secret passage, so they straightened their bodies and bowed their heads towards the room to show their submission.

The moment they lowered their heads, an ice spike instantly pierced the neck of the guard standing farthest away, nailing his body directly to the wall. At the same time, Roland and Hela swung their swords at the same time and killed the two guards standing at the door.

(End of this chapter)