Chapter 230: The Twilight Pursuit (2)
Several months prior, a new cult had emerged across the Seven Kingdoms. They were known as the Twilight Cult, and lately, their activity had been intensifying.
People began to think: As if the Cult of the Black God weren’t enough, now we have these Twilight cultists stirring chaos in the world... or do we?
"The thing is," Erantel said, "their movements are peculiar, not what you’d expect from those trying to cause chaos."
Just as he pointed out, the Twilight Cult was noticeably different from the Cult of the Black God. The Black God's Cultists thrived on spreading confusion and corrupting both the world and its people.
In contrast, the Twilight cult did little else besides attacking the Black God's Cult. Rather than expanding their own influence like a typical cult, they focused entirely on assaulting the Black God’s Cult, purging them, and looting their assets.
"In fact, if you look at it from a religious standpoint, the Cult of the Black God actually looks more like a proper religion," Erantel remarked.
The Cult of the Black God, in their pursuit of expansion, often took in outcasts and provided them with places to live. They welcomed anyone, regardless of status, wealth, or ability. That was why there were so many secret bases of the cult in wastelands, dungeons, and abandoned ruins.
But the Twilight Cult had no interest in inflating their numbers with useless followers. Saving the outcast? They did no such thing. If someone had no use, they were simply discarded. As a result, they didn’t maintain hidden strongholds like the Black God’s Cult.
Instead, they concealed their identities, blending seamlessly into society as ordinary people in everyday life.
"They can only do that because they’re small in number," Erantel noted.
The core of the Twilight Cult consisted of two groups: Dissenters who had defected from the Black God’s Cult, and those who bore a grudge against them but lacked the strength to take revenge, until they sought the power of Twilight. They were an elite force, and entirely ability-driven.
"In sheer numbers, they’re estimated to be less than five percent of the Black God's Cult."