Chapter 458: The Witchs Skills
Could there be a Kingdom where the Four Pillars Cult successfully subverts the order and dominates the region? In that place, the Cult Leader holds both religious and secular power; in that place, those who do not believe in the Four Pillars Cult are imprisoned; in that place, everyone is bombarded day and night by incessant spam messages from the Four Pillars Cult without any way to opt out…
Such a place indeed exists.
Ashe flipped through the Sorcerer’s Handbook in his hands. They had bumped into and killed a sorcerer projection while on the road. The Witch glanced through the handbook and discovered it contained information about the Four Pillars Cult that everyone was interested in, so she handed it to him to look over—mainly because the White Queen and her sisters did not allow Deya to read such intelligence about the Dark God.
Ashe, on the other hand, had no such reservations. If the Four Pillars Cult could indeed corrupt someone, then the Cult Leader’s originals would be completely rotten, devoid of any ‘human’ elements, not to mention the Eternal Presence curse still hung over him. Worrying about being corrupted by the Four Pillars Cult to Ashe was like Lala Fatty worrying about becoming food—there was no way for them to control such outcomes.
The handbook’s owner was a Temple sorcerer affiliated with a religious sect, adept in fire spell and gunmanship, who had earned the title ‘Blast Knight’. Let’s call him Blast for now.
The handbook was a rather conventional record of combat experiences, detailing nine significant battles from birth to death. It might seem few in number, but that was because Blast omitted all battles he could win easily. Therefore, these nine battles were either evenly matched or heavily imbalanced, with nearly every battle fought to the brink of death with all his efforts.
In these nine battles, Blast fought against the Four Pillars Cult in five of them. Through Blast’s impressions of his enemies, Ashe and his companions could almost see the rapid rise of the Four Pillars Cult: at first, they were merely “insignificant heretics,” later, “a bit troublesome thieves,” then “competitors to the Temple,” and finally, they became “formidable adversaries” and “inescapable nightmares”!
Initially, they fought ‘extermination battles’ to suppress the Four Pillars Cult, which later turned into retreat battles as they suffered successive defeats. In the end, it came down to desperate defensive battles to protect the Temple, showing how the Temple was almost shattered by the Four Pillars Cult’s relentless attacks.
Moreover, it almost seemed like another timeline where Ashe overthrew Gerard and dominated Kaimon City, eventually reigning over the Blood Moon—how could the Four Pillars Cult in this Kingdom gain power so easily?