Cultist Attack

Night, inside a carriage.

Mo Xi and Xiaoxi, who hadn't stopped for a moment, were heading toward the nearest world node. For some reason, its light was growing brighter and brighter.

This was not good news for Mo Xi, because a world node's brightness corresponded to its level of contamination.

The increasingly bright light meant that the contamination was deepening. Setting aside the almost impossible factors, that left only one possibility: someone was doing it deliberately.

As it happened, the mysterious person who had cursed the residents earlier was in that direction, making it hard for Mo Xi not to connect the two.

“This had better not be too much trouble, or else...”

Mo Xi, who had no desire to work overtime, had a glint in her eyes, as if she were plotting something.

Mo Xi had no patience for scumbags, especially the kind who spent all day researching strange things and casually wasted other people's lives.

Just as Mo Xi was wondering what she might encounter next, an arrow suddenly shot out of the darkness and killed the horse in front of the carriage with a single hit. As the horse fell, the entire carriage lurched violently.

Without hesitation, Mo Xi pulled Xiaoxi out of the carriage. Seeing the faces illuminated one by one by torches in the mountain forest, she furrowed her delicate brows...