Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

Chapter 185 Cultists

"Not for us," Victoria suddenly became alert, "over there! Right where we're going - they're warning us!"

The pseudo dragons fled in all directions, and six of them deliberately circled above Ron and the others for two weeks before disappearing from sight.

"Six people," the witch looked at Ron in confusion, "Since you have already sent people, why do you still need me to lead the way?"

"Are you kidding? I don't have the habit of letting others be cannon fodder to explore the way!"

"Could it be a resident here?" Sera's words were immediately refuted by others.

"How is that possible!" Polly said angrily, "Are you doubting my intelligence and my mother's memory? There can't be anyone alive here!"

"Maybe your so-called 'lord' can't control this place, and some villagers got lost and came here."

"Stop arguing!" Ron interrupted them, "Driverdo, why don't you go and see what it is?"

The goblin hunter responded and quickly turned back.

"Boss, it's a human!" Driver said shockingly, "But it doesn't look like you. I guess it's a subspecies!"

"What subspecies..." Ron felt extremely awkward when he used this word to describe himself. "At least they are humanoid creatures. Can you tell their identities from their appearance?"

"Well, four of them are probably villagers," the goblin counted on his fingers, "and the other two are dressed a bit like Boonie, maybe priests or something like that."

"Priest?" Victoria frowned. "In a place like this, they might be cultists. Can you identify the emblems on them? What do they look like?"

Clergy generally do not bother to hide their identities and religious beliefs, and they can be easily identified from their dress.

"Yes, there is..." Driver hesitated, as if to confirm his memory, "The two priests' robes were painted with hands with six fingers - but they themselves only have five fingers."

"What you worship may not necessarily become what you become," Pastor Heim sighed and looked at Ron and the others seriously, "Get ready for battle. We are facing the followers of the demon lord Graz'zt."

"They may be skilled in illusion and temptation, so everyone should be careful not to be deceived - those four villagers may be the ones they are bewitching!"

When Ron and the others were ready for battle, the six people had already noticed their presence. Just as Driver described, four villagers surrounded the two cultists and walked over, talking and laughing. When they saw Ron and the others, their smiles froze on their faces.

"Ah! There's a devil!"

A young man shouted and reached for the bow and arrow behind him: "Priests, please help us fight against evil!"

The pastor, who was eager to save people, rushed forward and said, "Don't worry, we will definitely rescue you! Now please hide first--"

"clang!"

Victoria raised her shield hastily, and an arrow was nailed into the kite-shaped shield. The archer was the young man.

"They have been controlled!" Polly was the first to react, "Don't hold back, get rid of them all!" "How could it be..." Victoria was still confused at the moment. Although the villagers' mediocre skills were not enough to hurt her, the priest who was thinking also temporarily lost the ability to fight, "No... Was he talking about us just now?"

"You said we were demons?!"

"Don't you think so?" Sylvia bared her sharp fangs, and with her phantom steps she brought up a cloud of silver mist, and appeared behind a villager with the mage. "Catch them all, alive!"

A villager rushed towards Ron holding a dung fork, but Ron simply burned the handle of his fork into ashes with a flaming arrow: "It's really strange, these guys look like just ordinary people, right?"

Ron was right. These four villagers were completely ordinary people. Sera didn't even draw her sword. She just knocked them all down with her boxing. The barbarian raised his head and looked at the two trembling cultists:
"What's wrong with you two? Come up and fight!"

"Devil——" It would have been fine if she didn't speak, but once she opened her mouth, it was like winding up the cultists' spring. The two guys screamed as if they had just woken up from a dream, and ran away without looking back.

They escaped!

"What do you mean by Ye Gonghaolong..." Ron complained, "Aren't they followers of the devil? And they called us devils - then why did they just turn around and run away?"

"There's only one way to find out," Yelena had already rushed out before everyone else, "Catch them!"

These cultists were obviously more physically fit than the four villagers. They ran without looking back, and tore their robes to prevent them from tripping. Ron and the others followed behind them, and for a moment they were unable to catch the two.

"There's a village ahead!" Driver shouted anxiously, "Don't let them in. It will be difficult if they hide!"

However, with his short legs and two mages with relatively weak athletic ability, how could such a team catch up with the two desperate cultists? When Ron and his team broke into the village, they could no longer find any trace of the two guys in their sight.

"Oh, it's over." The witch's eyes scanned every house around. "Do you want me to perform a tracking ritual? Although I can't reveal their location in real time, at least I can--"

Before Polly finished her words, a heart-wrenching scream from one of the two cultists was heard from a house not far away.

"Help me—"

"Can you please not lock the door when you're shouting for help?" Ivy was the first to rush over, then angrily kicked the door, "I'll give you three counts, open the door!"

"I can't open it!" A crying voice came from inside, "The door was locked as soon as I came in! Please have mercy and save my life! There is -"

"What's that?" Ron pointed, and the sound of a padlock falling to the ground was heard from behind the door.

In this situation, knocking is naturally more effective. Otherwise, by the time Driver picks the lock, the cultist's body will probably be cold.

The door was suddenly pulled open from the inside, and two cultists covered in blood fell down the stairs one after the other, crawling to Ivy's back, kneeling in the shadow of the half-elf's shield, their fingers trembling in the dark room.

“Yes, yes, yes…there are zombies in this house!!!”

(End of this chapter)