The maid squad is too strong, what use is there for me, the Demon King?

The vampires have disappeared, but the cultists will continue to target the Grand Merchant Guild. This time, however, they will personally intervene, unlike before when they simply sent a few people to guide the vampires to the location of the attacked caravan.

Leila was unaware of this and had no interest in it whatsoever.

All she had to do was clear the weeds for Lord Shadow, nothing more.

As soon as Lyra gave the order to be on alert for an enemy attack, the servants immediately reacted and scattered, staring intently at the appearing cultists, and unleashing their magic to launch a surprise attack.

The caravan guards were a step behind, but they also joined the battle.

It was thanks to Lyra's constant vigilance that the cultists, who were planning a surprise attack on the caravan, were exposed and failed to gain the upper hand.

Among these gray-robed men, several were very fat, and even their gray robes could not hide their thick layers of fat.

Lyra estimated that these people weighed more than 250 pounds. Without the power of magic, they would probably have difficulty even walking. They looked like they ate too well, and under their gray robes, they could only be middle-aged, greasy, overweight, fat uncles.

This fits Laila's image of nouveau riche rich men. These people must have a higher status in the cult than ordinary cult members, namely the gray-robed men with relatively normal body shapes.

So, a priest or something like that...

Leila narrowed her eyes, analyzing the gray-robed people in front of her.

Just as Lord Gamma guessed, the mastermind behind the attacks on the Grand Merchant Guild's caravan—the Golden Weasel Merchant Guild—is the hideout of the Demon Order's greedy and avaricious faction!

The seven factions of the Demon Order.

The Desire for Knowledge and the Truth Faction.

War and conflict between factions.

The Faction of Flames and Burning.

The Underworld and Shadow faction.

The Lust and Pleasure faction.

The faction of greed and avarice.

The lust for power and the factions that seek dominance.

Among them, the last two factions are the most deeply hidden, and the Shadow Court has never had much information about them.

Now, the faction driven by greed and avarice has finally revealed its true colors.

There's only one left. As long as we can find them all, Lord Shadow will be able to handle it easily, without even needing that other person to lift a finger!

While clearing away the weeds, Leila also needs to take this opportunity to gather more information about the cultists who are driven by greed and avarice.

Demon cults are cults where cult members offer sacrifices to the demons they worship in order to gain power from them.

Like the ability of the Knowledge and Truth faction cultists to decompose matter, magic, and martial arts, and like the shadow magic that the Netherworld and Shadow faction cultists can use.

So, what abilities did this cult of greed and avarice obtain from the devil?

Based on the faction's name, it might be something like "turning lead into gold."

They then used this gold to accumulate wealth, gradually developing into the Golden Weasel Merchant Guild we know today…

But both Lord Shadow and Lord Aiotah thought this was unlikely, because "elements are not conserved".

Leila didn't understand, but she was deeply shocked.

As expected, Lord Shadow's wisdom is beyond my comprehension, while Lord Aiota must have learned some of the basics.

The cultists have made their move!

Lyra immediately became wary of their movements, only to find that these cultists did not intend to rush up and fight them, but instead stood still, chanting demonic language.

Although she didn't know what these cultists were doing, Lyra could at least tell that she couldn't let them succeed. She ordered her servants to take the initiative to attack, in case the cultists were chanting some kind of powerful spell and preparing to unleash a devastating attack on them.

The chanting was completed before the attendants could even get very close to the cultists.

The next moment, space distorted, and Lyra determined from the extremely short incantation time that this was not a charging up of some ultimate move, as the incantation time for large-scale magic was much longer.

As space distorted, Lyra was the first to sense the fluctuations in magic, followed by a series of beast roars.

"This is... a monster?" Lyra frowned slightly.

As if to confirm Lyra's guess, one monster after another emerged from the distorted space.

A gigantic python, its body covered in scales like molten silver, slowly emerged from a crack in the ground. Its eyes gleamed with an eerie green light, and its forked tongue flickered from its mouth. The snake twisted and coiled, each movement accompanied by a nauseating stench.

Then, a multi-headed, spider-like monster appeared, each head equipped with sharp fangs, its eight eyes gleaming red in the darkness. Its legs, like sharp steel needles, struck the ground with a chilling rhythm.

A half-human, half-bird monster spread its wings and took flight. Its feathers were like charred coal, its claws were incredibly sharp, and it emitted a piercing scream. Its eyes were filled with hunger as it searched for prey.

These are only a small part of the monsters. Lyra confirmed that the ability of the cultists of the greed and avarice faction should be to summon monsters.

The monsters rushed straight at the waiters, but not a single one attacked the cultists.

Monsters are creatures devoid of reason, driven solely by the instinct to kill and hunt. They will attack even their own kind indiscriminately. Yet now they are targeting the Shadow Court members without even glancing at the cultists. This is clearly no accident.

In other words, will these summoned monsters obey the summoner's commands to some extent?

The cultists of the Demon Order, driven by greed and avarice, possess the ability to summon and control monsters.

Lyra guessed more than half correctly, and the parts she guessed incorrectly wouldn't affect the outcome of the battle.

The idea of ​​controlling monsters is indeed fairly accurate, but the essence of the abilities of the cultists driven by greed and avarice is actually the Greed Space.

Cult members of the greedy and avaricious faction can chant incantations to open and close the space of greed.

The Greed Space can store items, including both living and inanimate objects.

If it stores inanimate objects, then the Greed Space functions no differently from a storage space device. However, if living beings are placed in the Greed Space...

No matter what kind of creature enters the Greed Space, whether it is human, demi-human, elf, magical beast, or monster, it will be gradually stripped of its sanity (monsters that have no sanity to begin with skip this step), and then assimilated by the Greed Space, obeying the orders of cultists who have management authority over the Greed Space.

The Greedy Space is a vast alternate dimension where cultists of the so-called greed and avarice factions have different levels of authority over it.

Of course, the higher the status of a cult member driven by greed and avarice, the greater the authority they can wield.

The cultists of the money-grubbing and greedy faction are the administrators of the space of greed, and the master of the space of greed is the demon they worship.

Avaris, the demon of greed and avarice!