Hearing this, Tsukasa became slightly more alert.
To think they could investigate to such a detailed extent.
This meant the other party possessed a fairly massive intelligence network. If they were to find out who the original Archbishop of the Goddess Cult was... at that moment, a strong killing intent surged in Tsukasa's heart. She wanted to eliminate Ainz Ooal Gown and the others, but she quickly suppressed that impulse. She knew very well that doing so would bring no benefit other than exposing her own identity.
Furthermore, the Goddess Cult was more troublesome than she had imagined. Originally, she thought that as long as she destroyed the Goddess Cult in time, the witch factor would not awaken.
But as she killed more and more cultists, she realized it wasn't that simple. Stopping the Goddess Cult's actions could indeed delay the awakening of the witch factor, but because the cultists would sacrifice everything of themselves to the Goddess upon death, this in turn promoted the awakening of the witch factor.
In other words, no matter what she did now, she couldn't stop the progress bar from moving forward.
The only remaining way was to kill every single Goddess Cultist without exception before their power was enough to fully awaken the witch factor, forcibly stopping the progress bar.
This was also why she had become anxious recently; she wanted to eliminate the Goddess Cult as quickly as possible, more than anyone else.
Although the cultists' sacrificed power could increase her own strength,
it was tied to the bomb that was the witch factor, which was absolutely fatal.
The Sword Saint only leaked a sliver of her aura, yet Ainz and the others felt a wave of hair-raising dread. Ainz had originally thought bringing Albedo and Demiurge was safe enough, but at this moment, he felt he had overestimated himself. The Sword Saint's strength was not that simple; the tiny bit of aura leaked just now gave him the feeling of facing a game version boss.
[Could it be... the Sword Saint's level has actually exceeded the level 100 cap?]
Tsukasa calmed down.
"Where is that Eight Fingers stronghold?"
Demiurge lowered his head without changing his expression and said: "It's in an abandoned factory here in the Royal Capital. Their cadres have a meeting recently, and all of them will appear at that location."
Though his face remained calm, he was actually breaking out in a cold sweat; in that instant just now, he felt the Sword Saint could kill him at any time.
Even though his reason told him this was impossible and that he couldn't possibly be killed instantly, his instincts were constantly screaming warnings.
He thought of Lord Ainz's warning before they came. After a moment of hesitation, he decisively trusted his survival instinct and decided that if he ever encountered the Sword Saint alone in the future, he would absolutely not conduct any meaningless tests.
Having angered the Sword Saint, the sacrifice of his own life wouldn't matter, but if he were to attract such a powerful enemy to Nazarick, he felt that dying ten thousand times would not be enough to atone for his sin.
"The time of the gathering."
"Next Monday."
After obtaining the information he wanted, Sebas did not linger and left the inn with Alice.
She was afraid that if she stayed there any longer, she wouldn't be able to resist taking action against Ainz Ooal Gown and the others. Their information-gathering capabilities were truly a massive threat to her. When Nigun first established the Goddess Cult, he hadn't hidden his identity. Although no outsider had seen Nigun, the Archbishop, the only one who knew some clues—the Captain of The Black Scripture—had also been killed by Nigun. Nigun had even disposed of the Captain's body cleanly, making it impossible for him to be resurrected and leak secrets. But who could guarantee that Ainz Ooal Gown and his group wouldn't investigate the truth of the matter?
If she hadn't lacked absolute certainty that she could insta-kill the three from Ainz Ooal Gown without alerting anyone, she definitely would have made a move just now.
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