Chapter 25: Cult Messages and Clues to Promotion

After leaving the church, Luke finally had some understanding of the cult.

For America, which lacks official supernatural institutions, Protestant, Catholic and other churches have replaced official functions to a certain extent, and are committed to combating cults and clearing out all kinds of supernatural monsters that appear in the world.

Generally speaking, there are two types of cults: one that believes in old gods, and the other that believes in evil gods.

The old gods are the kind of gods that the butterfly believes in. They are powerful, mysterious, indescribable, highly polluted, and generally have no autonomous consciousness, at least they will not respond to believers with autonomous consciousness.

This kind of sects tend not to survive for long, because the pollution of the old gods is not something that humans can resist. Long-term exposure to the information of the old gods will eventually drive them mad, whether they are high-level priests or grassroots believers. Their minds and bodies will become completely distorted, and they will also pollute their companions and become a group of irrational monsters. After killing a lot of people, they will be wiped out by the church that gets the information or a passing demon hunter.

The origins of evil gods are varied, including visitors from other worlds, powerful supernatural beings, animals that have become monsters, immortal ghosts, etc. The biggest difference between them and the old gods is that they have wisdom, and at least their believers can communicate with them.

The strength of the sects that believe in evil gods varies. The strong ones, like the Satanist sect, can almost compete with the church, while the weak ones can even be wiped out by a single police station.

The cult that Luke had contact with twice was called the Cocoon Butterfly Sect. It was a recently emerging ancient god sect that believed in an ancient god related to butterflies. The believers generally possessed abilities such as hypnosis, flesh and blood deformation, and parasitism.

In the past six months, the cultists who believed in the Cocoon Butterfly have committed many murders in Florida for the purpose of promotion. However, since they have been active in remote villages and small towns, they are difficult to find and track, so they have not been the focus of observation and crackdown.

Now they dare to come to Lauderdale and occupy a church, apparently planning to cause a big event.

According to the common code of conduct of cultists, their "big events" are either to create a large-scale pollution or to call upon the coming of evil gods - in many cases, these two purposes complement each other.

As the local boss and parish priest of the Coral Territory Presbyterian Church, Moore would not tolerate their mischief.

Moore left the church at the same time as Luke. Including him, a total of 6 clergymen went there together, determined to eradicate this cult den.

Luke would not participate in this matter. After all, he was just an extraordinary apprentice. It was too dangerous to be in a group fight. It would be better for him to stay hidden and develop, and occasionally kill small wild monsters alone.
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Due to today's unexpected events, Luke had to skip the volunteer activity he had originally planned to attend. He returned to the yacht and checked the morning's harvest.

Luke sensed the skilled level of [Leaf Planting Technique] and realized it was actually a technique for planting a certain hallucinogenic plant. This cult member was really versatile.

The skilled level of planting skills is still very powerful, allowing him to easily grow a large area of ​​leaf raw materials in his backyard.

Of course, to Luke, none of this appealed.

Is it easier to make money by planting leaves than by selling leeks in the stock market? Is it easier to get gold coins from your father?

What's more, it is safer to make money and explode gold coins, and it is completely legal.

110 points of spiritual essence are enough for Luke to fully complete the connection progress of [Seed of Miracles], and there may even be more than 60 points of essence left.

Luke did it as soon as he thought of it. He used his consciousness to control the essence and put it all into the shining tooth.

[Miracle Seed - Fang] (48%) → (100%).

As the progress was complete, Luke's connection with the tooth condensed by extraordinary energy reached the closest level. He stretched out a finger, and the tooth flashed from the panel and appeared out of thin air above his finger. At the same time, a stream of information also overflowed from it and flowed into Luke's mind. It was the ritual required to be promoted to a Level 1 extraordinary person.

"Take one of your own teeth, carve a complex micro-array on it, and then fuse the [Miracle Seed - Tooth] with your own tooth in any high-energy environment. You will then be promoted to the first-level extraordinary profession - Spirit Tooth Warlock."

A complex magic circle pattern composed of countless overlapping curves was imprinted into Luke's spiritual world along with this message.

This ceremony was simpler than Luke had imagined.

After all, the two gunmen had committed a school shooting and killed many people, but they had not yet completed the ceremony to advance to level 1.

As for Luke's promotion ceremony, he could ask a dentist to remove his teeth. Carving a miniature magic circle might be complicated in ancient times, but in modern times, there are various sophisticated instruments to assist, so it is not a difficult problem.

The only difficulty may lie in the "high-energy environment" required by the ritual, which, as the name suggests, should be a place with rich energy.

But what kind of energy is needed and how concentrated it is to meet the standard are all unknown. What is certain is that if Luke encounters an environment that meets the conditions of the promotion ceremony, he can instinctively sense it.

On the panel, about half of the spiritual essence had been consumed, with 58 points remaining. These points would be reserved for later use, and Luke began to make plans for the future.

The first thing is to move out of the house.

After becoming a supernatural being, I have encountered supernatural events for two consecutive days. Although there is a certain degree of coincidence, it does prove what Moore said: the deeper you go into the supernatural, the easier it is to come into contact with the inner world.

If he still lives in the villa on the island now, although he can rely on the family guards and the safety factor will be higher, it is too dangerous for his family.

The tooth fairy thing, once is enough.

We must move, today, right away!

The second thing was to start the promotion ceremony. Although there was no information about the place with abundant energy, other preparations had to be done first. For example, extract a tooth and then carve the magic circle.

Extracting other teeth may cause some inconvenience in life, so I will extract the "graduation thesis", which is the wisdom tooth that the doctor said during the physical examination could allow a German doctor to graduate with a doctorate.

It not only eliminates the hidden dangers of wisdom teeth, but also recycles waste. It kills two birds with one stone and wins twice!
The third thing is to find a place to practice shooting. The life of a rich second generation in the past ten years is still too comfortable. Luke has never stepped out of this comfort zone. Even after entering the extraordinary, he still went to be a volunteer.

I have to change in the future, especially my mindset.

Practicing marksmanship is also an experiment. Through practice, we can see whether we can reduce the spiritual essence required to upgrade the skill.

This is a question that awaits verification.

Arrange all the things that need to be done in the near future, and then just complete them step by step.

(End of this chapter)