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"What's the status?" asked a man seated in a dark room, a ghastly scar marring his face, his gaze fierce and icy.
"Reporting to the captain." "Sir, according to our scouts in zones 6 and 7, there's abnormal movement in the creatures." With a military salute, a young man at the front responded respectfully.
"Cults?" the captain raised an eyebrow. "Sir, we found some signs of sacrifices in the forests, it definitely has to do with the cults," replied the soldier.
"What kind of bastards are they?" The room's atmosphere shifted with the captain's question, his eyes burning with murderous intent. He wore a full black suit; a badge adorned his chest, with metallic details in the middle of the circumference, where there was a skull with its mouth open. The soldier at the front wore the same attire.
"Lust and Sloth Cult, sir," the soldier responded. The captain stood up, went to the small counter, grabbed a bottle, poured it into a small glass, and drank. He felt his throat burning from the bitter liquid, but still nodded in satisfaction. He reflected for a few seconds.
"Send a message to headquarters, report and provide details on everything we found, request reinforcements," he said with a solemn expression.
"Yes, Captain!" With a farewell, the man left the room. The captain sat down and massaged his temples. "If it weren't for those cultist bastards of the Seven Sins, it wouldn't be so difficult," he thought to himself. His reconnaissance squad was active on orders from above.
They were assigned the mission of investigation and camouflage after receiving reports that adventurers from the City of the End were mysteriously disappearing. According to the report he received, a total of 150 adventurers vanished, without evidence, clues, or anything. It was as if the earth had swallowed them up.
A few minutes passed, and the sound of the door pulled him out of his thoughts. Frowning, he said, "Come in." As the door opened, a young man with black hair and gray eyes entered. His steps were powerful and elegant, and he had a serious expression on his face. "Greetings, Captain of the 7th Squadron," he said with a military salute. The captain stood up quickly.
"Crown Prince, it's an honor to have you in my field," he said with a serious expression after making a small bow.
Andrés nodded and sat in the chair. "I have information on the movements of the two cults in the areas," he said as the door opened again. Two beautiful women entered the room, Arabella and Alexandra; they saluted the captain, and he nodded. After everyone was seated, the captain took some papers from his desk and handed them to Andrés.
With a furrowed brow, he said, "On the 25th day of the Lunaris calendar in the fifth month of the year 2872, in zone 6, the northern part of the forest, ruins were found, never seen before by the scouts of the Imperial Academy's faculty, also known as 'Hunting Dogs', or also called 'Bastard Hunters.' The ruins found were the size of a small city.
According to the records found, they were able to distinguish several footprints around, human footprints. As they ventured into the ruined city, they found a central part; they could distinguish several types of stains on the ground, red in color. According to the data obtained by the faculty of alchemists of the Imperial Academy, there were 10 different blood types."
"In the same way, different types of fluids were found, among them the most characteristic was semen. According to the few data we have, we can deduce that the cult of Lust is behind this sacrifice," Andrés, finishing reading, frowned. His expression was cold. Without anyone noticing, Alexandra's kind and loving gaze turned into a fierce and deadly one.
Shaking his head, Andrés looked at the other report: "On the 10th day of the Lunaris calendar in the sixth month of the year 2872, in zone 7, away from the territories of the 7 biblical plagues, in the deepest part of the earth, within a large mountain, an abandoned castle was found.
According to the explorer León, who belongs to the tenth squadron, he was able to find this area due to a slight abnormality in the atmospheric mana. He waited for the anomaly to pass and managed to find the underground castle. His findings were reported in real-time. In the same way, the tenth squadron sent support to the explorer."
"The castle had a shape totally different from what we've seen or what we've built. According to the explorer, it was much larger than the imperial castle. Furthermore, the architecture was different; it was full of deadly traps. León decided to wait for the support team. While exploring the entire castle, the air was lethally pale; there was a slight mist in some corridors.
In the same way, it was reported that some of the explorers saw hallucinations and experienced a strong feeling of drowsiness. One of them couldn't resist falling asleep. The moment he closed his eyes, his body dissipated into the mist."
"In the end, of the 8 explorers, only 2 of them returned. What he could find was only the mist and the incredible amount of mana in the air. According to one of the deceased, before disappearing, he reported that he could distinguish people with gray robes in the deepest part of the castle by the dungeons.
No further information could be found, but in our records, it is said that the sin of Sloth can be distinguished by its followers who wear this type of tunic, in addition to the fog spread throughout the castle."
Andrés entered into contemplation. This is the first time in history that these two places were discovered.
"Amazing, isn't it?" said the captain as he took another sip of liquor from the glass, "For all these years, our scouts have risked their lives in exploring every area, every place, every corner of the forest, but even so, these two places were not on the map, for us, they didn't exist, but they knew. We have no information about these places."
"But still, they showed them to us, and only these two places were discovered. There are two more, what do you think?" he asked Andrés.
He reviewed the two reports again in his hands: "These four places were discovered thanks to the cultists of the 7 sins?" he asked after a few seconds: "Yes," the captain of the 7th squadron said simply, "They're planning something big," said Andrés after a few minutes of contemplation.
The captain's eyes gleamed: "Exactly, places we have no information about, we have nothing, what we know is little about them, all these places have something special, we didn't know them."