(Diao Chan POV)
It wasn't much of a fight, really.
I'm not certain if it was just plain overconfidence or they possessed some kind of fanatical belief, but those cultists kept charging towards us even as we obliterated them.
"'Consume and destroy. Void Annihilation'"
The group of fanatics in front of me were reduced to dust instantly without the chance to scream.
To my right, Cai Hong opened her mouth and a rainbow coloured flame spewed out.
Contrary to its cute appearance, anyone who got burned by the rainbow flame was immediately incinerated into ash even if just a strand of their hair touched it.
Even though she looks like this, Cai Hong is still a dragon that Master is raising as His adopted daughter after all, there was no way Cai Hong would be a pushover no matter how cute she looked.
But they really are a bunch of lunatics, none of them even thought of surrendering even after we slaughtered so many of them, so we ended up having to kill every single one of them.
In the end, only the women who were tied up inside the house were left alive inside this place.
I'm not sure if they would be just as fanatic as the rest of them though.
Dusting my hands, I went up to the closest one and stood in front of her, the woman barely reacting to my presence when I did.
I even waved my hand in front of her face but she didn't even blink.
"'Will of the world. Inspection.'"
Using a Spell, I tried to find out what was wrong with her and quickly realised what was going on.
"So it's really some kind of ritual," I mused to myself.
Whatever they are doing here breaks down your personal will and replaces your personality with extreme fanaticism towards a specific subject, which obviously is extreme devotion to that dragon king.
How inhumane, even we don't do that to our followers. They accept Master's belief through their own will, not mind control. If your followers are just mindless drones without their own will, can you really say that they are believers?
No wonder those people outside had no sense for self-preservation, all signs of it had been replaced by reverence to this dragon king.
Hmmm… I wonder…
"Cai Hong, do you think you can save them?" I asked.
I don't actually care about these people and I don't have a Spell that could heal them either, that's why I was not wasting Master's God pill on them. If they couldn't be saved then that's too bad, I'll just simply kill them to put them out of their misery.
But since their brainwashing was not yet completed, they could technically still be saved so no harm in trying.
Cai Hong tilted her head cutely at me, "Mnnn? Why?"
"They might accept Master as their saviour if we do. Having new followers of Master doesn't hurt."
"More people who love Papa! Cai Hong will save them for Papa!"
Cai Hong slowly morphed into her teenager form before light gathered in between her palms. She threw the light in the air and the light particles flew into each of the tied up women's bodies.
I watched the light slowly return to their eyes and a few of them immediately began crying.
The one in front of me looked up, "Did… Did you save us?"
I smiled, "From those crazy women trying to brainwash you? I suppose we did."
She bowed her head and started to sob, "Thank you… Thank you…"
Cai Hong had already returned to her smaller form and began hugging a plushie of Master that she kept in her storage ring. She even had it wrapped in one of Master's shirts so that it had Master's scent on it.
How envious…
Ah... I got distracted by Master's scent. I still need to deal with these bunch of women who got healed by Cai Hong.
"'Release thy shackles. Unlock.'"
I clapped my hands together and the manacles and chains that had been restricting the women opened up, dumping them unceremoniously on the ground.
All of them immediately made their way to me and got on their knees.
"Our hero!"
"Our saviour!"
"An angel has come to save us!"
"Command us!"
"Our life for our saviour!"
Mmmm? That's strange, why are they like this? Did Cai Hong's healing Technique not cure them of that sense of devotion? Or was it because they were already like this?
Thinking about it, these women should have been followers of the dragon king even before the ritual so I guess they should have been a fanatic on some level before being forced into this.
One of them even reached out to hug my leg so I had to kick her off of me.
Interestingly, instead of being upset that I kicked her, that woman seemed to be in ecstasy, even the others around her looked at her in envy.
"Haaah~~ To receive our saviour's kick! This one is unworthy!"
Oh?
Oh, oh, oh?
I picked up one of them by the hair and she was smiling up at me.
"Ayyyyiiiee! For saviour to pick me… Thank you so much!!"
Kukuku! I do not know what else this ritual did to these lot of people, but it seems like they have become the best playthings I could ever ask for!
Oh how wonderful! I could indoctrinate them into Master's believers and share Master's techniques of the best pleasure inducing pain techniques!
Kukukukuku! I will have so much fun with them! Whipping, spanking, bondage, choking, candles, petplay, more spanking and--
I felt a poke on my side and looked down to see Cai Hong staring up at me.
"Big sis Diao chan making weird faces again…"
I cleared my throat and schooled my face back to normal again before turning back to my new toys-- I mean, new potential believers of Master.
"We have come in the name of our Master to grant you salvation. Accept our Master in your hearts and you shall be saved. Everything in this world belongs to Master, everything that exists, exists for Master. Devote your heart, body and soul for Master and spread His name to all corners of the world, such that more will come to know of Master's light. Forsake the fake god that has betrayed you and accept Master as the only God. All for Master."
I put my hands together in prayer and everyone in front of me mimic my actions.
"All for Master!"
Kukuku! How nice! This was the easiest indoctrination I've ever done! I didn't even need to torture any of them!
Ah, then again, they might have actually enjoyed that instead.
I bid them to raise their heads, "Now, we came here by the order of our dearest God to seek out this self-proclaimed dragon king Asphart. Whereabouts would we be--"
My words were cut off when the earth suddenly shook, rocking the entire building and causing parts of it to collapse.
I quickly gave the order for all of them to evacuate the building, the last one just managing to rush out through the doors just as the entire building collapsed behind her.
There, at the end of the pathway that led towards the mountain's peak, a red dragon that was even larger than Cai Hong's full dragon form was perched on top of it, glaring down at us.
Well… No prizes to guessing who that dragon is.
