I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 954: Chapter 623: Traitor Within, Catherine’s Return

Judgement Court Dungeon

Yan Qing said slowly, ”Although Kawakado Itsuo doesn’t know the exact location of the Blood Demon Cult’s headquarters, multiple Blood Demon Cult strongholds in the Central Star Realm are directly under his control. From his memories, I obtained complete identity dossiers for dozens of the Blood Demon Cult’s core cadres.”

At these words, a flash of delight appeared in everyone’s eyes.

Kawakado Itsuo is a Tier Eight Spiritualist, firmly seated among the very top ranks of the Blood Demon Cult. The strongholds and personnel directly under his command are, without doubt, part of the cult’s core strength.

The value of this Intelligence goes without saying.

However, by now the news of Kawakado Itsuo’s capture has surely already reached the Blood Demon Cult. Those core cadres whose identities have been exposed, as well as the strongholds he oversaw, must have long since carried out emergency relocation.

Fortunately, once an identity is exposed, no matter how they move or how they Disguise themselves, they are bound to leave traces like Spider Silk. As long as we follow these leads and trace them layer by layer, we will eventually find their tracks; it will not end with us gaining nothing.

”Aside from that, there is another key piece of information—about the Human Puppet Golem.”

Yan Qing’s expression grew gradually more grave as he continued, ”The Blood Demon Cult broke through the core technological bottleneck of the Human Puppet Golem twenty years ago and successfully produced the first Human Puppet Golem. Over these years, they have been crazily abducting all kinds of bloodline Spiritualists, continually iterating and upgrading their technology. Now the Refining techniques for Human Puppet Golems have become increasingly mature; even Tier Eight Beastman Royal Family members have been captured by them and turned into Golems. It is only that, in order to avoid arousing the Empire’s vigilance and encirclement prematurely, they have not yet dared to lay hands on the Holy Blood Direct Lineage.”

”Human Puppet Golems...”

Everyone present had their faces harden in unison.

To be frank, over these years the Judgement Court has been constantly hunting the Blood Demon Cult. Although we have never managed to completely wipe them out, in the eyes of the Empire’s high echelon, the Blood Demon Cult has always been no more than a minor scab—like cockroaches in the gutter: annoying and hard to eradicate, but incapable of shaking the Empire’s foundations.

But now, the emergence of the Human Puppet Golem has changed all of that.

The Blood Demon Cult can take bloodline Spiritualists with formidable strength and Refine them into puppets that obey their every command. Even if there is some loss of combat power after Refining, the difference will not be great.

Once this technology spreads, and large numbers of Human Puppet Golems flood various regions, it will inevitably inflict a devastating impact on the Empire’s public security and governance.

What is even more worrying is that no one can guarantee that the Blood Demon Cult will not use this terrifying technology as a bargaining chip to trade with other anti-Empire organizations.

If those anti-Empire forces all gain mastery of the Refining techniques for Human Puppet Golems, then the entire Spiritual Energy community will be left in a state where everyone lives in fear, and the Empire’s rule will inevitably fall into unprecedented turmoil.

”We cannot allow them to continue developing!”

Pei Siqing spoke with iron resolve: ”The Blood Demon Cult must be eradicated as soon as possible!”

Everyone nodded one after another.

Previously, the Judgement Court had many hostile forces to deal with—the Blood Demon Cult, the Xieshen Association, the rebel army, and so on. In terms of sheer destructive capacity, the Blood Demon Cult did not even measure up to some of the larger rebel organizations.

Yet now, with the maturation of Human Puppet Golem technology, the eradication of the Blood Demon Cult has already become the Judgement Court’s most urgent priority, a matter that brooks no delay.

Next, Yan Qing successively disclosed several other important pieces of Intelligence, ranging from the Blood Demon Cult’s resource reserves to their personnel deployments. The amount of information was large, the details were exhaustive, and this gave everyone a few more degrees of confidence and assurance in wiping out the Blood Demon Cult.