The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Ella placed the basic holy light spell handouts upright on the textbook, then lowered her head and pretended to read while actually daydreaming.

To the experienced teacher Bos, the Saint's actions were like covering one's ears and stealing the bell, but the poor old man did not dare to provoke this lady and could only continue to pretend not to see it.

Believer system. Ella called out in her heart.

The information transmitted through the void link of the believer's panel is a unilateral transmission by Ella, and the efficiency is extremely low. It sounds like whispering in other people's ears. At present, it can only be used to psychologically hint to one's own believers.

The sacrificial array given by the system requires blood sacrifice and so on. Although it is possible to use cattle and sheep as sacrifices for a small array such as transmitting information, this overly traditional ritual array is not convenient to use. More importantly, Ella feels that it is very damaging to its image.

The thought of Marilyn or Hyde wearing a black cloak and drawing circles in a mysterious basement with their fingers dipped in the blood of cows and sheep, would make people depressed if they did this for a long time.

However, she noticed that if a believer with a high level of faith conveyed information to her, the requirements for setting up the formation would be relatively less stringent, and they could use a method similar to chanting and praying to convey what they were thinking.

But she only has one high-level believer, Ye Xiao, and there is no need for Ye Xiao to use this method at all.

It's really strange. If it's so difficult for ordinary believers to pray to gods, then for so many ordinary believers of righteous gods like the God of Light, are their usual prayers meaningless?

Ella shuddered and seemed to have discovered something she shouldn't have discovered.

It's really complicated.

The main reason is that Ella, a half-baked mage who relies on the system, has only a partial understanding of the battle formation. It would be great if there was a mage with a higher level who could help her solve her doubts.

As she was thinking about this, she suddenly noticed Chloe, who was listening to the class attentively.

This guy...he memorized the healing holy light array directly last time. He seems to be a top student?

Chapter 26 Middleware

"Is this a contract spell?"

Looking at the note Ella handed over, Chloe curiously observed the magic circle engraved on it.

As smart as she was, she saw that the magic circle was not perfect. It seemed to lack the object of the contract and the medium of the ritual. It only had basic runes related to transmitting messages.

"What a unique structure! Is this a magic circle invented by the Saint Lady herself?"

"No, no, I just saw it in an ancient book. It seemed very interesting, so I wanted to ask you," Ella made up an excuse. "It seems that there are some special restrictions on the use of this spell. Do you have any ideas for optimizing it?"

Although she was a half-baked wizard, the Duke's daughter was at least a wizard student at the National Academy for Nobles before Ye Xiao took her place, so she still had some basic knowledge of magic.

This allowed her to at least barely distinguish the functional differences of the different rune partitions in the main structure of the spell, so she only drew the basic partition used to transmit information and gave it to Chloe. As for the rest, those elements such as blood sacrifice to the outer gods must not be shown to Chloe, and even Ella deliberately replaced the rune words on the basic partition with the common rune words of the Loren Empire spell school.

Of course, doing so would result in the drawn magic circle having no practical meaning at all, but it didn’t matter, as long as it could express the meaning.

Moreover, during the analysis, Ella discovered that she seemed to have a stronger understanding of things like spells and arrays compared to the confusion she felt when she was practicing swordsmanship in her previous life.

"Hmm... it seems to be used to transmit information through a connected contract. Looking closely, the combination of runes above seems to be not very standard. It feels like the patchwork product of a novice who has just learned magic... Ah, such a low-level level must not be created by the Saint. I apologize for my slip of the tongue just now." Chloe scratched her head embarrassedly.

"Haha." Ella's smile was a little stiff.

"Due to the imbalance between the two parties in the contract, such direct communication often requires a price to maintain the medium." Chloe continued to study, "Although the use of runes is very bad, the construction is very exquisite... It's really strange. The creator's construction level and the level of filling in the text are completely different. It's like a master's line drawing was given to an elementary school student to color."

Please let me go.

Ella regretted very much showing the magic circle to this top student priest. Not only was her self-esteem constantly frustrated, but she was also unable to talk back.

"...Well, if there is only one contract object, there doesn't seem to be much room for optimization."

"Hmm? Does that mean that if there is more than one contract object, it can be optimized?" Ella keenly caught the meaning of Chloe's words.

"Hmm..." Chloe took out another piece of paper and spread it out, drawing two circles on it, one above and one below, and then connected the two with a straight line. "This contract spell assumes that the two parties are unequal communicators. For example, there are two lakes, one high and one low. The lower lake needs to transport water to the higher lake, so it must provide a certain amount of energy to transport it up. Moreover, the greater the height difference, the greater the transportation energy required."

"Can't the energy be provided by lakes high up?"

"No, the energy provided by the lake at a high place is equivalent to pumping water from a low place. That is the upper level spying on the lower level instead of the lower level transmitting information to the upper level."

...It probably means that the transmission of active behavior must be paid by the active party? Ella felt a little confused. It was really painful to listen to the top student solve the problem. It was the same in any world. "Doesn't it mean that this magic circle is meaningless for the two parties with too big a difference in level?"

No wonder those dark believers have to spend a lot of sacrifices to communicate with the evil gods, while those who claim to be able to communicate with the gods on the righteous side are often high-ranking members of the temple.

"Well, if the gap is too big and you want to transfer it directly, you will have to pay a huge price." Chloe nodded, "But, as the Saint Lady just said, if there is more than one contract object, there should still be a workaround."

"Hey, how to adapt?"

Chloe held up two fingers. "I can think of two ways. One is that if there are two lower lakes, then if they collectively transmit only one message, they can pay the price together. The other is that if there is a middle lake between the upper and lower lakes, then the lower lake can pay a small price to transmit the message to the middle lake, and then the middle lake can transmit the message to the upper lake."

Ella was stunned, staring at Chloe's face as if she was thinking about something.

"I...I...did I say something wrong..." Chloe couldn't help but blush. Looking at her from such a close distance, it would be hard for even a girl not to be moved by the beauty of the Saint.

"Are you a genius, Miss Chloe?" Ella murmured. She looked through the system's believer panel in her mind, and a possible plan was gradually taking shape.

"Hey, I'm nowhere near as good as the Saint." Chloe was so excited by Ella's praise that she almost flew up.

But the problem is, who should be used as the middleware? Ye Xiao has the highest level of faith, but his mental power can be almost consumed by throwing a few fireballs, which is definitely not suitable.

The other believers were all low-level believers. Although they could directly consume general points to increase their faith level, their mental capacity was still a problem. Even if they used potions to forcibly increase and recover, the body's own drug resistance was limited, unless they could directly chew magic crystals...

Wait, I think I have a believer who is not human.

Ella turned her gaze to her special "believer", a believer whose name was naturally calm and heavy.

[Liangqiuling-Low-level believers]

What’s outrageous is that the panel of this thing actually has mental power, and it’s ridiculously high!

Ella wondered if this mountain had developed its own intelligence under the pollution of the evil god's power, and that the spiritual will of all the animals and plants on the mountain belonged to it.

"Dear students, today's lecture ends here. Next time we will continue to talk about the uniqueness of holy cities and holy places in the arcane sense." Teacher Boss's words interrupted Ella's thoughts. The clergy who were attending the class around her had already stood up and came to Ella's seat in the front row with their books.

Ever since they discovered that the Saint Lady was kinder than they had imagined, the young disciples of the temple have been keen to chat with Ella.

After all, he is the future master of the temple. If you don't curry favor with him now, you may not even have the chance to meet him in the future.

After these two days, Ella gradually got used to it and greeted everyone one by one. After all, she was not a loner by nature.

However, not everyone is friendly. For example, the blonde arcanist girl who was walking towards them through the crowd had a cold expression on her face as always.

This guy is a moving iceberg.

Feeling the atmosphere around her suddenly cool down, Ella couldn't help but complain in her heart.

The clergy around also consciously made way for this lady. Although this lady could not sit on the throne of the Saint, her talent of becoming the youngest high-level arcanist and her status in the temple were still far superior to her peers.

"Lady Freya, what do you want to talk to me about?" Ella said softly.

"I am not worthy of being called Lord, Saint Lady. The elder asked me to inform you to come to the chapel."

Chapter 27: The Preacher

I was just going to a chapel, but looking at this guy's expression, I might have thought he was taking me to a courtroom.

In the corridor, Ella followed Freya who was silent in front of her, and complained in her heart.

The clergymen along the way were attracted by the beautiful scenery formed by the two, but due to their professional ethics as clergymen and more importantly Freya's reputation, they did not dare to look too closely.

When we arrived at the chapel, there was indeed a kind-looking elder waiting there.

"Master Elder Brandon, the Saint Lady is here."

"Thank you, thank you, little Freya." Seeing Elder Brandon's eyes narrowed into two crescents, Ella was a little curious whether the other party could really see things like this.

"It is like this, Saint Lady. As a vassal of the God of Light, the Holy Temple needs to spread the doctrine and cure diseases on behalf of our Lord. And you, Saint Lady, are the future spokesperson of the Holy Temple, and you will have a special priesthood for spreading the doctrine." Elder Brandon said with a smile as he led Ella to a room on the side of the chapel. "After you take office, there will be a monastery hall dedicated to you, but before that, you need to serve as a preacher in the preaching room for a period of time."

Ella roughly understood that, to put it simply, her main job after becoming a saint in the future would be preaching. In order to preach smoothly in the future, she had to practice as a preacher in a small preaching room.

There is actually a detailed training plan and work route, just like a management trainee... Ella thought that the saint was a pretentious character who sat on the throne every day, looking down on everyone, and when others reported to her, she would just lower her head and say "good" or "no", not knowing whether it was good or not.

But there is a very serious problem, why didn’t you tell me earlier about this kind of job? ?

Ella's scalp tingled. She basically slept in class and was so idle that she had never even glanced at the teachings of the God of Light. How could she be a preacher? She might as well be a martyr!

Especially for this kind of extremely serious preaching priesthood, Ella still remembered that in the previous life, a player got drunk and ran to the chapel to debate with the priest about whether there was a God in the world. He was directly caught by the Templar Knights and sentenced to be a heretic and burned as wood. Some things are completely different when said in private and in public.

If she accidentally said something wrong, she would be beaten up as a heretic! !

No, I have to refuse, this must absolutely be refused!!!

"But... Lord Brandon, I have just started my training in the Holy Temple, and I think I still have a lot of room for improvement in my understanding of the Holy Light," Ella said as tactfully as possible to express the fact that she was a poor student. "I am afraid that if I rush to preach at my current level, I might mislead people's faith in the Holy Temple and my Lord because of some shortcomings."

"Don't worry, Saint." Elder Brandon placed his hand on his chest. "You just need to follow your heart. You are the chosen one of our Lord and have the holy soul closest to our Lord. The teachings of the temple are just the interpretations of mortals like us. The teachings of the great God of Light will naturally exist in your heart."

Ha, is that so? Why do I feel like there’s just a bunch of tentacles inside me?

"But I have just joined the Holy Temple. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to focus on cultivation?"

"Preaching is also a form of practice, Saint Lady."

"…But I'm not very good at communicating with people. I'm a bit socially anxious."

“Language is just a tool; what matters is your pure heart.”

“…I’m afraid I’ll say something wrong and get complained about.”

"The Saint has passed on the teachings of our Lord. It is harmless for the church to be misunderstood by the world."

"..."

Ella was speechless and tried to refuse in every way, but the elder was like a piece of wood that would not budge, and he was determined to make her a preacher.

I can’t stand it anymore, this guy is simply the king of chicken soup.

This elder is suitable to be a success mentor, it is really a waste of his talent here.

"Hiss, then, ah... I'll give it a try first."

There was really no way to resist, so Ella had no choice but to take on the job of preacher.

"If, I mean if, I accidentally said something wrong, Elder, please forgive me."

"Don't worry, Saint Lady. Your words are God's will."

……

Ella finally walked into the preaching room with a sad face.

It was a large room divided in half by a long wooden table, with cushioned benches on either side. There was a door on the side where Ella sat for the preacher to enter and exit, and two doors on the other side, one for exit and one for entry.

The room was very quiet. Ella walked to the chair holding a church handout and sat down. She adjusted her breathing and prepared to receive her first guest.

But then again, work is work, so why did Freya follow him into the room?

This ice-faced stick was like a mobile air conditioner, and it actually lowered the indoor temperature by several degrees.

Noticing that the silver-haired girl was looking at her, Freya, who was standing beside her, said calmly, "The elder asked me to look after the Saint Lady. If the Saint Lady encounters any difficulties, just come to me."

You are the biggest difficulty here!

Ella was really a little overwhelmed. She was already afraid of saying something wrong while preaching, and there was a high-definition monitor next to her.

Just as I was having a headache, a crisp bell sound suddenly came, and a young man in luxurious clothes walked in from the door on the other side of the room.

How come there are customers so soon?!

"Ah, um, welcome!" Ella gave a forced smile and hurriedly opened the church handouts and placed them on the table.

The man who entered the room was stunned for a moment, and the air fell into a brief silence.

What am I talking about... A bead of sweat slid down Ella's cheek.

"Ah... hello! You are really the Saint!" Seeing Ella's appearance, the noble man's joy was almost written on his face, "It's worth waiting in line for so long."

"queue?"

Ella seemed to have vaguely sensed something.

"Ah... no, no... I, can I sit down, Lady Saint?" The noble man walked impatiently to the chair and sat down.

I thought you didn't intend to sit down after listening to my answer...

Ella was a little speechless. "Sir, what do you need advice for? Is there anything I can help you with?"

"My name is Andre, Andre Devin. Devin is the same Devin as Count Devin. His mansion is in the West City District. Yes, I am his son. I am studying in the sword class of the National Academy for Nobles. I am a high-level swordsman. I have seen you in the academy before..."

You might as well give your ID number as well.

Ella was already having a stomachache. "Mr. Devin, stop for a moment, Mr. Devin."

"...Your back at the training ground... Ah, what, what happened, Saint Lady."

"Your life journey is indeed wonderful and I admire you. However, this is a sacred church after all, and the great God of Light is watching us." Ella's mouth twitched. "If you don't need my prayers or help, I hope I can leave this precious time to those who need it more."

"Ah, yes, yes." Andre nodded hurriedly, "Lady Saint, I have a question for you."