The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Lu Yu didn't quite understand what Ella meant and was a little confused. Then, when his eyes met those scarlet eyes, he suddenly realized that he was in a vast and boundless sea of ​​blood.

At the horizon where the coastline meets the night sky, a blood moon is slowly rising.

What is this? An illusion?

Lu Yu was about to speak when he realized that his nasal cavity seemed to be blocked by something.

He was immediately horrified to see a dark tentacle emerge from his nostril.

"What is that?!" he cried out as the tip of the tentacle pierced his eye socket, blood spurting out, the excruciating pain causing him to lose control of his voice.

"what--!!!"

……

After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yu slumped in a chair, covered in blood.

Tentacles, growing from the cracks covering his entire body, churned his internal organs and flesh as if in a frenzy.

Is this woman... a demon...?

She didn't ask any questions at all... she was simply enjoying the torture...?

Lu Yu felt that his mind and body were on the verge of collapse, but in the sea of ​​blood, there wasn't even a single person he could talk to.

“I said… stop… torturing… me… I said…” Lu Yu felt like his throat was about to break down.

Suddenly, he was distracted, and the blood-red scene around him completely disappeared, returning him to the cold prison cell.

Hallucinations... Ha, these really are hallucinations. She still doesn't dare to do anything to me. After all, I'm the only prisoner who knows the information. If I die, she'll have nothing left.

As Lu Yu's rationality began to return, he looked at Ella and started calculating in his mind. As long as he knew it was an illusion, there should still be a way to get through it...

"Are you going to tell me now?" Ella looked at Lu Yu with her crescent-shaped eyes.

"Yes, yes, I'll do it now..." Lu Yu was still thinking about how to fool the other party when Ella interrupted him.

"But the time isn't up yet."

Time? What time?

Lu Yu's gaze involuntarily fell on the hourglass in the corner, whose base was only covered with a thin layer of sand.

“Only a minute has passed,” Ella smiled, her petite and adorable face beaming. “Didn’t I just say I’d listen to you in thirty minutes?”

What?

Lu Yu's expression froze on his face.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding scene transformed into an endless sea of ​​blood.

Chapter Seventy-Three: Samuel's Clinic

When Ye Xiao entered the cell again, Lu Yu, who was slumped in a chair, had few injuries on his body, but his eyes were dull and lifeless.

He was like a broken puppet.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Ye Xiao looked at the silver-haired girl leaning against the wall and said something subconsciously, then realized something and wondered why she was talking to herself.

Ella naturally didn't respond to that statement. After all, Ye Xiao's inner thoughts were her inner thoughts, and both of them knew what he was thinking. Talking to herself would just be a bit silly.

So Ye Xiao walked straight up, but out of the corner of his eye he saw a silver hair sticking up on Ella's fluffy little head, ruining the overall beauty, so he couldn't help but reach out and pluck it off.

"Hmm!" Ella puffed out her cheeks and patted Ye Xiao's hand.

Although it was her own idea to pull it out, she still had to blame the guy who pulled her hair for the pain she felt.

It's not about what I'm doing; isn't that just me?

The two, their minds somewhat confused, froze for a moment before quickly averting their gazes and going about their own business.

Ella was released from the cell, and Ye Xiao took over the interrogation, lazily asking the vegetative state patient in the chair, "What's your name?"

“…Lu Yu.” This time, the other party answered honestly in a weak voice.

"Where did you get this knife?" Ye Xiao took the strange long knife that Lu Yu had used earlier and weighed it in his hand.

Lu Yu's lifeless gaze swept over the knife in Ye Xiao's hand. "Samuel Clinic."

……

Ye Xiao was quite certain that this wasn't the first time she had heard the name of this clinic.

But in his memory, the last time he saw the clinic's name was in Storm Harbor.

The night they went out for a late-night snack with Greta and Lucyville, the landlady of the inn where they stayed mentioned that her son worked at this clinic in the capital.

Ye Xiao was somewhat puzzled at the time, as she seemed to have never heard of a clinic with such a name in the capital, which left some impression on her.

But unexpectedly, I heard that name again from the mouth of the player assassin who attacked Isaac's mansion.

According to Lu Yu's confession, although the place was called a "clinic," no one knew what it actually was.

Its true location is unknown, and it can only be accessed and exited through a strange teleportation array.

The location of the teleportation circle is not fixed, but only the clinic's "doctor" knows how to summon it.

"……doctor?"

This is the title for a category of members belonging to the clinic. Another category of members that Lu Yu knew of were player assassins like them who had previously appeared at Isaac's mansion, and they were called "patients".

Upon first entering Samuel's clinic, the "patient" undergoes surgery in which an organ is replaced with a "holy relic".

The sacred remains grant them special abilities. For example, the demon sword in Ye Xiao's hand, which can devour the souls of demons and then be wielded, can only be controlled by the sacred remains that Lu Yu transplanted into his right hand. When it is in Ye Xiao's hands, it becomes a simple long sword that is just a bit black in color.

However, while the relics grant Samuel's patients special abilities, they also cause them to suffer from a disease called "blood thirst".

This disease requires them to regularly infuse their bodies with a liquid called "holy blood." Without the holy blood, their bodies will gradually be assimilated by the holy relics and lose their sense of self.

This liquid is also essential for their ability to evolve their sacred remains.

Hearing this, Ye Xiao finally understood that these guys' strange abilities came from the holy remains they mentioned.

But that's all; the Samuel Clinic itself has become an even bigger mystery.

Lu Yu spoke in a daze, struggling to describe what he had seen in the clinic.

As a patient, returning to the clinic meant staying in a small ward.

He will only be placed on the operating table and given bizarre surgeries by a group of masked doctors when his Holy Blood reserves are needed to evolve his Holy Remains.

Therefore, most of the time they do not return to the clinic, but instead hunt and bring back designated targets according to prescriptions received from the doctor in exchange for holy blood.

It's essentially the same as accepting a system task, except the client is a doctor from a clinic instead of the system, the general points reward is Holy Blood, and there's an additional special condition called "Blood Thirst Syndrome" that becomes a constraint on them.

It sounds like some kind of evil god is using various means to control these guys, except that the abilities of this holy relic are varied and do not seem to be the abilities of a single divine power.

How weird.

Ye Xiao frowned. The existence of the Holy Remains had created an independent advancement path, different from skill training, making it difficult to assess the combat power of these players.

"With such powerful abilities, why have I never seen a player using the Holy Relic in the arena?"

“We can’t use the Holy Relics in the arena…” Lu Yu said weakly.

A special ability not recognized by the system?

So far, Ye Xiao has only seen that Ella's divine powers cannot be used in the arena.

Then, Ye Xiao turned his gaze to Lu Yu's bound right hand, which was now wrapped in bandages stained with blood.

He reached out and ripped off the bandage, revealing a grotesque, deep red hand that appeared to have no skin but only flesh and blood.

The veins and muscle lines on his hands were clearly visible, and there were also dense, tadpole-like incantations drawn on them with black ink.

As mentioned before, Ye Xiao had some impression of this demonic sword.

In my previous life, a notorious player used a sword like this one, which could summon the souls of those he killed or monsters.

The souls of those who die by this blade will be forever imprisoned within this demonic sword unless the sword's wielder intends to release them.

In a sense, this is a divine weapon that can develop almost infinitely. However, the conditions for its use are too harsh. Without that special hand, the weak will be affected by this demonic sword and turn the tables on them. The strong, such as Ye Xiao, will be rendered dead and will not respond at all.

So after the player guilds united to hunt down that notorious player, the demon sword became a prized possession of a major guild and never reappeared.

However, that infamous player was someone Ye Xiao had met in his previous life; he was not the Lu Yu before him.

Does this mean that Lu Yu's right hand, the remnant of the Holy Relic, can still be transplanted?

Even so, Ye Xiao wasn't very interested in this thing.

Ella's divine authority and ability to replicate it are already incredibly powerful, and he himself has the orthodox training path of a miracle mage and swordsmanship to follow. There's no need for him to take a risky approach and dabble in this, and he doesn't have the energy or resources to manage it.

If this thing were given to other companions, it would cause a whole host of debuffs and restrictions, such as thirst for blood and mental impairment. Ye Xiao didn't really want his companions to touch this thing, and he didn't have that damn holy blood to upgrade the holy remains.

Otherwise, Ye Xiao might not be able to transplant the holy remains, but Ella might be able to.

After asking about the other person's companion and the doctor who gave him the "prescription," Ye Xiao obtained an address from the other person.

However, he will not go to that address tonight; this matter needs to be postponed, since the main event is the foundation-raising ceremony tomorrow.

After glancing at the barrier and confirming that the magical barrier used to suppress Lu Yu was functioning properly, Ye Xiao left the cell and found Ella.

He originally intended to have Ella create a portal to send him directly back to his dorm, but upon seeing the girl's slightly blushing and adorable face, he suddenly swallowed hard, as if he had thought of something.

But then a portal to the dormitory opened in mid-air. Ye Xiao didn't go in, but instead picked up the cat that was sleeping in his collar and put it into the portal.

A dazed Greta landed on the mattress with a "plop," and Ye Xiao's voice came to her ears: "Maid, you can sleep by yourself tonight."

Then the portal vanished as ripples in the air.

"Huh?" Greta only just realized what was happening. Looking at the empty bed, she jumped into the air in anger and bit the air, "Ye Xiao, you bastard!!! You actually abandoned me to do something bad!!!"

Chapter Seventy-Four: The Evil God's Love

Ye Xiao naturally couldn't hear Greta's roar.

Because at this moment, he had already followed the portal opened by Ella and arrived at the bedroom of Ella's villa in the manor area.

This time the door was locked tight, so I guess no one will bother us again.

Ella was standing by the desk pouring tea for Ye Xiao. The bright moonlight shining in from the night sky outside the window was like a thin veil draped over her petite figure.

The girl's soft hair reflected the light, like a Milky Way flowing down with stars.

So, do we need to say something...?

There's no need for that, since it's all for myself anyway.

When Ella turned around, her blushing face in the moonlight immediately made Ye Xiao's heart start pounding uncontrollably.

Ella also felt tense.

What exactly happened...?

Ye Xiao's feelings were also Ella's feelings, but why, even though they were both on the same side, did they still feel a kind of shyness, as if they were experiencing first love, after seeing each other's faces?

Ye Xiao tried her best to think that it was just her two hands touching each other, but no matter what she imagined, the moment her eyes met those bright red pupils, she felt a surge of emotion as if she had been struck by an electric current.

He swallowed hard, stepped forward, and gently brushed aside the strands of hair that were hanging near Ella's ear with his fingers.

As you get closer, you can smell the familiar yet refreshing fragrance of jasmine.

Strangely enough, Ella herself had never smelled this fragrance on her.

Only Ye Xiao's senses could detect this sweet aroma, as if her fair and soft, adorable face was a pudding infused with the fragrance of jasmine, making one want to take a bite.

Once the thought appeared, Ye Xiao found it hard to shake off.

He embraced the girl's soft, boneless body; the gentle touch felt like squeezing a ripple of water into his arms.

His broad, calloused hand trembled slightly yet gently stroked the back of the furry head. The girl responded perfectly, burying her head in his chest and stroking Ye Xiao's back with her slender arms, like a gentle and affectionate kitten.

Just by holding him, Ye Xiao felt his body and mind immersed in unprecedented comfort and healing.

The feeling of holding this little guy is so captivating.

Ella wrapped her small arms around Ye Xiao's waist and gradually moved toward the large bed next to her.

She gently raised her head, her face flushed, and her charming peach blossom eyes tilted slightly upward, like a small fishhook that easily caught Ye Xiao's languid gaze.

Those eyes, which seemed so nonchalant and indifferent to everything, were now deeply captivated by those crimson eyes.