The Villain Saint is my secondary account

After chatting briefly, the two returned to the door of the lounge. Not long after, Erica also came out of the room.

This little princess always appeared obedient and innocent in front of him, but Ye Xiao could vaguely sense that she had been secretly observing him.

After the other party left, Ye Xiao went back to his room and chatted with Skadi.

Skadi was completely open with Ye Xiao, explaining the little princess's purpose clearly.

The young princess not only confronted Skadi about the Samuel Clinic and the Mother of Arthritis, but also revealed that the Grand Duke of York, who was originally involved with the Fourth Prince's faction, had actually been won over by the Mother of Arthritis.

In other words, if Skadi accepts the cooperation with Samuel's clinic, she will not only have the support of the arthropods, but also the support of the Grand Duke.

This made Ye Xiao a little nervous. What was Prince Raymond up to? He had such a big advantage on the surface, yet he didn't even know that the noble duke who was in charge of his own faction had been poached.

Without Ella's efforts to win over Dukes Heville and Seychelles, Prince Raymond wouldn't have received a single vote.

However, contrary to speculation, it is likely that Samuel Clinic paid a considerable price to poach the Duke of York, probably because Prince Raymond and the Mother of Life's faction seemed to have the upper hand, which made them anxious.

To some extent, this is also the benefit of Ella staying behind the scenes and stirring up trouble, as both sides have begun to misjudge each other to varying degrees.

Some moves in chess can lead to a series of mistakes if one wrong move is made.

Ye Xiao originally planned to have Ella betray the Queen during the Royal Selection, causing Duke Seychelle and Duke Hevil to defect, so that Skadi would win the Royal Selection and catch the Mother of Life off guard, forcing her to use her backup plan.

But now that they've unexpectedly received the Duke of York as a card, the situation seems to be changing again.

Meanwhile, the conditions offered to Skadi by Samuel's clinic were not complicated. Erica frankly stated that she would not compete for the throne, but she needed three powerful ministers who could appoint their own people.

In fact, there are only four ministerial positions with real power in the Loren Empire. To some extent, this is already a clear indication that they are demanding ruling power.

"Good, finally the lion has made its move." Ye Xiao took the teacup the little princess had used and threw it into the trash can beside her. "How did His Highness respond to her?"

“I was originally going to just tell her to get lost... but when you said that someone from the Samuel Clinic approached me for a collaboration, I replied to everyone that I would think about it when I got back, so I said I would consider it.”

Skadi raised her head, as if to say, "Quickly praise this princess for remembering your words."

"Your Highness, it is truly a magnanimous heart that you are willing to listen to my advice," Ye Xiaosui praised.

"Hmph, why do you always sound like a sycophant when you praise me?" After listening to this for a while, Skadi has stopped buying Ye Xiao's act.

“This is to cultivate Your Highness’s independent consciousness of not being elated by material gains,” Ye Xiao said, still looking calm and collected. “Think about it, if you can remain humble when I praise you, wouldn’t you be even less likely to trust others when they praise you?”

"Ah, is that so?" Skadi bit her finger lightly, feeling that something was wrong but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

"Meow."

Hearing the sound, Ye Xiao saw the kitten curled up next to the sofa with a frown, looking like it thought, "This woman is all looks and no brains." She laughed and patted the kitten's head, saying, "You have no right to talk about others."

Then Ye Xiao had a claw mark on the back of his hand.

"Ye Xiao, should we cooperate with that... Samuel Clinic that Erica mentioned?" Skadi crossed her arms. "I remember that Evans' brother was supported by this strange force, right? If possible, I really don't want to get involved with them for the sake of the royal selection."

“I think the cooperation will definitely be feigned, but the purpose is not for the royal selection, but to bring them to the surface.” Ye Xiao pointed to the half lemon that was sticking out of the water in Skadi’s teacup. “His Highness certainly doesn’t want these demons and evil spirits to be hiding in the country he will rule in the future. Now is the opportunity to lure them out and eliminate them.”

“Hmm…” Skadi’s beautiful face showed worry. “But with the few people we’ve recruited so far, I’m afraid we’ll have to rely on Mr. Isaac to deal with them all… and maybe my fifth brother, whom you told me about?”

"Your Highness need not worry. Your knight is right before you," Ye Xiao said with a smile. "You can ascend the throne with peace of mind. I will take care of those demons and monsters that block your way."

"Hmph, you're just bragging. I've seen your entrance exam, and your swordsmanship isn't even as good as mine," Skadi said, hands on her hips. "Forget about those evil gods, I'd be thankful if you could beat that stinky woman, Ella Havil."

"Um... there's one I just can't beat."

"Tch, useless man!" Skadi pouted. "Hmph, but it doesn't matter, I, the princess, will protect you anyway."

"Very well, then I'll thank Your Highness for your kindness in advance."

"Meow," Greta meowed in dissatisfaction.

"Okay, you're great too."

During their conversation, the two finalized the details of their collaboration with the young princess and Samuel Clinic.

Now, there are only six days left until the imperial election.

Chapter 143 The Gift of Life

The Academy Manor District.

The saint's detached villa.

While Ye Xiao and Skadi were being visited by Princess Erica, Ella also received an unexpected visitor.

A girl with long, gray-gold hair appeared at the entrance, surrounded by a group of students in navy blue uniforms.

"Greetings, Your Excellency. I apologize for the intrusion. I am Femishir Aslan, a student from Aslan studying in your country."

Ella and Lilia both stared at Princess Femisil outside the door, and both of them were momentarily stunned.

"Greetings, Your Highness Femishier," Ella greeted politely, then her gaze fell upon another familiar face behind Femishier.

She was a tall girl with long, fiery red hair that flowed like a gentle flame in the wind. A slender sword was held diagonally at her waist, and her upright posture gave her a rather dashing appearance.

Xia Lian.

Ella subtly curled the corner of her mouth. She was impressed by this guy, but this was the first time she had met him in real life.

The other person seemed to notice Ella's gaze and bowed slightly to her with both hands in front of his lower abdomen.

"I hope we have not disturbed you. We are here today mainly because my servant asked me to give you an item."

"Your Highness Femisil, you're too kind. Lilia, would you please arrange seats for our guests?"

“It is my honor, Your Majesty.” Lilia nodded obediently and led Femishire and the others into the house.

As soon as she entered the room, Femishire waved, and Xia Lian, who was standing next to her, took out a rectangular box from her bosom and handed it to Ella with both hands.

Although Xia Lian had doubts about the fact that the top-ranked person she had met before looked very similar to the Holy Maiden, she still had to be extremely respectful when she met the real Holy Maiden in reality, and dared not cause any trouble.

Ella took the box, and with her thumb, she slid open the top cover, revealing a twig on a cushion inside.

"This is……"

"To be honest, I'm not quite sure either. This is something that one of my attendants brought back from a place called Grey Gold Town, and he asked me to make sure he gives it to you."

Femisel smiled apologetically, “Unfortunately, my servant was seriously injured and is still recovering, so he couldn’t come along. However, if Your Majesty has any questions, you can consult Miss Xia Lian beside me. The servant who brought this item back is one of her subordinates.”

"Then I'll have to trouble Miss Xia Lian." Ella smiled slightly at Xia Lian.

Xia Lian nodded, "This matter goes back to before the imperial selection..."

She briefly recounted to Xiaolian what they had encountered in Grey Gold Town. Ella's crow familiar had also been involved in the first half of the story, so Ella naturally understood everything without needing to say more.

However, Ella was not very clear about what happened after Xiaolian, Chen Yao and the others entered the fog in the second half.

Although she had sent a crow into the fog that night, the crow got lost in the white fog and became separated from Chen Yao and the others.

Besides this true sprout of life, what surprised Ella even more was that the remnant soul of the God of Life had actually awakened.

No wonder the deity in Greygold Town is called the Mother of Life; she stole the authority of the God of Life.

This also connected her to another event that had happened a long time ago.

The Dong Muge that Ye Xiao met at the Grizzly Bear Guild was a guy with a very mysterious background who was with Zhu Jun.

In Storm Harbor, Ye Xiao also met Dong Muge once more. That Dong Muge was the one he had rescued from the ancient tomb.

It's not hard to see that these two Dong Muge are not the same person.

The former claims to be a messenger of the Mother of Life, but now he is up to some unknown conspiracy, so let's call him the pseudo-Dong Muge.

The latter claimed to be a messenger of a certain deity. After Ella's fall in Stormport, he not only delivered crucial information to Ye Xiao and his group for resurrecting Ella, but also obtained Ella's severed hand, which Lilia had hidden in the room. He then entrusted it to Greta to take into the Dead Sea prison. This can be called the true Dong Pastoral.

Ella was still puzzled at the time about the origin of the unknown deity that drove the True Dong Muge to help them. Now it seems that the ability to free the already dead Dong Muge from the ancient tomb and make him a messenger traveling around is very much in line with his "life" ability.

Then, the fact that he was able to secretly take Ella's severed hand from Lilia's room and deliver it from the capital to Stormport in such a short time clearly involved some kind of spacetime-related ability, which coincides with the miracle mage family responsible for serving the god of life.

Looking back now, it seems that ever since the time of Storm Harbor, his mythical adoptive father had been secretly helping him.

Unfortunately, the situation in Greygold Town is still unclear. That god-kingdom also exists in that god-kingdom, otherwise Ella would really like to visit this god of life.

It's not just about expressing gratitude; at least it helps me learn about many mysteries surrounding my origins.

However, on the other hand, there is also an evil god who can steal the power of life, and even the awakened God of Life has difficulty dealing with him.

This gave Ella a bad feeling.

The Mother of Arthritis and the Mother of Life—neither of them seems to be easy to deal with.

After informing them of this matter, Femishiel and the others left in a hurry. Because of the royal selection, as Aslans, it was not advisable for them to have too much involvement with important figures related to the royal selection during such a sensitive period.

After seeing the guests off, Ella examined the Sprout of Life in the box, but she wasn't sure how it differed from the Sprout of Life from the Mother of Life that she had previously taken from the Grizzly Bear Guild.

That cheap old man didn't tell Xiaolian how to use it, leaving Ella feeling conflicted, as if she knew something but also as if she knew nothing at all.

Even Lilia, who was well-read, said she couldn't help with this.

Helpless, Ella could only keep the item on her person for the time being, since it was an item personally entrusted to her by the God of Life.

……

Time quickly passed to the morning of the next day.

A bustling street in Xicheng District.

Following the agreement Ye Xiao had made with Cui Xiu the previous day, he arrived at a shop in this area and waited for Cui Xiu to arrive.

Not long after, Cui Xiu, wearing a coat and glasses and looking very refined, appeared at the street corner and waved to Ye Xiao. "Good morning, Mr. Ye. I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. Unfortunately, we just encountered some unexpected trouble here."

"It's alright," Ye Xiao shrugged. "Is it something urgent? I'm not in a rush."

“It’s not a big deal,” Cui Xiu frowned. “But… Mr. Ye, have you heard about the recent murder case targeting players? It’s been a hot topic on the forums lately, and a picture of a female player victim was even circulated for a while.”

Chapter 144 The Samuel Order

"Ok?"

Regarding this matter, putting aside the information from his previous life, Ye Xiao had previously heard Li Cheng mention it, and he had asked Li Cheng to investigate, but they hadn't gotten any information. "I might be a little offensive to say this, but I always thought it was done by a patient at Samuel's clinic..."

After all, the Samuel Clinic harvests organs from people, so it's understandable to be suspicious of them.

“Well, while some of the lower-ranking apostles in the cult do seem a bit crazy, they didn’t do this,” Cui Xiu shook his head.

"Judging from your worried face, you must be a member of your guild..."

“The victims aren’t from our guild…” Cui Xiu said, then suddenly seemed to remember something and changed the subject, “Hey, we’ve gone off on a tangent. Today we’re mainly here to introduce Mr. Ye to new members, so let’s not talk about those irrelevant things.”

Ye Xiao frowned slightly. This guy brought up this matter but didn't explain it clearly. What was he trying to do?

However, since the other party had already dropped the topic, Ye Xiao saw no need to bring it up again.

As Cui Xiu said, Ye Xiao's main purpose today is to join the Samuel Clinic.

Now that the other party has extended an olive branch to him, there is no reason for him not to take this opportunity to infiltrate their ranks.

During the conversation, Cui Xiu led Ye Xiao into an ordinary alley on the side of the street.

The buildings on both sides of the alley looked quite old, but there was no moss or mottled marks on the walls, suggesting that workers regularly maintained and repaired them.

The morning mist drifted through the alley, and as you strolled along it, you could feel a damp chill on your face.

Their steps finally stopped beside a double door without any sign or annotation. The door was slightly higher than the ground Ye Xiao was standing on, and a small stone step leading down from the brick wall led to it.

Cui Xiu, who was walking in front, pushed open the door. Unlike its ordinary exterior, the interior was unexpectedly luxurious and exquisite.

The place they entered appeared to be the side of the hall of an art gallery, with exquisite oil paintings on the four walls and a collection cabinet in the middle displaying various vases or brass artifacts.

"This is the private exhibition hall under the name of Marquis Bobor. The main entrance is quite far away, so I took you through a shortcut," Cui Xiu explained.

"Oh, I thought it would be one of those mixed-up taverns or something..." Because he had previously visited Dr. Bachcher's church outpost in the settlement outside the capital, Ye Xiao had a preconceived notion about the environment of Samuel's clinic outpost.

“Some of the strongholds may be as you imagine, Mr. Ye, but this one in the West District is for the nobles. If it's too cramped, wouldn't that be a disgrace to the Order?”

The two walked and talked, passing the guards stationed there, and arrived at a staircase leading to the underground at the back of the hall.

"Regarding the cult, although I had a brief chat with you yesterday, Mr. Ye, I don't think I've formally told you yet."

“We’re all from the same place, so we both know what we value, what doctrines or lofty goals we hold dear. These things don’t really matter,” Ye Xiao smiled.

“Mr. Ye is so open-minded, haha,” Cui Xiu replied with a smile. “But we’ll be participating in the assessment with the other new members later, so it would be more beneficial if Mr. Ye knew a little about it.”

"An investigation?" Ye Xiao frowned. "I've never heard of such a thing before. Wasn't it supposed to be direct membership?"

"Don't worry, it's just a formality," Cui Xiu adjusted his glasses. "After all, we're introducing you directly as a high-ranking believer, unlike those low-ranking believers who accept anyone. The leaders of the cult have to take a look first."

“Hey, this isn’t what we agreed on before.” Ye Xiao stopped in her tracks. “I don’t have time to participate in any election games.”