The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Chapter 46: Tower of Babel

【8: 52】

Ye Xiao floundered on the ground for a few times before getting up in a panic. He saw that the group of people who had been crawling on the square at the main entrance began to become restless.

"My people..."

"Someone is trying to desecrate this great ceremony."

Freya's cold voice began to become somewhat mature, no longer as childish as her original girlish voice.

"find him……"

"kill him!"

After hearing Freya's words, the believers of Hope Town who were originally crawling on the ground at the other side of the main gate climbed up one after another and immediately rushed over on all fours like mad dogs. They were so powerful that it looked like a dark mass like a sweeping wave.

As for the scorpion-tailed lion at the side door, the brass mechanical parts in its eye sockets pierced through the skin to form two metal pupils that could expand and contract. The flesh all over its body was stretched to cracks, and pieces of bloody metal scales began to grow.

What the hell is this! Ye Xiao couldn't help but curse inwardly.

The sound of thousands of people marching together was like a landslide or tsunami. The tight time did not allow Ye Xiao to hesitate. He bent down and sheathed his sword.

He stared at the scorpion-tailed lion that had lifted off the ground and was charging towards him, holding his breath.

The next moment, the unstoppable edge pierced through the huge body of the lion-tailed scorpion, splitting the thick side door of the tower in half along with a burst of blood.

"what……"

Ye Xiao staggered a few steps and opened his mouth to exhale a turbid white air. He sheathed the sword with his right hand and then took the staff behind him. With his left hand, he took out the stamina potion from the ring and took a sip. He walked forward while regulating his breathing, trying to recover from the instant exhaustion as soon as possible.

The monster's blood sprayed on the tower wall bounced back and poured onto the ground like heavy rain.

The terrifying power of this sword even stunned the alchemist guards at the gate who were not hit. They looked at Ye Xiao who was running slowly and hesitated for a while before reacting, then stepped forward with their halberd in hand to stop him.

"Frost Cloud." Ye Xiao whispered two words.

The hurried alchemy guards didn't notice that the pool of blood beneath them suddenly turned into ice. They slipped and stumbled to the ground, sliding in all directions like an out-of-control curling stone.

Ye Xiao spat out the empty bottle of medicine and took the opportunity to slide into the open door.

【8: 41】

The decoration inside the tower is unexpectedly simple, with a column in the center made up of countless running mechanical parts.

On the outside is a simple staircase that spirals upward along the curved wall. There are no railings and it leads straight to the top of the towering tower.

"It's ridiculous that such a tall tower doesn't even have an elevator." Ye Xiao was panting as he looked at the tower top that seemed to have no end in sight. He felt like he had finally finished a marathon only to find that the organizer had moved the finish line back a thousand meters.

But even though he complained, he just took a few breaths and ran towards the stairs.

The huge army outside the gate arrived immediately and swarmed in, almost breaking the gate apart.

These residents, who seemed to have come out of a fairy tale, were dressed neatly and simply, with smiling faces, twisting their bodies in strange and flexible postures, and climbing up the brick cracks with their metal nails like monkeys.

It can be said that it is worthy of being an evolved life form. Ye Xiao ran half a circle to the height where an old man came up in a few jumps.

"Ah!" The moment the old man saw Ye Xiao, the smile on his face immediately turned into a ferocious one. He opened his big mouth that almost took up half of his face and pounced towards Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao kicked him without any respect, ignoring the other person's tattered body falling into the crowd below, and ran to the top of the tower.

But the speed at which a normal person could run in circles was too slow. Before long, the steps in front of him were blocked by crazy residents of Hope Town. Residents also kept jumping over from the sky like dumplings falling from the sky, trying to catch Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao held the staff and hammered the residents who rushed towards him as if he was playing baseball, but his steps were inevitably hindered.

"Wind Calling Technique!"

As a last resort, Ye Xiao could only release a spell to make his body fly. He originally wanted to save his mental power for the top of the tower to destroy the magic circle there.

After all, there is no guarantee that the magic circle above will not have some protective measures set up. If there are, he can no longer use his master sword skills and can only rely on sufficient mental strength to cast the evil god spell of the contracted Ella to break the defense.

But if we keep going like this we won’t even be able to reach the top of the tower, so we still have to use our skills.

Ye Xiao relied on the wind element to fly from the steps, and the surrounding residents and alchemy guards immediately jumped up and pounced on him in mid-air.

Facing attacks from all directions, Ye Xiao suddenly swung his staff and hit the head of the nearest resident in front of him, bending the opponent's upper body while kicking him hard on the shoulder.

With the help of a sudden change of angle and an upward sprint, Ye Xiao managed to jump out of the encirclement in the air.

The townspeople below him and the metal guards collided with each other, making a "clang" sound. Ye Xiao kept chanting spells and as soon as he stepped onto the steps, he immediately cast a wind-summoning spell. He cast several wind-summoning spells in succession until he had distanced the soaring figure from the crowd that was constantly surging up from the bottom of the tower.

【7: 23】

Ye Xiao finally saw the large round clock on the top of the tower. Through the hole in the white dial, he could see the second hand outside slowly passing by.

I have to say, this clock is quite accurate. The movement of the second hand is almost perfectly synchronized with the system's countdown.

Ye Xiao bent his waist and breathed slightly. He only needed to climb a few more steps to reach the top.

Seven minutes should be enough to stop the magic circle...

Just as I set the flag in my heart, a figure in a tuxedo walked out from the shadow under the dial.

Under the top hat he wore was a face made of brass parts.

"Mr. Luo Er, nice to meet you." Ye Xiao said with a wry smile.

"In my heart, I want to stop this divine descent." The mechanical face could not make complex expressions, but his tone seemed full of helplessness, "But I can't control my behavior."

As he finished speaking, Rawl shook his cane lightly, and the delicate parts on the cane turned and changed, turning it into a sharp dagger.

A man and a machine were facing each other, and the two figures looked so small under the huge dial.

"Mr. Ye, this is not the future that the Institute of Industrial Design hopes for." Luo Er's voice continued, but his hand had already raised the rapier. "I believe you can defeat me, and I also hope to take this opportunity to tell you what I know."

"It's a bit difficult to listen to the plot while fighting." Ye Xiao also drew the sword from his waist. With the help of potions, he recovered some of his physical strength. Of course, some of it was wasted on climbing the tower.

"There is no way. The moment I became a resident of Hope Town, my body no longer belonged to me."

Unlike other residents of Hope Town who had gone crazy, Luo Er remained so polite and gentle in his manners. He even took off his hat and bowed slightly to Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao glanced at the countdown. Time was not too tight, and this guy's words might contain crucial information.

Okay...just give him two minutes.

Luo Er straightened up, and the thin lenses of his eyes reflected Ye Xiao's slightly crouching figure.

The next moment, as the second hand of the precision mechanical clock made a slight sound, the two men raised their feet at the same time and rushed towards each other.

Chapter 47: Paradise in Hell

In the cathedral square blocked by the barrier, the gray-haired High Priest Evans saw Ella kneeling on the ground and remained silent, so he turned around and cast his gaze to the steps below the hall.

The Templar Knights and elders who were worshipping in a circle outside the steps were also restrained by the magic circle. Even their pious expressions and kneeling postures were fixed, as if the time they were in was frozen.

The trap prepared by the highest-ranking clergyman of the Loren Cathedral for sixteen years was far beyond the capability of ordinary people to resist.

Even some of the nobles of the Loren Palace who came to pay homage were far from meeting the requirements to break free from the restrictions.

Except for one person.

A man in a red robe and a short golden ponytail slowly walked up the seventy-seven wide steps, staring at Evans with a cold gaze through the monocle.

The look in his eyes was not like that of a kindly preaching priest, but more like that of a hunter who had set his sights on a target.

"Bishop William." High Priest Evans read out the name of the man who came. "These magic arrays are too weak to deal with you."

This was none other than the cardinal who had come all the way from Morning Star Ridge. As an envoy sent by the Holy City himself, he seemed to have a mission other than pilgrimage.

"Evans, you have betrayed my Lord and endangered millions of lives."

“Alas…” Evans sighed, and there seemed to be a golden glow flowing in his dark brown pupils. “You don’t understand. Tobias… is a god who abandoned us.”

Ella seemed to have heard Evans say this several times.

What does this mean? The silver-haired girl kneeling on the ground was puzzled.

"According to the code, the church will judge your sins." Bishop William did not respond to Evans' words. His only purpose seemed to be to punish the apostates.

"You are very young, just like I was back then." Evans looked at the murderous cardinal with a kind and inexplicable sympathy in his eyes. "But your talent is higher than mine, which is a pity."

Bishop William pulled out a silver sword from under his robe. The hilt was exquisitely cast, and the slender blade was engraved with enchantment circuits that flowed like water.

The next second, the crimson figure disappeared from the spot, and the unstoppable sword pointed directly at Evans' face.

Several blue magic circles vertically above the ground appeared out of thin air, and the sharp sword tip stopped just in front of Evans.

"Unfortunately... I can only save one person." Evans, leaning on his cane, did not move, and his weathered voice continued, "I can only..."

Before he finished speaking, the enchanted patterns on the silver sword in Bishop William's hand suddenly lit up with dazzling golden light, and the light split and transformed into a circle of golden sword floating around the sword.

At the same time, he suddenly drew out his sword and stabbed it again. A circle of sword light transformed by holy light also pierced the magic circle protecting Evans.

The unrivaled might instantly shattered the weak magic circle, and the sword light, trailing a golden glow, instantly pierced through Evans' chest. The mighty aftermath even broke through the cathedral wall behind him, which was a hundred meters away, and finally dissipated into the huge barrier at the edge of the square.

Ella, who was watching the battle silently, saw that the power of this sword was far greater than Ye Xiao's grandmaster-level sword-drawing skill, but it had not yet reached the extraordinary realm.

【7: 02】

"Traitor who betrayed God, accept the punishment of Holy Light." Bishop William looked at Evans' pierced chest with an indifferent expression.

"Tobias, the closer you get to the Holy Light, the closer you get to madness." But then, Evans, whose heart was pierced by the Holy Light Sword, opened his mouth and continued speaking.

There was a huge hole on his body that allowed one to see through to the cathedral behind him, but to him it seemed as if nothing had happened.

"You are the madman, you monster." Bishop William frowned as he watched this strange scene.

"You're right, I'm crazy." The flesh on Evans' chest began to slowly wriggle, and objects like metal gears grew out of the flesh, gradually filling the bloody hole to form a brass-colored shell. "Your soul can no longer reach Hope Town after leaving the magic circle. So, I can only kill you before you are also devoured by madness."

……

【6: 53】

At the same time, on top of the high tower in Hope Town.

Sparks from the collision of metal and iron flickered beneath the huge clock.

Amid the flashing of swords and sabers, Luo Er's gentle voice slowly rang out:

"The earliest scholar of the academy, who also created me, broke a taboo in order to save a child who died of disease."

"He wants to use the alchemical body as a vehicle to attract the souls of the dead."

"This is undoubtedly a failure. A mortal who crosses the boundary between life and death is doomed to fail."

This mechanical gentleman's swordsmanship is as gentle as his words, and his movements are measured as if he is dancing a sword tango.

"But his actions violated the laws set by the gods, so he was cast into hell by Morse, the god of death."

"Yet in hell, the mourning scholar still did not give up."

"He used his soul to make a deal with the demon god named Mammon, asking Mammon to lend him part of his territory as the basis for alchemical experiments."

Ye Xiao dodged and swung his sword to block the intensive stabs. He listened to the other party's words while looking for flaws in his swordsmanship.

There was no pattern to his movements, they were simply the result of a seasoned player's own hard-earned skills.

"But even alchemy, which uses divine power to reverse the laws, still cannot bring back his child's soul."

"So the scholar thought, there is no hope for his children, but maybe he can use the technology he has discovered to bring hope to others."

"This is the prototype of the Institute of Craftsmanship. This scholar hopes to use the alchemy of reversing the laws to transform the lives of those in the world who are trapped in pain."

"Let their souls escape from the control of the gods and return to the paradise created in hell, which is now Hope Town."

"The soul returns to paradise and is free from the laws of life and death. The body is transformed by alchemy and no longer ages or gets sick. In this way, he achieves immortality, which is the most perfect evolution he pursues."

At this point, Luo's swordsmanship began to become sluggish, and his body movements seemed to slow down as well.

"This philosophy has also attracted more and more people to join and become scholars of the society."

“But it can’t be that easy.”

"The souls in Paradise will mutate as they are separated from the body for a long time. At first, the scholars who learned about it thought it was a conspiracy of the devil, but later research found that it was a defect of ordinary life itself."

"Unless you are a god who is above all things, or an immortal species blessed by the laws, the souls of ordinary creatures will be damaged and age."

"So they studied and found that if the soul of Hope Town wanted to have a truly long life like the Immortals, it must be protected by the law."

"And this is something that only gods can do."

"The scholars once chose to give up. Goals beyond the reach of mortals only brought despair."

"Until a man named Evans found us."