The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Ye Xiao was sitting on the edge of the bed in the bedroom, a towel draped around her neck, her bare upper body still emitting wisps of steam from her recent shower.

Now, as the Duchy's Eastern Expeditionary Army suffers repeated defeats in the vast desert of the Kingdom of Doum at the hands of the allied forces of Julius and Holman, the Knights Templar and the Empire, anti-war sentiments are growing louder within the Duchy.

Although Congressman Tyrone is still a proponent of war, he needs to carefully consider whether to increase investment in this battlefield where he has already lost a lot of money, taking into account the risks and benefits.

Of course, the war is far from over; there are only slight signs of improvement.

If there was one flaw in this rescue operation, it was that Wesker, the scarred leader of the rebels, was nowhere to be found.

Even with the border legion of over a dozen airships brought by Congressman Tyron, who searched every single rock in the mine, they still couldn't find this guy.

People don't just disappear into thin air. Ye Xiao had a premonition that this was most likely related to the mastermind behind the robbery.

Unfortunately, Ella couldn't pry anything out of the corrupted Vatrien. Now, thinking back on it, the strange, inexplicable contamination that happened to the man and the dragon seemed more like a way to silence them than to enhance their fighting power.

Therefore, Ye Xiao only has the name "Noah" at present. He even asked Tania and Alina about it, but neither of them knew the meaning of the name.

Regardless, after half a day of flying, night fell, and they finally arrived in Lionheart.

……

Compared to the barren mountains, the capital of the Principality of Tedeh is quite magnificent and imposing.

Looking out, it was a huge urban complex, with buildings of varying heights from the outer walls to the city center, forming a multi-layered structure resembling a mountain peak.

Outside the city, countless railways stretch like blood vessels into the towering mountains, with steam trains slowly traveling along them, casting smoke into the mountains.

The city is crisscrossed by waterways, with a dense network of brass pipes crisscrossing the streets and alleys. Chimneys and towering spires stand in a staggered pattern, spewing out white steam.

The flickering lights seem to be the life signal of this city; they are like the heart of the Principality of Tedeh, transmitting immense energy throughout the country.

It's hard to imagine that in a continent where everything else is medieval, there would be such a steampunk-style industrial city standing among the mountains of the North Central Plateau.

As the airship slowly descended, the towering buildings rising outside the portholes resembled a giant black hand, enveloping the inhabitants in this deep architectural complex.

Ye Xiao changed his clothes, got off the airship, and met up with Miss Mo Feng and the others outside the takeoff and landing area.

Although the greatest achievement in defeating Vatrian went to Tanya, the contributions of their spy team in the rescue operation were still considerable. Therefore, Councilor Tyron not only settled a rather generous payment for everyone on behalf of Miss Windsor, but also sent them letters inviting them to his residence to attend Miss Windsor's welcome banquet upon her return to Lionheart City in three days.

The banquet was originally scheduled for today, but it was postponed because Miss Windsor needed to rest after what happened earlier.

Miss Mo Feng and her companions were naturally delighted to have a banquet hosted by a noble family, but they still needed to get the two Dark Templars who needed to be escorted to the company headquarters first.

Once they arrived in Lionheart City, the players felt as familiar as if they were back home.

Captain Raymond used the World Tree system to contact company members and arranged for a dedicated steam locomotive, which carried the group from the landing field onto the main street.

On the way, Miss Mofeng saw Ye Xiao leaning against the car window, looking out at the street from time to time, so she patted him on the shoulder and said, "This must be your first time here, little brother. Isn't the scenery here quite novel?"

"good."

Ye Xiao smiled slightly.

Putting aside the reincarnations he had no memory of, this was indeed the first time he had ever seen the cityscape of Lionheart City in person.

When he first set foot on this land in his previous life, the country had been ravaged by the army of the world-destroying witch, and it was more like a wasteland than steampunk.

Later, he could only vaguely imagine what the city originally looked like through the parts of the steam factory that the rebels had repaired.

Now that he saw it with his own eyes, it was even more spectacular than he had imagined. However, the dense buildings and tall chimneys almost completely blocked out the sky, making him feel somewhat oppressed.

After all, most of the Principality of Tedeh is mountainous, and land in a place like the capital is extremely valuable, so the land utilization rate must be maximized.

On the road at night, steam locomotives and horse-drawn carriages were still running back and forth everywhere. The group followed the winding road and came to the city center. After passing through several checkpoints, they arrived at a magnificent mansion.

The mansion was towering and imposing, with its own spacious garden covered in silver frost. Outside the plaza in front of the gate was a bustling street, in the center of which a huge musical fountain was rising and falling rhythmically, and from time to time, ornate carriages or steam locomotives engraved with the family crest would drive in.

Welcome to Caesar's Mansion.

Miss Mofeng explained to Ye Xiao, "'Company' is actually an organizational concept that only exists in our world. It is not yet fully developed here, so our official name should be 'Caesar Chamber of Commerce'."

"Ouch."

Ye Xiao feigned surprise.

However, he really didn't expect that the company's headquarters would be such a magnificent mansion standing in the center of the city.

He thought it was one of those rat nests hidden in the sewers.

"As a chamber of commerce, it will naturally carry out corresponding business activities on the surface. In fact, the Caesar Chamber of Commerce is the number one chamber of commerce in the principality, and it also has many small and medium-sized vassal chambers under its umbrella."

"Most of the noble carriages at the entrance are for business purposes. Even in the duchy, only a small number of the upper echelons have had contact with the company's secret departments."

Chapter 117 Caesar's Mansion

On the first floor of the mansion, one is greeted by a spacious circular hall paved with marble tiles.

On both sides of the hall, there is a row of gilded red sandalwood counters, where most of the bustling customers come and go;

In the center is a huge, floating planetarium, with twelve brass arms projecting azure light trails that weave a glowing network of countless floating subtitles. According to Miss Mofeng, the information displayed on it is the auction information published by the merchant guilds of various city-states.

Behind it, three spiral staircases resembled the skeleton of a coiled serpent, below which was a row of suspended platforms, structured like elevators. Nobles, dressed in the finest attire and of even higher status, used these staircases to ascend the hall and reach the more advanced trading area.

The chamber of commerce attendants at the entrance were all beautiful young women dressed in emerald green velvet dresses. Upon seeing Ye Xiao and his group, they did not show any discrimination despite their simpler attire compared to other guests. Instead, they warmly approached them and asked if they needed any assistance.

Raymond took out an identity card from his pocket and handed it to the other party. After glancing at it, the other party understood and led the group to a counter on the side.

The clerk at the counter was also a pretty young woman. She placed the card Raymond had given her on the horizontal tray of a brass instrument next to her. Several points of silvery-white magical light swirled and converged, as if she were reading the contents of the parchment scroll.

Ye Xiao took the opportunity to glance at the card, but the characters on it were not conventional language or writing, but rather obscure and difficult-to-understand encrypted codes composed of crisscrossing stripes.

The clerk then handed Raymond a piece of parchment with a form on it. The text on the parchment was in plain language, roughly meaning something like a mission report.

Raymond sat down in the chair at the table and picked up a quill pen to fill in the information. In the meantime, Miss Mofeng leaned her arm against the counter and winked at Ye Xiao in a dashing manner.

"How about it, little brother? Got the mission done? Shall we grab a drink together?"

Is that all?

Ye Xiao glanced at the counter and scratched his head. "I thought it would be a roundabout way to get behind the scenes and meet some mysterious contact or something."

"For us field operatives, it's just a simple handover of tasks, there's no need for all that trouble,"

Miss Mo Feng waved her hand, "Apart from internal staff, I don't usually hang around headquarters."

"Can I apply to switch to an internal job?"

Ye Xiao rubbed her chin, "I feel like the job of a field agent is both demanding and exhausting."

"No, that's not possible."

Miss Mo Feng covered her mouth and chuckled, "The setup of internal and external positions was arranged by higher-ups."

Ye Xiao could only purse her lips.

He went to so much trouble to sneak in, and all he did was wander around the company entrance – that's such a waste.

He's not really here to work; he won't be satisfied unless he finds a way to sneak in.

As he was pondering this, a pipe above the brass instrument inside the counter suddenly made a sound of airflow passing through it. A moment later, two rolls of parchment fell from it, and the clerk unfolded one of them and glanced at it.

"Does your team have a new member? May I ask who it is?"

"I."

Ye Xiao raised his hand slightly.

The clerk looked at Ye Xiao, smiled and nodded, and handed him another parchment scroll.

"According to company requirements, newly recruited field members at the outpost need to participate in the rank assessment along with other newly recruited members to establish their identity files. Therefore, we would like to trouble this gentleman to come again tomorrow."

"Oh, I almost forgot about that."

Miss Mofeng tapped her head.

"What's this for?"

Ye Xiao asked.

"It's just a comprehensive ability test and registration of your identity information."

Raymond seemed to have finished writing the mission report and picked up the thread, "Issuing an identity card like ours, we'll use that to claim rewards and hand over missions from now on."

"Originally, there should have been a senior leader introducing you to the company departments or something, but as you know, our Supervisor Zhou is still fighting in the western frontier, so he probably won't have time to come back. But it doesn't matter, it's not important."

No, this is the most important thing.

Ye Xiao was speechless. The thing he cared about most was being ignored. Even the company departments couldn't see him, yet he was still causing trouble.

Could it be that the Dream God calculated this and deliberately tricked him into working for free?

However, he couldn't appear too purposeful. Generally speaking, most people should care more about the reward than the formalities, so Ye Xiao didn't say anything more.

Anyway, I can come over tomorrow, we'll see how things go then.

"We have received your team's mission details, and the rewards will be sent to your personal accounts one day from now."

The clerk continued, "The details of the mission will be sent to the team leader via system message in three days. Please continue to protect our two partners."

"what?"

Raymond paused for a moment, then turned to look at Deborah and Doma, the two Dark Shepherd followers who were waiting silently to the side. "Wait, we've brought them all here, isn't our mission over yet?"

"I'm sorry, I'm not authorized to inform your team of the mission details. Please contact us via private message for more information, Captain."

The clerk shook her head.

Raymond scratched his head in surprise, while Miss Maple remained as optimistic as ever, "Yay, Deborah, then we can have a drink together!"

“I’m sorry, but according to the Lord’s will, I must not indulge in vain pleasures.”

Deborah, still with that cryptic air, spoke softly.

So, the mansion that the group of six came to ... leave in the end.

The group then checked into a hotel in the city center. Miss Mo Feng had been clamoring to take Ye Xiao out for a stroll around the metropolis at night, but Captain Raymond rejected the idea, saying it was too late.

"Although this is a break in the middle, our mission is not completely over yet."

Raymond's red hair gives him a carefree and unruly appearance, but he is surprisingly quite composed as the captain.

So everyone rested at the hotel early and nothing was said that night.

……

The next day, the sun was shining brightly.

Miss Mofeng accompanied Ye Xiao to Caesar's Mansion again, while Raymond and Dashan stayed at the hotel to guard Deborah and Doma.

"Actually, I can come by myself."

As Ye Xiao stepped through the gate, he said to Miss Mo Feng, "Didn't you want to go shopping? Why don't you relax a bit while you're at it?"

"No...no, the boss has a responsibility to protect his underlings."

Miss Mofeng's shifty eyes clearly showed some attraction, but she ultimately held back, her heart not matching her words.

Ye Xiao shrugged and handed the parchment scroll that the clerk had given him yesterday to the maidservant beside him. The maidservant took the scroll, bowed respectfully, and led the two of them to the back of the hall.

Chapter 118 Another Encounter with the Dream God

Behind the hall are the entrances to two spiral staircases on the left and right, and a row of elevator platforms standing between them. These elevator platforms have transparent glass pipes, making them look like a giant pipe organ from a distance.

The attendant led Ye Xiao and Miss Mo Feng into one of the elevator platforms. After the cylindrical pillar protruding from the ground was manipulated a couple of times, the platform roared and lifted everyone upwards.

The main building of the mansion is also a towering spire that reaches into the clouds from the outside. Since they can build war airships and steam tanks, this kind of floating elevator is naturally not a particularly rare technology for the company.

As his view gradually rose, above the dome of the rotunda, the appearance of the upper part of the spire came into view before Ye Xiao's eyes.

The fourth and fifth floors appear to be the office halls of some department, with many strangely dressed members of the players moving around inside. The sixth and seventh floors are large, arched libraries, while the eighth floor resembles a beautiful indoor garden...

On the ninth floor, the elevator slowly came to a stop, revealing an ancient hall with a magic crystal chandelier hanging from it.

Behind the elevator platform, the bright lattice windows offer a panoramic view of the beautiful streetscape in the northern part of the city. This is already considered a relatively high location in the city, but according to Ye Xiao's senses, it is still less than one-third the height of the entire mansion.

Players also come and go inside this hall, but unlike the diverse outfits downstairs, most of the people here wear dark cloaks with bottles of alchemical potions, magic crystals, or brass clockwork tools hanging from their leather belts.

"This is considered 'research institute' territory,"

Miss Mofeng explained from the side, "If needed, some special equipment or props for senior members can be applied for here to be manufactured."

Are we considered senior members?

Ye Xiao asked curiously.