The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Chapter 1: Rest in Gray Gold Town

"Are you awake?"

Ye Xiao opened his eyes and suddenly saw Gretia's baby face pressed against his forehead.

"Fuck!"

"Wow! Why are you screaming? You're so scary!" The frightened little maid bit Ye Xiao's arm.

"Open your eyes and show off your big face, anyone would cheer!" Ye Xiao pushed the pink-haired head away, and what he saw was a forest path that was constantly moving backwards and several freight carriages covered with dark green canvas.

He felt the wheels beneath his body rolling and bouncing on the uneven road surface.

"Where have you been?"

"We're almost at Gray Gold Town." Gratia crossed her arms, "What's going on? You've been sleeping since we left the Imperial City this afternoon, and it's still broad daylight."

"Maybe I ate too much at lunch. Carbohydrates can make people sleepy."

"What flowers and fog?" Gratia looked confused.

Ye Xiao shrugged. Of course, he couldn't tell the maid that he was actually having a meeting in his dream.

Today is the departure day for Storm Harbor with the guild and the Templar Envoys. It has been exactly one week since the last meeting with Lilia and others at Liangqiu Ridge through the faith link.

Although he was on the road, it happened to be a rare free time, so he organized a meeting anyway.

There wasn't that much to talk about this time. I mainly discussed the Full Moon Cult with Lilia.

This is a secret cult whose headquarters is said to be located in the Kingdom of Valen. The plague hunters affiliated with it seem to be searching for and hunting unknown gods everywhere.

What was different from previous meetings was that this one also brought in Marilyn and Weingerman.

Mainly because Ye Xiao mentioned this to Marilyn when he was escorting the little girl who was being chased by a man with severed fingers and his feet were stuck upside down in the roof of the carriage.

As a result, the hunter girl's eyes were full of resentment, as if saying "You actually held a party secretly without me".

As a last resort, Ye Xiao could only pull her into the meeting.

After she went in, Wengerman followed her in, saying that he wanted to protect her from the influence of the gods. But after entering, he just kept staring at Ella and couldn't take his eyes off her.

"Brother Ye, I'm just on guard." Ye Xiao still remembered that when the other party said this to him, his eyes were still fixed on Ella, and he didn't even want to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth. "But to be honest, it was a little dark at that time, otherwise I would have surrendered long ago."

However, with these two people around, many questions about the Plague Hunters were answered, but the content is complicated, so I will not go into details for now.

"Hmph, you sleep for most of the day, aren't you bored?" Gretia pouted.

"Why don't you go to the carriage in front and play cards with Li Cheng and the others." Ye Xiao was helpless.

Originally, he deliberately chose the back seat of this carriage with a lot of cargo, thinking that he could sleep away from the others so that he could have a good sleep without being disturbed.

As a result, the little maid insisted on following along, like a dog-skin plaster.

"That won't work. What if you suddenly die while I'm not paying attention?" Gratia shook her head. "Then your soul might slip away."

"Then I really appreciate your concern."

……

Soon, the convoy arrived at Gray Gold Town.

This is also the pass of the Howling Mountains. From here, you can cross the mountains blocking the south of Valond and walk for about two days to reach Storm Harbor.

During such long journeys, various brigades travelling the same route would usually form a large convoy together, which made it easier to resist attacks from monsters or bandits than traveling separately.

Therefore, this rather large convoy was actually composed of Ye Xiao and Li Cheng's player guild "Qi Yao Hui", the Templar Envoys escorting Ella, and a caravan heading to Storm Harbor and its escort team.

In terms of the number of people and carriages, the caravan transporting goods naturally had the largest number. In order to save money, Ye Xiao and his group of guild players even directly rented the empty seats on other people's freight carriages.

As soon as they entered the town and the carriage stopped, the little maid jumped out of the carriage, grabbed Ye Xiao's clothes and clamored to go for a walk in the town.

Freya, who was learning to play cards with Li Cheng and others in the front carriage, saw this and hurried to follow.

"Brother, why didn't I realize that you are so good before?" Li Cheng put down the cards and looked at Ye Xiao with a sour face, "For the sake of our friendship for so many years, please teach me a few tricks."

"What nonsense are you talking about? I just want to buy some ore. This town has a lot of minerals, and most importantly, they are cheaper than the Imperial City."

"Buy more clothes! Buy me clothes!" Gratia shouted.

"...Okay, let's buy some clothes while we're at it." Ye Xiao touched the space ring on his hand, feeling a little sorry for the few gold coins inside, "Want to join us?"

"I'm not a light bulb." Li Cheng threw the cards into the car, "Wait, I'm going to go to the tavern to find a few too. I can't compare to you in quality, but I'm confident in quantity."

"Then take care of yourself." Ye Xiao waved his hand and turned away with Grettia and Freya.

The market area in Gray Gold Town was not particularly large, and most of the stalls sold minerals.

Gratia only took a few steps inside and yawned continuously, looking like she had no interest.

Instead, Freya looked around with great interest. Having always been at a high level in the temple, she seldom saw these unique folk customs.

Those big, blinking blue eyes made it difficult for Ye Xiao to match this candidate saint with the high-level priest with a cold face.

Sometimes when she sees some strange-shaped minerals, she will stop and look at them for a while.

"This is a relatively pure black steel rock. There aren't that many shiny impurities on the surface, so it looks particularly black." Seeing Freya take a liking to another piece of black ore, Ye Xiao explained, "A shield made of this will be particularly hard, but such a high-purity one is quite rare."

"Oh..." Freya nodded and pointed to a small stone that was completely black but had golden reflections. "What about this one? Why is it golden?"

"This is gray gold rock." Ye Xiao picked up the palm-sized stone and examined it carefully. "It should be one of the top three minerals in terms of magic efficiency on this continent. Unfortunately, there are too many impurities in this rock, and I'm afraid that not much real gray gold can be extracted after purification. However, this thing is a strategic material. The high-purity ones are probably collected directly by the Loren government after being mined. The ones sold here are usually scraps."

"Wow, Mr. Ye is so knowledgeable about these things." Freya took the gray gold nugget handed over by Ye Xiao and felt it was a bit heavy.

"Tsk, this mediocre material! The stones under the Styx are more efficient in conducting magic than this." Gratia yawned repeatedly.

"Can normal people mine Styx rock?" Ye Xiao curled his lips, "If you can get me one, I will transform into a necromancer."

"Yes." Gratia flipped her hand, and a black stone appeared in her palm. Faintly, one could even hear the stone making some faint cries.

"Fuck, you'd better put it away." Ye Xiao quickly held the little maid's fingers and wrapped the strange stone.

In the previous life, this thing appeared in the real world because the blasphemous Holy Maiden caused a natural disaster that blurred the boundary between hell and the human world, causing part of hell to merge with certain places in the real world.

Therefore, the areas where this thing appears are basically full of dead bodies. It is somewhat unlucky to suddenly see it.

"Do you want it or not?" the little maid muttered.

"After thinking about it, I feel that my handsome Necromancer skills are not suitable for me... Can I change it to the Soul-Shining Orb? I want to make a Yama Emperor Sword." It was rare for the little guy to be generous, so Ye Xiao decided to have a bigger dream.

"You wish." Gretia ruthlessly refused and took the stone back to an unknown place. "But if you go to hell with me, I can consider taking you to mine."

Ye Xiao was not willing to risk his life for a handsome knife, so he decisively and politely refused: "That's not necessary."

Freya looked at the two of them, wondering in surprise, is this Gratia so familiar with Ye Xiao?

The three of them were chatting in a small corner next to the stall, but they didn't notice that just after the little maid took out the Styx Rock, a crow quietly landed on the roof not far away.

Its pitch-black eyes stared at the three people in the market, as if it was thinking about something.

Chapter 2: Gravedigger

In a suburb far away from the town, a hunched-over sturdy figure was digging up the loess on the ground with a rusty shovel.

There were raised mounds of earth all around him, which looked a bit desolate on this barren slope without any lawn.

These are the miners' graves.

In the mines of Huijin Town, there are often migrant workers who die accidentally in accidents all year round.

The big man who is digging the soil is the gravedigger who collects the remains of these homeless souls.

A black crow flapped its wings and landed on the mound beside him, opening its black beak and making a strange, harsh sound.

Listening to the bird's cry, the burly gravedigger paused, then shook his head slightly, "Impossible."

After saying this, he continued with the work at hand.

The crow suddenly leaped up and landed on the man's shoulder, opening and closing its beak as if it was eager to tell something, sounding particularly noisy in the silent wilderness.

"Alas..." The man sighed, picked up a cloth bag beside the pit and threw it into the dug pit, "That's not my dream... I just want..."

"...Forget it." Halfway through his words, the man who was talking to himself amid the crows suddenly changed his words, "Give it a try, but don't hold your hopes too high."

After saying that, he shoveled up the yellow soil that was piled up into a small hill next to him and poured it on the tattered cloth bag.

……

The sun soon set behind the hills.

As the air gets chillier, night falls earlier and earlier.

This small town built on rolling hills also lit up its lights early in the morning.

The only tavern in the town became even more lively - as the only place to rest on the main road connecting Storm Harbor and the Imperial City, although it is not large in area, there are many travelers coming and going.

Ye Xiao, Li Cheng and other players were drinking at a long table by the window. The wine here had a unique smell of earth and dust. Li Cheng said that this was a special feature, but Ye Xiao felt that the cups were just not washed clean.

Ella, wearing a grey cloak, was also sitting nearby, chatting quietly with Freya, who had just joined the guild.

Perhaps because they have experienced this several times, the players of the Seven Stars Club have gradually become accustomed to the Holy Lady who often attends these gatherings. Although they still have to be polite in their words and deeds when facing each other, they no longer feel so restrained.

After all, they are players from Blue Star. They are not bound by status constraints like in feudal society.

Freya's face was slightly flushed as she drank for the first time. The shadow cast by Evans' incident had not yet completely dissipated.

But her stubborn nature prevented her from mentioning these things to Ye Xiao. Only when she met Ella, who knew the truth, did she unconsciously stammer and tell him something.

Everyone was chatting or drinking, but Gretia was the only one who sat next to Ye Xiao with a glass of orange juice and a gloomy face, silently.

The tip of the petite girl's pink nose trembled in the smell of alcohol on the table. Her pair of twinkling golden eyes noticed that Ye Xiao seemed to be quite engrossed in the conversation with Li Cheng, so she wanted to stretch out her little hand to reach for the wine jug not far away.

As a result, Ye Xiao seemed to have eyes on his shoulders. He immediately turned around and grabbed Gretia's restless little hand: "Hey, stop it. Just drink your orange juice honestly."

"I don't want to drink juice." The little maid was dissatisfied, "Why are you the only ones allowed to drink?"

"This is absolutely not acceptable. If you want to drink, just go somewhere else and drink secretly. Don't come and torture us." Ye Xiao's mouth twitched. He had a deep impression of the miserable state this guy caused last time when he drank.

"Hmph." Hearing that Ye Xiao was going to drive her away, the little maid immediately fell silent.

This guy doesn't drink much but loves to drink. Ye Xiao was a little speechless.

"It feels like a lot of big things have happened recently." Li Cheng picked up the wine jug that Gratia wanted to steal and filled Ye Xiao's glass, then changed the subject, "It always makes me feel a little powerless."

"What's going on? Why are you suddenly so sad?" Ye Xiao asked curiously.

"It's just... I feel like we can only take small missions like fighting goblins." Li Cheng scratched his head. "Like before in the square, to be honest, if it weren't for the Saint Lady's intervention, I feel like I might have been killed for no reason. Until now, I always feel a sense of inexplicable..."

"A sense of insignificance?" Ye Xiao asked.

"Indeed." Li Cheng nodded. "When I first came here, I was a little scared but to be honest, I was also a little excited... This system is like a game, fighting monsters in the wild. I thought that what followed would be an eventful life."

"Later, when I arrived at the Imperial City, I found that Lao Jiu could only take on quests with meager rewards, and there was no way to improve his skill attributes. And when I encountered a truly powerful enemy, I had no ability to resist at all. I was crushed to death like an ant."

"Relax, it's only been two weeks since we traveled through time. Believe me, compared to the natives, our players' improvement speed is terrifying with the help of the system." Ye Xiao patted Li Cheng on the shoulder.

He roughly understood how his good brother felt. Indeed, as an ordinary player, after seeing such an exaggerated battle between High Priest Evans and Ella, it is inevitable that he would feel a sense of disappointment.

Faced with such a powerful and irresistible force, they will feel that their meaning in this world is just to struggle to survive under the hands of these "big guys", and thus, they will gradually begin to miss their distant hometown.

However, Ye Xiao was a little surprised that Li Cheng had such delicate thinking.

I don't know what made this optimistic guy suddenly have this kind of jade mentality... Thinking of this, Ye Xiao touched a dark brown long hair from Li Cheng's shoulder. "

"...Fuck, what's wrong with you? It seems like this is Sage Time now, right?"

"Ahem, it's human nature." Li Cheng saw the hair in Ye Xiao's hand, and he clenched his fist to cover his mouth with a little embarrassment, and whispered, "...Hey, don't expose this kind of thing in front of the Saint Lady."

"You still know this." Ye Xiao was inexplicably amused. "Why don't you continue to chase after the Saint Lady? Have you finally figured it out?"

"What are you talking about, Saint Lady, that is faith, but you can't abandon your life just because of faith." Li Cheng said seriously, "Besides, Saint Lady, don't you have me? I am just a devout believer, but I can't do anything to compete with my brothers."

"To be honest, your train of thought has certain scientific research value." Ye Xiao frowned.

"Stop scolding me, stop scolding me. For the sake of the Saint Lady, please give me some face." Li Cheng waved his hand.

While they were chatting and laughing, Ye Xiao suddenly caught a glimpse of a sturdy figure appearing at the door of the tavern.

There was a crow standing on the figure's shoulder, looking around.

At the same time, some discordant noises were heard.

"Why is this guy here?"

"unlucky!"

"What are you doing? Get out of here!"