The Villain Saint is my secondary account

However, when the red-haired woman saw the short-headed maid, she showed disdain at the corner of her mouth, "Heh, where did this shorty come from..."

Almost instantly, an instinctive fear rose in the heart of the lazy red-haired woman.

There was no reason, but she could clearly feel that if she said even one more word, the consequences would be terrible.

"Ten rooms." Gratia held the copper coin in her small hand and placed it on the table.

"I...I..." The red-haired woman couldn't control her trembling tongue. After a long while, she finally managed to utter a complete sentence, "We...don't have so many rooms..."

"Do you want me to find a solution for you?" The little maid raised her eyebrows slightly.

"Oh... I'll do it right away... I'll do it right away!" The red-haired woman turned over from the chair and ran away from the front desk in two steps.

"...If you had just said that, they wouldn't have had to fight." Freya came close to the little maid. As someone who had experienced the opponent's terror in the underground arena, Freya knew too well the strength of Gratia.

At this time, a group of people were still huddled together on the other side of the hall, fighting with their noses bleeding. Cups, chairs, spoons and plates were flying everywhere, and the scene was too tragic.

"Then you don't understand." The little maid crossed her arms, "That's their hobby."

"Ah?" Freya tilted her head slightly, looking puzzled.

Unlike the Imperial City, once a major disturbance occurs, the Imperial City guards who are responsible for maintaining order will rush in to suppress it soon. In Storm Harbor, where the people are tough, fights between guilds are as common as eating and drinking.

Even though a group of people were fighting in the entire hall, from inside the door to outside, there were only a group of passers-by on the street who were curious about the fun. As for the guards, there was not even a hair to be seen.

However, there is an unspoken rule among adventurers not to use weapons unless it is a life-and-death fight.

Therefore, no matter how fierce the fight is, there are relatively few cases of loss of life.

But it was inevitable to get injured. Even though Ye Xiao didn't use any sword skills or magic, his forehead was still covered in blood when he was surrounded and beaten by a group of tough adventurers.

But he still grabbed the soup spoon that he had brought from somewhere and chased three or four people in the hall, swinging it non-stop.

Li Cheng held an iron pot to protect Ye Xiao. If anyone came over to attack him, he would use the iron pot to block them and hit them back twice. The two kitchen utensils combination shuttled through the chaotic crowd and managed to perform some subtle cooperation.

After the farce, the hall was filled with adventurers with bloody heads and bodies lying all over the place. Ye Xiao, who also had a bruised face, threw away the bent spoon in his hand, clapped his hands, and spat at several dark-skinned men who fell to the ground.

"The local guild is so rude."

Li Cheng also limped to the front desk and slammed the guild certificate on the table. "The guilds that can do the quests have been dealt with. Now we can register... Hey, where are the people?"

"She went to help us get a room for accommodation." Freya at the side responded helpfully.

"Ah? You're so diligent suddenly?" Li Cheng scratched his head, looked at the dignified Freya, and then looked at the little maid standing aside and yawning.

……

Putting aside the chaos at the Adventurer's Guild, Ella, who was sitting in the temple carriage, was about to arrive at the entrance of Liancheng Bridge leading to the southern city area.

There are guard posts on both sides of the entrance to the bridge. There is an endless stream of cars and horses on the spacious gray-white bridge deck, and in the distance, a group of tall and low buildings clustered on a mountain peak is obviously the more prosperous South City.

The host of the Ocean Temple was also waiting for the group from the Loren Temple at the bridge entrance.

Through the lattice front window of the carriage, Ella saw from afar a row of Templar Knights wearing black and blue armor, and an older female priest surrounded by them.

"Welcome to everyone from the Loren Temple who has come from afar. I am Aurora, the chief priest of the ceremony hall of the Storm Harbor Ocean Temple." The female priest had long curly brown hair. She walked up, put her hands together, bent slightly, and made a salute to the carriage team.

"Thank you for waiting, Master Priest Aurora. May the great God of Light bless you." Ella lifted the curtain, clasped her hands together and saluted Aurora with a smile. "I am Ella Haiweier, the priest of the Loren Cathedral Ceremony Hall."

Although they were both priests of the Ceremonial Hall, as the chief priest of the Temple of Light under the command of the God of Light, the Father of the Gods, Ella's current rank was one level higher than that of the Temple of the Gods. Therefore, she only needed to return the gift in the carriage and did not need to get off the carriage to salute.

"You don't need to address me with a honorific, Master Priest Haiweier. You are already qualified to be an elder at your age, and you are worthy of being the Chosen One of the Gods of Light who is respected by all."

"Thank you, Sister Priest Aurora. You are so young and beautiful, and you must not be much older than me."

"Hahahaha, the praise from High Priest Haiweier is really pleasing. Someone as humble as you..."

The two of them exchanged compliments on each other in a ceremonial setting. Although Ella's position in the temple did not require her to do so deliberately, it was not a bad thing to do so, and Ella was not stingy in praising others.

In this way, the priests of the Ocean Temple, who were originally wary of the Duke's daughter's bad reputation or the rumors about the Saint's evil deity, might open their hearts a little.

As the saying goes, if you praise someone in the temple, everyone will love him.

Chapter 17 Ocean God Stick

Priest Aurora and a group of Sea Templar Knights led Ella and others to the bridge.

Even though she had walked across this magnificent bridge many times as Ye Xiao in her previous life, in this life as Ella she still felt deeply moved that these two bridges spanning the strait were truly wonders created by the magical power of this world.

Huge and heavy rock piers are inserted into the seabed to support the wide and tall bridge body. One side penetrates the towering peaks on the South City Island, and the other side connects to the cliffs standing on the steep coastline of the North City. Under the cliff is the large-scale North City seaport area, where large and small ships from all over the world pass through, passing through the huge archway and floating to the distant sea.

The magnificent and broad bridge is divided into two layers. The lower layer is connected to a hole dug out on the rock wall of the north city. It is a market area elevated above the sea. Merchants from the south and north cities gather here, and slow and crowded people pass through it.

The upper level is the bridge deck that Ella is currently riding in a carriage. This is simply a transportation hub for noble carriages or freight carriages to quickly pass between the two cities.

As an all-embracing port city, Ella saw many foreign visitors on this bridge alone. In addition to the handsome elves riding in luxurious carriages, there were also orcs sitting in crudely assembled carriages that could move for some unknown reason.

In the distant sky, there were dwarf airships slowly descending among the tall buildings in the South City. Unlike the Imperial City, which adhered to aristocratic standards and pursued rigorous architectural styles, the city style here was rough and diverse.

Admiring the countless cruise ships crossing and passing through the ocean outside the bridge, as well as the magnificent city street scenes, the carriage of the church group gradually passed through the Western Liancheng Bridge and entered the prosperous South City.

As mentioned earlier, South City is an island with a mountain. The city's highest administrator, Earl Malz's Palace, is located in Windchaser Castle on the top of the mountain.

The huge church with a blue spire covering a large area on the mountainside is the Cathedral of the Sea.

Unlike the Loren Cathedral which has a walled area enclosing its own small city area, the Ocean Cathedral here is simply a huge spire church.

In addition to the yellow sun logo with a hollow eye in the middle, which symbolizes the god of light, there is also a blue two-eared water bottle logo below it.

After passing the wide man-made mountain road, Ella's carriage, led by Aurora, stopped at the main entrance of the church, and scared away a few white pigeons that were standing on the steps in front of the door in a daze.

"Master Priest Haiweier, please come in."

The first thing you see when you walk in is a tall stone statue of a goddess. It shows a long-haired girl with a clear and gentle face, wearing a shepherd's robe and standing barefoot on a stone platform, holding a stone vase tilted downwards.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the image of Undine, the goddess of rivers and oceans.

Behind and above this gigantic goddess statue there is a much smaller faceless statue of the god of light embedded in the wall. This is understandable, as this is the home ground of the god of water after all. And placing the god of light above the statue of the god of water explains everything.

Below the statue of the goddess is the back of a graceful girl praying to the statue. After noticing the arrival of Ella and others, she turned around.

Ella's eyes crossed the rows of empty benches in the huge, empty hall and met the other person's.

The girl's long straight hair seemed to be inspired by the blue sky. Two strands of hair falling on her chest outlined her fair and delicate face. Under her long and slender eyebrows were a pair of blue eyes as warm as autumn water.

But the most eye-catching thing is the pair of slightly pointed long ears, which seems to be a characteristic only of elven blood.

Unlike Ella's pure white and gilded Temple of Light dress, this girl's white dress was embroidered with sea-blue ripple patterns. Perhaps to adapt to the humid coastal climate, the cuffs were cut shorter, revealing her round and fair shoulders.

"The sea embraces all rivers, and seeing all living beings happy, I pray to my Lord to call on the river spirits to welcome you all."

"Welcome brothers and sisters from the Loren Cathedral. I am the Bishop of the Storm Ocean Cathedral, Vanessa Shelley."

The colorful light shining through the glazed windows fell on the young bishop, as if she were wearing a colorful gauze dress.

Ouch, Ella's eyes lit up, and she learned another little trick to show off.

In the future, when others come to visit her in the Cathedral of Loren, she will turn her back and recite a passage of unclear cathedral doctrine before turning around gracefully, in order to enhance her status as the Saint of Light.

However, if the previous conversation with Elder Aurora was bragging, then this bishop could truly be said to be very young.

Even Ella, the Chosen One of the God of Light, had not been promoted to the rank of Archbishop in the temple's system. How could this girl be the Bishop of the Storm Ocean Temple?

Even the strength of the Ocean God’s Chosen One is probably no more than this?

Ella introduced herself politely while thinking to herself.

But this person couldn't be the one chosen by the Ocean God. Although she had never seen her with her own eyes, in her previous life as Ye Xiao, she had used universal points to purchase a post about the Ocean Saint on the community forum.

Putting aside the purpose of buying the post, at least she had seen the photo of the Sea Saint - her hair was black and although she was also pretty, her face was rounder.

This one has a more oval face, so it can be said that they are completely different people.

Moreover, the Sea Saint was in the Federal Principality of Tedehe, which was far away from Loren.

But this is even more abstract. What kind of ability does it take to become a bishop at this age?

Ella was a little confused, but after all, this was a serious meeting, so Ella didn't ask too many questions about irrelevant things.

And during the conversation, she found that the young bishop spoke with a sticky superstitious style, and even Ella, who mingled in the upper echelons of the Loren Cathedral, felt dizzy - perhaps this was the reason why the other party could become a bishop at such a young age.

"According to your letter, your envoys have lost their traces during the pilgrimage festival. As a response to your request for assistance, we are here mainly for this reason, to search for their whereabouts together with you brothers and sisters." Ella asked as directly as possible, "I wonder if Bishop Vanessa has any information for us to refer to."

"The lost lamb will find God's guidance at the end of the road." Vanessa's voice was soft, but there was a mysterious tone in her words, "Follow the whispers of the ocean and the land, and you will be able to hear them."

"Thank you for your teachings, Bishop. I just want to ask...is there any more practical or accurate information?" Ella's scalp tingled. The words of this pretty girl charlatan were not only abstract, but even her experience as a riddle teller on the forum was not enough to support her understanding of these contents.

"And close your eyes."

what?

"Feeling the call of our Lord, thick fog will be dispersed by a stream."

What a mess! ?

The Saint Lady was completely confused, and her expression was rarely seen without expression.

Just as she was thinking about whether she should find a small dark room and use her tentacles to hang up the bishop and beat her to ask her what she was talking about, she suddenly felt a note stuffed into her hand.

She turned her head slightly and her eyes met with Aurora who was standing closely beside her.

The elderly chief priest of the ceremony hall nodded and motioned for Ella to open the note in her hand.

Ella unfolded the note and saw the following words:

"Upstream is the Horn River at its estuary. The junction of its tributaries and the fog forest is where they were last seen before they disappeared."

Chapter 18: False Bishop

Ella had another confusing conversation with the Riddle Archbishop. If it weren't for Elder Aurora who kept passing little notes to her, she wouldn't have understood what she was hearing.

Should I mention it, is this the way the Ocean Sanctuary preaches?

But she already understood the general news, including the specific location where the missing delegation was last seen and why the holy water no longer appeared.

The water bottle held in the hand of the tall goddess statue in front of you is supposed to drop holy water essence in the middle of every month and on the full moon night under the prayers of the archbishop. Only one drop of this holy water essence containing divine power is enough to transform a pool of water into holy water.

Ella wondered if this thing was just super-compressed Coca-Cola syrup.

But starting about three months ago, the archbishop's prayers could no longer be answered by the ocean goddess Undine, and the holy water essence no longer appeared in the bottle.

The clergy of the Ocean Temple are all investigating the cause of the incident, but recently another delegation has disappeared and they are unable to handle it, so they have to ask for help from the Loren Temple.

"I understand the general situation. Next, I will go to Horn Village to investigate the information of the envoys." Ella said gently, "But there is still one question."

"You can say whatever you want, Priestess Haiweier." Vanessa closed her eyes slightly, so pious that it seemed as if she had been praying to God.

"Has Lady Vanessa always performed the holy water prayer ceremony before?"

As soon as this question was asked, Ella noticed that Vanessa's eye seemed to twitch. The fleeting movement was so subtle that Ella thought it was an illusion.

Looking at the blue-haired girl again, she still looks peaceful and pious.

"No, Lady Vanessa was promoted to bishop three months ago." Aurora at the side answered helpfully, "Before that, it was always done by the former bishop Lady Beverly."

Huh…? Isn’t it obvious that this is the problem of the current bishop?

Ella looked at Aurora, who was answering the questions with a smile, and then looked at Vanessa, who had a calm expression, and countless question marks appeared above her head.

No, three months ago, the previous bishop used holy water when praying, but as soon as the bishop was replaced, the holy water and prayers stopped. Shouldn’t any normal person think that there is something wrong with the new bishop?

Why do these two people look so serious?

What exactly are they investigating? Can they investigate the bishop first? ?

Ella couldn't understand. Was she too superficial?

But she was asked to come and investigate the disappearance of the diplomatic envoys instead of the reason for the depletion of holy water. It was not easy for her to ask directly in front of the archbishop, "Is it possible that there is something wrong with you?"

"But unfortunately, former Bishop Beverly fell ill and can no longer serve as bishop," Aurora added.

No, this is suspicious no matter how you think about it, right? ? ? Ella's mouth twitched, and she looked back and forth at the two of them in surprise. Could these two guys be usurpers of the throne?

Could it be that Vanessa is Aurora's puppet, and the gods have seen it all, so her non-response is actually a punishment for the usurper... Ella remained silent, but in her mind she had already imagined a wonderful palace fight in the Ocean Temple.

Ella didn't know whether a similar situation had occurred in the Ocean Temple in the previous life. After all, Ye Xiao's level was too low at that time, and it was impossible for him to access the secrets inside the temple.

After much thought, it seemed that she could only focus on investigating the missing persons case first, and take the guild to clear several important ruins nearby.

This "by the way" was also one of the important reasons why Ella brought her family to Storm Harbor. After all, the Seven Stars Association started here in the previous life, so some of the big rewards here were basically easy to get.

"grateful."

Ella and Vanessa both bowed slightly to each other, marking the end of the conversation.