The Villain Saint is my secondary account

"Little Johnny, little Johnny." The big man in the lead looked ferocious, holding a hookah in his mouth, revealing a mouthful of rotten teeth soaked yellow by low-quality alcohol. "It's time to pay this week's money, right?"

...Wow, such a classic plot?

The informant refused to give the information, and when he was anxious, a gangster appeared to collect protection money from the informant. He was solved by the protagonist in two moves, and the informant's favorability rose sharply, and he obediently handed over the information - Ye Xiao had seen this plot in popcorn movies about seventeen or eighteen times.

So he raised his eyebrows, thinking about quickly skipping the complicated conversation process and getting straight to the point: "Brother, I'll help you deal with these idiots, can you help me later?"

"Huh?" Before the man called Jenny could react, Ye Xiao had already punched the leading burly man in the face, breaking the hookah into two pieces.

Then he flashed and lightly kicked the two people behind him and sent them flying against the wall, leaving a double human pancake on the wall.

The move was smooth and the action was simple, and the whole process took less than two seconds.

"Well, after I help you, you can help me down too, right?" Ye Xiao clapped his hands. In order to leave more good impression on the man, he even kicked the two big men against an empty wall to prevent them from smashing the shelves in the store.

The man's face was shocked at first, then turned to grief. He stumbled and threw himself on the big man lying on the ground, shouting in a trembling voice:

"uncle!!!"

Chapter 30 Pisces Club

"I have to admit that I may have been a little reckless." Ye Xiao crossed his arms and looked at the big man lying on the chair, his face swollen like a pig's head and two teeth missing. "But you have to believe that I really have no ill intentions."

"This money and healing potion are my compensation. I can also buy some toys from your store... Hey, no, brother, why are you still crying?"

Looking at the tears streaming down the big man's wrinkled face, Ye Xiao was speechless.

It's fine that the beautiful girl shed tears after being punched, but why are you, a big and strong man, crying?

If he didn't look like a friendly party, Ye Xiao would have punched him twice more.

"I'm just... a little touched... Little Johnny... Little Johnny finally made friends." The big man wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Since his parents passed away, he has become very withdrawn..."

"Then maybe there is some misunderstanding between us." Ye Xiao waved his hands hurriedly, "I am just a... uh, customer?"

"Uncle!" Jenny came out of the inner room with a bandage in his hand. When he heard his uncle start to narrate his background story, he interrupted him hurriedly.

Then he saw Ye Xiao again and was furious, "Why are you still here!?"

"I am a responsible person," Ye Xiao shrugged, "I have to take some responsibility for my mistakes."

"Oh little Johnny, I've brought you all the parts you requested," the sturdy man rubbed his eyes, his voice leaking a little, "Remember to give the money to your Uncle Hans."

"Can you please stop using this childish name? If you want to call me Jenny, just call me Jenny. If you want to call me nephew, just call me nephew." Jenny pouted as he took a small bag of jingling props from the sturdy man's hand, opened the bag and looked inside.

Ye Xiao also came over to take a look and said, "These toys are all rusty. The quality is not very good."

"Just grind off the rust and it will be ready to use." Jenni closed the bag. "No, it's about time you leave, right? Don't stay here all the time. I can't even feed myself, so I can't care about your food."

"Don't be impatient." Ye Xiao casually took down a bird cage that seemed to be assembled with brass parts from the shelf. He touched the hook for hanging and pressed it lightly. The bottom of the bird cage suddenly opened and then folded together into a circle of metal pancakes. "The design is quite detailed. Let the pigeon go first and then fold the bird cage."

"...You also know magic tricks?" Jenny was stunned.

"I've seen the version without the bottom open," Ye Xiao unfolded and straightened the folded bird cage and put it back on the shelf, "just flatten the pigeon inside, so there won't be any flaws during the performance."

"That kind of person doesn't deserve to be called a magician." Jenny frowned.

"If you are interested in these little tricks, why don't you just study the real profession of a mage?" Ye Xiao clapped his hands. After taking the birdcage, his hands were covered with some dust. It can be seen that these things have basically not been used since they were made.

"Are you serious about this question?"

"Just pretend I didn't ask." Ye Xiao shrugged.

Without the help of the World Tree System, if a true native wants to become a mage, he must first have a talent for magic, second be accepted by an orthodox mage school, and third have sufficient resources.

Unfortunately, for the average lower-class person, all three points are difficult to achieve.

This is also why Ye Xiao previously thought that the self-taught Besolini was very talented.

"But I can help you." Ye Xiao then said.

"How can I help? Can you improve my talent?"

Before Jenny could finish his words, Ye Xiao took out a gold coin.

The glimmering light made Jenny's throat move, as if it was attracting people to the abyss of sin.

But his eyes soon became firm again, "...No! I can't..."

Ye Xiao took out another gold coin.

"... This won't happen again." Jenny took Ye Xiao's two gold coins and put them in his pocket. He seemed to feel unsafe, so he took a small iron box with a padlock from the shelf, carefully put the gold coins in it, and then ran into the inner room. After fiddling with it for a while, he leaned half of his body out of the door and said, "Come with me."

Ye Xiao walked around the burly man who was teasing Lian Ni and headed towards the small room inside the store.

Inside was a small bedroom with a crude workbench and a wooden bed as the only furniture.

There were some strange props on the ground, such as a stuffed duck made of rags, which would make a whistle-like sound when Ye Xiao's shoes accidentally rubbed against it.

"Be careful." Jenny warned.

"You threw it on the ground and you still have the nerve to ask others to be careful." Ye Xiao picked up the little screaming stuffed duck and threw it on the bed, then finally followed Jenny to the workbench inside the room.

Jenny opened the drawer and took out a stack of toilet paper. "So, what do you want to know?"

"Is your information just piled up in the drawer so casually?" Ye Xiao was surprised.

"Who told you this is intelligence?" Jenny fiddled with the stack of papers. "These are just some design drafts. What you want to know is in my mind."

"Okay." Ye Xiao shrugged. He noticed that there were some ink words printed on the back of the design drafts of different sizes using photocopying magic. They might have been some unwanted tabloids. "The holy water depletion incident in the Ocean Temple, and some recent activities of the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group and the Maltz Family."

"What on earth do you do? Why do you go against the two biggest forces in this area right away?"

"Do not ask."

"Okay." Jenny nodded in understanding. "The holy water thing started about three months ago, but the church didn't announce the specific reason. But I don't know if it's a coincidence that their archbishop also changed three months ago."

Ye Xiao also knew about this.

"Former Bishop Beverly Shelley claimed that she retired due to illness, but in fact no one has seen her since then," Jenny continued.

"Then his sister Vanessa Shelley took over. The latter was only the lead singer of the choir before. It is said that her talent for faith and magic is average, but she was jointly recommended by a group of elders."

"After three consecutive months without any holy water, the believers are somewhat resentful of the new bishop of the Ocean Cathedral. But other than that, this year's seafood harvest is much better than last year. For most ordinary fishermen, a good harvest is enough."

"As a result, the local temple believers gradually split into two groups. One group, mainly composed of lower-class fishermen, supported the new bishop and believed that the great water goddess Undine only wanted to allow more people to enjoy her gifts and turned the holy water that was originally used for blessing into a bountiful harvest. The other group, mainly composed of local nobles, did not support the new bishop and advocated that the imperial government should intervene to investigate the abnormal situation in the Ocean Temple."

"In this place, the nobles mostly control the discourse power. The supporters' faction formed spontaneously by the lower-class people is often suppressed. Therefore, they privately formed a faction called the 'Pisces Society', which preaches that the current Archbishop Vanessa is the real daughter of the sea god."

Chapter 31 Horn Village

"Pisces Club?" Ye Xiao's first reaction was Pisces in the zodiac, but after thinking about it, he felt that this should be a coincidence. "What is the origin of this name? The fish production is twice as much as before, so it is called 'Pisces'?"

"Maybe. I only know their marks are like this." Jenny said, taking an angular part and simply carving a mark on the mottled table. It was a relatively abstract hand-drawn line mark, probably a fish head with two tails extending out. "People at the bottom usually can't afford paper and ink. I asked my uncle to get me some leftover straw paper and ink pens. But you should be able to occasionally see such marks in some places in the harbor area."

"Hmm..." Ye Xiao always felt that it was somewhat familiar, and he had some impression of this thing in this world, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it at once.

"That's all I know about the Sanctuary. As for the Grey Wolf Mercenaries and the Maltz Family, to be honest, if you watched the performance on the bridge last night, you should know everything you need to know." Jenny continued, "If I have to talk about some other recent gossip, it seems that Windchaser Castle is preparing for a banquet. My friend who works as a servant there told me that they recently moved a lot of wine and cream."

"Then the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group sent a lot of people to search for something at the port a few days ago, causing several ships to be delayed. I don't know if they found it. After all, most of the people there were sent by the Saint Lady to see the God of Light."

"Oh, speaking of this, I have some news about the Holy Lady of Light. Are you interested?"

"……Tell me."

"I heard from some friends from the Imperial City that she is the evil god who usurped the throne of the Chosen One." Jenny lowered his head and moved closer. "During the Pilgrimage Festival, many people saw her using evil magic with their own eyes."

"Don't believe that bullshit, it's just a rumor." Ye Xiao waved his hand.

"Hiss... You are so sure, you are not a believer of the temple, are you?" Jenny suddenly became alert. Oh no, if he was really a believer, then he seemed to have said something wrong.

But then he changed his mind and thought that this man looked so nonchalant. There wouldn't be such a believer in the church.

"of course not."

"Look at how confident you are. You are not just blindly believing what the Saint says because she is so beautiful." Jenny leaned back in his chair with disdain. "She killed the Archbishop of the Loren Cathedral, saying that he was corrupted by the evil god. She also killed the Second Prince of the Royal Family, saying that he was corrupted by the evil god. On the first day she came here, she killed all the Gray Wolf Mercenaries, saying that they were colluding with evil spirits. Damn it, which generation of the God of Light would kill people like this?"

Well, I can only say that I don't want to do that either. Ye Xiao scratched his head.

"But they did a great job in killing the Gray Wolf Mercenaries. For that, even the evil god would have to praise them."

"It seems this gang has a bad reputation."

"There's no gang with a good reputation in this area." Jenny spent a long time choosing, and finally took out a design draft and put it on the table, and stuffed the rest back into the drawer. "Okay, this is all I can tell you. Goodbye."

"The Maltz family." Ye Xiao rested one hand on the table. "If I want to get in, is there any way?"

"Do you want your life?"

“I didn’t say I was going.”

"The Harbor District often recruits freighters to deliver fish to Windchaser Castle. I'll give you an address. You can try your luck."

Ye Xiao took the small note handed over by the other party, rolled it up and put it in his pocket, and then looked at the young man with a few freckles on his face: "If it's today, no one else will know, right?"

"You are my last order." Jenny turned his head and fiddled with the parts on the table.

Ye Xiao nodded and walked out of the room.

"Friends of little Johnny, come and play often, hahaha!" The sturdy man who spoke with a lisp was still teasing the little girl. When he saw Ye Xiao walking to the door of the store, he raised his head and waved.

Ye Xiao looked back, smiled slightly, waved his hand casually, opened the door and left.

"Ding-ling-ling!" the bell on the door frame rang.

……

As the midday sun tilted slightly, outside Storm Harbor, Ella and the Seven Stars Society's team were about to reach their destination.

A group of about twenty people were riding horses, marching in a mighty manner along the tributary of the Horn River towards the mountains.

The departure of so many people from the city could naturally not be hidden from the little eyes of Storm Harbor, so Ella naturally did not deliberately cover up. She wore a pure white cloak and let two silver horsetails hang down to her waist, swaying slightly with the pace of the gray horse under her crotch.

As a few wisps of smoke rose into the sky and floated across the endless wilderness, a village came into view.

White stone walls, thatched huts, gray-yellow paths running through them, a few wooden fences surrounding scattered cows grazing on the grass, and sparse human figures, it can be seen that the village is not very large.

The horse team led by Ella was quite conspicuous. Three or two villagers in rough clothes looked at them curiously from a distance.

Even if the village is remote, it is hard not to be recognized by the conspicuous clothing style of the Sub-Light Church.

Therefore, before Ella and others arrived at the village entrance, several strong farmers came out, supporting an elderly man who was staggering.

"Saint...Lady Saint, it is our great honor to have you visit our humble village!" The trembling voice was out of breath, and the old man and a group of villagers at the intersection all bowed down in worship.

Since there were sometimes traveling merchants from Storm Harbor, the villagers were familiar with the appearance and rumors about the Holy Maiden of Light. Now that they suddenly saw her, they were inevitably frightened.

Ella quickly jumped off the horse and helped up the trembling village chief. She was afraid that the chief, who would collapse at the slightest gust of wind, would fall apart if he knelt down to her.

The reputation of the Templar is known to everyone. Generally speaking, those high-ranking Templar Knights rarely appear in these poor villages.

And once they show up, they are usually here to either arrest people or burn the village. No wonder the village chief's eyes are filled with awe and fear.

"No need to salute, everyone. This is Horn Village, right?" Ella waved her hand, indicating that the other villagers did not need to salute either.

"Yes, Saint Lady... I am the village chief here." The village chief said in a trembling voice, "Is there... Is there anything I can do for you?"

"Mr. Village Chief, did the priests of the Ocean Temple visit your village some time ago?" The voice like a clear spring sounded, making the nervous villagers relax a little.

"Oh, oh," the old village chief nodded, and heaved a visibly relieved sigh. It was fine as long as they were not here to burn and kill people. "Indeed, a few days ago, several adults from the Ocean Temple came to the village to inquire about some matters."

"Would you mind telling us? We were also commissioned by the Ocean Cathedral to continue investigating this matter."

"No problem, no problem, Lady Saint, and all the adults in the Holy Hall, this way... please come this way."

The village chief said this, and with the help of other villagers, he led Ella and his group slowly into the village.

Chapter 32 The Whereabouts of the Diplomatic Corps

Most of the low farmhouses along the way had their windows and doors closed. Occasionally, you could see a figure flash by behind a hazy glass window, and then it was covered by a coarse cloth curtain.

A mill can be seen not far away, with a huge windmill slowly turning in the leisurely white clouds.

The village chief in the lead spoke with a weak and hoarse voice, slowly floating along the country road, telling the story.

"It was probably late at night nine days ago..."

Unlike today's sunny weather, it rained heavily that day.

Rainy nights in early winter are often quite cold, so most villagers stayed at home and did not notice the figures that suddenly appeared at the entrance of the village.

The first door to be knocked was that of Wood's house at the entrance of the village. As there had been frequent disappearances of cows or horses in the village recently, he hesitated for a long time with his axe in his hand until he heard the name of the Ocean Temple announced outside the door. Only then did he dare to open the door.