The Villain Saint is my secondary account

The clothes they wore were indeed the uniforms of the Ocean Temple, but they were more luxurious than usual. They all looked a little anxious, and as soon as they came in, they asked Wood about the village chief's residence.

Despite the heavy rain, Wood led them to the village chief.

After meeting the village chief, they introduced themselves as a delegation heading to the imperial city to participate in the pilgrimage festival.

But the road from Storm Harbor to Howling Mountains does not pass through Horn Village. Although the village chief was surprised, he did not dare to ask more questions.

They then inquired about the direction of the Horn River that passed through the village. After learning that it went through the foggy forest in the north, the group set off again in a hurry.

The village chief found it a little strange that they were still rushing to travel even though it was raining so heavily and it was late at night. He didn't know if it was because of the rain, but the wooden floor of the village chief's house was a little wet from the steps of several temple priests.

"Saint, logically speaking, the clergy of the Ocean Temple are blessed by the Ocean Goddess Undine, and they should be proficient in water magic, not to mention the elders who can participate in the pilgrimage delegation." Freya asked softly, "Even if it rains, they shouldn't get wet like this."

"Thank you for your supplement, sir. This is also what I felt confused about at the time." The village chief said slowly. Because of his old age, he needed to pause every few words.

At that time, the robes of those priests actually looked relatively dry and tidy, and their conversation with the village chief did not last long, but they drank a lot of water.

"Drink water?" Ella touched her chin.

"Yes, most of the water in the tank that we stored at home has been drunk," the village chief stopped, and a small river that was not very wide but clear to the bottom appeared in front of the group.

There are some lush green grass and farmhouses on both sides of the stream. Above them, an exquisite stone bridge spans the river. Along the gravel bridge piers, there are also some brightly colored wild flowers.

"This is the Horn River," the village chief said leisurely, and raised a hand to point to the north at the end of the path. Behind a few rolling hills was a forest shrouded in mist. "Its upper reaches extend all the way to the forest in the distance. After talking to me, the adults from the Ocean Temple envoys left the house. Judging from the direction they were heading, they should be heading that way."

"Thank you, old man. We will go there first and take a look. We may come back in the evening. I wonder if your village is convenient for us to stay in?"

"Ah, then you are always at our service. It is our honor, Lady Saint."

Ella led everyone to thank the village chief and the accompanying villagers, and then left the village along the river.

There were some small monsters like antelopes on the hill. When they saw Ella and the others riding horses over, they hugged their bodies, rolled up into a wheel shape and rolled away.

"By the way," Li Cheng finally couldn't help but speak up when he saw the team moving away from Horn Village in the back, "Aren't there too few people in their village? Most of the places along the way are empty."

"Maybe it's because Storm Harbor is not far from here, so most of the young and middle-aged people moved there." Freya answered gently. Since coming to the Seven Stars Club, her tone was rarely cold anymore.

Ella nodded and suddenly saw Grettia sitting behind Freya.

The lazy little creature in a black and white maid's dress refused to ride the horse by herself, so she sat on the horse behind Freya, with her arms folded across her chest, a lazy and contemptuous expression on her soft oval face.

When he is not with Ye Xiao, this guy doesn't pay much attention to anyone, and only occasionally looks at Ella with a scrutinizing eye.

Seeing Ella looking back at her again, she squinted her eyes and met his gaze, with a kind of proud attitude of refusing to admit defeat.

It can be seen that the little guy is still struggling with what happened in the morning.

Looking at that cute look, Ella couldn't help but smile and turned her head back.

"What's so funny, cunning woman!" Seeing this, the little maid muttered with gritted teeth.

……

The fog forest was not far from Horn Village, and the team arrived at the forest in a short while.

There was only some thin fog at the edge of the fog forest, which did not seriously block the view. Ella and the others dismounted and began to search for the traces of the diplomatic mission near the Horn River based on the information provided by the Ocean Cathedral and the Horn Village.

Nine days was neither long nor short, and many traces of activities might have disappeared during this time. Even if there were players who also practiced the hunter profession, they scattered and searched everywhere, but they were unable to find any valuable information for a while.

"What do you say, Xiao Deng, is this possible?" Li Cheng put one hand on his waist, leaning against the tree trunk, looking at the player named Xiao Deng who was lying on the ground observing some weeds. "Brother Li spent a lot of money on those hunter skill books of yours. Don't let them be useless for the first mission."

"No way, there are no clues, Boss." Xiao Deng shook his head, stood up, and looked at the other players who were also bending over to search for traces. "It's strange. Even if it's been nine days, if such a large delegation passed by here, it should have left some traces."

"Could it be washed away by rain?" Li Cheng asked, "It seemed to have been raining here for the past few days."

"It's hard to say," Xiao Deng scratched his head, "but the rain won't erase the traces of camping so quickly. According to the old man in the village, it's already late at night and the envoys are still coming here. They must have found a place to camp by the forest, right? It's a bit absurd to go deep into the forest all night."

"Rivers are prone to flooding during the rainy season. Why don't we look for a place on high ground nearby?" Ella, who was walking over and heard the conversation, suddenly said, "Experienced adventurers will also choose to camp on high ground to avoid encountering mountain torrents. The priests of the temple may not know this, but the servants in charge of camping should know."

Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, then gave a thumbs up, "Amazing, Lady Saint actually knows all this."

"Why, do I look like someone who is ignorant of the world?" Ella frowned slightly, pretending to be dissatisfied.

"No, no, Your Majesty the Saint is wise!" Li Cheng said hurriedly.

"Pfft, look how nervous you are." Seeing her good brother looking frightened, the silver-haired girl smiled playfully, patted Li Cheng on the shoulder and walked towards a nearby hillside.

Li Cheng stared at the petite figure infatuatedly until Xiao Deng hit him in the chest with his elbow and he came to his senses.

"What's going on, boss."

"Oh, Xiao Deng... It's so uncomfortable. I feel like I've been toyed with."

“Isn’t this a reward?”

"Awesome, Xiao Deng, you've broadened my horizons."

"…I haven't gone far yet, you two."

"Ahem, hahahaha, we'll be right over here, Lady Saint."

Chapter 33: Murloc

Li Cheng and Xiao Deng followed Ella to search the nearby high slopes. Not long after, they actually found the remains of a campfire that was buried under some soil and burned to ashes.

Xiao Deng picked up the partially burned charcoal on the ground and gave an approximate time based on the hunter's "Insight" skill. "About eight to nine days ago."

"The timing is right." Li Cheng rubbed his chin.

"But the stones around the campfire are arranged so neatly." Ella said softly as she bent over to check. "Generally speaking, it's fine to just arrange them randomly."

"Uh... obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Xiao Deng analyzed.

Chapter 34 The Missing

A short wooden stick with a flame fell into the dark cave entrance and rolled deeper along the sloping wall until the flames disappeared completely.

Li Cheng swallowed his saliva as he looked at the deep cave, tightened the climbing rope on his body, and then watched the "fishman" enslaved by Ella walk in staggeringly and crawl into the cave on all fours.

Although I know that it is the kindness of the Saint Lady to let this thing lead the way, it is still a bit difficult to accept psychologically.

He slowly descended along the wall of the cave, fearing that he would slip and come into close contact with the monster crawling below.

It's okay, it's okay, just imagine that it's the Saint Lady's share.

Chapter 35: The God-killing Plot

Blood splattered, the silver-haired girl's eyes were filled with surprise, and her vision suddenly spun.

But dark tentacles quickly stretched out from the broken part of her neck, grabbed the head that had been separated from her body, and put it back on her neck with a "swish".

Ella staggered a few steps and then stood up again. If it weren't for the dense tentacles at the seam of her neck that were wriggling to repair the broken skin, it would seem as if nothing had happened.

"What the hell?" Seeing this, Gretia used an interjection that she had learned from someone to describe her surprise. "What the hell is this?!"

"Meet again

Chapter 36 The Third Body

"I don't think you would risk giving up your avatar to protect the lives of the mortals."

"But now it seems that the Saint is right."

The unstoppable black sludge washed over the entire land, and the churning tentacles dug deep into the ground, even penetrating hundreds of meters of rock formations.

Underground, Li Cheng was still supporting the injured Xiao Deng, who was leaning against the cave wall. The sudden moonlight melted their bodies.

A bone-chilling chill spread throughout his body. Li Cheng, who was in despair, watched his palm melt bit by bit in the air filled with glow like ink soaked in water. The next moment, the dark tentacles broke through the solid rock layer above their heads, pouring mud like a spring over their heads.

The same situation occurred to every Qi Yao Club player scattered underground. Like tree roots growing deep into the earth's crust, huge numbers of intricate and intertwined black tentacles occupied the underground stretching for hundreds of meters.

Li Cheng felt his body wrapped in mud, but a warm feeling flowed through his limbs.

As darkness fell before his eyes, his heart was relieved a little because he knew that the Saint Lady had taken action.

The mud carried everyone who was buried deep underground back to the ground. Li Cheng struggled to stick his head out, only to see a huge moon hanging in the sky. The silver-haired girl below was dressed in white, standing on the dark ground with her hands behind her back. As always, her bright red eyes were slightly narrowed, and she gave him a playful smile.

"I told you I will protect you."

Li Cheng also smiled subconsciously, "Holy..."

Before she could finish her words, a sharp branch suddenly pierced the girl's chest from behind.

As the blood gushed out, that beautiful smile seemed to be frozen on her face forever. The girl's figure was like a broken doll, lifted off the ground by a tree trunk that suddenly grew out of the ground.

Li Cheng, with bloodshot eyes, roared and stretched out his hand, but Ella hooked her fingers just before losing consciousness, and the black mud wrapped Li Cheng, who tried to rush out, back.

At the last moment when his vision was covered by the black mud, Li Cheng only saw the silhouette of the silver-haired girl hanging on the towering tree that had grown suddenly, with a huge bright moon and the endless night sky behind her.

……

Although it was her chest that was pierced, Ella only felt that her hand seemed to be stabbed. This subtle feeling of dislocation made her a little confused.

No, to be precise, it wasn't her hand that was stabbed, but more like... the hand of another body.

Was it Ye Xiao's hand that was stabbed? At the same time, Ye Xiao, who was riding his horse from the harbor area to the north city gate in Storm Harbor, subconsciously looked at his hand.

It doesn’t seem to be… ?

Strange...where did this strange pain come from?

Ella was a little dazed. She felt her body gradually losing perception and her vision became blurred, as if her soul was being pulled away from reality.

She was clearly on the verge of death, but perhaps because nothing unusual happened on Ye Xiao's side, or perhaps it felt like just a character she was controlling was disconnected, she didn't have any real sense of facing death, but was just thinking in confusion.

Why didn’t this body trigger a death replay?

Since Ye Xiao has become a miracle caster, it stands to reason that I, Ella, should also be able to use the skills of a miracle caster.

As she was thinking, she felt that the scene in front of her seemed to slowly shrink into a ball. Perhaps because there was still a body there, her consciousness not only did not disappear, but it seemed to become clearer and clearer.

Ella seemed to realize something. She felt as if her soul was squeezed in a straw and was slowly being sucked from reality to the outside world.

The tiny perception seemed to be connected by some huge consciousness. When she looked again, the reality that had become a spherical picture had become a glass bead floating in her hand.

Hand? Wait, that's my hand?

Ella looked at the thing under the "glass bead" in some surprise. Judging from the physical feeling, it should be her hand, but from her own vision, what she saw was a dark tentacle.

Damn it! I don’t want to turn into a tentacle monster!

Ella cried out in surprise, but found that her words became just mumblings echoing in the void.

The continuous waves of whispers seemed to shake the space and stir up the things lurking in the darkness around them.

As if she was in the world of Picasso's abstract oil paintings, Ella saw a group of strange outlines that she didn't even know if they were living creatures flash by in her vision.

A turtle without a shell? An eagle with two heads? What are these? ?

In confusion, she saw the shadows of other things just flash by, only a palm-sized dark white spider appeared out of nothingness, its eight legs clinging to the "glass bead" on her tentacles.

When Ella noticed the spider, the spider seemed to notice Ella as well. It had eight pitch-black eyes on its snow-white body.

"There's... another... one!?"

The other party's voice sounded in Ella's mind, with fear and surprise. At the same time, Ella also recognized the voice clearly.

"Luna?"

Ella was a little angry and frowned slightly. Although she didn't know whether she had eyebrows or not, she felt that way anyway.

Looking at the "glass ball" still lying on her hand, Ella thought about pulling her hand back to slap the damn spider, but the next moment, as she pulled her hand back, Ye Xiao's consciousness seemed to be in the same situation as Ella's just now, as if she was being sucked away from reality by a straw.

She quickly stopped her hand and was able to control Ye Xiao, who was dizzy and almost fell off the horse.

Only then did Ella realize that her "hand" seemed to be more than just the one holding the glass bead. When her perception consciously extended out, she realized that the space around her was filled with dense tentacles.

Endless tentacles entangled and squirmed, forming an enormous black sun. In the center of the black sun, a scarlet eyeball was slowly opening and looking around.

What the hell is this? Could this be me? ? ? Ella was shocked by what she saw in her perception.

At this moment, she suddenly understood why her "One Qi Becomes Three" could only be divided into two.

Because her third body has actually always been there, but it is just like sleeping, with no perception or external stimulation, so she has never been aware of the existence of this body.

But now that she was stung by the spider and woke up in pain, she began to realize that this third body... had been sleeping outside all this time???

No, to be precise, this is probably not the "third" body...

Although it was the third one to be discovered, in terms of the order of appearance, this body should have appeared first. This thing might be her true body! ?