The Villain Saint is my secondary account

"Oh my god, I forgot you're a cult member, you'll never see the goddess, hahaha."

"Ugh... I don't believe it... I don't believe it anymore..."

"Don't be so skeptical. Your faith is so weak. It's like I've killed an innocent person."

After observing for a while, Ye Xiao still couldn't see what changes had occurred to the flesh and blood on the surface under the influence of the black threads. After thinking for a while, he finally whispered a spell and summoned a blood-red magic circle above Laila's body.

A wet, splattering sound rang out, and a dark, tentacle-like thing, swaying like a sea urchin, poked its head out from the magic circle.

"What is that?...What is that!??"

"Let me introduce you. This is my teaching assistant, Squidward."

Chapter 52 Honest Lyra

"Squidward, say hello to your classmate."

Ye Xiao patted the head of the tentacle mass, which then frolicked like a lapdog, circling around Leila's blood-soaked back.

It has to be said that the tentacle dumpling has quite a presence. It can cure a knife wound on the waist in one go, and even if there is blood all over the table, the horrifying wound can be quickly stitched up by the fine tentacles.

Because the tentacle dumpling and Ella's senses are completely connected, Ye Xiao, whose consciousness is connected with Ella's, can also observe the direction of the black lines in her body.

Unlike the situation that only appears on the surface of the skin, those black lines are tightly entwined around the internal organs like tree roots gripping the flesh. The pure magic power within the body is being greedily absorbed by these black threads, and then released as a rather negative and unstable kind of magic power.

This should be some kind of transformation, like the corruption caused by divine power, but it is not in essence the work of mysterious divine power, but rather an imitation of this process.

Because it only affects the physical body and does not cause distortion at the level of the soul.

A knock-off version of depravity?

This word popped into Ye Xiao's mind.

However, Ye Xiao did not intend to watch the girl turn into a monster. After all, she was a live hostage who had delivered herself to his door, and there was a lot of information he could get from her.

The tentacle balls that burrowed into the flesh and blood could also spread Ella's life force along her internal organs, and the tiny tentacles that wandered along the black threads could actually make it gradually dissipate.

Compared to genuine divine power pollution, this knock-off pollution was obviously inferior. However, Ella couldn't let her divine power spread too much, so she only controlled it to the point where it could dispel the black lines.

Because her distortion can truly affect the soul, if she's not careful, this girl could turn into a tentacle monster on the spot.

However, Leila was unaware of Ye Xiao's good intentions. The two forces were intertwined within her body, using her internal organs and meridians as a battlefield, causing her excruciating pain, tears streaming down her face, and her petite body trembling as if she had been electrocuted.

These were probably the longest two minutes of Leila's life.

As the excruciating pain slowly subsided, she lay motionless on the table like a tattered rag doll.

Ye Xiao wasn't in a hurry. She elegantly wiped the blood off her hands with a handkerchief, found a chair, and sat down, waiting for the other person to recover.

He could tell that this guy was no longer willing to put up any resistance.

"Who...who exactly are you?..."

Leila's voice was extremely weak as she asked, panting.

Even if she's stupid, she should realize by now that this can't possibly be just an ordinary elemental magic professor.

Coming to cause trouble for this guy has become the most regrettable thing she's ever done.

"Shouldn't I be asking you that question?"

Ye Xiao casually took out a cup of black tea from the small spatial door that suddenly appeared.

This was brewed by Ella herself on the other side of the door. Most of the time, the Holy Maiden would comfortably drink tea and tend to her flowers in her bedroom, and sometimes she would share a cup with Ye Xiao.

"Spatial...spell...?"

Lyra's eyes widened. "How do you know this kind of magic?!"

"I've noticed you seem a bit confused about the situation."

Ye Xiao frowned. "What's wrong? Didn't you understand the lesson just now? Do you want to extend the time?"

Leila's face turned pale instantly. She swallowed hard and dared not speak again.

Why did you attack me?

“You… your performance last night was deemed a problem beyond expectations. The ‘Priest’ ordered me to get rid of you, fearing you would affect the subsequent plans.”

"Who is the priest?"

Ye Xiao raised an eyebrow.

"I don't know... her, her voice just keeps ringing in my head."

"Wow, you've never even seen this person before, yet he's so obedient that he'd even kill a teacher at the academy for him?"

Ye Xiao was surprised.

"...For example, if I don't do this, that voice will keep tormenting me in my head..."

Leila pursed her lips, her face still wet with tears, like a child being scolded.

"Oh, it seems to be related to your secret cult."

Ye Xiao took a sip of tea. "Let's start from the beginning. What's the name of your sect?"

"Silent words..."

"Just tell me who the members are, as long as you know them."

After asking the question, Ye Xiao waited two seconds and, finding no response, immediately slammed her hand on the table.

"Snapped"

"Are you deaf?! I'm asking you a question!?"

Ye Xiao was getting impatient with Ye Xiao's already stammering speech.

A furious shout startled Lyra, who stammered like a frightened bird, "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!..."

"In our class, there's... there's Favina, Dutano, Giorgordo..."

"Damn, there are so many units, they're just mass-producing them, who's going to remember them all?"

Ye Xiao pulled out a roll of parchment and a quill pen from the spatial portal and threw them over, saying, "Write it down."

Leila picked up the paper and pen, tears streaming down her face, and wrote on them with humiliation, stroke by stroke.

After finishing writing, Ye Xiao casually waved his hand, and the list flew from the table into his palm. He glanced at it and then frowned.

"How come one's missing? Illyas, isn't she a member of your Dark Cult?"

"She...she can't be..."

Leila murmured.

Ye Xiao sighed, snapped his fingers, and a blood-red magic circle opened, from which another unique ball of tentacles popped out.

Then, amidst Leila's heart-wrenching screams, the tentacle ball crawled onto her face.

"My teaching assistant is particularly good at detecting lies. Why don't you try telling another lie and see if it can spot it?"

"Yes! Illyas too!!! Please, please take it off quickly, waaaah..."

Lyra screamed and clung to the slippery tentacles, falling to the ground under the table, her legs kicking wildly.

Ye Xiao snapped his fingers again, and the tentacle ball reluctantly left the girl's face.

But it didn't go far; it just squatted on the table next to it and pointed at Lyra with the tip of its antennae, as if to say, "I'll be keeping a close eye on you."

"A warning is enough; if it happens again, it won't be so simple."

Ye Xiao snorted coldly.

In the past, when Ella interrogated people, she would usually get them to confess everything in one go. So why is it that when she interrogates people, there are still those who dare to play tricks on her?

"Where are Silvana and Fimishil?"

"She...they, I really don't know..."

Leila trembled all over, no longer daring to lie.

She didn't know how Ye Xiao saw through her, nor did she know if it had anything to do with those terrifying and disgusting tentacle balls. But she couldn't bear the consequences of being exposed again, either psychologically or physically.

"Are you sure this list includes everyone you know? What if I find out someone's missing, even just one..."

"Besides Illyas, that's all I know. That's really all!!!"

"Layla cried out."

Chapter Fifty-Three: Trap

"Humph."

Ye Xiao glanced at the list again. "Are these all students?"

"There are also... a few of them are faculty members from the college..."

"What about the other nobles who aren't in the academy?"

"Those are things I don't know... Our branch's gatherings only take place within the academy..."

Perhaps because she had already revealed her elder brother "Illyas" anyway, Lyra no longer hid anything and honestly told her everything like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

It was Illyas who first introduced her to the "Silent Words" cult.

At that time, she had many conflicts with her family and the headmaster, and did not want to learn the family's swordsmanship. Instead, she developed a strong interest in magic, especially some forbidden magic.

Later, through Illyas's introduction, she attended a gathering of the Silent Words at the academy and came into contact with those forbidden spells that fascinated her.

Like all curious people who only dabble in things at first, Lyra initially thought that as long as she learned some spells that interested her, she would be fine as long as she didn't get involved in anything more dangerous.

She could roughly understand that this was a murky group, but as long as she didn't get involved, she would be fine.

Until one gloomy afternoon, the voice of the person who called himself "Priest" echoed in her mind.

From that time on, the voice, like a preacher, constantly spoke unsettling, blasphemous words deep within her mind, urging her to let go of her attachment to her family and the traditional honor of the Aslans, and to embrace the so-called truly correct ideas.

"Knowledge should never be taboo. What's wrong with seeking what you want to know?"

"These spells are forbidden simply because they are laws used by those who claim to be gods to control living beings, because they are afraid..."

"Gods should not exist in this world. All living beings should be masters of their own destiny. Stripped of their divine status, aren't the suffering beings more deserving of to be gods than they are?"

The constant dripping, 24/7, almost drove Leila crazy.

But she dared not tell anyone, not even her grandfather, because she knew that what she had come into contact with had become a stain on her reputation.

Perhaps unable to bear it any longer, Lyra finally told Illyas, who was also a member of the cult, about it.

They are both members of a religious sect; the latter might have a solution.

And the other party does indeed have a way, which is to become a "listener," and after accommodating and accepting that strange doctrine, one will naturally get used to that voice.

Leila was initially somewhat resistant, but after discovering and following the other party's instructions, she did seem to feel better.

There's not much to say about what happened after that. Although Lyra told the story with tears streaming down her face, it was still ultimately a story of a rebellious girl who went astray and became increasingly entangled in a cult.

However, Ye Xiao found the content somewhat familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that the situation was somewhat similar when Elina, the vampire princess of the Kingdom of Valo, told Ella about her mistaken belief that she had killed Queen Valen during the Fog City incident.

Others resisted it and were eventually brainwashed until they lost their minds, while Lyra accepted it directly and thus retained her consciousness.

To be honest, it was because she ate that tentacle dumpling that Leila could no longer hear the voice in her mind, which gave her the courage to tell her story so clearly.

Although there was an element of coercion involved, Ye Xiao wouldn't give her a kind look just because of that.

If someone can accept killing innocent people for this, and isn't completely under mental control and has their own consciousness, then this guy's nature has become twisted.

If the person in the room today were just an ordinary magic professor, like Rhodes, the most likely outcome would be that he would die in the room, and his body would be transformed into a terrifying monster by that dagger.

After all, under normal circumstances, who could believe that a student who was cheering for them and sharing life and death yesterday would want to kill them?

"So, you actually know nothing about the true plan of that voice in your head? And the dagger was just a magical artifact you carried with you ever since you left the academy, used to cast certain forbidden spells?"

"Yes, it is."

Leila nodded, her big, watery eyes wide open. "All I know is that I have to find a way to kill you, otherwise she will keep echoing in my mind, forcing me to do it."

"Well, that's strange. Judging from my performance, I shouldn't be the one to be dealt with first."

Ye Xiao rubbed his chin, ignoring Leila's pitiful expression.

"Wait a minute, I appeared by accident, so that voice had to make you, a complete novice, deal with me... As for the others, Vanderrian and Severif, according to what you just said, does that mean the priest has already made preparations to deal with them?"