The Villain Saint is my secondary account

This time, a fairy girl in a green dress with her eyes closed fell out of the torn vine bundle. Her appearance was somewhat similar to the girl doll not far away, but the warmth of this girl in her arms was obviously not that of a fake puppet.

A ring of amethyst, made of the same material as the treehouse's exterior, adorned her snow-white neck. This was likely the owner of the house, the dying astrologer.

"Wow, the jackpot! Congratulations, Mr. Ye!" The childish voice showed no sign of panic.

The elf in his arms suddenly opened her eyes, revealing a pair of pupils that were shimmering with white light. Her soft, boneless right hand flashed out a sharp dagger and stabbed it towards Ye Xiao's abdomen. However, Ye Xiao was not unprepared. The moment he sensed something was wrong, he immediately threw the elf out of his arms and dodged backward.

As he dodged, he also threw off the old woman on his back. The old woman landed nimbly on all fours the instant she was thrown to the ground, and slowly straightened up. Her eyes, which she suddenly opened, were filled with a faint white light, and a sharp dagger shrouded in white magic appeared in her hand.

Ye Xiao felt a cold sweat trickle down his forehead. He had anticipated that his opponent might be luring him into breaking the rattan ball so easily to rescue someone, so he had been on guard the whole time. But the opponent's cunning and treacherous nature was indeed extraordinary.

Even with his enhanced physique from the beast transformation, his neck and abdomen were almost slashed open by the short knives in the hands of the two men. He vaguely remembered the eerie white fluorescence surrounding them, and the night of the bitter battle in Liangqiu Village quickly came to mind.

"The Full Moon Cult?"

“You don’t seem to be completely ignorant either.” The doll slowly walked between the old woman and the elf, the unchanging smile on its face appearing increasingly cunning.

The World Tree system rated this task difficulty as "normal," which is ridiculous.

Ye Xiao frowned slightly. The intelligence gap was too large, and the opponent was well prepared. Such a hasty encounter was very disadvantageous for him.

Although the opponent couldn't do anything to him during his beast form, he could only maintain it for less than half a minute.

However, it wouldn't be difficult for him to leave. He could simply use Mammon's crown to burn the pitiful amount of gold coins he had painstakingly accumulated, and it wouldn't be difficult to break through the outer green cage with Osmon's holy flames.

Ye Xiao was a little annoyed; he had used his ultimate move but still had to slink away.

But it would be unwise to fight them head-on. As for those few people, since they really can't be saved... we can only let them go.

As he pondered, he suddenly felt a faint vibration in his pocket.

Reaching into the pocket with its two large claws was a bit difficult, so Ye Xiao used some magic power from his staff to draw the contents of the pocket closer to him.

Extending a claw to protect himself from a group of weak and powerless vines, Ye Xiao used his beast-transformed dark vision to glance at the thing he had drawn out with magic—it was that note from the Five Fingers Tavern again, with new words appearing on it once more.

"We've found her. Help me distract her."

Ah, Artoria, you can finally be of some use!

Attracting attention was easy; Ye Xiao ripped apart the vines beside him, tilted his head back, and let out a deafening howl.

"Ouch——!!!"

This is also a skill that comes with Cynthia's beast form, which can create a mental shock to any creature that hears her wolf howl.

Ye Xiao had always felt that this move was a bit stupid, and he hadn't encountered any suitable scenarios for using it, but the current situation was surprisingly suitable.

Chapter Eighty-Six: Idiot

The piercing howl echoed in the enclosed room. Even the elves and the old woman, affected by the moon goddess's power, couldn't help but cover their ears. The exquisite doll stood frozen in place for several seconds, and the vines that were constantly waving around it also came to a brief halt.

The effect was surprisingly good. Ye Xiao wondered what it would be like if Ella used this skill.

But despite his thoughts, he didn't stop moving. He rushed to the puppet and slapped it, smashing it into shattered pieces of wood.

"Mr. Ye really enjoys taking his anger out on the dolls." The other person seemed to have recovered as well, watching Ye Xiao smash the doll, and continued to mock, "But don't worry, Mr. Ye, I can play with you like this all day long."

The vines gathered again and sculpted a new doll not far away.

But the doll had only taken a few steps when the usually steady, childish voice suddenly trembled slightly: "What!? How did you..."

He only said half a sentence before disappearing as if his connection had suddenly dropped.

The restless vines around them lost their vitality and fell to the ground, crackling and popping like noodles being put into a pot.

It looks like Artoria succeeded.

Ye Xiao let out a long breath and turned his gaze to the elf and the old woman whose eyes were shining with white light. But it seemed that he didn't need to do anything. As if a gentle breeze had blown by, the white magic surrounding the two of them was blown away from their bodies and turned into rising mist that dissipated into the air.

After dispelling the beast transformation spell, Ye Xiao took two steps forward and helped the elf and the old woman who had just fallen.

He then pulled out his knife and broke open several other rattan balls, which contained several other unconscious people dressed in fine clothes. It was unclear whether they were all the girl's family members.

The giant that the treehouse had transformed into lost control also leaned to the ground. Ye Xiao used the teleportation staff to transport the unconscious people on the fifth floor to the ground outside in batches. He also brought out the body of the girl's mother from the third floor.

The little girl standing next to Greta rushed over crying, but Ye Xiao noticed that the little girl's faded clothes were clearly not in the same league as the clothes her relatives wore.

The clothes worn by the old woman and other unconscious people rescued from the sepak takraw, as well as the clothes worn by the deceased girl's mother, were all much more expensive than those worn by the girl.

This family seemed quite wealthy, yet they left a girl all alone selling flowers on the street? Ye Xiao sensed something was amiss.

Two sharp "crack" sounds rang out. The cage formed by the green vines, which had become a fragile withered vine after the tree-man lost its vitality, was easily cleaved open by a short knife.

A tall woman in a burgundy leather coat walked gracefully through the gap in the gap, carrying a girl in a black robe who was tightly bound with hemp rope.

"Atorina, you betrayed the organization, you'll die sooner or later!" The girl's small and pretty face had a fierce expression on it, and even though she was tied up like a dumpling, she was still twisting her body and struggling.

"Then remember to bring a bouquet of roses when you pay your respects to me, I love roses." Atorina wasn't annoyed, her voice as mature and charming as ever, and her captivating gaze, hidden beneath her hibiscus-purple bangs, turned to Ye Xiao, "Well done, I was right to believe you, little brother."

Ye Xiao shrugged. "I should have just treated it as an assassination mission."

"Then don't worry." Atorina casually tossed the girl in her hand to the ground with a thud. "I'm usually pretty good at judging people."

"Then how come you didn't see there was a trap here?" Ye Xiao pouted. "You almost got me killed, you know?"

"Hahaha, it was indeed my fault." Artorina smiled slyly, then tossed a ring to Ye Xiao. "Then consider this my apology, and a reward for helping me out."

"You think you can just fob me off with a spatial ring..." Before Ye Xiao could finish speaking, his mental energy protruded from the ring, revealing a full array of equipment, scrolls, and books.

Wait, these are... skill books?

so much!??

Atorina wasn't surprised to see Ye Xiao's astonished expression. "I plan to take Sia to live in seclusion abroad. I'll probably never need the resources I've accumulated over the years in the organization. I originally made these things to find a disciple to pass on my skills to, but now that I'm leaving the organization, they're no longer necessary."

"You came to Stormharbor to ask about contacting the organization, but now you've unknowingly become hostile to the organization. Consider this my apology."

Ye Xiao carefully searched the area with his mental power. From equipment to skills, it basically contained the complete inheritance of a certain assassin path. He didn't know what level she could cultivate to, but he knew all too well that Atorina was going to be a Saint-level assassin in the future.

Is this something you can get from a regular quest? Even if Artoria isn't at the Saint rank yet, what she teaches you without reservation is definitely not bad.

“…How about I kill the one-finger guy who’s chasing you for you?” Ye Xiao’s throat bobbed slightly. “Otherwise, I won’t feel at ease taking him.”

"Haha, little brother, I'm glad you like my gift, but there's no need for that. The organization doesn't know I've already left."

"Huh?" Ye Xiao glanced at the girl tied up on the ground. "If I didn't know, how could this guy have used your message note to ambush me?"

"That's a long story." Artorina's beautiful eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if she were somewhat helpless. "I'm sorry, it was a bit too late when I discovered that Flori had stolen a piece of my tobacco. Her abilities are indeed quite troublesome to deal with when you're unprepared."

"And you damned thing! If it weren't for you, Atorina wouldn't have left!" the girl on the ground said fiercely to Ye Xiao.

"Alright... I think I understand." Ye Xiao's lips twitched. He guessed that this guy wanted to secretly get rid of him and the little girl behind Atorina's back, so that Atorina would lose her reason for betraying the organization. "So what is this little girl's background? Why does your organization want her dead so badly... I politely asked the two members with severed fingers that I captured this morning, but they only knew that it was an order from the organization, but they didn't know the reason."

“Oh, I don’t know either,” Artorina smiled.

"Huh? You don't even know what you're after??" Ye Xiao's eyes widened.

“Good question, hahaha.” Artorina smiled slightly. “I don’t know why a little girl who was abandoned by her family would suddenly become an assassination target of the organization today.”

"I've already killed so many people, and I never thought I would do something stupid because of trivial emotions."

"Sister Artorina!" The little girl looked up from her mother's body, noticed Artorina's presence, and ran over crying, "Sister Artorina... my mother... my mother she... sob sob..."

Artoria stroked the girl's head, a hint of tenderness in her eyes. "I thought you could tell me the answer, Mr. Ye. And why did you save her?"

Ye Xiao shrugged and remained silent.

“Look,” Artorina said softly, “maybe this is what idiots are like.”

Chapter 87 The Prophet

"Hey, why are you swearing at me!" Ye Xiao said angrily.

As they spoke, the girl's family members, who had been unconscious, finally opened their eyes. "Where is this place?"

The anxious little girl, Sia, rushed over, only to be met with a barrage of insults: "You bad luck, where did you come from!"

"You jinx, stay away from me!" "Get lost!"

These well-dressed relatives didn't seem to like the girl.

Ye Xiao even regretted saving these people earlier.

"Where exactly is this place?!" the girl's grandmother cursed, shoving the little girl aside and looking at Ye Xiao. "I get it now, did you team up with this jinx to kidnap us and try to extort money from us?"

"Let me tell you, my daughter is a baroness. I advise you to release us right away!"

"Your daughter... you mean that one?" Ye Xiao pointed to the corpse on the ground.

The girl's grandmother looked in the direction the finger was pointing, paused for a moment, then suddenly screamed and fainted.

“Murderer! You murderer!!” Another young woman, who was apparently some relative of the girl, pointed at Ye Xiao, her voice trembling.

Ye Xiao could only look helplessly at Artorina.

Artorina smiled. "That's how their family is. Ever since Sia's father passed away and her mother married Baron Hansen, she's been kicked out of the house... After all, the baron couldn't tolerate his woman having another man's child."

She walked up to the little girl, who looked helpless, and with a gentle flick of her wrist, a tiny needle, barely visible to the naked eye, pierced the neck of the woman she was visiting.

With a muffled thud, the woman fell to the ground and immediately fell into a deep, baby-like sleep.

"Leave the cleanup to me. Don't worry, they won't remember what you look like when they wake up." Atolina took down the panicked girls' families one by one with needles, and even gave Flori, who was tied to the ground and cursing, a needle as well.

"By the way, is this an apostle of the Full Moon Order?" Looking at the girl fast asleep on the ground, Ye Xiao scratched his head. "Just now upstairs, I saw that elf being possessed by the power of the moon goddess."

“Oh, you actually know about the Full Moon Order.” Artorina was a little surprised. “The organization and the order are indeed related, but Flori is not an apostle or hunter of the order. She probably just borrowed the abilities of the group of apostles who came to the capital to visit the organization. Just like how she manipulated those vines, it was actually Beatrice who was borrowed by her elven magic—ah, that is, the fainting elf lady.”

Being able to borrow contract spells and elven magic... that's insane?

However, Ye Xiao gleaned something else from Artorina's words: "The Full Moon Order has come to the Imperial City?"

“Yes, the person who came is said to be their priest.” Artorina nodded. “However, given my rank in the organization, I don’t have access to more specific information, but that’s very likely the reason why Shia was being hunted down… I wonder if you know that the bishops of the Full Moon Order are skilled in prophecy?”

Ye Xiao recalled carefully, and he remembered that before beating up Wengerman at Liangqiu Ridge, Wengerman did seem to have mentioned something to Ye Xiao:

"Your arrival even forced the Order to instruct me to seize the Blood of Miracles ahead of time, which led to Cynthia realizing the intervention of the Outer Gods and being born prematurely."

At the time, Ye Xiao felt a little strange. Why did he, who had only arrived in Liangqiu Village and hadn't done anything, instruct the Full Moon Cult to instruct Wengerman to speed up the operation to seize Hyde's blood?

However, at that time, a battle was about to break out, so he didn't ask about such minor details. Now it seems that the prophetic bishop of that cult probably played a role.

Ye Xiao nodded.

“I don’t know much about esoteric spells like divination and astrology, but Beatrice once told me that the threads of fate on Sia’s body were very disordered, which made it impossible for her to make reasonable divinations for Sia,” Atorina continued. “She said that she hadn’t seen a single person like that in previous years, but recently it seems like there are more of them, so I didn’t take it to heart at the time. I wonder if that’s the reason… Of course, this is just my guess. As for why the higher-ups killed such a homeless little girl, I don’t know either.”

The many people with messy fates are probably referring to the players, since they are from another world and their destinies cannot follow a normal future in this world.

From this perspective, players are practically the bane of divination mages and astrologers.

But the fact that Xia's fate, as an indigenous person, was disordered was a very strange thing. Ye Xiao looked at his task, which had been declared "complete" by the system, and after reviewing the text, he suddenly noticed something very incongruous.

"The Broken Ring - Virgo"?

Putting aside the ambiguous mission name, "Virgo" seems to be a zodiac constellation on Earth.

Although Ye Xiao had no interest in learning the backward and ancient astronomy of this world, he knew that the star charts of this world were completely different from those of Earth.

Is it a coincidence that these two zodiac signs share the same name?

"Oh, Lady Greta," Ye Xiao said, intending to ask the ancient demon lady beside him.

"What, you've finally remembered your maid?"

"There's something weird about what you're saying," Ye Xiao casually ruffled the little maid's pink and white hair, causing her to chase and bite his arm. "Where is Virgo in this world?"

"Virgo?" The little maid pouted as she straightened her beloved hair. "What lousy astrologer did you hear that name from? There's no such thing as a Virgo in this world."

That doesn't seem to be a coincidence.

Ye Xiao rubbed his chin. The task names given by the system were generally not unfounded, and most of the time they were quite straightforward—such as "Clean up the basement", "Ancient Tomb", and "Hopeful Paradise".

I just don't know if this "Virgo" represents this little girl whose fate is in disarray, or something else entirely.

Looking at Artorina's tall figure leading the little girl, he thought of how in his previous life, the future Artorina had not retired, but had become the leader of the One-Finger Clan.

Is there perhaps some connection between these two?

Ye Xiao vaguely felt that his brain had captured something, but what he saw so far was only the tip of the iceberg, and thinking about it further would only add to his troubles.

So he bid farewell to Artorina and, with the little maid, returned to the imperial city.

In any case, his mission was now complete, and he had received his reward from Artorina, so it should be considered a satisfactory ending.

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