"I've long heard that Ella Hevil is an evil god who humiliated the princess and murdered the prince in the royal city, and now she's come to wreak havoc on our Stormport!"
"My God, to carry out such a blatant massacre, is this the saintess crowned by the gods?!"
"The Holy Light Church will be led by people like this in the future?! How are ordinary people like us supposed to live?!"
Chapter Twenty-Five: Guilt and Punishment
The large group of soldiers who had been surrounding the Seven Stars Society gradually dispersed and began to surround Ella at the rear.
"These bastards..." Li Cheng gritted his teeth in anger upon seeing this scene. The false certification and false evidence, coupled with the public's dissatisfaction with the temple, constituted genuine public outrage.
The crowd that gathered wasn't sympathizing with the unrelated mercenary group, but rather seeing that even those mercenaries who usually served as lackeys for their families could be so easily slaughtered by the Holy Maiden, implying that their lives were nothing more than worthless weeds in her eyes.
Most importantly, the Church of Light itself has a doctrine that treats ordinary people as worthless.
This anger, though not entirely because of Ella, was now being unleashed upon her.
"Saintess of Light, Ella Heville, you have defied the law and massacred civilians in broad daylight. Do you admit it?!" The captain of the guard, holding a long spear, spoke righteously, "You may remain silent, but as the maintainer of order in Stormport, I hereby announce the arrest of you and your accomplices!"
With witnesses and physical evidence, and Haoming still unconscious while being carried on Ye Xiao's back, it seems that regardless of whether Ella admits it or not, the current situation is a dead end.
In terms of combat power, Ella and Greta here could easily defeat the army in front of them, let alone break through the entire northern district of Storm Harbor.
But if they do that, the Seven Stars Society and Ella will become villains wanted by the entire continent.
This move is undeniably insidious, and its true purpose remains unknown.
If she really is the native Ella, then she probably has no other option but to reveal her evil god identity and overturn the table.
But... we are from Earth.
Ella, well-versed in modern public opinion, is not entirely confident in turning the tide against this trap set by feudal-era indigenous people, but she will not be easily manipulated either.
So, while anxiously waiting for Ella to refuse to admit her "crime" and preparing to forcibly arrest the guard captain who had incurred the wrath of the crowd, they only heard the petite girl let out a cold snort.
"I killed these people."
what?
This time, it was the captain of the guard who was stunned.
Not to mention the captain of the guard, even the members of the Seven Stars Society who were preparing to break through the encirclement were stunned.
"The Grey Wolf Mercenary Group has defied the divine word, oppressed the common people, colluded with nobles for ill-gotten gains, and engaged in illegal trade. They have violated the laws of the Empire and the doctrines of the Holy Temple. I, the Holy Maiden of Light, in the name of the Holy Temple, hereby order the execution of these villains!"
When someone falsely accuses you of eating two bowls of noodles, you'd better not only actually eat two bowls, but also put a fly in them and report them for food safety issues.
"You...you're talking nonsense!" The imposter Grey Wolf mercenary immediately lost his composure, forgetting even to feign a sob. "You not only killed people, but you also slander us without any evidence..."
"What if I have evidence?" Ella said coldly, looking at the gray wolf mercenary. "Are you prepared to sacrifice yourself for questioning the Holy Temple's ruling?"
The gray wolf mercenary immediately swallowed hard. The silver-haired girl's cold, deep red eyes revealed a chilling killing intent, and a nameless fear suddenly arose in his heart.
But he still braced himself and said, "Our Gray Wolf Mercenary Group has never had any problems with its conduct... You witch are just slandering us!"
These words drew scorn from some of the onlookers. Initially, the impactful photographs portrayed Ella as a wicked woman who slaughtered civilians, but they were also familiar with the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group's usual arrogance and domineering behavior. They felt that the man's words were simply blatant lies.
At this moment, Ella's appearance was no longer seen by the onlookers as a bigger and more evil bandit, but as a saint who came to help them seek justice.
But this was only a hint of suspicion, since the city defense forces still had "conclusive" evidence. Ella simply gave a brief speech.
The captain of the guards understood this as well, and said, "Holy Maiden, since you have invoked the name of the Holy Temple, you must be responsible for your words! You cannot make baseless accusations without evidence!"
Unfortunately, although Ella wasn't the type to bring flies to a restaurant, the restaurant itself was plagued by flies.
The only problem is that all she needs to know is where the flies are.
As a reborn individual whose hometown was Stormport, and having experienced those years of fierce battles with the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group, she probably knows the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group much better than these fake Grey Wolf Mercenaries.
So, when the players of the Seven Stars Guild cleared away the ruins beneath their feet and carried out one tattered ledger after another, along with one strange prop after another tainted with evil spirits, from a room hidden in an underground mezzanine, the captain of the guard and the fake Grey Wolf mercenary were dumbfounded.
Ella even knew that the Hayville family's forces stationed here possessed some dirt on the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group, but it seemed they were no longer needed.
The captain of the guards wanted to forcefully order his men to attack the Seven Luminaries Society to stop everything, but the defenses of Greta and Freya, the two older brothers, were not something these guards could easily break through.
Then, the image in mid-air changed slightly, broadcasting the dirty deals between the Gray Wolf Mercenary Group and the Malz family across the night sky of the North District.
The little maid even thoughtfully upgraded the imaging circle by one ring, making it clearly visible to everyone in Stormport.
……
Meanwhile, atop a mountain in the southern district, in a study within a tower of the Wind Chasing Fortress.
"What the hell are they doing?! What the hell are they doing over there?!" Count Maltz stared at the account book image appearing in the night sky outside the window, and slammed his fist on the table in a fit of rage, on the verge of losing his temper.
The original reason for choosing the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group's base as the location to ambush the Saintess's team was that it was close to the bridge and that it was all on their own side, making it easier to deal with. But who would have thought that not only did they fail to achieve their goal, but the other side also dug up and displayed all the dirty things they had hidden underground in the base!?
"Hmm, I can only say that my adorable little sister is more shrewd than I expected." On the windowsill, a black-haired, blue-eyed girl rested her chin on her hand, looking at the scene above the distant city with great interest. "Interesting, they're all visitors from another world. It's just a good thing we can't see the fates that have intertwined to create this scene."
The girl's face was almost identical to Ella's, the only difference being her black hair and deep blue eyes.
"I...I sacrificed the entire mercenary group!" Count Malz clutched his head in his hands. "I neither killed nor corrupted that little guild, nor even managed to capture the saintess, and you just think it's all funny!?"
"You... have a problem with that?" A chilling gaze fell on Count Malz's trembling face.
"No...no." Count Malz wiped the sweat from his forehead. He suddenly realized that in the other party's hands, he was nothing more than an ant that could be manipulated at will.
“The Earl seems to have a lot of free time? Why don’t you go visit the female fish we’ve been raising together?” The black-haired girl suddenly appeared beside Earl Maltz like a ghost, causing the latter to tremble.
She lifted Count Maltz's large chin with her fingertip, a smirk playing on her lips. "You care so much about your little pawns, you can't possibly treat the noble Queen with such favoritism, can you?"
"No, no, I was wrong, Your Majesty, I was wrong, I was wrong, please forgive me, I was wrong, I just acted stupidly, I was just an idiot, please let me go... No, no, please don't!!!"
The oil lamp on the desk cast Count Maltz's lonely shadow on the wall, revealing a human-shaped silhouette with his head twisted in a contortion, and a fishtail-like silhouette gradually growing from his tail.
The piercing screams immediately echoed in the empty study.
Chapter Twenty-Six: A Startling Morning
The pure white morning light extends from the slowly opening crack of the door.
A pure white church, with rose petals falling like rain.
Ye Xiao held the delicate, boneless hand and led her from the red carpet at the entrance to the huge cross in front of her.
The blessings from relatives and friends gathered into a wave of sound, sounding so dreamlike and unreal to my ears.
At the end of the carpet, Ye Xiao turned around and gently placed her hand beside the bride's white veil...
Wait a minute, the bride? Where am I? What am I doing?
Ye Xiao was suddenly a little dazed, but his hand still involuntarily lifted the thin veil in front of him, and his silver hair fluttered in the wind amidst the cheers.
In his field of vision, he simultaneously saw the beautiful and lovely face of the red-eyed girl, Ella Hayville, and his own bewildered and astonished expression.
……
What the hell!
Ye Xiao suddenly woke up from the bed. Outside the window, the distant sea under the night sky was just beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.
What a bizarre dream!
Ye Xiao rubbed her eyes and got out of bed.
Stepping out into the corridor, it seemed there was still plenty of time; neither the members of the Seven Stars Society nor the people from the Tide Merchant Guild had started their activities yet.
Speaking of the Tide Merchant Guild, this is the visible force of the Heville family in Stormport. Since the conflict with the Stormport City Defense Force last night, Ella has forcefully led a group of Seven Stars players out of the soldiers' encirclement and here to take up residence.
The city guards had no reason to stop them. After the Holy Temple had put pressure on them with its righteous cause and given a real reason to take action against the Grey Wolf Mercenary Group, the guards would be in the wrong if they forced a fight. Unless they ignored the subsequent pursuit and counterattack from the Holy Temple, they would not dare to forcibly keep the Seven Stars Society in the open.
Originally, Ella did not want to reveal the relationship between the Heville family and the Septian Society too early, but now that the relationship has been torn apart, it would be unreasonable to ask the Septian Society to bear the pressure from the Marz family, the ruling family of Stormport, alone.
Li Cheng and his group of players still need room to grow; they cannot be allowed to face a force alone yet.
Thinking this, Ye Xiao saw Ella, who had washed and dressed, open her door and come out in the empty corridor.
He knew he would run into Ella, after all, it was essentially him who made Ella, who had also woken up early, leave her room.
This feeling of being two people at the same time was something Ye Xiao had taken a long time to get used to when he first learned the "One Breath Transforms into Three" technique in his previous life.
Their relationship is like that of two individuals who can act freely without interfering with each other, yet share completely identical feelings and are controlled by a consciousness independent of both bodies, like two puppets manipulated by the same puppeteer.
One of them, in its sleep or hibernation state, acts like a terminal that is temporarily offline, but it does not interfere with the activity on the other side.
And when both sides are asleep, dreams will occasionally occur.
That's what they say, but when Ye Xiao thought about that subtle dream and walked side by side with Ella in the corridor, he felt a strange flutter in his heart.
To some extent, Ella's beauty was indeed breathtaking—it would be a lie to say that Ye Xiao had no feelings for this other version of himself.
But as Ella, looking at herself in male form always gives her an indescribable feeling of subtlety and strangeness.
Despite sharing the same consciousness, the two bodies seem to generate different emotions and habits. For example, Ye Xiao's behavior and speech are more rough, while Ella's are more dignified and elegant.
This never happened in the previous life's "One Qi Transforms into Three" technique—of course, that's because in the previous life, this skill created two identical versions of himself, unlike now which creates a Ye Xiao... no, a silver-haired beauty named Ella.
Ella felt her thoughts were a bit confused. She shouldn't be the original being, but when she thought as Ella, she always treated herself as the subject.
As they pondered, they walked to the corner of the corridor and looked at each other at the same time.
Even though the face that came into view was that of the world-destroying witch he hated most in his previous life, Ye Xiao couldn't help but reach out and gently stroke that soft, milky white cheek, perhaps because of the influence of that dream.
He did just that, and he also felt the slightly rough texture of his knuckles brushing against Ella's face.
it's wired……
Ella even cooperated perfectly by gently rubbing her small face against Ye Xiao's hand, her charming red eyes slightly dreamy.
Ye Xiao stared at the slightly flushed face and began to wonder what those thin, pink lips would taste like.
It's just... an experiment!
Thinking this, Ye Xiao placed his hand on the silver-haired girl's shoulder and slowly moved his face closer.
A soft "click" sound suddenly came, and the two people, like two cats whose tails had been stepped on at the same time, looked at the end of the corridor together.
A petite girl with pinkish-white hair hid half of her body behind the wall, her face flushed.
"Ahhh, Greta... Greta... Greta, hahaha, good morning!"
Ella greeted him, her voice trembling with nervousness.
"Sorry to bother you!" The little maid blushed and hid behind the wall. Ella saw this and quickly chased after her, grabbing the little maid by the back of her collar.
"Wait, wait, Miss, it's not what you think!!"
"What...what else could it be!?" Greta, who was being grabbed, gritted her teeth and turned her head, then froze for a moment. "Uh...the Holy Maiden of Light!?"
"Huh!?" Ella looked at the maid's bewildered expression, then at her own slender arms covered in white gloves, and her heart skipped a beat—oh no, she was so nervous that she confused herself with Ye Xiao!
She quickly told Ye Xiao to run out from behind the wall as well, and repeated the previous lines, "Wait for Greta!"
"What do you want from me! Go and be all lovey-dovey with your girlfriend!" The maid was furious when she saw Ye Xiao. "Just please don't do this in public next time!"
"No, it's really not what you think, Maid!!!" Ye Xiao was on the verge of tears. "I can prove right now that the Holy Maiden and I are really just friends!"
"Mmm!" Ella nodded quickly, regaining her composure. "Miss Greta, Mr. Ye and I are just ordinary acquaintances! What happened just now was... just an accident!"
"You even try to deceive the devil!" Greta grabbed Ye Xiao's clothes and made a scene. "And why are you explaining yourself to me? I don't care!"
"Hiss... Now that you mention it... I don't know why I subconsciously wanted to explain." Ye Xiao scratched his head, then suddenly felt a sharp pain in his waist.
But then he saw the little maid grab his waist, stomping her foot and yelling, "You don't know, do you! You don't know, do you?!"
"Ouch, have mercy!" Ye Xiao winced in pain. This little guy was really ruthless when he hit her hard. "So what do you want me to believe you?"
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Awkward Maid
"Hmph!" Greta withdrew her hands from torturing Ye Xiao and crossed her arms over her chest. "Then you!...then you...pat my head."
"Huh?" Ye Xiao looked completely bewildered.
"I told you to touch, so you touched!!!" Greta's face turned as red as an apple as she grabbed Ye Xiao's arm.
"Huh? Ah, okay." Ye Xiao placed her palm on the fluffy pink head and stroked it.
The little maid pouted, but glanced at Ella out of the corner of her eye and saw that the silver-haired girl was just smiling kindly at her, her rosy eyes revealing a doting look.
"Ugh, why aren't you angry at all?!" Greta waved her fist again. "That makes me look petty!"
"What are you struggling with..." Ye Xiao continued to rub the soft head like she was soothing a kitten, slightly speechless.
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