The Villain Saint is my secondary account

“It seems you’ve noticed, young man,” the old king said softly. “Though the words are somewhat ugly… only the royal family, who have been passed down through generations, knows that the founding of Loren was fraught with sin.”

"The late emperor signed a pact with the gods, using their power to subdue the arrogant dragon and lay the foundation for the founding of the nation and the prosperity of Loren... but at the same time, he also sowed the seeds of the empire's destruction."

“That god went mad, and his corrupted power has accumulated in the royal bloodline generation after generation… I tried to break the curse, and this is what you see as the end result.”

"So... you want me to help your offspring remove this curse?" Ye Xiao asked. He did feel that some members of the royal family were not quite normal, but let alone removing the curse, he had even accidentally killed one of them. If that were the case, the mission would have already failed.

"No... I hope you can help me end the royal bloodline here." The old king sighed. "The curse of that deity cannot be broken."

"...You want me to overthrow the royal family?" Ye Xiao was stunned.

The old king chuckled. “It’s not such a burden, young man. You just need to pass these words on to my youngest daughter… Lilia Betis. Her residence should be in a remote district east of the capital.”

“She is intelligent and has not inherited royal blood... She is the most suitable and most likely person to end all of this.”

“That’s fine.” Ye Xiao nodded. “I have had the pleasure of meeting Your Highness the Second Princess a few times.”

"Hehe... What a coincidence, then this must be fate..."

"I can take you to see her." Ye Xiao picked up the finger from the ground. If he could resolve the matter in Storm Harbor, it wouldn't be difficult to take the finger back to the Imperial City to find Lilia.

"I can't see him anymore..." The old king's voice trailed off, growing increasingly faint in the quiet room, "I wasn't... a good father... alas..."

With a long, drawn-out sigh, the old king's voice seemed to disappear into the wind and gradually fade into the darkness.

"Alright..." Ye Xiao agreed, fiddled with the key for a moment, and noticed that the room seemed to have quieted down. "...Hello? Are you still there, Your Majesty?"

There was no response. In the empty room, only the kitten of unknown origin was still rubbing against the back of his hand.

"So sudden." Ye Xiao was surprised by the old king's nonchalant departure, but it seemed that the other party had also explained everything that needed to be explained.

As for this finger... I'll show it to Lilia later.

……

With the quirky kitten by his side, Ye Xiaomo hid several keys in a corner and actually got a good night's sleep.

So much so that when the prison captain pulled him out of the torture chamber the next day, he found that his complexion seemed to have regained its rosy hue.

However, he didn't pay attention to these details because since last night, these restless prisoners had become very unruly for some reason.

Fights and disturbances continued, with groups of prisoners causing trouble non-stop. As soon as Ye Xiao was released, several new prisoners were arrested at the door to take over his shift.

One of them was the big guy Hu Sen. When Ye Xiao came out of the torture chamber, the two of them glared at each other fiercely.

If the jailer hadn't held them back, these two might have started fighting again.

The prison captain was having a real headache. At this time, a large number of prisoners seemed fearless and kept challenging the prison's order.

Meanwhile, the warden was still receiving psychological treatment in the treatment room. Although he didn't have any major external injuries, he seemed to have gone mad for some reason, constantly muttering foul language.

Fortunately, the prisoners who entered the torture chamber quickly became obedient within an hour or two, which seemed to give him a good way to manage this group of bastards.

This tactic was so effective that even the most rebellious muscle-bound Hu Sen became timid and silent in the torture chamber after being frozen for a whole morning.

You should know that this guy used to be a tough guy who could be beaten by a group of prison guards with iron bars without getting hurt.

The prison captain, proud of his brilliant management methods, gradually turned to the torture chambers to summon more and more prisoners.

Of course, only about ten of those who caused the most trouble were imprisoned, and the prison gradually began to return to its former peace.

Anyway, that's what the prison captain thought, until he saw that damned number 221 wandering up to him again.

"Where's your supervisor? What's he doing waving around that broken shovel like that?" The prison captain said irritably to Ye Xiao's nonchalant attitude. "Trying to rebel? Get back to work!"

"Wow, sir, how could you be so brilliant?" Ye Xiao's eyes widened, seemingly surprised. "You already knew what I was going to do."

The prison guard captain paused, looking puzzled. "What are you talking about..."

With a crisp clang, the shovel struck the prison guard captain on the head, and the poor fellow instantly fell into a deep, infant-like sleep.

Chapter Fifty-Four: The Arrogant Witch

When preparations are sufficient, a counterattack is simply a war without gunfire.

Ye Xiao's shovel strike was not an act of resistance by him alone, but a coordinated riot launched from within and without by several prisoners whose neck handcuffs had been removed from the basement of the watchtower and several others whose neck handcuffs had been removed from the open ground.

The jailers were dumbfounded. They didn't know where so many prisoners who had been freed from the magical restraints had come from. Hu Sen, the big guy who had been enhanced by the alchemical potion, was like a mad monster, grabbing the terrified jailer next to him and trying to tear him in half.

"Hey!" Ye Xiao looked at the big guy with a shovel. "You, and your men, these low-level prison guards are no threat to you. Just injure or knock them out, but don't kill them."

"...Hmm?" Hu Sen grabbed the jailer who had fainted from fright, his face full of fat and his expression was unfriendly. "You do have some skills, but you'd better not meddle in other people's business."

"I hope that I rescue partners who can help me, not demons." Ye Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly and drew the sword from the prison captain's waist. "I don't know what you were like before, but if you want to be a demon now, I don't mind sending you to hell."

As they were talking, a chubby golden shaded cat suddenly jumped out from some corner, landed on Ye Xiao's shoulder, and meowed at the big guy Hu Sen.

Although the appearance of the cat made Ye Xiao's aura less imposing, Hu Sen truly felt the chilling killing intent emanating from the other party.

"Ha." Hu Sen casually tossed the jailer to the ground. "So pretentious, how did he become a criminal?"

"I didn't say you couldn't move at all. The warden and his cronies are on the third floor. Go find them and have some fun." Ye Xiao checked the nose of the jailer on the ground and, finding that he was still breathing faintly, pulled him against the wall.

It's not hard to see from here that Ye Xiao had already established a cooperative relationship with Hu Sen.

The day before, when Ye Xiao finished work, he took the initiative to provoke the other party. In addition to causing chaos and getting most of the prisoners' clothes dirty so that he could take advantage of the chaos during the night's check, he also told Hu Sen about his intention to cooperate in escaping while they were fighting on the ground.

Of course, the other party wouldn't believe it so easily, but a second brawl broke out that night. This time, Ye Xiao used a little magic to make Hu Sen personally feel it during the fight, and the other party realized that Ye Xiao's plan was indeed feasible. Only then did he have his subordinates create opportunities to enter the torture chamber and use the key left by Ye Xiao to unlock the neck cuffs in a tacit cooperation.

In just two days, under the close watch of hundreds of prison guards, Ye Xiao almost perfectly conquered the Dead Sea Prison, which no one had ever successfully escaped from in his previous life.

Of course, they had only taken control of the inner part of the prison; the city's garrison on the outer city walls had not yet noticed anything unusual about the watchtowers and the circular prison.

The ordinary prison guards in the watchtower, caught off guard, were no match for the prisoners whose magic was no longer sealed by their neck shackles. Not to mention Ye Xiao, Hu Sen and his gang were so fierce that almost no one could stop them.

As agreed, Ye Xiao went to the large bedroom on the third floor and rescued the girl who had been imprisoned by the warden. However, it was more of a rescue than a rescue. The girl was simply tied to the bed, and Ye Xiao had only come to untie her ropes. The warden had disappeared without a trace.

The untied girl threw herself at Ye Xiao, crying her eyes out. It was clear that he had been living in fear all day.

"Thank you, sob sob sob, thank you..."

Ye Xiao didn't know what to say, so he smiled wryly and patted the girl's head to comfort her. Then, he felt the kitten on his shoulder punch him in the face.

"Hey, what's going on?" Ye Xiao covered his face, completely bewildered. The next second, he wondered if it was just his imagination, but he noticed that when the girl looked up gratefully at the cat perched on his shoulder, she suddenly showed a very subtle expression.

A feeling of shock, embarrassment, disbelief, yet an attempt to conceal it.

The reason the description was so accurate was because Ye Xiao had seen the exact same expression on the neighbor's child.

The young man saw his father looking for someone at the internet cafe, and when he was caught, this was the expression he made when he tried to pretend he didn't recognize his father.

The fact that the child was beaten so badly left a very deep impression on Ye Xiao, who was sitting next to him.

Ye Xiao didn't quite understand why the girl had this expression. He couldn't help but look at the cat of unknown origin on his shoulder. He saw that the cat's round face had wide eyes, but its pupils had shrunk to a straight line.

Wow, although cats' expressions aren't as rich as humans', they're still quite vivid.

"You...know each other?" Ye Xiao asked, puzzled.

The girl on the bed and the cat on her shoulder both shook their heads.

"...You're kidding me." Ye Xiao patted the cat's butt and shooed it off his shoulder. "You two talk first, I'm going downstairs."

The fact that she could recognize the cat on his shoulder made Ye Xiao realize that this girl was probably not as simple as he had imagined, and he became somewhat wary.

However, he never intended to get too close to the girl or the cat. Once the rescue was complete, things could be put on hold. Since the other party hadn't shown any ill intentions, Ye Xiao didn't plan to care too much.

The chubby golden kitten bared its teeth angrily at Ye Xiao, but Ye Xiao nimbly dodged the kitten's claws, gracefully walked out of the room, and closed the door.

Only the purple-haired girl and the golden tabby cat staring at the door remained in the room, falling into an awkward silence.

After a moment, the girl on the bed finally spoke first, her cold voice a stark contrast to her previous gentle plea to Ye Xiao for help: "...Mammon, have you already been reduced to a pet cat?"

"...How dare you talk to me like that, Lucyville? I've been looking for you all this time, and it turns out you're here being tied to a bed as a sex partner."

"You...!" The girl, known as Lucyville, gritted her teeth and rushed forward to grab the nimble little fat cat, but was easily dodged by the cat, causing her nose to hit the wooden cabinet.

"Ooh..." Lucyville covered her nose, a few tears welling up in her eyes from the pain. "You stinky cat, if it weren't for the fact that there was no..."

"Does being stripped of power mean you can only become a slave?" The kitten perched on top of the cabinet, looking arrogant and proud. "Seeing your miserable state after you were rescued, I feel ashamed to be called a demon god alongside you."

"I...I was faking it! To fool that foolish human!" Lucyville roared. "It was just an avatar, how could I possibly ask a human for help!"

"Heh." Mammon the cat let out a disdainful laugh. "Then you've achieved your goal, so stop bothering others."

"Huh? Why should I listen to you!"

"What, does becoming a slave mean you have to find a master to follow you? So the Arrogant Witch has this kind of preference?"

"Mammon!!! You yourself turn into a pet cat, wagging your tail and begging for attention on others, how dare you criticize me!?"

"What do you know! I just used too much divine power and got backfired by the threads of fate... How can you call it acting cute when it's a backlash!"

"What does being turned into a cat by a backlash have to do with you kneading someone's shoulder like a cat?"

"I... I was just urging them on, to prevent vixens like you from harming people!"

"...Then what are you, you fat cat demon!?"

"Lucyville, you're asking for it?!"

"Fat cat demon! Fat cat demon!!!"

"go to hell!!!"

The kitten squeaked and jumped down from the top of the cabinet, engaging in a fierce struggle with the girl who rushed towards it from the bed, clutching a pillow.

Chapter Fifty-Five Souvenirs

At this moment, in the center of the lobby on the first floor of the monitoring tower.

Ye Xiao was leaning against a pillar, discussing the next plan with Dean, Hu Sen, and other prisoners.

Ye Xiao's plan was simple and direct: take this opportunity to revive Ella, and then have Ella lead everyone to break through the Dead Sea prison.

Of course, Ye Xiao told Dean that it was a "summoning" rather than a resurrection.

"You want to summon that witch here?" Dean looked at Ye Xiao incredulously. "Not to mention I don't want to obey that woman, even if I wanted to carry out the summoning ritual you mentioned, we don't have enough materials here."

"Actually, we don't really need that many things. The classics are for conveying and communicating our will, so we don't need them. As for other redundant materials to express respect or gratitude, we don't need them either," Ye Xiao explained. "The statue is in the warden's room, I've already memorized the magic circle, and there are candles in the storage room here."

“We still need sacrifices.” Dean spread his hands. “That night, two thousand Dark Cultists sacrificed their lives. We have less than three hundred people here, including all the prisoners and guards.”

“…Damn, this wasn’t written on that piece of paper.” Ye Xiao frowned, but it was true, in his memory when he, Ella, first transmigrated, the dungeon was filled with dried corpses…

Damn, but offering sacrifices for two thousand people... He can't find them even outside of prison, let alone inside.

“And the container,” Dean continued. “If she comes in the form of possession, who do you want her to possess?”

Ye Xiao pondered, wondering if he would be suitable to be the container.

I summoned myself to possess my own body? It just doesn't seem right.

As for everyone else…

"Brother Husen, are you interested in becoming an evil god?"

"Get away from me, kid. You look like you have ulterior motives." Hu Sen frowned and moved away from Ye Xiao, who was grinning.

"Okay, isn't there any alternative...?" Ye Xiao shrugged, having failed to persuade him.

“I remember that book also said that you could use the remains of a god’s incarnation. That way, you could build a divine body directly from the original incarnation without offerings or containers,” Dean said helplessly. “There is no other way.”

The remains of a deity's incarnation... Ella was left entirely in the realm of the Moon Goddess, which is not in the same space as here. Where is Ye Xiao supposed to find the remains?

“No, that’s not the case.” He scratched his head, realizing there were still many troubles to overcome in bringing Ella back. “Never mind, let’s consider the next plan…”

But before he could finish speaking, a soft "thud" was heard, and a small cloth bag suddenly landed on the ground in front of Ye Xiao.

Ye Xiao looked up and saw the familiar golden kitten jump down from the roof beam, its chubby body landing on his head as lightly as a feather.

What's this? Having gotten used to the cat's various sudden appearances, Ye Xiao's attention was instead drawn to the small cloth bag.

He untied the cloth bag and found that inside was a delicate little silver box.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of the prisoners, Ye Xiao opened the box, revealing a small, white-and-pink hand resting on a red velvet cushion.

"Holy crap, where did this come from?" Ye Xiao's eyes widened. He recognized Ella's hand at a glance, since he had seen it every day before.

But I remember that Ella wasn't dismembered when she died, so how could she have a severed hand for no reason?

It wasn't until he noticed the carvings on the box that Ye Xiao suddenly remembered the night Ella first arrived at the Second Princess's residence.

Lilia? She preserved Ella's severed hand? Why?