Chapter 23

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The sky slowly turned dark.

The temperature in the forest quickly dropped.

In a cave halfway up the mountain.

The hooded Saintess slowly got up with a moan.

“You’re awake?”

A question came.

The confused hooded Saintess raised her head in surprise.

“Is it Knight Johnson? Are you okay? Consecration secret technique…”

Halfway through her words, the Saintess suddenly stopped.

She saw a half-meter-long purple-scaled golden lizard slowly crawling towards her.

“Ah!”

With a soft cry, the Saintess quickly crossed her arms and stepped back with her calves.

Ye Chen helplessly stopped his movements and sprawled on the ground. He opened his mouth and said, “This is very rude of you! Is this how you treat your savior?”

The Saintess was stunned.

It was as if something in her head had been cut off.

Apparently, a lizard had suddenly opened its mouth and said that he had saved her. It was something that she could not accept at the moment

However, when she raised her head, Ye Chen, who had been observing her, was also stunned.

This was the first time he had seen her face under the hood.

A pair of large, watery eyes were looking at him with fear and suspicion.

Under the moonlight, her pure white face seemed to reflect a faint fluorescent light.

Small, playful freckles covered both sides of her delicate nose bridge. Not only did they not destroy her charm, they actually added a bit of cuteness to her.

What attracted Ye Chen’s attention the most was her slightly thick lips, which made her even sexier despite her cuteness.

Ye Chen could not help but think that if he were to be swallowed by those red lips, he would definitely feel so good that he would fly up in the air?

His lustful thoughts were quickly suppressed by Ye Chen.

He was now a lizard. It was useless to think so much. It would only add to his worries…

It was undeniable that he was indeed shocked by the Saintess’ beautiful face.

She was one of the most beautiful women that Ye Chen had seen in his two lives, second only to the Elven Queen.

As for her figure, it was not obvious because she was wearing a long robe.

However, since she had such a beautiful face, her figure should not be too bad either.

Just as Ye Chen was trying to guess what type of woman she was…

The Saintess had also gradually calmed down.

After looking at Ye Chen carefully for a while…

The contents of the books that he had seen in the library of the church had slowly appeared in his mind.

“Purple scales, golden stripes, and a demonic beast that can even talk!”

“You… are you the Saint Beast of the Elven Queen?”

Hearing the Saintess’ question, Ye Chen also made a cool pose and nodded, “That’s right, I am the Saint Beast of the elf race!”

With that, the fear in the Saintess’ eyes gradually disappeared.

Instead, she started to size up Ye Chen with a strange expression.

After a long while…

She then muttered in a low voice, “Why isn’t it as big and powerful as I imagined? Could it be that there is a mistake in the records?”

Hearing her words, Ye Chen’s forehead was immediately filled with black lines.

The Saintess also felt that she had said the wrong thing. She hurriedly put her palms together and apologized, “Ah, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have said that. Thank you for saving me…”

Then, her expression became a bit sad.

“Lord Saint Beast, my Guardian Knight, do you know what happened to them?”

Ye Chen thought for a moment, then said frankly, “They should have been eaten already.”

“Is that so?”

Hearing that, the Saintess slowly kneeled on the ground with a sad expression, then put her palms together and started to pray.

Ye Chen waited for a while, feeling bored.

It was not until the Saintess finished praying that he opened his mouth and asked, “What are you guys doing in the Shadow Forest? Were you also invited by the eagle nest leader to attack the Holy Land?”

Hearing him, the Saintess asked with a surprised look, “Attack the Holy Land? Why?”

Seeing that she was really shocked, it did not seem like she was just pretending.

Ye Chen did not ask any more questions. Instead, he shook his head and said, “Since you are not here to attack the Holy Land, then why did you bring people here?”

The Saintess did not ask about the Holy Land either. Instead, she hesitated for a moment before speaking to Ye Chen.

“My name is Candace, and I am a candidate for the Saintess of the church…”

After listening to her story…

Ye Chen finally knew her purpose.

It turned out that the Saintess Candace was a candidate for the Saintess of the church.

This trip was also one of the trials for her to become a Saintess. Her purpose was to find the ruins of a ten thousand years old miracle city in the Shadow Forest.

Those three Guardian Knights were sent by the church to protect her.

However, now that all three of them had died, and she had yet to find the ruins, it could basically be said that she had failed the trial.

“Oh? If you fail the trial, will you become ordinary nuns?”

Candice shook her head lightly.

“Since I can not become a Saintess, then the final result will be to sacrifice myself to serve the great god Kronos…”

“What do you mean?”

Ye Chen asked in confusion.

He did not know anything about the church in this world.

Candace raised her head slightly and explained in a low voice, “After I go back, I will be sent to the pleasure temple at the top level of the church to serve the son of God for a month.”

“If I can not bear the saint embryo, then I will be offered to the great Kronos.”

Looking at Candace’s calm face…

Ye Chen was speechless.

To put it bluntly, it was just sending her back to work for a month. If she did not get pregnant, then she would be killed, right?

It seemed like this foreign world’s church was quite dark.

Looking at her beautiful face, Ye Chen asked, “Don’t you know how to run?”

Candace looked at Ye Chen with confusion. “This is my mission as a candidate for Saintess. Why should I run?”

The smart Ye Chen immediately gave up on trying to persuade her.

He knew that Candice had been completely brainwashed by the church.

She had already seen everything that was about to happen as her mission.

So, why would she care about what this ‘lizard’ said?

Thinking up to this point, Ye Chen could not be bothered to care about her anymore.

Although she was indeed beautiful, in Ye Chen’s eyes, she was just a brainwashed zombie.

Right now, he had more important things to do.

Two months later, the Holy Land of the elves would be attacked by humans.

If he could not become stronger before then…

What would happen to the Elven Queen would be even crueler than the future of this Saintess.

Therefore, Ye Chen said, “Alright, then you can make your own decision. I still have things to do, so I will take my leave now.”

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Candace quickly reached out her hand and grabbed Ye Chen’s tail. She said with a hint of begging in her voice, “Saint Beast, can you hear my request?”

Ye Chen turned his head impatiently and asked, “Are you asking me to take you out to serve your son of God? If that is the case, I don’t have the time!”

Candice shook her head.

Instead, she pointed at a corner in the depths of the cave and said, “No, I… I think I found the location of the ruins… can you come with me to take a look?”

Ye Chen followed her finger and looked over.

At the corner of the cave she was pointing at, there was an obviously man-made stone wall.

And on the stone wall, there was an angel relief sculpture with wings, which was faintly discernible…

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