The Defeated Saintess Is On A Journey To Tame The Evil God Book 01 Chapter 04.08 - Northern District's Haze

Aria knelt down on the sofa, trembling.

Seeing Aria's pious appearance, Xing Mo and Aurora looked at each other and carried a heated conversation with their eyes.

Xing Mo: What did you do?

Aurora: I saved her.

Xing Mo: What do we do? She seems to know that you are the Tree of Life.

Aurora: Does she? I don't think so. She thinks you are the Saintess who serves the Tree of Life.

Xing Mo: Then what should I do?

Aurora: Preach.

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After ending the conversation with their eyes, Xing Mo looked at Aria and swallowed.

Due to being freed from the curse, the girl appears to have developed faith in the Tree of Life...

Sending her to a shelter was no longer an option. After all, if she were to proselytize the belief in the Tree of Life, Aurora's power might increase dramatically...

What to do... What to do…

Xing Mo mulled it over and then suddenly had an epiphany.

She cleared her throat and assumed a holy and solemn expression.

"Aria, I am the Saintess who serves the Tree of Life! I ask that you keep it a secret and don't talk about the Tree of Life to others!"

Aria raised her head and rubbed her eyes. At this time, the morning light coming through the window illuminated half of Xing Mo's face, and her emerald-like eyes seemed to emit a hallow light.

Her eyes were green... the same hallow green as the Tree of Life...

At this moment, Aria looked a bit dazed.

Xing Mo, on the other hand, tried hard to maintain her dignified appearance, tried her best not to expose herself.

This bearing was modeled after Young Master Noble Sunlight.

After a while, Aria said softly: "... I... I am willing to obey the divine decree... but if the Tree of Life can save me, can't it save others as well?"

"The Tree of Life is very busy." Xing Mo refused.

Aria looked deflated: "... there are many children like me in the Docklands. They have no one to take care of them and no food to eat. In the end, they either end up in factories or in the arena..."

"... I want to save them..."

The gray-haired loli raised her head, and Xing Mo was surprised to find tears glistening in her eyes: "I want... to save them...! Can you help me pray to the Tree of Life...!"

Xing Mo felt awkward. Oh Missy, if you were to learn that your new God is the white-haired loli with a wicked smile next to me, would you fall into despair?

You shouldn't be so gullible! It won't do you any good!

Speaking of which, what did Aurora let her see for the lass's faith to suddenly become so strong...

When Xing Mo was in a pickle, Aurora suddenly spoke up: "... Girl, our God can't watch over everyone at the same time. Their power is insufficient..."

"... if you serve them, serve the mighty Tree of Life, and increase their influence over this world, then everyone can be saved..."

Aurora's voice was ethereal, making Aria feel stunned for a moment.

She pursed her lips and lowered her head, but then quickly raised it again: "I will do it."

"Don't you need to think in over? The Church of the Starsea is very powerful. By doing this, it will be tantamount to collaborating with their enemy." Xing Mo suddenly became frenetic.

"There, there is no need to think it over." Aria took a deep breath, and her gray eyes turned cold: "Children who grew up in the Docklands have long since stopped believing in the Goddesses."

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Xing Mo made breakfast and fed Aria and Aurora, and then listened to the story of the little gray-haired loli.

She was an orphan, and since she was little, she made a living by stealing in the Docklands. Thanks to her skills, she quickly made a place for herself.

But she was eventually caught.

In the Docklands' prison, she contracted black aura disease. At that time, Blackwood found her and gave her a contract, where she had to become his gladiator and had to fight to redeem her freedom.

Aria fought brilliantly in the arena, and she even won a sacred artifact in a duel. No one was able to best her.

But her health continued to deteriorate. The black aura began to erode her, and her strength gradually melted away.

Last night's fight was supposed to be her last fight. She fought tooth and nail and ripped open the opponent's throat. Nevertheless, Aria knew she was going to die soon.

The black aura squeezed her insides. Every breath she exhaled felt like she was spitting out fire. She knew she wouldn't survive the night. However, the more she realized she was going to die, the more frenziedly she fought.

Her last wish was to at least die outside her cage.

But even if she walked out of the cage that was the arena, there was another cage called the Docklands, and after the Docklands, there was still the cage called the Northern District.

The world was like a nesting egg, an interlocked chain of cages, which no one can escape.

But then Aria saw the Tree of Life in the darkness.

…

After listening to Aria's story, Xing Mo fell silent.

She glanced at Aurora, who was looking at her with a teasing expression, as if to say: It looks like there are a lot of such things in the lands of the Goddess, right?

Xing Mo didn't argue. She took a deep breath and asked Aria: "Do you remember where you contracted the black aura disease?"

Obviously, the black aura disease was a kind of curse, and it repeatedly appeared in Steam Man incidents.

There was a high probability that Steam Man was currently hunting Bishop Freyr Sunlight, so this may be a very important clue.

Aria was silent for a moment, and then spoke up softly: "When I was in prison, someone gave me a drug. They claimed it would make me obedient..."

"After I was given the drug, I contracted the black aura disease."

Xing Mo's pupils constricted, and she quickly asked: "Do you remember the person's appearance?"

Aria lowered her head, a painful expression on her face, as if she were recalling very bad memories.

After a while, she said cautiously in a soft tone: "I do...he was wearing a yellow robe..."

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"Alice, I found it."

In a prayer room of Holy Spirit Church, Vivian slapped a picture on a table and placed her hands on her hips triumphantly.

Alice picked up the picture, which was taken in the Southern District. It showed a man in a yellow robe talking to Bishop Freyr Sunlight. The latter was dressed in a black robe.

"That was fast..." Alice murmured, "I gave you the information last night, yet by the morning, you already found..."

"He-he. I stayed up all night and pulled a doze-plus people out of their dreams. I checked almost half of the Southern District's underbelly."

Vivian smiled a tired smile, walked over to Alice, and put her head on her shoulder.

"Can you stay with me as I sleep the rest of the morning~"

"Silly Dragon girl, I'll stay with you till evening." Alice smoothed Vivian's white hair, "Now... I have to send a few couriers. This looks like a big fish..."

Her eyes fell on the figure wearing a yellow robe: clearly a Machiavellian, a person of the empire.

In the Southern District, people of the empire were loyal to only one person—Bloody Epiphyllum Prince Austin.

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