Sivis's face turned dark, and his heart pounded violently.
He hadn't expected that after just a few days away, the Goblins would bring him back such a "god-defying disaster."
The Saintess—was this really something they, with their Tier 1 monster territory, should be involved with?
To put it into perspective, those chosen to become Saintesses were born with an incredibly strong affinity for holy light. Once they officially received a divine revelation and embarked on their path of cultivation, they could quickly progress to above Gold Tier.
Each Saintess was a source of massive faith and support for the Church.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that even if the future Saintess of Light was just an apprentice, the Church would still dispatch Platinum-tier knights for her rescue and capture.
Even if Sivis handed her over and said, "This was all a misunderstanding. She fell into the trap on her own; I never intended to harm her,"
"See? She's returned to you completely unharmed."
That would still be a death sentence!
Who would listen to the explanation of an Evil Lord, let alone the knights of the Church?
"I'm finished, I'm finished..." Even with Sivis's normally stable mentality, he couldn't keep it together now.
He looked at the woman, Werner, in the coffin.
The girl's breathing was even, her expression peaceful, exuding a beauty of holiness and motherhood, which gradually calmed Sivis's anxious heart.
"Saintesses are easy to deal with, but the forces behind them will definitely kill me," he thought. He knew that the Saintess of Light's personality was actually very easygoing.
Werner was extremely popular in Gandanyir because not only was she the First Saintess, incredibly powerful, but she was also kind and gentle. The tasks players received from her were usually low difficulty and offered generous rewards.
Furthermore, Werner had not yet awakened, so Sivis thought he could probably convince her to let him go. But the Church wouldn't show him any mercy! Even if the Saintess was kind-hearted, they would not spare him!
"If the Gandanyir fanatics from my past life knew I had caught the Saintess of Light after transmigrating and was terrified out of my mind, I wonder what their expressions would be like..." Sivis tried to make light of the situation.
But then, his heart dropped, and he forced himself to stay calm. "Wait, you didn't... do anything to her, did you?!"
The Goblins looked puzzled. "My lord, what could we possibly do to this naked monkey? Didn't you forbid us from eating this kind of thing?"
"Yeah, we didn't do anything, we swear."
"Well... good job." Sivis's mood slightly improved.
He continued to look at Werner with a pained expression.
A few seconds later, Sivis suddenly realized something. "Wait... wasn't the Saintess of Light blind? Why does Werner look perfectly fine now?"
Sivis remembered from the Gandanyir lore that Werner's eyes had been severely scarred, burned out by flames.
But the Saintess lying in front of him, as an apprentice, had perfectly intact eyes.
"Wait a minute... could it be..." The long-forgotten memories in Sivis's mind were suddenly unlocked.
He remembered that the official lore hadn't mentioned what happened to Werner's eyes, but players had speculated about it through documents, dungeon data, and analysis.
The Saintess of Light, Werner, had a hidden past.
When she was still an apprentice Saintess, the kind-hearted girl believed that she couldn't truly witness human suffering within the Church. So, she used a special concealed magic scroll and secretly ventured to some remote regions to observe the conditions of the people.
But in the end, what she saw was the brutal oppression of common people by the nobles who wielded extraordinary power—countless people displaced, starving to death.
In the end, Werner blinded herself, refusing to watch the world on behalf of the gods.
Afterward, the Church found the hidden Saintess candidate several years later, erased her memories, and began re-training her.
Sivis, reflecting on what the Goblins had just told him, quickly pieced together the timeline.
"Exactly as I thought! According to the forum speculations, Werner is the one who recently left the Church!!"
He instantly felt a flush of relief.
No need to panic!
All of Sivis's doubts were now cleared up.
If the Church had been silently protecting this Saintess and knew her whereabouts, how could they have allowed her to be carried off and captured by a bunch of Goblins?
They would have rescued her long before!
Sivis had nearly died when he was an undercover agent in the adventurer party because of his territory's impending destruction!
"So, does that mean... I can do whatever I want?"
He looked at the girl in front of him—
Beneath Werner's pure and ascetic face, she had an explosive figure, which stirred the desires deep within Sivis.
"I remember in the game, the Saintess of Light was extremely chaste, refusing to engage with any man physically because she was dedicated to offering her purity to the gods..."
Sivis felt a slight dryness in his mouth.
He wasn't a saint, and before his transmigration, he had even collected a few... daring models of Werner.
The Saintess of Light lying nearby, allowing Sivis to do as he pleased—could he really remain calm?
But there was a problem.
Now...
What should he do??
Sivis's face twisted in indecision.
Letting Werner go was definitely out of the question. The Church, in order to preserve the purity of the Saintess, would destroy the monster territory where she had been captured.
So, what about keeping her?
But even if the Saintess was kind-hearted, she wouldn't want to stay in a monster territory, let alone by the side of an Evil God's heir.
For normal adventurers, it was hard for them to see through Sivis's true nature.
But Werner, as the representative of the Gods of Light, how could she not see through him?
"So, not only do I have to keep her here, but I also need to control her."
"How should I control her? This is so hard…"
Slap!
Sivis slapped himself across the face.
"Am I being a little dramatic?"
How to control her?
Wasn't the answer already swirling around in his mind like a whirlwind?
Werner—
The Saintess of Light, gentle, kind, extremely loyal to the gods, and possessing all the beautiful qualities of the human world. No matter how many trials she endured, her heart could never be shattered.
The more Sivis thought, the more he realized he was losing control of his desires.
Yes!
He made up his mind...
He would forge Werner into a Guardian to strengthen the territory!
In Gandanyir, when a Monster Lord creates a Guardian, they not only use qualified units, spending Soul Points and specific materials to craft specific types of Guardians, but they can also create hidden types of Guardians. These must be made using important named NPCs from Gandanyir.
Werner, the Saintess of Light, had a corresponding existence—
The "Light and Dark Priestess."
This type of Guardian had an upper potential that reached the Legendary tier, and the next step would be the realm of the gods!
The enhancement of the Guardians is similar to a profession advancement.
It's possible to refine NPCs, who are well-known and named, into low-tier Guardians early on. Once they reach the required power level, they can undergo further refinements, eventually breaking through.
In other words, if Sivis can control Werner, he could quickly gain a powerful and loyal assistant, while continuously adding resources to strengthen them!
All the way to Legendary status!
That's the kind of power that can destroy an entire nation!
Sivis looked at Werner, his gaze gradually becoming intense.
"I'm sorry, Werner."
He said, apologizing to the unconscious girl.
Sivis' system was from the latest version of Gandanyir, which had introduced the class Monster Lord and the setting Glamorous Beauty.
Under the Glamorous Beauty setting, players can only refine the opposite sex into Guardians. In addition to the usual requirements of loyalty, fear, and obedience, any of which can be represented by numerical values...
They also need to obtain the target's purity.
Sivis emphasized:
Let me clarify.
I'm not perverted.
It's just...
I have no choice!
I'm an Evil God, after all. It's tough.
The whole world is out to kill me.
To survive, I had no choice but to settle for a little... incident with the Holy Maiden.
Is it wrong for me to want to survive?!
...
Sivis' expression hardened as he spoke to the Goblins. "You must have some herbs that can keep someone unconscious, right? Put her in the territory for now. I'll handle it in a couple of days."
He held back.
"Breaking through the Holy Maiden's purity defenses would be one thing if she were willing. Using force, though, I'd probably need to be at Gold Rank to succeed."
"Even if Werner is just an ordinary person right now, she still has a faint divine protection from the gods."
"I'll probably need to get some aphrodisiac potions to ignite the flames of desire within her…"
Sivis was analyzing. In Monster Lord, the ways to conquer a female character and obtain her purity were countless!
The simplest, most effective strategy was aphrodisiac potions!
In the game, you had to buy them from traveling merchants. But now, in this world, Sivis' system didn't provide that.
"To handle the Holy Maiden, I'd need an aphrodisiac of magical potion quality, and I highly doubt anything like that is sold anywhere near Hanseter!"
"Even in the capital, you'd need to have connections to get your hands on something like that…"
"Which means I'll need to slowly train Werner to make her submit…"
Sivis wore a face of "regret," though in truth, he could barely suppress his smile.
Slowly train her, huh?
I just love slowly training them…
He looked at the girl lying there, the faint sound of her breathing filling the air. In her perfect, pure appearance, she seemed to beckon desire like a work of art.