Goddess Kaleidoscope

Alone, Terlin arrived at the entrance of the alley. He looked around and saw no one, but there were clear footprints on the snow that stretched into the alley. He estimated that they had been made less than ten minutes ago, otherwise they would still be visible.

So Terlin walked into the alley, and before he even rounded the corner, he heard a deep male voice coming from inside.

"I will paint my hands black."

Upon hearing the familiar code, Trin was filled with emotion. He lowered his voice and mimicked the tone of a necromancer in replying with the code. Then, a man dressed in a local guard uniform emerged from the alley.

The other party looked Trillin up and down. Then Trillin deliberately untied the scarf covering most of his face, revealing a vertical pupil mask underneath. Upon seeing this, the other party's face immediately showed surprise.

"Are you the necromancer?"

"It's me. I need to borrow the messenger crows from your base to send some messages to the headquarters in Yanmu City."

"No problem, but..."

"But what?"

"It's nothing, it's just that there was some news before... saying that you were missing."

"Hmph! I am indeed entangled with some troublesome fellows, but I am a necromancer. It's a hundred years before you can kill me! Enough with the nonsense! Send me a message to Elder Leopold, tell him that I have found the item and will return once the road is clear."

After finishing speaking, Terlin turned and left. Upon seeing this, the contact person instinctively stepped forward to try and pull him away.

But before his outstretched hand could even touch anyone, a female ghost suddenly emerged from Terlin's body, standing between the two as if protecting its master. Terlin screamed in terror and fell to the ground in the snow. Terlin, however, continued walking forward without looking back, his figure quickly disappearing into the swirling snow.

After leaving the meeting point, Trin wandered around the city for a long time, until Lud signaled that he was not being followed, and the three of them finally found a place to meet up.

The operation was short and relatively easy, but it was incredibly exciting for Trilling. The tension of being afraid of being exposed made him feel like a pervert who was going out naked for the first time! Lud had also told him that the first time was the most crucial, and he would gradually get used to it.

"Master, I've sent the message. What's next?"

"Let's go back to Songshu Town first and let the news spread for a few days."

The false message was successfully released, and given the Black Hand Brotherhood's extensive but severely lacking-in-internal-secrecy intelligence network, Trin believed that the message would soon spread to the point where everyone in the organization knew about it.

This message was both a smokescreen and a catalyst. It's believed that when the "Necromancer" returns to Flamewood City with the God of Thieves' artifact, the six elders of the Black Hand Brotherhood will prepare many interesting activities to welcome this great hero.

Upon returning to Pine Town, Ludwig first wrote letters to Count Ramley and Duke Gamelin, politely informing them of his plans to take action against Unos Town.

After all, before this, Unos Town had always existed as a buffer zone between the two territories, and its actual ownership was quite ambiguous.

When the royal family divided the land among the two families, they deliberately left this piece of land empty between them, which is how the town of Unos came to be.

The local town mayor was originally elected by the locals, but gradually he evolved into a kind of "untitled nobleman" who swayed between the two powerful northern forces and lived a comfortable life until the incident six months ago when he and his wife died suddenly.

When the two lords came to Pine Town in the fall to participate in the Thanksgiving Festival, they mentioned the situation in Unos Town. They were quite dissatisfied with the chaotic situation there, but due to the laws governing noble fiefdoms, they could not directly intervene to control it, and did not want to cause controversy because of such a matter.

But Lud was a religious man, and he never intended to take over Unos. He was simply enforcing the law across the border, teaching the local gangsters a lesson, and then he would call it a day.

If the Duke and Earl knew beforehand, they could help cover for them, clean up the mess this winter, and restore the land to its former pristine state by next spring.

End of this chapter

Lude's attack on Unos Town was not only due to the fact that the local drug cartel had begun to affect the security of Pine Town, but also for another important purpose: to use the local criminal gangs as a training exercise to hone his newly formed elite private army in real combat.

On the surface, the Medicine God Cult does not have its own armed forces. The militia self-defense force that it had previously trained was incorporated into the town's guard after the arrival of Baron Cork's family.

Many people, seeing how easily Ludd relinquished power and handed over such an important armed force, assumed that he was being magnanimous and extending goodwill to the Baron's family. After all, given his prestige and wealth in Pine Town, if he truly wanted to keep this militia of several hundred men firmly in his own hands, the newly arrived Baron probably wouldn't have been able to recruit a single soldier.

But in reality, Lud didn't even consider this militia force, composed entirely of ordinary people, worth anything. His Hydras, once they revealed their true forms as monsters, could easily rout these few hundred people. There was no way he could expect these militiamen, armed with melee weapons, to be of any help in future conflicts with other gods.

Unless the militia can become "Militia III"!

So after readily handing over power to the Baron, Ludwig secretly began to build another armed force, a super elite force capable of fighting against the gods in the future!

At Lud's request, Aina and Shanis used their relatively abundant divine power to create a group of divine messengers capable of fighting, like fallen leaves, and the three sisters were responsible for making equipment for them.

There are twelve combat envoys in total, all of them are women, a whole bunch of cool and beautiful young ladies.

As for why they were all girls, Ludlow listed a bunch of seemingly high-sounding reasons, such as the strength of the divine messenger's power being unrelated to gender, and that a feminine appearance could paralyze the opponent in battle, etc.

In short, they stubbornly refuse to admit that they are SP!

It is worth mentioning that, in order to highlight the special status of these battle goddesses, Lud initially wanted to give them a resounding code name, intending to call them "Valkyrie," which is the so-called Valkyrie.

But then he thought that Valkyries didn't seem to be a respectable profession in Norse mythology. Ludlow himself wanted them to be able to fight on the battlefield instead of selling their bodies in bunny girl outfits, so he changed the name to "Heroic Spirits" and referred to them as "Operators" internally.

Lude also promised them that after everyone completed their training, outstanding operators would be given an exclusive "honorary title (operator codename)".

After the first twelve female Heroic Spirits were born, Rudd gave each of them a unique name, replacing Aina and Shanis, who were unable to name themselves. Rudd then personally served as their instructor, giving them Earth-style military training and teaching them how to use various new weapons created by the three sisters.

This female hero unit has been training in the dungeon for more than three months, during which they also went to the Virtual Forest for training. Lude has high hopes for them.

For this operation against Unos Town, Lud planned to use them in the battle, to give those drug dealers from the Killing Blade a chance to practice.

Upon returning from his "investigation" of Unos Town, Lud immediately summoned the Heroic Spirits and, in a briefing room with a distinctly Earth-style aesthetic, briefed the twelve female Heroic Spirits sitting upright before him about the mission.

"Our primary target in this operation is smuggler Harrison and his drug lab. According to the laws in my hometown, anything over 50 grams is punishable by death. This lab's output averages over 50 kilograms per person, so there's no need for any legal procedures; they'll all be shot on the spot. The secondary targets are Captain Brant of the Guards and High Priest Jacob of the Church of Lake God. These two will be spared, mainly as a warning. Does everyone understand?"

"Sir, I have a question."

"Please speak, Agent Alvitt."

The female Heroic Spirit who raised her hand to ask a question was a tall, mature woman with short, silver hair. The Heroic Spirits' hair color follows their creator. Alvit was the first divine messenger created by Aina and the captain of the Heroic Spirit squad. Her personality was surprisingly serious and earnest, completely unlike the carefree Aina.

Incidentally, because she achieved the highest score in all training categories, she became the first female heroine in the unit to receive a title called "Shining".

Okay! I must admit that when Rudolf gave the female Heroic Spirits their codenames, he definitely had a lot of personal agendas involved.

After receiving permission from Ludwig, Arvit stood up and spoke.

“Sir, you just mentioned when you were presenting enemy intelligence that Brant and Jacob are Harrison’s protectors in the area. Why don’t we take them out as well?”

"Alvit, do you remember what the expected objectives were when I introduced this mission?"

"Of course I remember! We must crack down hard on the criminal gangs entrenched in Unos Town and restore normal order to the area."

“That’s right, that’s why I haven’t eliminated them. Killing the rulers rashly before a suitable alternative is available will only lead to the complete collapse of the old order and plunge the region into even greater chaos than before. So they can’t die yet, at least not now, but I must make sure they are given enough warnings and deterrence to scare them into not daring to do bad things again. Do you understand what I’m saying?”

"I roughly understand."

Alvie nodded, and judging from her expression, she genuinely understood Rudd's thoughts; she wasn't pretending to know what she didn't. Rudd was quite surprised by this girl's intelligence and comprehension. He had initially been rather afraid that the messengers Aina created would all be just like her!

"If everyone has no further questions, let's adjourn the meeting. The operation is scheduled to begin in three days. Please relax for the next few days. Dismissed!"

After the pre-battle meeting, the female heroes dispersed in twos and threes. The underground palace was very spacious, and the three sisters had built many modern entertainment facilities according to the design provided by Lude. Therefore, the female heroes had no trouble relaxing in their spare time.

After leaving the briefing room, Lude went straight to the production workshop located on the lower level of the underground palace. This was the area under the responsibility of the three sisters, where three types of unique working gods were busy at work.

Upon seeing Lud's personal visit to the workshop, his older sister Atropos immediately came to greet him and eagerly led him to see the "operator equipment" that was being tested.

These weapons and equipment are "quasi-divine artifacts" designed with Ludwig's help and manufactured by the three sisters. Their functions and power may not be earth-shattering, but each has its own unique uses and can be mass-produced in the future to arm more heroic spirit troops.

End of this chapter

Following Atropos, Lud arrived at the testing grounds, where he saw his second sister, Croto, wielding a very cool-looking halberd and spraying flames at a humanoid metal target dozens of meters away, turning the Iron Man into a pool of molten metal in just a few seconds.

Judging from Croto's expression, he didn't seem quite satisfied with such intense heat.

"No good. The jet of this Flaming Halberd is not powerful enough. It starts to droop after less than forty meters, and the temperature is also not good enough."

"I think this level is sufficient for the current stage."

"Your Excellency! What brings you here?"

Hearing Lud's voice from behind, Croto was startled. As the girl with healthy tanned skin turned around, Lud's gaze unconsciously drifted to the side boobs peeking out from the other girl's overalls. He quickly coughed twice to cover his embarrassment and changed the subject to the equipment in the other girl's hands.

"I think the halberd you wield is already quite powerful and has a good range, at least for now. Don't be too ambitious with the early version; we can gradually improve and upgrade it later."

"Yes, I will listen to Your Excellency!"

With the introduction of his two older sisters, Lude toured the entire range of equipment being tested and even tried some of them out himself, praising the performance of these weapons and equipment.

According to Lude's original idea, he actually wanted to use the three sisters' amazing forging skills to replicate Earth's firearms in another world. However, as he worked on it, the development path unconsciously veered off course to some strange places, and in the end, he created some bizarre things with huge power and ridiculous flaws.

For example, a heavy warhammer or something similar that has a three-stage rocket booster and can be launched and self-destruct, blowing up all living things within a radius of fifty meters.

At this moment, Atropos suddenly made a request to Lud.

"Your Excellency, let us sisters accompany you on this mission as well. We want to collect combat data on the new equipment."

"Of course, no problem. But I hope you will try not to get involved. This is the operators' first battle, and it would be best to let them complete it independently."

“I understand that, of course.”

Three days later, in the dead of night, the Heroic Spirits' first battle officially began. Twelve operators donned specially made metal armor and wielded various cool-looking weapons and equipment, receiving inspection from Rud and the goddesses in the dungeon hall.

Trilling was also fortunate enough to stand aside and watch. Lud had explained to him beforehand that these twelve female spirits were "divine warriors" specially sent by the goddess to serve him, each with extraordinary strength and capable of taking on a hundred men.

At first, Trin didn't believe it, but after witnessing firsthand these female heroes fighting one-on-one with weapons in the training ground, the unfortunate kid's worldview was once again refreshed.

Master, being chosen by God is so damn awesome!

Before the operation began, Lud didn't waste any words. He bluntly told the operators in front of him that this was a simple operation and the enemy was not worth mentioning. However, he still demanded that everyone go all out and show the spirit of a lion pouncing on a rabbit!

After the speech, Ludwig led all the members who were going to participate in the operation out of the underground palace and took a special passage directly to the outskirts of the town to meet Nidhogg, who had been waiting there.

For this operation, Ludger called on "Nylon" to act as a transport plane, carrying the team to Unos Town. With the dragons' flying speed, a straight-line journey would take less than an hour, and even the heaviest snowstorm wouldn't affect him in the slightest.

Nidhogg, who had lived with humans for nearly two hundred years, could completely understand what Ludwig was going to do. In fact, he had done something similar in the past, such as going to the palace of an enemy country at night and breathing fire.

However, Lude only needed him to fill in as a "bus" (no offense intended), leaving the actual combat to the Heroic Spirits. After all, Nidhogg was capable of fighting, but his destructive power was clearly excessive; one breath of his dragon's breath would probably wipe out the entire street.

The group climbed into a pre-prepared metal basket, which Nidhogg lifted into the air with its claws, heading straight for Unos Town. They quickly arrived above their target location. The twelve Heroic Spirit operators leaped directly from the basket, their armor instantly unfurling a pair of metal wings in mid-air, allowing them to soar nimbly and freely through the air like birds.

The Heroic Spirit Squad streaked across the night sky in battle formation. When the goddess created them, she endowed them with eagle eyes that could see in the dark, allowing them to see the streets below clearly.

The leader, Yalvit, quickly identified the location of target number one: the Harrison Chamber of Commerce on South Street in Unos Town. The entire street belonged to Harrison, and his subordinates lived there. The drug manufacturing plant was so brazen that it was not disguised at all and was openly displayed in the open.

With less than 100 meters from the ground, Arvit, wielding two chainsaw swords, gave a stern order to her team.

"Combat teams suppress the streets, assault teams destroy the factory, decapitation teams stick close to me, we're going to take Harrison's life!"

"Kill!"

The drug dealer's henchmen, who were patrolling the street, suddenly heard a whooshing sound overhead. Then they saw twelve lithe but heavily armed "killing angels" descend from the sky and attack them without saying a word, beating them to a pulp with all sorts of powerful weapons.

The enormous disparity in combat power turned the scene into a one-sided massacre!

Lude had given the female heroic spirits a death sentence beforehand. Except for the workers who were forced to work in the drug factory, not a single member of the Harrison Merchant Guild was spared. Lude would never show any mercy to drug dealers. Humane destruction was the redemption he bestowed upon these scumbags!