The story of the black silk female knight

"I'm doomed this time, I'm doomed this time, I'm doomed this time..."

"Go to hell, go ......"

"I'm so poor, why are you so rich! I hate you! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you!"

All sorts of sounds flooded Valensa's mind—the obsessions and negative emotions of countless dead—making her head buzz and causing the veins on her forehead to bulge higher and higher!

"Shut the hell up!"

In that critical moment, Valensa could no longer care about her ladylike manners and poise:

"You bunch of idiots! Getting scammed means you're stupid! Being poor means you're incompetent! You're already dead, so just let your souls scatter and disappear. You still want to mess with me, a living person? Shut up!"

The chaotic sounds paused for a moment, then after a few seconds of silence, they became even more frantic.

The owners of those resentful thoughts seemed to suddenly transfer their hatred to Valensa. Instead of venting and complaining to themselves, they joined forces to attack Valensa's mind, trying to shatter her spirit.

Valensa quickly cast several purification spells, which were somewhat effective, but not very powerful.

There were simply too many resentful thoughts invading Valensa's body from the inverted pyramid crystal. Even if her divine magic could purify dozens of resentful thoughts at once, hundreds or thousands more would follow.

The female knight is in grave danger!

In the face of life and death, Valensa's bloodline potential erupted once again.

It felt a bit like when Tia's secret technique scared away that giant deep-sea fish. Valensa's eyes were instantly filled with arrogance and disdain, with a hint of wickedness.

"A bunch of lost souls, how dare they be so insolent in front of me?"

"You all die!"

It wasn't a second personality or possession by an evil god; Valensa was perfectly lucid, but suddenly felt a strong hunger.

Unlike human hunger, this hunger made Valensa want to devour everything.

All life, all mountains and rivers, all oceans and skies, and even the entire planet, are like a giant meatball that can be eaten!

eat!eat!eat!

Mom, what kind of gluttonous evil god are you?

With a helpless smile, Valensa strained her mind and managed to suppress the overwhelming urge to devour everything.

But it seems a bit late.

Valencia was indeed very clear-headed just now, but her body, driven by instinct, had already consumed a great deal of things.

All those tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of resentments vanished. Even the inverted pyramid crystal was reduced to a tiny piece the size of a fingernail, which Valensa had to pry out of her mouth at the last moment.

As for the others... well, the taste is actually alright, similar to popsicles.

Chapter 196 Thank goodness you're here this time, Valensa

Valenciaヾ(．?﹏?)ノ?

Oh no! I managed to save this important clue and prop with great difficulty, but I accidentally ate it like an ice pop. What should I do?

In short, let's try to get through it by being cute first.

After testing the small golden rod against her forehead again and confirming that her faith circuit had been fully restored, Valensa jumped out of the deep pit hidden among the bones and rushed back to reunite with Fran and the others.

As expected, Fran's battle is also coming to an end.

After the faith circuit was restored, the paladins' combat power increased significantly, and the undead were no match for them.

The giant spider and the stitched-together fat monster have been successfully purified. Of the three lighthouse-level undead, only the zombie wolf king is still clinging to life, but it is clear that it will not last much longer.

Valensa glanced at the scene briefly, then, instead of competing with Fran and the two paladin squad leaders for kills, she joined the other four paladins in the extermination of the low-level undead.

Blazing holy light crisscrossed deep within the mine, holy light blades swept away everything in their path, and holy light bullets bombarded everything in their path. Despite having a hundred times the number of undead, they were annihilated as if surrounded, turning to ashes in large numbers.

About five minutes later, the battle was basically over. Apart from those that were feigning death and a few scattered resistances, the low-level undead in the mine had been completely wiped out by the paladins who had been holding back their anger.

The strongest of the three Lighthouse-level undead, the Zombie Wolf King, was first bound by the Holy Light Chains summoned by Fran, and then beheaded by another paladin's charged Holy Light Blade, turning into ashes.

Afterwards, the group thoroughly searched the entire test site deep within the mine, inside and out. Once they confirmed that there were no new clues, they began to return the way they came.

Valensa, who was handpicked by Rika to lead the operation, did not proactively disclose the source of the interference, nor did the other paladins inquire about it, as this was in accordance with the operational discipline of maintaining intelligence secrecy.

Fran, on the other hand, hesitated several times before speaking.

Knowing Valencia as she did, if everything had gone smoothly with the interference source, Valencia would have already been proudly showing off.

The fact that they're keeping silent now strongly suggests that something has gone wrong.

However, considering their friendship and Valensa's preparations to officially become a Knight of the Temple, Fran said nothing, giving Valensa ample face.

After meeting up with Rika outside the mine, the group headed back towards the cities they had passed through, while Valensa gave Rika a brief verbal report.

"A special device that can interfere with faith circuits?"

Lika was somewhat surprised by this information, and also took it very seriously:

"So after you stopped the device from operating, did you bring it back?"

"Uh... I guess you could say I brought it back."

Valensa chuckled and mumbled:

"But that thing is a bit strange. I'll show it to Sister Rika when we get back to the church."

"..."

Lika squinted at Valensa, already knowing that Valensa had definitely messed something up.

However, Rika knew even better the importance of helping Valensa build reputation among the paladins. In fact, that was the purpose of bringing Valensa along this time; the interference was just an accident.

So Lika didn't say much, just nodded slightly, tacitly agreeing to Valensa's suggestion.

The two paladin squads were originally stationed at the local cathedral, and only Valensa, Lika, and Fran returned to the capital via the Holy Path.

"Alright, now that there are no outsiders here, can you tell me in detail what happened?"

In Rika's office at the Royal Cathedral, she no longer maintained her captain's image, casually leaning back in her chair and placing her legs, clad in black stockings, on the desk.

"That's right... Come on, tell me honestly, what have you messed up this time, you idiot?"

Fran also stood to the side with her hands on her hips, and said coquettishly to Valensa.

"Hehe... It's true that nothing can be hidden from Rika and Fran."

Valensa first acted coy and cute, then pretended to look wronged:

"But this time it really wasn't my fault. That thing was really weird, I almost died."

She then made no attempt to hide anything, taking out the small fragment of the crystal and briefly recounting how she had been struck in the soul by hundreds of thousands of resentful spirits.

"Hundreds of thousands of resentments?"

Lika immediately put her legs back on the desk and sat up straight. Fran also dropped her coquettish expression and became very worried.

"Are you alright?" x2

The two of them flashed to Valensa's side almost simultaneously, touching and pinching her body to examine her, and then using divine magic to examine her soul.

Then both of them had somewhat strange expressions.

Valensa was perfectly fine, and while her physical changes were not obvious, her soul had grown considerably stronger, like a frail little girl who had suddenly transformed into a tall, voluptuous mature woman.

However, the strengthening of their souls was clearly a good thing, and Rika and Fran quickly breathed a sigh of relief and began to study the crystal fragment that Valensa had brought back.

"This thing... um."

Lika examined the crystal fragment in her palm for a while, then licked it with her tongue before revealing a look of certainty:

"There's no mistake. Although the manufacturing method and crystal structure are quite different, this thing is essentially a crystallized soul."

That's why you were invaded by hundreds of thousands of resentful thoughts the moment you came into contact with it, because this thing was made from the compressed souls of hundreds of thousands who died tragically.

But now it's just pure crystal... all the original soul consciousness within it has completely vanished.

"Ah this..."

Valensa awkwardly fiddled with a strand of hair behind her ear, then her eyes lit up:

"Wait! Since this thing is a soul crystal and the soul consciousness inside has disappeared, can we read the remaining experience and knowledge within the crystal to find clues? Just like Tia learned magic circles through the gray rat's soul crystal."

"Unfortunately, no."

Lika immediately broke the ice:

"Didn't I say before? This kind of soul crystal is different from the normal one."

In the production and post-processing of normal soul crystals, we try to erase the original soul consciousness within the crystal, retaining only the experience and knowledge.

This soul crystal is the opposite; the creator removed most of the souls' memories, retaining only their deepest resentment from before their death.

That is why this soul crystal is so dangerous; anyone who comes into direct contact with it, except for the creator, will be struck by hundreds of thousands of resentful souls.

To be honest... even if it were me, I might not be able to escape unscathed from such a direct attack on the soul. Even if I didn't die, I would be seriously injured and would have to lie in bed for at least ten days or half a month.

Or perhaps, that bastard deliberately left this in the testing ground, intending to scheme against me or other experts in the church... Luckily, you're here this time, Valencia.

Chapter 197 I Don't Want to Become a Bad Woman

"Uh... Even you, Rika, are in danger, so why am I alright?"

Valensa winked:

"Is it because I'm the daughter of an evil god?"

"Of course! It goes without saying."

Lika rolled her eyes:

"Even if you have no knowledge of magic, you should know very well what those cultists like to use as sacrifices when they beg for the power of evil gods or even summon evil gods, right?"

"Uh... it's a living person... no, it should be said that it's the soul of a human being?"

Valensa thought for a moment and said.

"Yes, it seems you're not too stupid."

Lika nodded, then shrugged:

"So... to put it bluntly, using this method to attack the soul of an evil god is probably like throwing a meat chop at a dog... it's not an attack at all, it's just feeding."

"It's not as easy as you make it sound, Lika~"

Valensa seized the opportunity and said coquettishly:

"I was really scared at first, I thought I was going to die."

"It's normal for you to be afraid, after all, you're not entirely an evil god, you're also half human."

Lika smiled:

"But your fear is just an illusion, a psychological effect of your human nature... Your evil god instincts must have been very excited at the time, like a long-awaited rain after a drought."

"Uh, okay."

Valensa thought for a moment and then said:

"Won't consuming so many souls in one go have any negative effects? After all, those souls harbored very deep resentment. Won't it affect my personality and turn me into a bad woman?"

"Resentment in your soul? Ha, that's certainly very dangerous for others, but for you..."

Lika shrugged:

"Humans eat beef, mutton, chicken, and duck every day. Are they affected by the beef, mutton, chicken, and duck?"

"That's just eating meat, but I'm eating souls directly! How can they be the same?"

Valensa pouted and asked back.

"Nothing is different. Don't forget you are the daughter of an evil god."

Lika gave Valensa a deep look:

"For evil gods, eating souls is like humans eating beef and chicken; there's absolutely no need to worry about what the cows and chickens were thinking before they died."

"Hehe... Looks like I'm pretty good after all."

Once Valensa was completely relieved that her reckless eating had not only resulted in no harm but also brought her considerable profit, she laughed heartily.