The story of the black silk female knight

"Understood, leave it to me."

Valensa nodded seriously, then activated her mental powers to enhance her vision and reaction speed, minimizing the delay in activating her divine spells.

Linglan didn't say anything more. After expelling a little air from the top of the syringe, she deftly inserted the needle into Shilin's brother's skin and slowly pushed in a vial of poison.

Shilin's brother quickly began to convulse, his eyes rolled back, and his lips trembled as he whispered, but it was not a language that humans could understand.

"Don't rush. We must wait until the poison has killed all the succubus spores in his body and started to destroy his body before activating the divine spell."

While using her eyes to stop Shirin, who was very worried and wanted to go forward to check on her, Linglan gave Valensa, who was highly focused, some instructions:

“If you activate your divine spell too early, it will also cure the succubus spores in his body, and all the poison I used will be wasted. He will still be drained of his life force and die.”

Valensa knew that the timing of her divine spell was crucial, so nodding or blinking to indicate that she understood was useless; her attention remained focused on her brother Shilin's wrist.

Finally, about 40 seconds later, the veins on Shilin's brother's wrist suddenly swelled up a lot, turned obviously purple, and showed a tendency to spread over a large area.

It's now!

Without hesitation, Valensa immediately used the dispelling spell she had been holding back to apply to Shilin's brother, clearing away the remaining toxins from his body.

Then he kept casting healing spells, using the power of holy light to maintain the life force of Shilin's brother, which had been almost completely drained by the succubus spores.

"Okay."

Under the constant influence of the Holy Light, Shilin's brother's deathly pale face finally improved somewhat, and Linglan, after checking on her, stopped Valensa from continuously casting healing spells.

"His life has stabilized. What he needs now is bed rest and nutritional supplementation. The effects of low- to medium-priced healing spells will be very limited."

"My brother is saved... right, Dr. Lily of the Valley?"

Shilin rushed over excitedly.

"Well, his life has been saved for now, and his health will slowly recover, but..."

Linglan looked somewhat strange, as if she wanted to say something, but Shilin, who was too excited, didn't listen anymore.

"I'm going to tell my father and mother this good news!"

The parents of Shilin were extremely grateful to their son who was on the verge of death, and insisted that Valensa and Linglan stay for the night and be treated to a lavish dinner.

Valensa and Lily of the Valley didn't refuse; they were also looking for information from Shilin's brother.

As a frontline adventurer who personally led a team to exterminate monsters, Shilin's brother might know some very useful information.

However, we'll have to wait until he wakes up tomorrow and calms down after accepting reality.

After the dinner, Valensa quickly sent Lily of the Valley back to her room to sleep, while she herself stood in the courtyard with a glass of wine, pretending to admire the moon.

As she expected, Shilin appeared when the moon was at its highest point in the night sky, wearing a very daring semi-transparent gauze dress and a camisole bra.

"Miss Bader~~"

Shirin made no attempt to conceal the burning desire in her eyes, and immediately threw herself into Valensa's arms, writhing her body with the abandon of a fish finally returning to water.

"Thank you for saving my brother's life. Please let me repay you properly... with my body."

"You seem to be quite skilled at it already."

Valensa did not reject Shirin's enthusiastic embrace. She squinted her eyes to enjoy it while teasing her:

"Looks like you've been flirting with quite a few girls this year... How about it? Aren't fragrant girls much more interesting than men?"

"Coo-choo~~Coo-choo~~Woo~~~~Ha."

Shirin took several puffs of Valensa's breath before raising her head with a dazed expression:

"Yeah, it's definitely more fun for girls to snuggle together than to seduce stinky men... It's just that although I've tried with quite a few girls this past year, none of them are as good as you... I miss your scent so much."

Chapter 233 Brother Becomes Sister

"Ah~~~~!"

The next morning, Valensa was awakened by the screams of young women.

It was Shilin's voice, even louder than when it was most intense last night, except that last night her voice was joyful, but now it carried a hint of fear.

...As expected, we were discovered.

Valensa gave a wry smile, quickly got up, dressed, opened the door to her guest room, and exchanged a helpless glance with Lily of the Valley, who peeked out from the next room at almost the same time.

Soon, Shilin rushed over.

"Miss Bader, something terrible has happened! My brother..."

Shilin was still somewhat incoherent, seemingly because her recent experience had been too unexpected:

"He...he...he changed..."

"You've become your older sister, right?"

Lily of the Valley calmly took over the conversation:

"Actually, I wanted to tell you this after the treatment last night, but you got too excited and ran away without listening to me at all."

"Hey?"

Shilin blinked in surprise before she realized what was happening:

"Dr. Lily of the Valley, did you already know that my brother would turn into a girl? Is there any way for him to turn back?"

Although I have two younger brothers, so there's no need to worry about the family heir, it's so pitiful that my older brother became a girl without ever having a girlfriend.

"Yes, is there any chance my son can turn back into a son, Dr. Lily of the Valley?"

Upon hearing the news, Shilin's parents rushed over and immediately asked her questions.

They weren't unreasonable; they didn't take their anger out on Linglan and Valensa just because their son had become a daughter. After all, they had already made arrangements for their son's funeral, and it was much better for him to become a daughter than for him to die.

"It's difficult, after all, your son's symptoms have been lingering for quite some time."

Linglan hesitated for a moment, then glanced at Shilin before tentatively asking:

"Do you two know the real reason behind your young master's symptoms?"

"I know, Shilin told us."

Shilin's father nodded, his expression grim.

"It's because we haven't been strict enough with his upbringing. As the eldest son of a kingdom baron, it's truly shameful that he would be seduced by a mere demon disguised as a woman."

"No, actually he performed quite well... The succubus spore's illusion powder is very powerful, otherwise the adventurers who traveled with him wouldn't have been wiped out."

Lily of the Valley first offered a word of comfort, then patiently explained:

"Now that you know the characteristics of succubus spores, it's easier for me to explain... Succubus spores use the corpses of prey whose life force has been completely drained as bait to continue hunting new prey."

Its method of hunting prey is still the same as the nobleman's experience: first, it uses illusion spores to induce hallucinations in its target to lure it in, and then it makes close contact with the target and parasitizes the target's body with spores.

In this situation, the prey lured by the succubus spores are naturally mostly men... and to have intimate contact with a man and parasitize him, a woman's body is naturally required, right?

Therefore, while succubus spores absorb the host's life force, they also modify the host's body, giving it the ability to prey on prey.

If the succubus spores in his body could be removed quickly in the early stages of parasitism, the young master would naturally still be a handsome and dashing young man. Unfortunately, he received the correct treatment too late; the transformation was already complete.

"...So in the end, it's still that brat's fault... He's so proud that he suffers for nothing. He should have told the truth sooner."

Shilin's father was very angry, but helpless:

"Then... is there really no other way?"

"Of course there are still solutions."

Lily of the Valley shook her finger:

"The young master's physical changes are essentially localized physical changes, and have not yet risen to the level of the soul and concepts... The Moon-level priest's physical reshaping divine art can turn her back into a man."

"Moonlight-class..."

Shilin's parents and Shilin herself all gave a wry smile.

If they were truly capable of enlisting a Moon-level priest, they wouldn't have started preparing for their funeral.

"Oh well, so what if our son turned into a daughter? It's not a bad thing."

Shilin's father could only sigh in the end, then looked at Shilin and his wife:

"Then I'll leave her in your care from now on. Suddenly becoming a woman will definitely be difficult for her in many ways. You'll need to help and teach her as much as possible."

Shilin and her mother naturally nodded in agreement.

"please wait for a moment."

Seeing that Shilin's father looked somewhat dejected and was about to leave, Valensa quickly stopped him and briefly explained her purpose for coming to Klar City.

"...Investigating the cause of the strange monster activity in the Misty Mountains? Just the two of you?"

Shirin's father seemed somewhat doubtful, but he quickly thought of Valensa's identity as a paladin and nodded in agreement.

“I understand… Once Shilin’s sister wakes up, you can ask her whatever you want. I will also inform her friends of her recovery… Many of her friends are experienced adventurers, so you can take the opportunity to ask them for information when they come to visit her.”

"Thank you so much!"

Valensa and Linglan exchanged a glance and decided to stay at Shilin's house for two more days.

Shilin's older sister, who was originally Shilin's brother, regained consciousness that afternoon.

She found it hard to accept when she first learned that she had become a woman.

However, with her sister's careful comfort and Suzuran's professional advice, which was complicated by her expression, she finally accepted the reality and began to try wearing skirts that very night, and gave herself a nice new name.

Marianne.

In order to avoid complete social annihilation, Marianne also reached a consensus with her family and Valencia.

The shameful fact that she was parasitized by succubus spores and had her body modified could not be told to outsiders. The appropriate explanation they came up with was that Marianne was under a terrible curse.

With the help of the paladin and doctor from the capital, Marianne survived, but was unable to completely overcome the curse and was reborn as a girl.

As for what kind of monster and what kind of curse had this effect... well, all of Marianne's teammates were dead at the time, so she just had to insist that she was too badly injured to remember.

To the surprise of many, Marianne's former brothers and friends did not distance themselves from her just because she had become a woman.

On the contrary, those people became even more enthusiastic towards Marianne, sending her flowers, beautiful dresses, and exquisite pastries every day.

Marianne could tell at a glance that her former buddies were lusting after her. She couldn't handle it all by herself, so she often used her sister and her sister's friends as shields.

Valensa and Suzuran had been trying to gather information from these young nobles who were also adventurers, so they naturally wouldn't refuse.

And in front of a beautiful girl, what man wouldn't like to tell her about his own adventures?

Valensa and Suzuran quickly summarized the events surrounding the monster's unusual activity and some of the suspicious points.

Chapter 234 She was just an ordinary friend.

Most monsters of Pearl rank or higher possess a certain degree of territoriality.

They will fight to the death with any outsiders who invade their territory, but under normal circumstances, they will not easily leave their territory.

Many low-level adventurers who accidentally wander into the territory of high-level monsters can usually escape pursuit once they run out of the territory.

When a large number of high-level monsters leave their territory and wander around, there is usually only one possibility: a stronger monster has occupied their territory and is driving them away.

Valensa and Suzuran initially guessed that the reason for the strange movements of the monsters in the Misty Mountains was this: Valensa asked the bald headmaster and the dream witch Zi for all sorts of good things to save her life because she had a premonition that she might be facing a powerful being of the Radiant Rank this time.

However, the accounts of Marianne and her fellow adventurers led Valensa and Suzuran to discover many suspicious points, even overturning their initial guesses.

First, there's the state of those monsters.

Wandering monsters that are driven out of their territory by a more powerful being are usually terrified and panicked. They are very aggressive, but most of the time they are all bark and no bite. When they encounter humans, they will probably run away most of the time.

The monsters that Marianne and her companions encountered, on the other hand, did not exhibit this state at all. They did not resemble stray dogs that had lost their territory and were wandering aimlessly; at most, they were just a little confused.

Those monsters seemed unaware of how they had appeared within the kingdom's borders.

Secondly, there's the way those monsters emerged from the Misty Mountains.

After discovering that high-level monsters from the Misty Mountains were active in the outskirts of the city, the Adventurers' Guild of Klar City not only organized adventurers to wipe out the monsters, but also organized another group of high-level adventurers to be stationed at the border between the Misty Mountains and the kingdom, so as to subdue or repel any monsters that wanted to cross the border as soon as possible.

Among the high-ranking adventurers stationed at the border were two of Marianne's friends.

According to them, there are almost no monsters from the Misty Mountains coming from the border, but there is still a steady stream of sightings of monsters from the Misty Mountains from the rear.

For this, they were lectured by the Adventurers' Guild's management, who criticized them for being lazy and slacking off. They felt wronged, but no one believed them.