The story of the black silk female knight

"So it's the exclusive equipment of the Inner Templar Knights..."

Valensa immediately became interested and grasped Lika's hand in return:

"Take me to see it quickly, Sister Lika."

"Well, let's go."

The three women left Rika's office and went straight to the church's No. 1 equipment depot.

"Here, it's all here. Open it yourself."

Lika rummaged around for a moment, then took out a finely crafted metal box the size of a shoebox and handed it to Valensa.

"After all, it's equipment exclusive to Inner Templars, and you need Inner Templars' authorization to open it. I don't even have enough authorization."

"Ah."

Valensa took the small metal box, examined it briefly, and found a groove about the size of a fingertip, like a keyhole.

She touched her index finger up and infused it with a little holy light.

Click.

With a crisp sound, the magical seal on the surface of the metal box was successfully broken, and the physical lock popped out automatically, clearly indicating that the authentication had been successful.

"these are……"

However, after opening the metal box and looking at its contents, Valensa was somewhat puzzled.

There weren't many things in the box, only two items: a pretty gold necklace and something that looked somewhat like a cross.

The gold necklace is most likely some kind of powerful enchanted jewelry, but what is the cross for?

Valensa was very curious and took out the cross to examine it carefully.

Two golden metal cylinders, one long and one short, intersect like a cross, with a circular emblem of the midday sun at the point of intersection... and so on.

Once she actually held it in her hands, Valensa suddenly realized... it didn't seem to be a cross, but rather a cross-shaped sword hilt.

A sword hilt without a blade... Could it be... that?

Chapter 10 The Coolest Sword

There are many romantic legends about swords in Valensa's previous life.

The question of what the strongest sword is, according to various legends, has been a subject of endless debate.

Some say it is the Xuanyuan Sword, the sword of ancient Chinese kings; some say it is the holy sword in the legend of King Arthur; and some say it is the Kusanagi Sword, born from the body of the Yamata no Orochi.

In short, there is no universally accepted answer.

But if you ask what the coolest sword is, more than 90% of people will give the same answer.

Even the very existence of this sword is a kind of romance.

So when Valensa guessed that the golden cross hilt in her hand was likely that kind of sword, she couldn't suppress the joy in her eyes and the excitement in her heart.

It's like a child finally getting the expensive toy they've always dreamed of.

"This should be a rather special sword, right, Sister Rika?"

"Yes, that's right, this is the exclusive sword of the Inner Temple Knights."

Lika nodded, then smiled slightly.

"Since your Baldr family's heirloom is a holy sword, this sword actually spends most of its time gathering dust in the warehouse, and has only been used a handful of times... I hope you can make it perform well."

"Yes, I definitely will."

Valensa agreed while trying to find any possible mechanism on the hilt of the cross sword, but she couldn't find it no matter how hard she tried.

She tried channeling some holy light and praying to Her Majesty the Goddess, but there was still no response.

"Ugh... So how do you use this, Rika-nee?"

Left with no other option, Valensa had to resort to pleading with Lika for help.

“This is the exclusive sword of the Inner Temple Knights. It can only be activated with a specific incantation. You should be able to find it with your current permissions,” Rika reminded her with a smile.

"oh oh……"

Valensa then realized what was happening and quickly took out the small golden stick, pressed it against her forehead, and searched for information.

Her eyes lit up quickly, and she eagerly grabbed Fran's hand, then called to Rika:

"Let's go to the training ground and try it out... This sword seems to be quite powerful. I'm afraid it will damage other equipment if I start it here."

"it is good."

The three women quickly left the equipment depot and went to the training ground.

"Hmm, this should be fine."

Reaching the center of the training ground, Valensa took a deep breath, gripped the hilt of her sword with both hands, and slowly chanted the incantation for activating this sword, a special weapon of the Inner Templar Knights:

"The vast sky shines eternally, and evil traitors and villains fear the light of my sword!"

brush!

A burst of holy light shot out from the top of the cross-shaped sword hilt in an instant, condensed and solidified, and finally took shape into a golden lightsaber about 1.2 meters long.

Wow! It really is this!

Valensa was even more excited.

Indeed, the coolest sword is the one without a physical blade.

Now let's test its power.

With a quick glance around, Valensa spotted her first target.

The training grounds of the Church of the Sun naturally also have the same massive stones and steel plates used to test power, just like those in the War Academy's training grounds.

What Valensa is now eyeing is a steel plate... or rather, a discarded steel shield.

brush!

Bang.

With a sweeping light saber, Valensa didn't even feel the impact before the steel plate was split in two, the upper part falling to the ground.

...That's incredibly sharp! Is this the power of a lightsaber?

Valensa was somewhat speechless. She quickly found several more identical steel plates, stacked them together, and once again raised her lightsaber to slash down.

brush!

Without feeling any dullness, the steel plate was completely cut open.

"So awesome, so awesome!"

Valensa's eyes lit up as she looked at the lightsaber in her hand, as if she had fallen in love at first sight.

She then found many other things to test the sword.

Crystalline rocks with a diameter of over one meter, monster shells that are stronger than most metals, and even lighthouse-level magic shields released by magic scrolls are as fragile as newspaper shells under the blade of a lightsaber; a little force can cut them in two with a single strike.

The destructive power of this lightsaber's horizontal slash is definitely no less than that of a Lighthouse-level Paladin's full-force Holy Light Slash!

The only slight drawback is that lightsabers have no physical form, so they can't be used as a medium to transmit force, and therefore the special force-generating techniques of spiked swords cannot be used.

Valensa was already quite satisfied; the lightsaber greatly enhanced her melee damage output, and most importantly, it consumed almost no resources.

The holy light energy consumed to maintain the lightsaber does not come from the inner paladins themselves, but directly from the grace of the sun goddess.

In other words, Valensa can now unleash a full-force attack from a typical Lighthouse-level Paladin using only the force of a normal sword swing.

In short, it's just too powerful!

"I know this sword is powerful, but it's not just that it has excellent combat performance; it also has another important function."

Seeing that Valensa had finally stopped recklessly wielding her lightsaber and wasting church resources, Lika walked over and smiled at Valensa, saying:

"I've explained the nature of the Inner Templars to you before, so you should understand it by now, right?"

To maintain secrecy, the identities of the Inner Templars in every human regime are not known to just anyone, even within the church... This is relatively good in the capital, but in some smaller towns, even the highest-ranking officials of the local church are unlikely to know the true identities of the Inner Templars.

Therefore, another function of this sword is as a symbol of the Inner Templar Knight's status... When you are on a mission and need emergency support, you can draw this sword in any cathedral to gain supreme command over all the paladins in that area.

"understood."

Valensa nodded, then asked with some curiosity:

"But I'm still not officially a Templar Knight, am I? Does that make me useful?"

"Of course it's useful."

Lika Wan'er:

"The ability to gain command of local paladins when help is needed is never part of the inner paladin's job duties... it's more of a perk."

"But..."

As Lika spoke, she narrowed her eyes again, saying meaningfully:

"Not everything is permissible... Serious matters are no problem, but if you see a pretty female paladin or priestess outside and use your power to bully her... Hmph."

"Sister Lika, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Valensa immediately pouted and acted coquettishly:

"Would someone as upright as him do something improper?"

"Tch, haven't you done plenty of shady things already?"

Fran retorted without holding back, and even blushed a little:

"Back when you were partying with those noble ladies in Klar City... Hmph, you know perfectly well just how shameless you are!"

"Huh? Fran, how did you know?"

Valensa blinked, quite surprised:

"Didn't you say that Kral City is too far from the capital and you can't contact your magic clone? Are you lying to me? And then using your magic clone to spy on me while I'm attending some special social events?"

Chapter 11 She's a proper female knight!

"How could I! I would never peek! Do you think I'm a bad woman like you!"

Fran immediately puffed up her cheeks and grinded her little sharp teeth, looking like she wanted to bite someone.

Seeing Valensa's doubtful expression and obvious disbelief, Fran explained further:

"Hmph, you idiot... You really don't understand magic at all! It's true that a magical clone like me can't contact the main body when it's too far away, but magical clones also have memories and feelings! You can't treat it like a toy just because it's not activated!"

Not long after you returned to the capital, I learned from the memories of my magical clone everything you did in Klar City… Hmph, shameless, wicked woman, I'm going to tell Tia all of this!”

Please, you absolutely must not do that!

Valensa immediately chickened out... She couldn't let Tia know what she had done in Klar City!

"Hmph, you scumbag woman."

Fran did not agree, but simply tilted her head back and turned away.

"I'll give you something delicious to drink!"

Valensa quickly promised benefits and, as if tempting someone, placed one of her slender, white fingers next to Fran's small fangs.

However, the temptation of blood, which had previously always made Fran unable to resist, only earned her a look of disgust this time:

"I don't care... Your blood tastes good, but I drank so much of it that I threw up while trying to suppress your rampage, and I haven't recovered yet!"

"That……"

Valensa's eyes darted around, then she suddenly kissed Fran on the cheek and grinned mischievously:

"How about this? What do you think?"

"you……!"

Fran's face flushed bright red instantly. She quickly hid behind Rika, only peeking out half her head, and blushed with embarrassment as she complained:

"Look at her, Lika! She hasn't even officially taken office yet, and she's already flirting with her subordinates... Once she's in charge, won't she bully all the girls in the church?"