The story of the black silk female knight

Lika raised an eyebrow and gently tapped Valensa's forehead with her finger:

"The territories in the Kingdom of Fran that are inhabited by humans have already been distributed... The remaining territories are either wild forests teeming with monsters or toxic swamps with harsh conditions... His Majesty the King probably really doesn't have any spare territories to give you."

And every time new land available for distribution appears, do you know what happens?

"New lands available for distribution have emerged..."

Valensa squinted and began to think.

In her previous life in the feudal dynasty, whenever the monarch generously distributed land to reward nobles, it was usually after winning a war and conquering other countries, and the land distributed was always enemy territory as spoils of war.

However, there are no human enemies around Fran that can be conquered, so this point can be directly ignored.

That is to develop the wilderness into habitable land and establish new human settlements?

Valensa thought for a moment, then gently shook her head.

Probably not.

Developing wilderness and establishing new settlements is generally something that is done when there is an overpopulation and a lack of resources.

Fran's population growth has always been slow, and its resources are abundant thanks to the blessings of the Sun Goddess, so there is absolutely no need to develop the wilderness.

After all, those wilderness forests are infested with monsters. To develop them would require a life-or-death struggle with the monsters. With law-abiding citizens and believers of the goddess having enough to eat and wear, there is absolutely no need to take this risk.

It's not about conquering other countries, nor about developing wilderness, but about creating new lands to be distributed... It seems there's only one possibility left.

"It's because the existing nobles violated the kingdom's laws that their territories were confiscated by the royal family, right?"

Valensa gave her own answer.

"Hmm, it seems you're not entirely stupid."

Lika smiled and nodded:

"Then you should also know that when nobles violate the kingdom's laws, often all they need to do is pay a fine or find a few scapegoats to settle things. But serious crimes that will result in confiscation of property, execution, and loss of fiefdoms..."

"These are usually crimes of treason and rebellion... and most nobles who commit these crimes also collaborate with cults!"

Valensa suddenly realized and understood completely:

"To strike down such nobles is my duty as a Knight of the Temple... In other words, His Majesty the King intends to reward me with my spoils of war? How cunning of him."

Chapter 21 The Saintess Squad

Two more days passed after Valensa was summoned by the King.

Valensa has been incredibly busy these past two days.

She has a lot of work to do in the experimental 'Public Relations Department' that requires her personal attention. She also needs to keep an eye on Melina's dealings with the royal family regarding the residence, and she also needs to take some time to personally guide Lian's cultivation.

It's fair to say that I had a very fulfilling life.

The initial training of the recruited noble girls can be entrusted to Fran, but other matters require Valensa to make decisions herself.

For example, what will this new department be called? What kind of uniforms will its members wear? What specific clergy category will its members belong to? Priests? Nuns? Or paladins?

These decisions all need to be made by Valensa, and as soon as possible, as Lika is waiting to complete the formalities.

Otherwise, once the War Academy starts, time will only become more limited.

Therefore, matters concerning the new department are Valensa's top priority these past two days.

First, let's talk about the name of the new department.

The name "Public Relations Department" was just something Valensa thought about; she wouldn't actually name it that, as it was too out of place with the church's style.

Considering that the core of this department consists of aristocratic young ladies who are well-versed in etiquette and social skills, Valensa decided to start by naming them.

In Valensa's previous life, all noblewomen of high society could be called socialites, which sounded quite nice, so Valensa decided to take a similar approach.

Calling her a socialite is a bit inappropriate, so let's just call her a saintly socialite.

The word "Saint" indicates that the girls are all clergy, while "Yuan" represents that the girls are of noble birth.

The new department composed of the Holy Maidens is naturally called the Holy Maiden Squad. Sophia is currently serving as the temporary captain, and the entire squad is directly under the jurisdiction of the Inner Temple Knights.

After making the decision, Valensa went to discuss it with Lika. Lika had no objections and said she would follow Valensa's ideas and go through the process. Afterwards, she asked Valensa to design the costumes for the Holy Daughters.

To design the costumes for the Holy Daughters, it was necessary to first determine which clergy the Holy Daughters belonged to.

Currently, the clergy of the Church of the Sun can be broadly divided into three categories: nuns, priests, and paladins.

They may look similar, but there are actually quite a few differences.

Nuns generally do not have combat capabilities; they are more like clerical staff. Their main job duties are to receive worshippers who come to pray in the church, guide them in their spiritual practice, or help them resolve their inner conflicts.

To be a priest, one must be proficient in divine magic, but most priests are not good at direct combat and focus on healing and support, like Asaki.

At the same time, priests are often the managers of small village churches, and may also be the only medical personnel in small villages... Among the people, priests are the most popular.

Paladins are the main fighting force of the Church of the Sun. Almost every one of them is a near-all-rounder, and they can easily crush other classes of the same level on lands blessed by the Sun Goddess.

Of course, depending on individual talents, paladins are also divided into ranged, melee, and support classes... but that only means they are good at something, and does not mean that support or ranged classes cannot engage in melee combat.

Even without teammates, a support paladin can still pull out a longsword or warhammer and wreak havoc.

Considering that the fighting power of noble ladies is practically non-existent, Valensa, after careful consideration, decided to classify saintly daughters as a type of nun.

The uniforms of the Holy Daughters would naturally have to be modified to resemble nun's habit.

Valensa wasn't a professional costume designer, but she was well-informed and quickly sketched out a new uniform based on nun's habit and the ball gowns often worn by aristocratic ladies.

Generally speaking, it mainly uses the black and white color scheme of nun's habit, with a gold sun emblem and sunlight-like gold stitching.

However, in terms of style, it is closer to the ball gowns often worn by young ladies... backless halter neck, high slit, short boots, high heels, and stockings.

After drawing a rough sketch, Valensa took the sketch to Ms. Dinah—a skilled magical tailor she was already quite familiar with.

As a professional who specializes in dealing with the young ladies of the capital, Ms. Dinah lived up to Valensa's expectations, quickly turning the sketches into complete designs and making several samples according to Valensa's requirements.

Valensa then took the samples back to church for Sophia and the others to try on, soliciting their opinions and making continuous modifications to some details until everyone was satisfied.

The matter of the Holy Maiden Squad has been roughly settled. Next is the training of the personnel, which will take at least six months. Sophia and the others can slowly cultivate in the church, and Valensa doesn't need to worry about it too much.

While traveling between the church and Ms. Dinah's shop, Valensa also made a few detours to visit Melina and check on the handover and transfer of ownership of the house.

The residence is located in the most bustling area of ​​the capital, only about a ten-minute walk from the Church of the Sun, which is very convenient.

The estate is also very large, a four-story detached villa with a usable area of ​​nearly 1500 square meters, more than ten rooms that can be used as bedrooms, and an ultra-luxurious master bedroom.

In addition to the main building, the estate also has a garden of nearly 3000 square meters, complete with fountains and pavilions, making for a remarkably beautiful environment... In Valencia's previous life, this would definitely be a place only the ultra-wealthy could afford to live in.

With the involvement of a royal envoy, the transfer of ownership of the residence went very smoothly, without any waiting in line, and was completed in less than half a day.

Melina had no objection to hiring Suzuran as her private doctor, but she had a different opinion when she heard that Valensa immediately wanted to recruit a few more maids.

"This mansion is a bit big, but I can manage it all by myself, Miss."

Melina smiled gently:

"If Miss really cares about me, you can go to the Britannia family to borrow some servants to help with the initial cleaning of the mansion. As for the later maintenance, I can handle it all by myself."

"This……"

Valensa really wanted to say that she just wanted to hire a few more maids and had no other intentions.

But thinking about her increasingly strong desires over the past year, she herself didn't believe it.

Even if she didn't have those thoughts at first, what maid wouldn't want to get into her master's bed? Once seduced by the new maid, Valensa didn't think she could resist.

As for hiring older or less attractive maids... that was never in Valensa's consideration from the start.

So Valensa had no choice but to agree to Melina's gentle, smiling refusal.

However, Valensa was still a little worried about letting Melina live alone in such a large mansion... Although the security in the capital was already very good, there were still crazy people who would take risks anywhere.

Just then, Leffle, who was a third-year student last year, graduated, so Valensa decided to hire Leffle as a guard for the mansion, as a way to help her and Suzuran get together.

With a Pearl-level Word Spirit sorcerer as a guard, and Tia setting up a magical barrier with both alert and defensive functions, there shouldn't be too much to worry about regarding the safety of the mansion.

Chapter 22 New doubts

During the day, Valensa is busy with matters concerning the Holy Maidens Squad and the mansion, while at night, she guides Lian's spiritual practice at the church training ground.

Valensa's martial arts instruction differed significantly from that of ordinary people.

Because Valencia herself had hardly undergone any basic training, she hadn't even practiced any decent moves before entering the War College.

After all, four years ago, before the incident at Valensa's family, she was still a pampered young lady with no power to even kill a chicken.

In the beginning, when she was an adventurer fighting monsters, Valensa relied entirely on the strength and speed advantage she gained from the enhancement card to hack and slash wildly.

After being beaten and injured many times, he was forced to develop some skills.

In addition, Valensa gradually developed her own fighting style by learning a few tricks while doing missions with other adventurers.

Therefore, many of Valensa's fighting techniques are something that can only be understood intuitively and cannot be explained in words; they can only be felt through the body.

Her guidance to Ren was similar; she wouldn't teach Ren specific moves, but only the fighting strategy.

For example, when to block, when to dodge, when to thrust at a vital point, and when to perform a backflip slash.

Afterwards, extensive practical training was used to help Lian develop a fighting instinct through her body.

Almost every night, Valensa would beat Lian with a wooden sword, leaving her bruised and battered, with holes in her stockings.

But Lian never complained or uttered a word of pain. Even when she was being beaten hard by the wooden sword, she gritted her teeth and persevered until Valensa called for a stop.

This effort led to Lian's rapid progress.

She was indeed a born warrior, but unfortunately, she was born at the wrong time and wasted a lot of her time.

Fortunately, it's not too late to catch up now.

In addition to the basic skills honed from her own combat experience, Valensa also plans to teach Lian some powerful sword techniques as ultimate moves.

For example, the Spiked Sword move is a perfect match for the sharpness of the Dragon Fang Short Sword. If Lian can master it, killing enemies stronger than herself will not be a dream.

However, the spiked sword technique was a move by the weapon master Dotalok, and Valensa was not in a position to teach it to others without permission. She planned to ask the old man for permission after the start of the school year before teaching it to Lian.

Valensa spent the last few days of her summer vacation in a very fulfilling way.

That morning, while she was training the noble girls with Fran, she heard the news that the War Academy's entrance examination for this year had ended.

This time, there were no wild beasts causing trouble, nor were there any beastly teachers trying to assault the female students; the entire assessment process went very smoothly.

The welcome banquet for new students is about to be held, and second- and third-year students are beginning to return to campus one after another. Tia should also be returning from the Sage's Tower soon.

Valensa, naturally, had to go back to school.

There was no lingering reluctance to part... After all, the War Academy and the Church weren't far apart; Valensa could run back in about ten minutes if she ran a little faster, and she could come back anytime.

Fran even waved her hand dismissively:

"Hurry up and leave... I can finally get a good night's sleep once you're gone... so you won't be teasing me or playing with my magical clones every night... Honestly, I really want to punch you."

The noble ladies all smiled knowingly at this, and Valensa laughed heartily, not taking it to heart.

Since she wouldn't be staying at the church regularly, Valensa declined Rika's offer to prepare a special room for her and has been sleeping in Fran's room these days.

Since Fran is a vampire, she usually sleeps during the day and works at night, so one bed is more than enough for two people to take turns sleeping in.

However, given Valensa's personality, how could she possibly behave properly while living with a beautiful girl?

They were still far from crossing the line that would change their friendship, but Valensa had been teasing Fran quite a bit these days, often making Fran blush.

Now that Valensa is finally leaving, Fran breathed a sigh of relief.

After saying a brief farewell to the church members, Valensa left without hesitation, heading straight back to the War College without taking any detours.

Upon entering the school gate, the first place to go was naturally the girls' dormitory of the Command Department, to see if Tia had returned.

As it turned out, Tia hadn't returned yet, but Valensa was surrounded by the other girls from the command department and almost made a mistake while she was there.

The girls were all incredibly daring; some even wore only revealing tank tops and flaunted them in front of Valensa, making no attempt to hide their intention to seduce her.

But Valensa dared not touch those girls; she knew very well that they had no good intentions.

His real purpose was to seduce her, find evidence of her infidelity, and then threaten to report her to Tia by demanding various unequal terms from her.

Having finally escaped the Command Department girls' dormitory where Tia was not, Valensa still did not return to her own Vanguard Department dormitory, but instead went to the principal's office again.

Her original intention was to complain to the bald man about how terrible the military training mission at Iris Girls' Academy was, and see if she could get some benefits from him.