The story of the black silk female knight

"Valenza was just lucky. She took advantage of the enemy's carelessness to launch a sneak attack and killed one Star Glory and four Beacon cultists, a total of five cultists, saving the capital once. It's nothing special."

"Mr. Bob, you've been fighting on the front lines for so many years, these must be nothing to you, right?"

"I……!"

Bob blushed instantly and couldn't say another word.

Having fought on the front lines for over twenty years, he knew very well how difficult it was for a Lighthouse to defeat both a Star Glory and four Lighthouses at the same time, even if a Lighthouse successfully launched a sneak attack. At the very least, he could never do it.

Someone else did this; the noble girl just took the credit for it.

The idea only flashed through Bob's mind before he dismissed it.

Since its founding a thousand years ago, the Franco-François has always adhered to a policy of meritocracy. Claiming credit for the achievements of others is a very serious illegal act, and even the great nobles dare not easily violate it.

But Bob also finds it hard to believe Valencia's outrageous record.

In the end, he just glared at Tia for a while with a flushed face, and then stormed off... He didn't try to drag Gina to help anymore, but returned to his post to continue patrolling.

Tia simply shrugged at this, feeling she had already been merciful with her words.

If you told Bob that when Valencia achieved that outrageous record, there wasn't even a lighthouse yet; it was still a small jewel. Bob's eyes would definitely widen even more.

. . . . .

Eight kilometers is not a long distance for Valensa, who can run at supersonic speeds under normal conditions.

Although Valensa couldn't maintain full speed throughout due to the actual terrain and obstacles, she still reached the location where the convoy was attacked in less than two minutes.

Adhering to the female knight's style of never engaging in direct combat if she can launch a sneak attack, Valensa mobilized the mental power in her heart lake to greatly reduce her presence when she was about three kilometers away from the target point.

As a result, when she arrived at the battlefield, neither the enemy nor her allies paid any attention to her.

At the scene, the remains of more than a dozen transport vehicles could be seen burned, with more than half of the fire still burning. It is likely that the transport team chose to burn the grain immediately after being attacked to prevent it from falling into the hands of wild beasts.

But the wild beasts did not retreat; instead, they launched an even more frenzied attack on the transport convoy.

The vanguard escorting the transport team was a middle-aged lighthouse-level mage who was currently struggling to hold on with the help of magical barriers and the soldiers' defensive formation, but it was clear that he could not hold on for much longer.

The dim magical barrier was riddled with cracks, and there were more than a dozen corpses of ordinary soldiers on the ground, each with a gruesome fatal wound.

The three wild beasts that were fiercely attacking the magic barrier were a tiger-headed wild beast covered in fur, and two lizard-like wild beasts with scales covering their bodies.

All three wild beasts were Lighthouse-level and all were injured, but it was probably not caused by the transport team; rather, it was left behind when they forcibly broke through the defense line.

Valensa didn't rush to make a move; she was curious... the transport team had already burned the food, so why were these wild beasts still attacking desperately?

After observing for about 20 seconds, Valensa finally understood... all three wild beasts, dressed in tattered clothes, had numerous standard-issue storage bags hanging from their waists.

These spatial storage bags clearly did not belong to the wild beasts themselves, but were stolen from the fallen Fran soldiers.

Each Fran soldier stores about three days' worth of emergency rations in their spatial storage bag, and the wild beasts must have been eyeing these foods.

Is it necessary?

Valensa was somewhat puzzled.

Even if the Beast Clan is poor and lacks food, is it necessary for them to sacrifice the lives of their elite Lighthouse-level warriors to exchange for food that can't be eaten for long?

Chapter 53 Three Kills

The Wild Beast Clan is very prolific, so there's no need to worry about the lives of cannon fodder. It's actually better for them to die during the autumn offensive to save food for the clan.

Even if the Wild Beast Clan is incredibly prolific, elite warriors at the Beacon level should never be cannon fodder, but rather the backbone and core strength.

But now the Beastmen are clearly using their elite warriors as cannon fodder, willing to sacrifice many of them to steal what is only enough rations for a hundred or so people for three days.

This is so abnormal.

Valensa felt that the Beastmen had ulterior motives and might be plotting something bigger.

But for a moment she couldn't figure out what kind of conspiracy it was.

She could only solve the immediate problem first, and the best she could do was capture a wild beast alive to interrogate it for information.

Once the decision is made, the next step is, of course, to execute it immediately.

The way mental power is used changes instantly, from reducing one's own presence to explosively enhancing speed and power.

Supersonic. Holy Light. Spiked Kick!

Bang!

Upon hearing the loud noise, the tiger-headed beast tried to turn around, but it was too late.

Supersonic attacks arrive long before the enemy can even hear the sound.

Valensa delivered a powerful kick to the tiger-headed beast's back, striking its heart with a standard knight's kick. The immense kinetic energy from the second strike, combined with the shockwave of holy light, erupted within the beast, completely shattering its heart and all of its sternum.

puff!

Blood gushed from the tiger's mouth. A lighthouse-level elite warrior of the Wild Beast Clan was kicked to death by Valensa before he could even utter his last words.

However, the other two elite warriors of the lizard-like beast race reacted quickly. One abandoned the attack on the magic barrier and stabbed Valensa in the chest with his trident, while the other quickly took the storage bags containing soldiers' rations from the tiger-headed beast's waist and ran away into the distance without looking back.

Having just unleashed a powerful kick, Valensa should have temporarily retreated to regroup in the face of the trident's chest-piercing attack. However, she neither dodged nor evaded, and even proactively deactivated the defenses of her divine particle armor, revealing a lace shirt beneath her silver-white armor.

The lizard beast's apricot-yellow eyes were puzzled, but they immediately turned ferocious, increasing the force of its trident thrust by two times, no longer holding back as it changed its move, wanting to pierce Valensa completely.

It did indeed pierce Valensa's chest, but there was no sense of a direct hit... The trident seemed to have struck a phantom, only piercing through a few layers of soft cloth without penetrating a single inch of flesh.

The power of the mind. Atomization.

The instant Valensa was struck by the trident, she made her body ethereal, while simultaneously extending her index and middle fingers to pierce the lizard beast's eyes.

If the lizard beast still had a fraction of its strength left to change its attack, it could definitely dodge the eye-gouging strike. Unfortunately, it was too eager for quick success and is now in a brief stalemate after a powerful attack.

Double Nail-Piercing Finger!

In the rush, Valensa didn't have time to enhance her attack with mental power and holy light, but she had already maxed out her strength and speed with enhanced Kara, and the eyes are the most vulnerable part of most creatures.

Even a simple nail-piercing finger strike is enough to blind the lizard beast. The kinetic energy from the second stage of the strike then explodes inside its skull, directly damaging its brain.

The second elite warrior of the Wild Beast Clan was killed.

At this moment, the last elite warrior of the Wild Beast Clan had run hundreds of meters away and was about to disappear into the depths of the dense forest beside the official road.

Although there's a saying that you shouldn't pursue a defeated enemy too far, Valensa had no intention of letting go of this last elite warrior of the Beast Clan.

She grabbed the trident that was stuck in her lace shirt and underwear, pulled it out, and used it as a makeshift weapon to chase after the last lizard-like beast.

Valenza's strongest basic attribute is speed. Her speed during the Pearl stage was already comparable to that of a Lighthouse-level warrior. Now that she has truly entered the Lighthouse and uses the enhanced Karaman, her speed will be much faster than that of an ordinary Lighthouse-level warrior.

The fleeing lizard-like beast was quickly caught up by Valensa, who had no choice but to draw her scimitar and engage in battle with Valensa, who was wielding a trident.

This lizard-like beast had excellent swordsmanship, parrying, blocking, deflecting force, and dodging; its defense was virtually impenetrable.

In addition, this was Valensa's first time using a trident, so she relied almost entirely on strength and speed to smash and stab wildly. After dozens of clinking and clanging attacks, she still couldn't defeat the last elite beast warrior. Instead, she was slashed by the enemy, and her newly changed black stockings were cut.

"Damn it! These are my new pantyhose!"

Valensa was furious and immediately threw away the decent-quality trident, taking out a cross-shaped sword hilt from the storage space of her artifact cloak.

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

As Valensa chanted the inner knight's exclusive incantation, a blazing sword light condensed at the tip of the cross hilt, transforming into a dazzling lightsaber.

brush!

The sword is Valencia's most proficient weapon. Even in the elite corps of the War Academy, which is full of martial arts geniuses, Valencia is only slightly inferior to the successor of the Sword Saint in terms of swordsmanship alone.

After Valensa switched to her lightsaber, the last elite beastman warrior was immediately unable to hold her off.

In less than ten moves, the scimitar in its hand, which was also a high-level enchanted weapon, was severed by the lightsaber, along with its right arm that was wielding the sword.

At this point, the lizard beast's defeat was inevitable, and Valensa could easily kill it.

However, in order to keep it alive to extract information, Valensa did not deliver the fatal blow. Instead, she used her lightsaber to sever the lizard beast's legs and stomped its head under her boots, intending to capture it alive.

"No! Get away from it! Quickly!"

Just as Valensa was rummaging through her storage space for rope to tie up the beast warrior beneath her feet, she suddenly heard the shout of the mage scout in the transport team.

Without much thought, Valensa immediately kicked the beast warrior with only one left arm at her feet away, while crouching down to protect herself with her artifact cloak.

boom!

The beast warrior exploded as soon as it was kicked up; the explosion was very powerful.

The magical cloak shielded Valensa from the intense heat of the explosion, but it couldn't protect her from the kinetic energy impact.

Valensa was blasted and rolled a long way on the ground. In the process, her black stockings, which had already been ripped open by a knife, were completely ruined and could no longer be worn.

"Are you OK?"

The middle-aged mage soldier also rushed over with several soldiers, seemingly wanting to help Valensa, but looking at her hot body, he didn't know how to proceed.

"It's nothing, I was just startled. Thanks for reminding me."

The explosion was actually quite powerful, but the female knight had a higher defense and health bar, and her divine cloak blocked the most deadly high temperature, so Valensa was not seriously injured.

She stood up and cast several healing spells on herself. Soon, apart from her clothes and black stockings, there was no trace of injury on her body.

Chapter 54 There Must Be a Conspiracy

"You can even use healing magic? So you're a paladin? No wonder."

The middle-aged mage soldier was surprised for a moment, then looked enlightened.

He was shocked to find that Valencia had wiped out the enemy in just a few moves, despite his efforts to hold off a hundred or so soldiers.

The shock lessened considerably after learning that Valensa was a paladin.

In common knowledge, apart from some extremely rare hidden classes, Paladins are the strongest at their level. Coupled with the advantage of striking first, it's not surprising that they can take on three opponents at once.

Valensa nodded slightly:

"Yes, I am indeed a paladin. Do you have any wounded here who need treatment?"

"Yes, thank you for your help."

The middle-aged soldier didn't stand on ceremony and quickly led Valensa to the place where they had previously formed a defensive line. In the center of the defensive line, there were more than a dozen soldiers covered in blood lying on the ground, some of whom looked like they were about to die.

Valensa quickly used her divine magic to heal the wounded soldiers.

Her healing magic isn't particularly advanced; at least, it can't compare to a priest like Asashi who specializes in healing. The fact that she can heal herself effectively is also related to her powerful self-healing abilities.

Valensa could only barely keep the most seriously injured soldiers alive; they would need to go to the cathedral in the nearest city for further treatment.

The transport team leader hesitated for a few seconds before saying he would take responsibility for the mission failure. He then sent half of his team to escort the wounded to the nearest city, while he led the rest of his men to take on the mission again.

They were responsible for transporting food from Bizk Town to Fortress No. 5, but now that the food is gone, they have to go back to Bizk Town to load the trucks.

After Valensa finished treating the wounded soldiers, the middle-aged mage soldier thanked her again, but then his expression turned serious:

"I admit you are very strong, but that is no excuse for disobeying orders!"

"???"

Valensa was completely confused:

"What orders have I disobeyed?"

"……you do not know?"

As a scout, judging whether a target is lying by observing facial expressions is also a required course. The middle-aged mage scout realized that Valensa wasn't faking it, but he also had some doubts:

"How could you not know? This was an order issued by the Supreme Command last month—kill any beast warriors that have entered the country, but do not capture them alive."

"I really don't know about this order."

Valensa shrugged, then thought for a moment and said:

"I was just a student at the War Academy. I had only been on the front lines for a few days after receiving the call to arms, and no one had ever told me about this before."

"Are you a student at the War Academy?"

The middle-aged mage was shocked once again.

Are students these days really this strong? Killing three Lighthouse-level elite beast warriors is like child's play for them.

Although Valensa took a few extra minutes to kill the last lizard-like beast, the middle-aged mage scout could tell that Valensa was deliberately holding back in order to capture it alive.

"Yes, I really am a student."