The story of the black silk female knight

In Fran, a country where the entire population is devoutly religious, some people may exploit loopholes in the kingdom's laws, but they would never dare to violate the rules of the Church of the Sun, including the great nobles.

Even though Tia and Valensa are already engaged and in a close relationship, Tia still needs Valensa's formal approval before she can use necromancy.

Even if both of them knew perfectly well that this was just a formality, this process was still necessary.

After completing this formal process, Tia immediately cast the necromancy spell she had just learned.

Spiritual clone.

The effect of this spell is to gather the souls of the deceased in the vicinity, erase their original consciousness, imprint the spellcaster's mark on them, and transform them into spiritual clones that are similar in function to vengeful spirits.

Compared to summoning ordinary vengeful spirits, spirit clones can be controlled more precisely by the caster and can share their vision with the caster at any time.

With the same properties as vengeful spirits, the spirit clones can ignore physical obstacles and move freely in this complex underground ruin, making them ideal for exploration and mapping.

As Tia cast her spell, hundreds of souls of the dead were quickly gathered together. These souls did not have their original appearances; they were all white spheres, floating in the air like cotton candy.

Gudong.

Valensa even looked on with a bit of envy, so she quickly took a few steps back and turned her head away.

There's no way around it; for any evil god, souls are a delicious natural delicacy, let alone for a foodie like Valensa among the evil gods.

Friggia was somewhat surprised:

"Huh? There are so many recently deceased souls... Is this a battlefield? Or did some kind of natural disaster just happen?"

Because I planted a mushroom on it not long ago.

Valensa smiled, somewhat smugly:

"It's like a battlefield; we just won a great victory."

While the two women were chatting, Tia's spellcasting reached its final stage.

After a quick calculation and a glance, she selected 60 of the strongest souls from among the hundreds and sent the rest away.

Then, he erased the original consciousness of the remaining 60 souls one by one and imprinted his own mark on them.

Soon, the spherical soul that had been enchanted underwent a change.

They gradually became slender from round and plump, eventually settling into the body shape of a girl around 10 years old, and were continuously optimized in terms of details, until they all became small Tia figures the size of figurines.

Valensa immediately became interested and reached out to grab a small Tia to play with, but missed because of the vengeful nature of the spirit clone.

After dodging, the little Tia made a face at Valensa, then flew to Valensa's head and stomped on her head several times with its little feet.

"Wow, this is fun."

Valensa got even more excited.

As a former anime and manga otaku, how could I not like a moving waifu figure?

She immediately started playing with the little Tia on her head, despite Tia's annoyed glare.

"...Sometimes you really are like a little kid."

Tia grumbled, but instead of controlling the spirit clone to scatter and explore the ruins like the other spirit clones, she used Valensa's body as a large playground, taking advantage of its figurine-sized size and the characteristics of a spirit life to crawl around and have a great time.

Multithreading is a fundamental skill for many excellent spellcasters.

While playing with Valensa, Tia was also busy. She controlled her other spirit clones to explore the ruins, and at the same time, she constructed a magical projection in front of her. She and Friggia discussed how to create a detailed three-dimensional structural diagram of the ruins based on the feedback from the spirit clones' exploration.

In just over half an hour, a detailed map of the surrounding three kilometers was roughly drawn on the magical projection in front of Tia.

Meanwhile, the several spirit-like Tias responsible for probing upwards finally arrived at the ground.

Through the shared perspective, Tia saw at least several hundred wild beasts.

Chapter 87 The Craftsmen Clan Among Wild Beasts

The sight of the enemy made Tia lose all interest in playing with Valensa.

She sent out her last, figure-sized spirit clone to work, and even kicked Valensa with her white-stockinged little foot to bring Valensa back to her senses.

"Are there already wild beasts coming from above?"

Valensa wasn't too surprised.

Judging by the time, it's been about six or seven hours since the nuclear explosion. It would be abnormal if the wild beasts didn't come here to check.

The key question is: how many wild beasts are currently above us, how many are powerful, and will they pose a threat to our upcoming exploration of the ruins?

Tia temporarily halted the mapping of the ruins, dispatched all her spirit clones to the top, and constructed a new magical projection to share what she saw through her spirit clones with Valensa.

Besides about a thousand wild beasts that were working, there were also nearly ten thousand wild beast carcasses on the ground.

Judging from the rotten and necrotic flesh on the corpses, these wild beasts must have died from nuclear radiation, and the time of their deaths was not the same, and their tribes were also quite diverse.

It is highly likely that their superiors sent them to explore this area in batches, but none of them survived.

However, the only advantage the beast race had was their high fertility and large numbers. The deaths of nearly ten thousand individuals could not deter them at all; on the contrary, it actually led them to discover tribes that could operate in nuclear radiation environments.

This is a wild beast that looks a bit like a large rat. It walks upright and is about the same height as a human, but its body is not covered with rat fur. Instead, it has a layer of eggshell-like material, similar to that of oviparous creatures.

Perhaps it was this eggshell that played a role, allowing these rodent-like wild beasts to suffer continuous damage from nuclear radiation, but at a much lower level.

At the very least, the nearly one thousand rodents currently attempting to excavate the ruins from the ground appear to be able to work for more than 10 hours in the nuclear radiation without any problems.

"Worker-shell Rat Wild Beast... This is a rare species among wild beasts, and also the only craftsman of the wild beast race. It seems they've really gone all out this time."

Tia quickly recognized the rodent-like beast and introduced it to Valensa:

“Three hundred years ago, when our ‘benevolent’ emperor was on friendly terms with the wild beasts, he taught them a great deal of craftsmanship and construction techniques. The wild beasts that learned these techniques were the Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts.”

They were among the few tribes of the Wild Beasts who were willing to work diligently. At that time, many merchant guilds and lords hired the Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts to work.

Even when we broke with the wild beasts, many lords and merchants suggested that we give the Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts a break, allowing them to separate from the wild beast race and become a new intelligent race, establishing a friendly and cooperative relationship with humans.

Unfortunately, the Worker-Shell Rat beasts rejected this kindness. They chose to stand with all the beasts and used the technology they learned from us humans to forge many powerful pieces of equipment for the elite and strongest beasts.

As a scout, if you have the opportunity to carry out reconnaissance missions in the Wasteland, you can kill any Worker-Shell Rat Beast you encounter... Each Worker-Shell Rat Beast's head can be exchanged for a military merit reward.

Of course, as the only artisan tribe among the Wild Beasts, the Wild Beasts also cherished the Worker-Shell Rat very much. Almost every Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beast settlement was guarded by a Radiant-Rank expert… Many scouts were too greedy and ended up forever trapped in the Desolate Ridge.”

"The only artisan tribe among the Wild Beast Clan..."

Valensa nodded slightly and pondered for a moment:

"The fact that they're willing to send such a valuable unit of artisans to search the ground shows that the beasts also recognize the value of this ruin... or perhaps it's for the sake of rescuing their great prophet?"

"They should all have some... at the very least, they need to figure out the truth about last night."

Tia thought for a moment and said:

"The Great Prophet, the second most important figure in the entire race, along with many Radiant-rank experts and hundreds of thousands of warriors, were all wiped out by you in one fell swoop using weapons from another world civilization... If I were a high-ranking member of the Wild Beast Clan, I would definitely spare no effort to find out what exactly happened here."

"Hmm... In other words, besides these Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts, there must be more than one Radiant-Rank expert up there now?" Valensa frowned slightly.

"definitely."

Tia analyzed confidently:

"According to our family records, the Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts are divided into groups of about 300 individuals, and each group is guarded by a Radiant-Rank Wild Beast Powerhouse—the kind that follows you wherever you go."

Currently, there are nearly a thousand Worker-Shell Rat Wild Beasts working on the ground, which means we will be facing at least three, or possibly more, Radiant-Rank Wild Beast Powerhouses.

These powerful wild beasts might not have the ability of the Worker-Shelled Rat to withstand continuous damage through their innate abilities. They should all be keeping watch from a slightly farther distance... Let me look around some more.”

Tia acted immediately, increasing her investment of magic and mental power in her spirit clones, controlling 60 figurine-sized spirit Tia figures to spread out shallowly underground and scout around.

As she had predicted, four powerful beast warriors from four different directions were discovered one after another about six or seven kilometers from the center of last night's nuclear explosion.

Considering that the senses of a Radiant-rank expert are very sharp, Tia's spiritual clones did not dare to get close to observe, and all of them only peeked at each other from a distance of thousands of meters.

Fortunately, the gap between rich and poor among the wild beasts is huge. Even the elite warriors at the Lighthouse level only have a good weapon, and their clothes are basically tattered.

Individual wild beasts that can wear a full suit of metal armor or a monster skin robe, or even be decorated with gemstones, are basically all Radiant-rank powerhouses among wild beasts.

Three of the Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts were wearing metal armor and wielding melee weapons, most likely warrior-type cultivators, but it cannot be ruled out that they might be dual cultivators of physical and magical arts like the Great Prophet.

The only beast that seemed to be a pure spellcaster was a small, goat-headed beast with a staff. Its sensitivity to magic was significantly greater than that of the three warriors, and it almost discovered Tia's spiritual clone.

"If all four of them attack me together, I definitely can't beat them, not even by transforming into an evil god."

Valensa's beautiful eyebrows furrowed:

"If we don't run away, our only chance is to use the complex terrain of the underground ruins to lure them in one by one and defeat them one by one... But they're definitely not that stupid. I estimate that they'll stick together after we succeed once at most... Well, unfortunately, we have to give up on this ruin."

"……Why."

Tia also felt sorry, but she didn't have any good solutions.

"Hmm... these are the wild beasts you were talking about?"

Just as Tia was preparing to gather her magic power for a long-distance teleportation, Friggia came over and circled the magical projection a few times, then smiled:

"Aren't these the inferior life forms I created after my experiment failed... Tsk tsk, humans these days are really stupid, actually fighting with these inferior life forms for thousands of years?"

Chapter 88 Self-Destruct Command

"What? You're saying you created the wild beasts?"

Tia's eyes widened immediately, and she instinctively grabbed Friggia's collar.

Valensa was alright as a transmigrator. She didn't actually hate the beasts much. If it weren't for the beast prophets being so focused on killing Tia, she would have just wanted to slack off and collect her wages on the battlefield.

You should know that her original career plan was to become a top-notch military attaché in the diplomatic field.

But Tia couldn't.

The Britannia family is a military family that has been responsible for the defense of the northern border for generations. As the heir, Tia learned how to fight against wild beasts from a young age. She was also instilled with the stupidity and evil deeds of wild beasts and often mourned the family martyrs who were killed by wild beasts in the war.

Tia's family and the wild beasts are true mortal enemies and sworn enemies.

Now that she had unexpectedly met the creator of the calamity-ridden race, the Wild Beasts, it was impossible for Tia not to be excited... If it weren't for the fact that Friggia had just helped her and Valensa, she probably would have already started beating them up.

Why did you create such a stupid and barbaric bastard creature?!

"Hehe... Don't get excited, don't get excited... I already said it was an accident, it was a failed experiment."

Friggia wasn't angry; she just chuckled and said:

"Otherwise, why do you think I was cornered in my own laboratory by five holy maidens and three great sages and beaten up, and then sealed away for so long?"

"you……"

"alright."

Seeing that Tia wanted to ask more questions, Friggia waved her hand again:

"I didn't intend to hide this from you. If you're interested, I can tell you the whole story later, but for now..."

As she spoke, Friggia pointed to the wild beasts on the ground in Tia's magical projection:

"Let's deal with these inferior beings first... I had a backup plan back then, and if we're lucky, we can kill them all without lifting a finger."

"A second move?" x2

Upon hearing that there was a way to wipe out all the wild beasts on the ground in one go, Tia immediately suppressed her dissatisfaction, and Valensa also cast a curious glance at her.

"Yes, it's a self-destruct command implanted at the genetic level."

Friggia nodded and chuckled:

"Previous civilizations learned from countless accidents in biological experiments that any biological research, before the technology is fully mature, must implant self-destruct instructions at the genetic level into the test subjects to facilitate their destruction."

As the culmination and ultimate creation of a previous civilization, I did the same.

"Then what are we waiting for? Activate the command now!"

Valensa urged excitedly:

"We humans have suffered from wild beasts for too long. If we can completely solve this natural disaster, you can make amends even if you cause trouble again in the future!"

"She created the wild beasts in the first place, so at most she's just cleaning up her own mess."

Tia pursed her lips, but her eyes were full of anticipation.

"It's not as easy as you think."

Friggia shrugged:

"After all, it's an experimental organism that we went through a lot of trouble to create. Although I implanted a self-destruct command, I don't want to use it unless absolutely necessary."