The story of the black silk female knight

"These... all seem to be top-grade ingredients, right?"

As Valencia took out paper and pen to write down all the material, she asked with amusement:

"Frigia, how did you come up with the idea of ​​using these things as a special pheromone solvent?"

"Because these are the foods I used to eat all the time."

Friggia shrugged:

"The special pheromone solvent for self-destruct commands is actually similar to a code; it can be formulated using any biological material. Each different formulation of the special pheromone solvent corresponds to a different self-destruct command."

"I was doing research in the underground lab, and when I was setting the activation code for the self-destruct command on the wild beasts, I naturally used whatever biological materials were available."

"So all of these are top-quality ingredients... You really are a very powerful witch."

Valensa sighed and handed the paper with the names of the materials written on it to Tia:

“Look, my dear, you are quite knowledgeable. Can you recognize all these ingredients? I can only recognize about a third of them, and I've never even heard of some of them.”

Chapter 104 It's all the foodies' fault

"I haven't seen most of them in person; I've only seen pictures and written descriptions in books."

Tia looked at the list of materials for a while, then frowned slightly and pointed to a material on the list called "Extremely Colorful Giant Chicken Wing Root":

“I’m not sure about the other materials, I need to go back to the capital to inquire, but this material… is probably hard to get now… because the book records that the Giant Rainbow Chicken went extinct 700 years ago.”

"Extinct?"

Valensa raised an eyebrow, somewhat curious:

"what happened?"

"Because it's so delicious...the whole thing is made from top-quality ingredients."

Tia sighed and gave Valensa a resentful glare.

It's like saying... it's all your fault, you foodies!

"The Giant Colorful Chicken...it really is delicious!"

Friggia smiled in agreement, licking her lips with a hint of lingering satisfaction.

"It's a Moon-level monster. It looks similar to a turkey, but it's much larger and has colorful feathers. It loves music and can even choreograph its own songs and dances."

But it really is delicious! The chicken breast is fresh and tender, while the chicken thigh meat is chewy but not tough, and it has a very special aroma. Even if you just boil it in plain water without adding any spices, it is still a top-notch delicacy.

Its chicken drumsticks are relatively less valuable, which is why I used them as ingredients, but they are still top-quality ingredients... Even the lords of that time had to be lucky to get to eat them.

To be honest, if the Extremely Colorful Giant Chicken weren't just as powerful as other Moon-level monsters, I would have suspected it was constantly evolving just to make itself edible.

"Yes, the entire body of the Rainbow Giant Chicken is a top-notch delicacy... Books record that even the most disciplined vegetarians cannot resist the delicious temptation of the Rainbow Giant Chicken."

Tia nodded, then sighed:

"Therefore, the Rainbow Giant Chicken once suffered extinction-level hunting. Not only human powerhouses, but also many adult dragons liked to eat the Rainbow Giant Chicken... If the Rainbow Giant Chicken were not large enough, one would be enough for many people to eat, and I'm afraid many powerhouses would have fought each other for the food."

In short, it was an era of rampant hunting of the Rainbow Giant Chickens. The number of Rainbow Giant Chickens, which originally had many groups living east of the Misty Mountains, decreased drastically after several years of indiscriminate hunting and killing... By the time people realized it, this top-quality food, which was delicious from head to toe, had become extinct.

The Gourmet Association was officially established after that incident… Besides exploring and collecting new ingredients and developing new dishes, the association's mission is also to protect endangered ingredients from extinction.

"Is... like this?"

Valensa sighed with great regret:

"In other words, due to the extinction of the Extremely Colorful Giant Chicken, the special pheromone solvent that can activate the self-destruct command within the genes of wild beasts can no longer be produced?"

She looked at Friggia with a glimmer of hope, her voice sweet:

"It's just that one type of material is missing. Is there a way to replace it with other materials?"

"If I forget one number in my password, can I use another number to replace it?"

Friggia rolled her eyes in annoyance, giving her a 'you're so stupid' look.

Seeing Valensa puff out her cheeks in frustration and make a 'gurgling' sound, Friggia smiled again and comforted her, saying:

"Don't be discouraged—have you forgotten that Eve's planet is quite large? Not to mention the ocean, just the continent of Frenoia alone has more than 30% of its area yet to be fully explored by humans. There might even be some giant rainbow chickens in those places."

"Right."

Valensa nodded.

Ideally, there would be a special pheromone solvent that can activate the self-destruct command within the genes of the wild beasts. However, if that's not available, the wild beasts can be slowly eradicated by polluting the environment with dirty bombs. There's no need to force it.

You can wait until you return to the capital to inquire about how to obtain the other materials. If you can collect all the other materials and only the wings of the Rainbow Giant Chicken are left, then it's not too late to figure out a way.

After we finished discussing the materials, it was already quite dark.

Valensa and Friggia were both fine, but Tia was yawning constantly—she had been assisting in the battle and mapping the ruins with her spirit clones since last night, and was already exhausted.

Natural, primal bio-energy can effectively replenish magic and physical strength, but you still need to sleep.

With no extra physical exertion, tonight is a time for sweet sleep.

The next morning, Valensa and Tia woke up and put on their armor and officer's skirts, respectively, to prepare for the meeting at the Third Fortress.

The two had a minor argument about how to handle Friggia's affairs.

Tia believed that Friggia was currently empty inside, and even if she had bad intentions, she would be powerless to do anything about it. She suggested that Friggia be sent to a nearby city or the capital first, and that the two of them come back to find her after they had finished their reports.

Valensa, however, did not think so.

Although they get along quite well now, Friggia is, after all, a witch who has done terrible things, and she has personally admitted that she cannot be bound by human morality.

Friggia was released by Valensa, and Valensa must take responsibility for Friggia... If Friggia really manages to cause a big scandal while the two are attending the meeting, Valensa's punishment will be far more severe than simply being kicked in the butt by the goddess in the sunlight with her high heels.

While Friggia's body was indeed empty and she had no fighting power, her knowledge was so vast that it was not impossible for her to cause a town-wide catastrophe.

Just to be on the safe side, it's best to keep Friggia with you.

However, for Fran, Friggia is currently an unregistered person.

The third fortress is also a military stronghold, and bringing someone like Friedia, whose identity is unknown, directly in would be very troublesome even with Tia, the young lady of Britannia, present.

Frieda ate her cake in small bites, watching with great interest as Valensa and Tia argued about her for a while before she chuckled and offered her suggestion:

"This is actually easy to solve—as long as I stay close to Valensa and don't get noticed by anyone else, right?"

"You make it sound so easy..."

Tia gave a wry smile:

"That's the Third Fortress, currently the temporary supreme command center. Not only are there several Radiant-rank experts there, but there's also a magical barrier that can monitor everything within the fortress at all times! Are you sure you can hide there?"

“What’s so difficult about that? A simple trick will suffice… Don’t forget, the origin of any spells you’re using right now comes from me.”

Friggia smiled confidently, picked up the untouched milk glass from the table, poured out all the milk, and handed the empty glass to Valensa.

"Of course, even the most skilled cook can't cook without rice. No matter how proficient I am in magic, I still need energy... So please, Valencia, could I have some more to drink? Hehe~~"

Chapter 105 My Personal Big Sister

Tia was once again amazed by the little trick that Friggia had mentioned.

After obtaining two bottles of natural bio-energy essence from Valensa under a perfectly legitimate pretext and gulping them down in one go, Friggia cast a Shadow Armor spell.

A shadow armor technique that even the Fifth Sage, a genuine user of shadow armor techniques, doesn't know.

【Shadow RV Technique】

The name of the secret technique was clearly something Friedia made up on the spot, but the effect matched the name perfectly.

Friggia expanded Valensa's shadow into a folded space of less than 20 square meters, and used her imaginary alchemy to create simple furniture for herself, including a bed, wardrobe, and bookshelves, turning Valensa's shadow into a small bedroom, which she then moved into.

"This... seems to be the technology of spatial storage artifacts, right? I also think I see quite a few traces of our family's spatial linking secret technique... You really did steal it after all!"

While greatly surprised, Tia also complained to Friggia in an annoyed tone.

"It's just a slight borrowing... Your family's secret technique is indeed quite efficient in terms of spatial manipulation... much more efficient than most spatial spells."

Friggia shrugged:

"Of course, if you really mind, I can modify this secret technique to bypass a few application points related to your family's secret technique... but that would require an unexpected energy expenditure, so Valensa will need to give me another cup..."

"Then you'd better not change it."

Tia glared at Friggia angrily, very dissatisfied with Friggia always finding excuses to demand the good things that only she could enjoy before:

"Anyway, it's just a slight application reference; you can't tell the difference unless you look closely."

After her initial complaints, Tia continued her enthusiastic study of the secret technique and raised a new question:

"By the way, how did you manage to make this space habitable? Existing space storage technology can't store living things."

"That's because what you've expanded with your magic is only space, not time."

Friggia shrugged and smiled:

"How can living things survive in a space where there is no concept of time? However, this kind of spatial storage technology is quite useful for storing food, and it is enough to store personal property and daily necessities."

"Time? Your secret technique involves time..."

Tia suddenly realized, and then became even more curious:

"What are the difficulty and cost of practicing this technique? Can it be commercialized? Currently, housing prices in the capital and some major cities are quite high. If we can use this technique to build folding space residences, it will undoubtedly greatly improve the living conditions of residents, and we can also make a lot of money."

"You have good taste."

Friggia praised:

"The prototype of this technique is a space technology used by the Eve civilization to solve the housing problem. At its peak, they had a population of nearly 500 billion, but they never established colonies on other planets because of this technology."

This spell belongs to the Sage faction, but it involves a lot of time-related applications. You'd need to reach at least the Star Glory level to master it; even if I taught you now, you wouldn't be able to learn it.

"Ugh... I have to reach the Rank of Radiant to learn it again... Fine."

Tia puffed out her cheeks:

"I can overlook the fact that you borrowed our family's secret technique, but you must promise that before I learn this spell myself, you are not allowed to teach it to anyone else, nor can you let anyone know about it!"

“I understand… business opportunity, right? Don’t worry, I’m counting on you guys to make a lot of money to support my research and experiments,” Friggia agreed with a smile.

After this little incident, Friggia temporarily lived in Valensa's shadow, giving Valensa the feeling that she now had a personal grandfather figure.

Oh, she should be called a personal older sister.

After Valensa and Tia resolved a minor dispute that lasted for breakfast, they didn't linger any longer and set off for the Third Fortress.

Valensa had passed by the fortress many times when she was freely hunting the elite warriors of the beasts that had infiltrated, but she still couldn't help but sigh every time she saw it.

too big.

Unlike the ancient city walls of my previous life, which were only a dozen meters high, even the city walls of the otherworldly main cities in fantasy games are far inferior.

It is nearly 1000 meters long, nearly 200 meters wide, and more than 150 meters high... almost equivalent to stacking eight aircraft carriers in a grid pattern on two layers on the ground.

The entire fortress is constructed entirely of metal and obsidian, with no brick or stone found. It is highly resistant to both physical and magical attacks and is covered by three layers of magical barriers.

Even a powerful expert of the Shining Rank who can easily destroy a town would be severely weakened when facing the Third Fortress with its defenses at full power.

Of course, large fortresses like the Third Fortress are few and far between. There are no more than 10 such fortresses along the entire northern border of France. Ordinary fortresses are simply lower-spec versions of the Third Fortress in every aspect.

...When we no longer need to defend against wild beasts, these fortresses can perhaps be developed into tourist attractions.

After standing at the foot of the fortress for a few seconds, sighing and lost in thought, Valensa followed Tia into the fortress.

Instead of rashly disturbing the strategist, they went to find Drake and asked about the precautions for the upcoming military meeting.

Drake told them that Valensa and Tia were not normally qualified to attend military meetings of this level, even if Tia's surname was Britannia.

Only because Valencia provided timely intelligence was a special case made to allow them to attend the meeting and answer some questions.

"Accepting inquiries?"

Valensa didn't notice anything wrong, but Tia understood immediately, her brows furrowing.

"Is someone trying to cause us trouble?"

"Huh? Why do you say that? Shouldn't we be questioned?"

Valensa expressed surprise.

"It shouldn't be... at the very least, it shouldn't be questioned at a meeting like this."