The story of the black silk female knight

The spirit answered in a completely emotionless voice:

"Because you instructed me not to pry into her privacy, I did not loiter around her residence or try to find out anything. I only kept track of her movements in the capital. That's how it is..."

The spirit then reported to the king in great detail everything, including Valencia's quest posting at the Adventurers' Guild and the conversation between Valencia and the male warrior.

"The Mawsmora Basin... that's a nice place, but the cavemen are really annoying!"

The king stroked his beard and looked at his son:

"My son, what do you think? Do you believe that Lady Sunflower can handle the cryptids and take over the Mawsmora Basin?"

"can."

The Crown Prince smiled and nodded, appearing very confident in Valensa.

"She has the help of the Britannia family and the Church of the Sun behind her. The cryptids, who are troublesome to others, are no problem for her at all."

Judging from her willingness to pay exorbitant prices for the hearts, brains, and blood of powerful individual Crypt Fiends from adventurers, she likely intends to leverage the power of that Great Witch to unleash a legendary spell or curse capable of tracing back to the source through bloodlines, thereby completely eliminating the Crypt Fiend problem.

"Hmm...that makes sense."

The king nodded in agreement, then looked at the spirit who had reported the mission:

"That's all for now. Your mission is complete. Stay on standby."

"Yes, Your Majesty... The Knights of Heroes await your summons at all times."

The spirit respectfully responded and then disappeared from the ground.

Chapter 133 The Female Knight's Admirer

"So this is the spatial linking technique of Britannia? It's really amazing. This feels much more comfortable than a regular teleportation array."

On the streets of the main city of Britannia, Melody stretched her arms out to the sides, yawning in a chest-expanding motion, displaying her stunning figure beneath her white, rhinestone-studded bodysuit.

"The Holy Gate at the church is comfortable to use, but it's troublesome. Every time I use it, I have to be a nun for several days. The teleportation arrays I used before always left me dizzy for half a day after each teleportation."

“Because the ones you’re using are probably civilian teleportation arrays, which are older models and not very comfortable to use. The latest military teleportation arrays are much better, but they still can’t compare to our Bretania’s spatial linking secrets,” Tia said with a light laugh.

There's no need for modesty about this; in the research of spatial teleportation, the Bretania family is absolutely unparalleled on the Frenoia continent.

In France, nobles with titles would inevitably have territories and be lords.

Many nobles, who were also important officials of the kingdom, needed to work in the capital every day.

Not all noble territories are conveniently located near the capital, and not all nobles can commute to get off work using teleportation arrays every day.

Therefore, many nobles had to separate the official and lord positions in their families. For example, when there were multiple direct descendants, one direct descendant would inherit the title and the lord's status, while the remaining direct descendants would either enter the court as officials or join the army to go to the front lines.

There are, of course, nobles who hold both the title of lord and an official position, but these nobles usually focus on their work in the capital. Their lordship is merely a title, and the actual management of their territory is delegated to other family members or to a team of officials.

The only noble family in the entire kingdom capable of simultaneously holding both an official position and the duties of a lord is the Bretania family, who possess the secret art of spatial linking.

Each generation of the head of the Britannia family can use their spatial teleportation ability to handle official duties in the capital in the morning, handle territorial affairs in the territory in the afternoon, and freely go to any place with their own spatial coordinates to rest at noon and in the evening.

Valensa's Baldr family, being the direct line, has always held official positions in the capital, while the family territory is managed by the elders within the family.

Of course, with Valensa's parents in trouble, Badr City was already in chaos. The council of elders split into several factions vying for power, causing Badr City's economy to decline drastically.

It was only because the paladins of the Church of the Sun were there to back them up that the elders of the Baldr family dared not go too far. The decline in Baldr City was only in the economy; the security was still guaranteed.

Every time Valensa thinks about these things, she feels that her decision was absolutely right—before she has enough strength to suppress all those who are disobedient, managing the family will only waste time and delay her cultivation.

Let those short-sighted and profit-driven old fogies continue fighting. Once I break through to the Star Glory level and officially become an Inner Knight, I'll take care of them all.

Valensa snorted inwardly.

She still has no intention of becoming the head of the Badr family, but she is also unwilling to see the family slowly perish.

When we have the ability to suppress all dissent, we should first eliminate all the parasites and scoundrels, and then select a talented person from the younger generation to be the new head of the family.

For example, that cousin of the strategist, who shares the same name as Bill, seems to have done a good job.

Aside from Tia and Valensa, who had visited many times since childhood, Chiba and Melody, as well as the adventurers from the Red Cloud Adventure Group, were all visiting Britannia City for the first time and were all amazed by the city.

In terms of area and prosperity, Britannia is certainly inferior to the royal capital, but it surpasses it in grandeur.

This is because it is the only city in Fran that is right next to the northern border defense line. Its northern city wall is the No. 22 fortress on the border, which is also Fran's largest and strongest fortress.

The fortress walls are over 200 meters high and more than 11 meters wide. They are made entirely of obsidian and permanently enchanted with steel protection, making them almost immune to physical attacks and extremely resistant to magic. They were once attacked by more than a dozen Radiant Beasts in turn, but were not breached.

On the surface of the city wall, a large number of trigger-based trap spells are set up. All invaders who try to climb the city wall will suffer a variety of debuffs such as weakness, slow movement, dizziness, vomiting and diarrhea, and reduced morale.

Even elite warriors of the Lighthouse level are extremely vulnerable when climbing the city walls, and can easily be killed by archers or mages on the walls.

The city of Britannia, located behind the fortress, was naturally a highly militarized city.

Almost every household here has someone serving in the army, and the most common shops on the main street are all kinds of weapons and equipment shops.

Children as young as seven or eight on the street would take various handy weapons and form a seemingly respectable military formation to besiege goblins that adults had bought from adventurers for the children to practice on.

As Valensa and her group approached the south gate, they witnessed a rather amusing scene.

A little girl, about eight or nine years old, was wearing a silver cloth dress painted like armor and children's tights printed with white cats, but in her hand was a rather sharp steel sword.

Instead of joining her friends in attacking the goblin, she gritted her teeth and, after several failed attempts that left her covered in dust and grime, finally managed to pierce the goblin's heart with a single sword strike, relying entirely on her own skill.

"Success!"

A little girl, wearing children's tights and boots, stepped on a goblin's head and cheered with her sword raised amidst the envious and admiring gazes of her friends:

"Duchess Sunflower has once again slain the Beast Commander and won the war!"

The friends who were just admiring and envying him immediately burst into laughter.

Another girl, wearing a red dress and pigtails, who looked quirky and had a bit of a Chiba Grass vibe, even made a funny face:

"Stop daydreaming, Nana. You're just a beginner swordsman, and your opponent is just a goblin, not a beast commander."

"I know."

The little girl named Nana didn't care at all. She first took out a damp cloth and carefully wiped the goblin's blood off the longsword before looking at her friends and haughtily snorting:

"Lady Sunflower is my idol! I will train hard and become a powerful and outstanding scout like her, penetrating deep into enemy lines to kill enemy commanders, just like I killed this goblin!"

This scene is not unique; it is performed daily by different children in various corners of the city of Britannia.

Valensa, who is already engaged to Tia and plans to marry into the family, has become an idol for many young people and children in the city of Britannia due to her outstanding performance in this autumn war.

Chapter 134: Too much hair and weak fire

Leaving the main city of Britannia, travel southeast along the official road for more than 70 kilometers, then cross more than 30 kilometers of wilderness, and you will reach the Maussmola Basin.

Valensa's team did not need to escort civilians or goods, and none of the team members were weaklings below the Pearl level... They were either geniuses and elites from the War Academy or skilled adventurers.

So after leaving the city gate, Valensa and the male warrior had a brief discussion and decided to let everyone travel at full speed according to their own abilities and meet at the place where they were about to leave the official road and cross the wilderness.

Warrior-type cultivators mostly run along the sides of the official road—there are caravans and travelers walking normally on the official road, so warrior-type cultivators generally have a speed limit when running on the official road, unless there are special circumstances.

For example, when Valencia was freely supporting transport teams and hunting elite warriors on the front lines some time ago, she could stride freely along the official road with her long legs clad in black stockings.

That's obviously not possible now.

However, Valensa didn't run along the official road with the other warriors; instead, she used Tia's golden card, which could enlarge and fly like a magic carpet.

Melody and Chiba also joined in, the four beautiful girls crammed together on the gold card that was only the size of a door panel.

Because three of them had incredibly hot figures, the gold cards suddenly became quite crowded.

Mountains collide, waves collide.

Chiba, being the smallest and squeezed into the middle, felt a mix of emotions, unsure whether she should enjoy it or feel envious and resentful.

Also flying in the air was the lighthouse-level female mage from the Red Cloud Adventurer Group.

Although she was a powerful damage dealer specializing in elemental magic, she also knew a little about summoning magic. At this moment, she summoned a big, fat cat whose body could float like a balloon, and she and the female warrior sat on the cat's back, one in front of the other.

As the cat's tail spun like an airplane propeller, accompanied by loud meows, the big fat cat flew out like a small airship, and at quite a speed.

Harry could have flown using wind magic, but seeing Melody and several girls crowding Tia's golden card, he kindly went to run on the ground with Gil.

In fact, Giru really needed Harry's help. Giru was a power-burst type of warrior, but he was slightly inferior in agility and endurance. Without Harry giving him various wind-type buffs, he would have been quite tired running more than 70 kilometers in one go.

The remaining members of the Red Cloud Adventure Team were all fine. As an elite adventure team, they had done their fair share of hiking 700 to 800 kilometers a day, so 70 kilometers was nothing to them.

About an hour later, the group of people who were traveling quickly along the official road stopped.

They arrived at their destination. Just over ten meters ahead stood a large road sign with nearly twenty nearby place names written on it, including the Maussmora Basin.

The rest of the journey will be through wilderness and dense forests, so be prepared to fight various monsters at any time.

Valensa and her companions were no weaklings, and traversing the Fran Wilderness, which was almost devoid of any Radiant-rank monster lords, was already quite easy for them.

Now, they are accompanied by an elite adventure team. The group is like middle school students on a field trip, chatting and snacking as they walk.

Even when they see monsters that don't actively attack humans, they will deliberately provoke them by throwing fruit pits and bird leg bones at them.

The members of the Red Cloud Adventurer Group were quite helpless about this, but Valensa's mission paid a decent amount of money, and the enraged monsters were not strong, practically free materials, so they went along with it.

Thirty kilometers of wilderness and dense forest may sound like a long time, but it passed quickly while chatting, eating snacks, and playing around along the way.

They didn't encounter any powerful monsters along the way. The strongest one was a minotaur with peak Pearl-level strength, which was easily killed by six Red Cloud adventurers of the same Pearl level working together seamlessly. Four Lighthouse-level Red Cloud adventurers didn't even have to lift a finger.

We've finally arrived at the Maussmora Basin.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides, this area is rarely affected by hot air currents, while the sizable freshwater lake provides cool and humid air.

In addition, the natural ecological beauty composed of a variety of flora and fauna makes the Maussmora Basin a perfect place to build a summer resort—if it weren't for the cavemen.

They had only gone a little over 1000 meters into the Maussmora Basin when Valensa and her companions encountered a small group of cave monsters.

Although this monster was good at running away and had low morale, it was still very fierce before it was defeated. It launched an attack without considering whether it could defeat Valensa and the others.

Valensa and the others showed no intention of making a move, leaving the battle entirely to the Red Cloud Adventurer Group.

After observing the situation and confirming that there were no Lighthouse-level individuals among the cave monsters that could be mined and sold for money, the Red Cloud Adventure Team chose to focus on annihilation and defeat.

The female mage among the four Lighthouse-level Red Cloud adventurers also made her move this time.

As a turret-level elemental mage, she didn't rush to deal damage at the start of the battle. Instead, she first enchanted all the warrior teammates' weapons with fire magic.

Valensa, who was also an experienced adventurer, was not surprised by this and even smiled and explained to the somewhat curious Tia:

"There's no systematic theory or data to support it; it's more of a piece of experience, but it's quite useful in most situations—hairy monsters are weak to fire. Fire damage is quite effective against most hairy monsters. That's why most mages among adventurers are most skilled in fire magic."

The cave monsters were clearly among the monsters to whom this experience could be applied. Facing the Red Cloud Adventure Team, whose members could all unleash fire attacks, the battle was almost over before it even began.

More than a hundred cave monsters crumbled at the first touch. Even the Pearl-level individuals lost all will to fight once their fur was ignited. They immediately activated their racial talent of turning things into mud and burrowed into the ground to escape like seals entering water.

As Valencia stated at the beginning, she hired the Red Cloud Adventurers to conduct an area survey, and the adventurers were not obligated to pursue the fleeing cave monsters, allowing most of these monsters to escape.

Only three adventurers skilled in tracking and studying monsters began their work. They were to estimate the approximate number of cave monsters in the entire Mawsmora Basin based on the individual strengths of this group of cave monsters and the range of their encounter points in this area.

This is also one of the goals of the regional survey mission.

The result was estimated more than 20 minutes later.

The male warrior vice-captain of the Red Cloud Adventurer Group frowned slightly.

The total number of cave monsters currently living in the Maussmola Basin may exceed 2000, of which there may be three to four hundred pearl-level individuals and at least ten lighthouse-level individuals.

Chapter 135 Preparing for the Night

This group of cave monsters is much stronger than I imagined!

Even if well-prepared adventurers have a significant advantage against monsters of the same level, and even if the cave monsters are monsters with low morale, the difference in numbers is still quite large.

The male warrior, who was the vice leader of the Red Cloud Adventurer Group, hesitated for a moment, wondering whether he should continue with this mission.

If this continues, the adventure team will likely have to engage in battle with the main force of this cave monster race, which may result in casualties among the team members.

However, if the mission is terminated, not only will a good business deal be lost, but a penalty will also be paid to the employer, and the reputation of the adventure team will be greatly affected, which is very detrimental to long-term development.

The male warrior glanced at his younger brother, a thief who looked somewhat like a street thief, then at his trusted companions in the party, and then at the adventure group's less-than-ideal income for the month, making him even more conflicted.

It wasn't until the male soldier inadvertently caught a glimpse of Valensa bullying the Thousand-Leaf Grass and stealing some kind of leaf from her that he slapped his forehead.

I almost forgot about this!

On the surface, the male soldier remained calm and composed, but inwardly he mocked himself.

Although this employer is also a noble lady, she is not the kind of noble lady who is completely unable to protect herself in the wild and is always causing trouble. Instead, she is a noble lady who can go deep into the desolate land, cut off the head of the beast commander, and end the autumn war ahead of time!