The story of the black silk female knight

This confirmed Valensa's previous guess—Sawat Langdon's research ability was indeed very impressive, but his own combat strength was not very good. The undead legion controlling Poliland City seemed to have drained most of his energy. His pale face, dark circles under his eyes, and listless appearance made people think he had been attacked by a succubus.

Savat Landon showed no intention of continuing the conversation, and Valensa, of course, wouldn't just stand there idly. She quietly activated the community function of the Dimensional Hardware Store's member terminal, broadcasting what was happening on her end to Vi and Asakura Mai via a live feed, and chatting with them in the comments section.

At this moment, Wei was with her beautiful boss, so she responded very slowly, often taking a long time to say a word, and even rambled on twice.

It was as if she was being pressed onto a keyboard, and in her excitement, she involuntarily typed out those words with her body.

Valensa and Asakura Mai were somewhat used to it... Ever since Vivi successfully became the company's boss, her work has basically been a routine of going between two points.

He goes out with his henchmen, armed with weapons, to take down enemies, or he gets 'killed' by his beautiful boss in various places such as the office, his residence, or a resort.

As for Mai Asakura, she was very excited about what was happening here, chattering incessantly and repeatedly begging Valensa to find an opportunity to summon her over to join in the fun... She really hated Savat Langdon, that guy who was running a cult in Tokyo, and desperately wanted to participate in the beating herself.

In response, Valensa could only say she would try her best... Both the Sage's Tower and the Witch's Forest have strict rules prohibiting in-depth contact with civilizations from other worlds.

Although Valencia is a member of the Church of the Sun, it would still be quite troublesome if the Sage's Tower and the Witch's Forest discovered that she had summoned Mai Asakura.

Fortunately, Asakura Mai is a shrine maiden, and the island nation's culture and customs are very similar to those of the Shishima Alliance. Although the Shishima Alliance in this world does not have the profession of shrine maiden because of its worship of the sun goddess, it is entirely possible to say that Asakura Mai is a special spellcaster from the Shishima Alliance, so it is not impossible for her to succeed.

Let's see how things go when the time comes.

While Valensa was chatting with her two friends from another world, Savat Langdon encountered a small problem while releasing the hostages.

Ordinary people don't have the courage of soldiers and clergy. Although most people mustered all their strength to rush out of the city after learning that they could escape, many others were already terrified by the ferocity of the undead and collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

Neither the joint task force nor Savat Landon wanted to waste time waiting for these frightened people to recover on their own, and Savat Landon also disagreed with the idea of ​​a few paladins entering the city to treat them.

Valensa then had to negotiate with Savat Langdon to come up with a solution that would not harm the hostages too much and would be acceptable to both sides.

Have the undead spellcasters first apply a buff to these terrified hostages that temporarily increases their stamina but leaves them weak for several days afterward. Then cast Fear on them, and their bodies will move on their own out of fear, running towards safety.

This method will obviously torment these hostages severely, and may even leave them with some psychological trauma in the future, making them more timid... but at least they will survive this disaster.

After more than four hours, the last group of more than two thousand hostages finally arrived at the evacuation point outside the south gate of Poliland City and were successfully rescued by the Merchant Alliance soldiers and paladins.

Savat Langdon also shifted his main consciousness back to himself from the undead legion, staring intently at Valensa without saying a word, silently urging her to fulfill her promise.

Valensa glanced at the four Radiant-Rank Flesh-and-Blood Stitches surrounding her, hesitated for a few seconds, then sighed softly and gave up on the risky gamble.

Savart Langdon's bargaining did give him a sliver of hope of escaping and completing his plan, but Valensa was also very confident in her side—Savart Langdon would surely meet his end in Poliland.

Therefore, Valensa kept her promise.

She tossed the golden torch in her hand at Savat Langdon, then, without even looking, activated the golden magic card Tia had given her, instantly teleporting back to the Joint Operations Team's camp.

The magic card given by Tia teleports to Tia herself.

When Valensa returned, Tia was pacing back and forth with a worried expression when she bumped into Valensa, who had teleported in.

Ignoring the other people watching, Valensa hugged Tia and gave her a passionate kiss until Tia, embarrassed and annoyed, pinched her waist and stepped on her feet, before she finally let go of Tia.

After that, the two stopped kissing, but started saying extremely cheesy love words... Basically, Tia told Valensa about her worries, and Valensa took the opportunity to pretend that she had almost given up several times, but it was her longing for Tia that gave her the motivation... In short, she said whatever sounded cheesy.

Finally, it was Elana who came to find them, interrupting their sweet nothings and dragging Valensa to the Joint Operations Team's command room.

Valensa played a crucial role in this incident and was the only person to enter and exit Savat Langdon's hideout. She will be indispensable in the subsequent strategy discussions.

Because Valencia performed exceptionally well this time, accomplishing what many considered an almost impossible task, she has earned a newfound respect from everyone.

Valensa can now stand at the oval table and discuss matters with a group of top-tier celebrities, not only because she is favored by the Sun Goddess, but also because her abilities have been recognized.

The rescue of over 100,000 hostages greatly excited the joint operations team. Everyone was eager to launch the attack an hour later and discussed how to proceed.

To prevent Savat Landon from escaping during this hour, the three sages of the Sage Tower, numbered 15, 17, and 18, joined forces and used a legendary prophecy spell to lock him firmly in place.

This divination spell not only keeps Savat Langdon's exact location clearly displayed on the magical projection map, but also interferes with most spatial teleportation.

Unless Savat Langdon also possesses the Bretania family's Link Secret Technique, whose fundamental principles are completely different from ordinary teleportation, if he dares to use spatial teleportation to escape, he will be intercepted and ganged up on by the three sages in the spatial rift.

In short, unless a powerful figure from one of the three major powers intervenes, Savat Langdon has no chance of escaping this time, so everyone is quite excited.

The only one who was really not in a good mood was the Witch of Destruction, Elanfiel.

The witch who had been leisurely drinking tea while everyone else was anxious was now pouting and sulking, ignoring even when Valensa came up to talk to her.

Valensa asked Ellie out of curiosity and found out the reason.

The reason is simple: Elanfil is the kind of witch who is particularly warlike. The reason she came to America to participate in the battle against Savat Langdon is that she wanted to have the opportunity to solo the undead army and have a good time bombarding them.

However, there is now an agreement that prevents Ailanfeier from taking action, which naturally makes her very resentful. She even threw a tantrum when the agreement was first agreed upon.

If the Joint Task Force hadn't been worried that Savat Langdon might actually pull off a major plot and needed a top-tier expert to oversee things, and hadn't done everything in their power to persuade Alan Feier to stay, Alan Feier would probably have already stormed back to the Witch's Forest in a huff.

Valensa didn't have any good solutions to this.

The peak Moon-level is already considered one of the strongest beings on this planet, and their destructive power in battle is extremely high, making it difficult for them to have a chance to fight to their heart's content.

This is why many powerful individuals, after reaching the pinnacle of their cultivation, like to challenge themselves in extremely dangerous areas and never return...

"Look! Those undead are moving!"

Just as Valencia was lost in thought, she suddenly heard a merchant confederation officer shout.

So he immediately looked at the magical projection on the oval table and his eyes widened in surprise.

When Valensa first heard the words "the undead have moved," she thought that Savat Langdon had brought the undead outside the city back inside, wanting to concentrate his forces for a desperate last stand.

The result was quite the opposite... Less than a quarter of the undead gathered in the city, while the rest scattered in all directions, rushing away from Poliland.

The undead that were rapidly moving away from Poliland City were all high-level undead. Each wave was led by at least one Radiant-rank undead, along with more than a dozen Lighthouse-rank undead and hundreds of other undead.

Moreover, these undead are all relatively fast-moving undead, and there is even a squad of undead that are all flying.

"He's... gone wrong!"

The people around the oval table in the command room, despite their arrogance and vanity, were not stupid and quickly saw through Savat Langdon's intentions.

Immediately, two sages used magical projection to construct a map of the northeastern region of America, comparing it with the routes taken by the undead away from the city of Poliland.

“…As expected.”

The group glanced at the map, exchanged looks, and finally, Gamona, the vice-president of the Holy Knights of the Church of the Sun, summarized:

“Savat Langdon plans to use these undead to launch long-distance raids on other nearby towns, thereby diverting our forces and buying himself a chance to escape and complete his plan.”

"Disperse our forces..."

Valensa hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked:

"Couldn't we notify the attacked cities to organize their own defenses? But shouldn't city-level defenses be able to easily handle this level of undead?"

"It was fine before, but now it probably won't work."

Kamona shrugged with a wry smile:

"In order to concentrate elite forces to solve the problem in Poliland, experts from many cities throughout America have been transferred here."

With the current defense capabilities of various cities, it is possible to eventually defeat these undead, but the casualties will be extremely heavy.

Moreover, along the way the undead marched on the city, there were many small towns... those small towns didn't have any decent experts; often, a single lighthouse could cause annihilation.

"This……"

Valensa gritted her teeth, feeling extremely unwilling:

"And we happen to have an agreement with Savat Langdon that we cannot launch an attack for this hour. In other words, we cannot intercept and kill those undead now. We must get to the cities that have become the targets of the raid to assist in the defense... Tsk, he is so cunning."

"If he weren't cunning, we would have taken him down long ago."

Gamona sighed:

"This is an open conspiracy, and we have no choice but to accept it... Fortunately, he has sent out most of the undead, so his own fighting strength must be weak. It's not a big problem if we have fewer people to fight him."

"It can only be the……"

Others echoed this sentiment and immediately took action.

When it comes to fighting undead, paladins are undoubtedly the most professional, while many spellcasters in the Sage's Tower have various kinds of vehicles, making them highly mobile.

Therefore, the task of assisting nearby towns is mainly handled by the Church of the Sun and the Sage's Tower.

Gamona left only Elena and Ilana, along with their direct subordinates, to help Valensa, while he personally commanded everyone else to go to nearby towns to assist in the defense and fight off the undead.

The spellcasters of the Sage's Tower were completely disorganized and incorporated into various paladin squads, using a variety of spells or vehicles to ensure mobility.

The three sages, number 15, 17, and 18, were responsible for maintaining the legendary prophetic spell, while the final task of defeating Savat Landon fell to the officers of the Merchant Alliance.

Besides the three sitting at the oval table, the officers of the Merchant Alliance also included two Radiant-rank experts, plus Valensa, Ereshkigal, and Ilana. Theoretically, they were more than enough to fight Savat Landon, who had been sent out to deal with most of the undead.

"rush!"

An hour had finally passed, and the eager officers of the Merchant Alliance immediately led their men to launch an attack on Poliland.

Valensa, along with Elena and Ilana, led a squad of paladins and a squad of priests from the Church of the Sun into the city.

Tia originally wanted to come, but unlike Valensa, she didn't have the Evil God Mode as a trump card. It would be very dangerous for her to be involved in the battle between the Radiant Ranks, so Valensa didn't agree and let Tia stay in the command room to observe the overall situation from a high-altitude perspective.

The battle after entering the city was as expected, almost one-sided.

There were many undead on the ground inside the city, but none of them were of the Radiant Rank. They were basically defeated in one fell swoop when faced with a charge led by several Radiant Rank experts.

The battle only intensified when Valensa led her men through an entrance disguised as a stinking outhouse in the slums to Savart Langdon's underground hideout.

This place is pretty much the same as when Valencia last came, except that all the goblin babies in those plastic water bottles are dead now, their heads blown off, it looks horribly gruesome.

If these were just ordinary goblin toddlers, Valensa wouldn't care. After all, while the goblins in this world aren't as wicked as those in some anime, they still bully lone farmers, killing them and stealing their food and clothing.

However, these goblin babies are not ordinary goblins. Their souls all come from Tokyo in the world of Asakura Mai. In their previous lives, they were almost all otaku who were obsessed with time travel and anime culture. They can be considered Valensa's kindred spirits from her previous life, which inevitably made her feel a little sad.

So Valensa didn't rush to fight Savat Langdon like the others. Instead, she first followed the Sun Church's procedure for blessing the dead, offering a simple prayer for these poor transmigrators before catching up with the others and joining the battle.

At this moment, the main forces of both sides had already made contact. Two senior officers of the Merchant Alliance were joining forces to launch a fierce attack on Savat Landon himself, while Elena, Ilana, and several other Radiant-rank powerhouses from the Merchant Alliance military were dealing with the Radiant-rank undead that Savat Landon had gathered around him.

Valensa originally wanted to join the attack on Savat Langdon himself, but after observing for a while, she found that the two Merchants' Union officers were cooperating very well. If she rashly joined in, it might disrupt the rhythm and cause a negative effect where 2+1 is less than 2.

So Valensa didn't insist. She glanced at Ilana, who was struggling to fight two opponents, and stepped in to help take on one of the Radiant-rank Flesh Stitches.

The destructive power of a full-scale battle between multiple Radiant-ranked individuals is truly terrifying.

Although the underground hideout built by Savat Landon was large and sturdy, it couldn't withstand more than a dozen Radiant Rank warriors fighting each other inside. It quickly collapsed completely, causing the entire slum of Poliland City to disappear.

Such a collapse could not bury the Radiant-rank experts alive. The battle quickly shifted from underground to the surface, with various powerful secret techniques, divine arts, and treasures colliding with each other. The aftershocks of each collision were like missile explosions.

Previously in Arant, Valensa and the Mist Demon Girl only fought for a little over a minute before destroying multiple buildings on seven streets. Now, more than a dozen Radiant-ranked warriors are fighting each other with full force in the city, quickly making the entire city of Poliland look like it is being subjected to saturation bombing.

Those ordinary soldiers who followed the city to fight the undead had already begun to flee the city.

Even the two squads of paladins and priests, whose majority of their strength was above the level of a beacon, did not last long before choosing to withdraw from the city, leaving Poliland City as a battlefield for Radiant-rank powerhouses.

Many low-level undead were destroyed in the aftermath of the battle, and even those who managed to escape the city were surrounded and annihilated by the soldiers and paladins who had already retreated outside the city.

Inside Poliland City, the battle became increasingly chaotic, with explosions all around and almost every Radiant Rank being focused solely on their opponent.

Valensa was no exception, but she struggled to defend herself against the attacks, and on several occasions she even looked to be in grave danger.

Now that she's on the ground, she doesn't want too many people to see her evil god form, so she's only using the power of a Lighthouse-level Paladin to fight her opponent.

Although Valensa, as a Lighthouse-level being, is far more powerful than a regular Lighthouse-level being, and Paladins have a significant advantage against undead, the Radiant rank is still a qualitative leap. Valensa could only barely hold her own against a Radiant-level flesh-and-blood monster fighting at full strength, and she really couldn't defeat it without the power of the Evil God.

Fortunately, someone had been clamoring to help, and confidently said that she had been practicing special magic for several years specifically for this moment... Even though the flesh-stitched monster was much stronger than her, she was very confident that she could win.

This person was none other than Mai Asakura, the little shrine maiden from another world. After Valensa discovered that everyone else had scattered throughout the city and were fighting on their own, she hesitated for a moment before summoning Mai Asakura.

As it turned out, Mai Asakura wasn't exaggerating. She had Valensa help her hold off the enemy and create an opportunity. Then, she stuck a talisman on the flesh-stitched monster and danced for more than ten seconds while holding the priestess's bell. The flesh-stitched monster then stopped moving completely.

"What kind of spell is this?"

Valensa saw it very clearly, which is why she was so surprised.

As a paladin, she does have a significant advantage against undead, but it's simply because her divine spells have a special bonus against undead, and she also has additional damage reduction and resistance to undead spells.

But Asakura Mai was different. Her move just now seemed to ignore health bars and attributes, directly killing the Flesh Stitch Monster through the plot, almost like she activated an instant-kill cheat.

"Hehe~~ Isn't this spell amazing? Sister Sasha, please praise me!"

Faced with Valensa's surprise, Mai Asakura puffed out her chest smugly and swayed her head:

"Sister Sasha, the necromancy you have here was used by that bastard when he was causing trouble in my world before. He even created a particularly powerful vengeful spirit. It took us a lot of effort to destroy that vengeful spirit."

Since then, I've been practicing spells specifically for dealing with the undead... and now I can finally use them!

The principle behind this spell is actually quite simple... I didn't attack the spirit; I merely purified the resentment from its body and allowed its poor soul to attain enlightenment!

"Simply put, did you perform a ritual to help it pass on to the afterlife?"

Valensa nodded in realization, then grabbed Asakura Mai's hand:

“Let’s go help the others. If we hurry, you might still have a chance to witness Savat Langdon’s demise.”