The story of the black silk female knight

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Harmony ...

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Tia didn't make a move herself; she just puffed out her cheeks and looked at Velenkasha:

"Your Highness! Aren't you in charge of keeping an eye on this great witch to prevent her from doing anything bad? She's destroying someone's family harmony right now, aren't you going to do anything about it?"

"what?"

Vilenkasha clearly didn't want to get involved in this jealousy, so she pretended to be clueless and said:

“But for a crime like being assaulted, the victim has to file a lawsuit herself… Look at Valensa, she looks like a victim, isn’t she?”

"...Click~~"

Tia was utterly enraged, even making strange noises as she gripped her wand tightly. Several golden cards fluttered around her, seemingly ready to unleash their full power on the two on the ground at any moment.

Seeing that Tia was really angry, Friggia got up from Valensa and did nothing more to provoke her. She flew back to the head of the rainbow giant chicken and began to run the analysis spell.

Tia couldn't interrupt this very important business, so she could only vent her anger on Valensa, who was still lying on the ground, looking on with a lingering sense of satisfaction.

"You idiot, idiot, idiot!"

Tia leaped directly onto Valensa, then angrily bounced twice more:

"If you can do this in front of me, how shameless and unrestrained are you when I can't see you? I'll crush you, you shameless bastard! I'll crush you, crush you!"

Valensa, of course, dared not resist. In fact, she had to pretend to be in great pain from being stepped on, even though she was actually feeling very comfortable, and apologize to Tia, begging for forgiveness and comforting her gently.

Virenkasa took out a cup of yogurt, held it to her chest, and slurped it down, her eyes narrowed into slits. She seemed quite satisfied with the scene before her and was watching with great interest.

Leffle watched intently like a good student, even taking out a notebook to jot down notes every now and then, though it was unclear what she was writing.

Lily of the Valley was very happy, or rather, gloating.

She jogged over to Valensa, who was being trampled on, and mocked and ridiculed her. If she weren't worried that Tia would misunderstand, she would have jumped on Valensa and stomped on her a few times.

The group joked around like this for a while before the magical runes on the giant rainbow chicken disappeared again.

This time, however, it wasn't because Friggia's magic power was insufficient and the analysis was interrupted; rather, it was because her detailed analysis of the Rainbow Giant Chicken had already been completed.

"...Strange, really strange...How could such a thing happen?"

As Friggia slowly landed on the ground, she was quite surprised, seemingly having deciphered some incredibly unbelievable answer.

That sight even made Tia forget her anger towards Valensa and become curious instead.

"Um……"

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on her, Friedeja didn't keep them in suspense. After a moment's hesitation, she spoke:

"Let me state the conclusion first... This giant rainbow chicken is not dead, but it is not time-stopped either. It is unable to move like this because of itself."

"Huh?"

Everyone was very surprised by the result and showed even more curiosity.

Valensa also took the opportunity to get up from the ground. While everyone's attention was drawn to Friggia's conclusion, she first secretly grabbed the wing behind Suzuran's ear as revenge for being mocked earlier. Then, when Suzuran turned around angrily to glare at her, she pretended to be very serious and straightened her clothes.

Friggia didn't pay attention to these things, but thought about it again before asking the others:

Do you know what time stop is all about?

"Is it a force that interferes with the laws of time?"

Tia was the first to tentatively answer, giving the standard answer she had learned in the Sage's Tower:

"Any time spell is actually a way to forcibly distort the rules of the target area with magic in order to interfere with time... That's why time spells are extremely difficult and consume a lot of energy, because it is a spell that uses human power to fight against the world's corrective force. Using it without a certain level of strength is pure suicide."

"Yes, using magic to interfere with the laws is indeed the approach of most spells."

Friggia first smiled and nodded in agreement with Tia's answer, then continued:

"But this is only the magical understanding of time stop. In technological civilization, there is another explanation for time stop... or similar phenomena."

"I know, I know, I know this."

Among everyone, besides Friggia, the former strongest false god, the one most knowledgeable about technology was naturally Valensa, a transmigrator from a technological civilization. She answered the question first:

"There is a scientific hypothesis that the essence of time is actually the process of the movement of microscopic particles. If an opposite force can be applied to all microscopic particles at the same time, causing them to move in the opposite direction, a phenomenon similar to time reversal will occur... Similarly, if the forces applied to microscopic particles are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the forces that originally caused their movement, all microscopic particles can be brought to a standstill, thus producing the so-called time stop."

Of course, according to the so-called uncertainty principle, the kinetic energy, velocity and other properties of microscopic particles are unobservable for the vast majority of technological civilizations, so this hypothesis is just a hypothesis.

But many scientific leaps begin with hypotheses. Perhaps those top-tier technological civilizations at the pinnacle of the universe have already been able to completely prove or refute these hypotheses?

"emmm..."

After hesitating for a while, Frieda finally nodded gently at Valensa's answer:

"This hypothesis... well, it actually makes some sense. Given your understanding of technology, it's fine to understand it this way. So I'll explain it to you based on this understanding."

Besides using magic to forcibly interfere with the laws, as Tia just mentioned, there are two other ways to achieve time stop or a similar phenomenon.

Which two methods?

The girls asked together out of curiosity.

"The first type is absolute zero."

Friggia first raised one finger:

"According to the most basic scientific principles, the movement of any microscopic particle will generate heat. Therefore, if we can manipulate the heat to reach absolute zero within a certain range, we can make all microscopic particles come to a standstill, which is a state similar to time stopping on a macroscopic level."

Before the women could ask any questions, Friedeja looked at Velenkasha:

"If I remember correctly, the most powerful being among you Frost Demons possesses an ice spell that is said to be able to freeze time and space, right? That spell is actually Absolute Zero."

"Yes, this spell does exist."

Vilenkasha nodded readily, then shrugged with a hint of regret:

"Unfortunately, I wasn't talented enough. I studied for almost 200 years but still couldn't master it, so I gave up... My sister, on the other hand, has almost mastered it, but unfortunately she has been transferred to another planet. Otherwise, I could have my sister demonstrate it for you."

"Absolute zero, huh..."

The group whispered among themselves for a while, then observed the giant, colorful chicken.

There were no traces of time magic on the giant rainbow chicken, and it didn't look like it had been frozen at absolute zero at all; in fact, some parts of it were still warm.

The answer is obvious: the reason why the Rainbow Giant Chicken is in a state similar to time stop is the third possibility that Friedia has not yet mentioned.

Everyone looked at Friggia again, waiting for her answer.

Friggia didn't keep everyone waiting, though she herself looked quite surprised:

"According to Valensa's previous scientific hypothesis, the reason why this giant rainbow chicken is still is entirely due to itself... It used its powerful magic as a Moon-level monster to interfere with all the microscopic particles in its body, making all the forces on those microscopic particles equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, which is why it has maintained its state of near-time stop for nearly 800 years."

"Huh?"

Everyone was shocked again, and Tia even directly raised questions:

"That's unlikely, isn't it? Although I don't know much about technology, just listening to it makes me realize that applying a force in the opposite direction to one's own microscopic particles must be very taxing... Even if the Extreme Color Giant Chicken is a Moon-Radiant Monster, maintaining it for 800 years is too outrageous."

"Well, from a common sense point of view, this is indeed very unlikely, so even I find it very unbelievable... At first, I thought there was something wrong with my perception spell, but I checked it three times and came to the same conclusion."

Friggia shrugged:

"Moreover, I actually have some speculations about the reason... This giant rainbow chicken certainly didn't stop itself voluntarily; it was under the influence of a very powerful illusion."

"Illusion?"

Valensa's heart skipped a beat, and she suddenly thought of the intelligence she had gathered in America, as well as someone she had always wanted to catch.

"Yes, illusion."

Unaware of Valensa's suspicions, Friggia continued recounting her test results:

"This is a very powerful illusion. It not only deceived the chicken's brain and soul, but also every cell in the chicken's body... making the chicken believe that it is in a state of time standing still."

In order to maintain this state of time freeze, the body, soul, and even every cell of this Brilliant Giant Chicken worked together to control its body with a magical control level that was many times greater than that of a normal Brilliant Giant Chicken, so that it was in a state that looked exactly like it was under time lock.

You probably all know or have even experienced a similar principle: people under extreme emotional states or hypnosis can often unleash power several times greater than their original strength.

The person who used illusion magic on this giant, brightly colored chicken took advantage of this to create what can be described as an unprecedented work of art.

This is a low-probability event that requires a confluence of conditions to succeed; even the illusionist themselves would find it highly unlikely to replicate it.

"This..."

Everyone expressed their amazement and understood why even a great witch like Friggia was shocked by the state of this colorful giant chicken.

Valensa and Tia locked eyes, both able to see what the other was thinking.

Using exquisite illusions to make the target believe that they have been stopped in time, this technique perfectly matches one of Valensa's previous speculations.

Could the person who used illusion magic to turn the Giant Rainbow Chicken into this form back then have been the Sinful Angel?

From her first encounter with the Sin Angel to her subsequent research, Valensa always believed that the Sin Angel was someone who could stop time.

The reason why others didn't realize this was because no one can maintain consciousness during time stop, and the Sinful Angel only ran away without attacking after stopping time, so many people thought it was some kind of teleportation ability and didn't think of it as time stop.

Valenza, perhaps because of her bloodline as an evil god or because she was a transmigrator, had much higher resistance than the others. Although she couldn't move around in that seemingly time-stopped state, her five senses were still present, and she could clearly know what happened in those few seconds.

However, after reviewing a considerable amount of information about time-stop spells, Valensa found it hard to believe that Sin Angel had used a time-stop spell. Because any time-based spell consumes a great deal of magic power, it's impossible for it to be used so effortlessly as Sin Angel, leaving no residual effects afterward.

If the Sinful Angel truly had the ability to manipulate time so easily, she wouldn't need to be chased around by the Church of the Sun. She could easily wipe out all the Holy Knights whenever she caused trouble.

It wasn't until Valensa received some previously unnoticed information from Ereshkigal that she began to speculate about the Sin Angel's abilities.

The intelligence report stated that a paladin skilled in mechanical arts once sent out a mechanical bird while pursuing a sin angel. However, the sin angel, upon encountering the mechanical bird, did not disappear as before, but instead destroyed the mechanical bird with a wave of his hand using wind magic.

The other paladins didn't pay much attention to this information, because the mechanical bird was weak and it was normal for it to be destroyed easily.

However, Valensa, who had been analyzing and speculating about the true abilities of the Sin Angel, was very concerned about this and immediately guessed that the Sin Angel's true ability was likely ineffective against inanimate objects. She believed that her destruction of the mechanical bird was not a random act, but a necessary one.

Valensa thought long and hard about the ability that was only effective on life and had such exquisite results, and concluded that it could only be illusion or hypnosis. However, Valensa later checked the relevant information and found that illusion or hypnosis of this level was definitely legendary. Even the Sun Church's database did not record anyone who could do it.

Therefore, Valensa's analysis and speculation are just that—speculation. She is still trying to find more evidence and has only shared it with Tia so far.

But now, Friggia's new discovery has once again solidified Valensa's hypothesis... The person who could turn the Rainbow Chicken into this must have the ability to do the things of a sinful angel, and it is very likely the same person, or at least they should have some kind of relationship.

Just like the spiritual power inheritance that Valensa received from her cheap senior sister, perhaps there is another extremely powerful and hidden illusion magic inheritance in this world that even the Church of the Sun does not know about.

Thinking that everyone present could be trusted, Valensa hesitated for a moment before revealing her speculations.

"Is the Sinful Angel actually a top-tier illusionist?"

This news caused the women to frown slightly, but after careful consideration, they had to admit that Valensa's analysis and speculation made a lot of sense.

Only two people reacted slightly differently.

Velenkasha suddenly frowned, as if she had thought of something and was hesitating and struggling with her thoughts.

Lily of the Valley looked slightly puzzled:

"The speculation about the Sin Angel's abilities does indeed fit today's new discovery... But if the Sin Angel really has such powerful illusion magic, why does she always stop people's time before escaping?"

With such powerful illusion magic, she should be able to do much more, right? Why doesn't she try to completely control someone with illusion magic to help her continue her plan, or simply make those who are hunting her kill each other?

Using this pseudo-time-stop technique to freeze people in place before escaping... I have a feeling there's more to this than meets the eye.

Chapter 6 The Illusory Saintess

(The previous chapter has been censored; the original version is in the group.)

"Could it be... a kind of pride and self-restraint of the Sinful Angels as revelers?"

Regarding Lily of the Valley's question, Valensa thought for a moment and guessed:

"Just like the Phantom Thief Red Fox Mask, who only steals and never kills, perhaps the Sin Angel also has similar requirements for himself?"

"I don't think so."

Tia immediately shook her head:

"Not to mention that many of the cult incidents involving the Sinful Angel resulted in numerous casualties, there must have been quite a few people she killed who then assumed her identity, right? With so many people already dead at her hands, it's unreasonable for her to set a rule for herself that she won't kill when resisting arrest, isn't it?"

“Hmm… Tia makes a good point, but Lily of the Valley does have a problem.”

Valensa frowned as she spoke:

“I didn’t really pay attention to this detail before… All the information I found showed that when the Sin Angel was being pursued, she only ran away and did not fight back. I had been focusing on the ability she used when she ran away, but I overlooked her motive for doing so.”