The story of the black silk female knight

"It was my oversight, I admit my mistake," Valensa apologized with a wry smile.

She originally intended to conceal Princess Jing's possession of necromancy for a while, which is why she deliberately did not register Princess Jing with the Church of the Sun.

But now it seems that they miscalculated. The Church of the Sun's supervision and attitude towards necromancers is stricter than expected. This Princess was just practicing a little in the border town, and yet she was directly attacked by paladins.

Fortunately, the matter of the Giant Rainbow Chicken has been resolved. Princess Yu's next training will take place near the underground ruins in the Desolate Ridge Land. This is not a place that ordinary people can go. Even if some people who have heard the news want to find out specific information, they have no way to do so.

However, His Majesty the King and His Highness the Crown Prince still need to explain this to them personally.

Valensa happened to be heading to the Gourmet Association headquarters in the capital to exchange the remaining ingredients from the processed Giant Rainbow Chicken for gourmet points, so she returned to the capital with Princess Yu.

Valensa accompanied the King and Crown Prince when they were explaining Frostmourne.

It wouldn't be appropriate to say directly that Frostmourne was tailor-made for Princess Eren, as that could easily lead the King and Crown Prince to overthink things.

Valensa had already thought of the right words.

It's no secret that Valensa fought several battles with undead legions and wild beasts in the Barrens before she went to America last year; the King and the Crown Prince both knew about it.

The fact that undead are far more effective than ordinary soldiers in the Barrens was something the people of the Kingdom of Fran had known for a long time, and similar tactics had been proposed before, but they had given up because they lacked a stable method to create and control undead.

Therefore, it makes perfect sense that Valensa would seek the wisdom of an ancient witch to improve this tactic after unsealing it.

This is how Valencia explained it to the King and the Crown Prince:

The Great Witch devised a plan to control the undead army: to collect the spinal cords of the Netherworld race from the northern ice plains of America and forge a demon sword.

Valensa originally intended to use this demonic sword herself, to command the undead army to fight against the wild beasts.

However, after the magic sword was actually created, it was discovered that the sword was not suitable for Valensa. As a paladin, she could not use the magic sword at all, and neither could Tia.

On the contrary, Princess Elsers, who happened to be a guest at the mansion in Jilan Town, unexpectedly had a very good affinity with the Demon Sword and was able to control it with ease.

Valensa then handed the magic sword to Princess Elses and, with great passion, pleaded with the King and Crown Prince that Princess Elses could continue her training under the Great Witch so that she could lead the undead army to crush the beasts in the Wasteland and prevent them from ever again invading Fran.

Completely eliminating the scourge of wild beasts has been the dream of every Fran ruler.

Princess Elserse, a good-for-nothing who does nothing but eat, drink, and have fun all day, has been a constant source of worry for the King and the Crown Prince.

Now the two problems can be solved at the same time... Even if the undead army may not be able to defeat the wild beasts, Princess Yu has finally shown some of the demeanor that a royal princess should have, which makes the king and the crown prince very happy.

Although wielding a demonic sword and following the Great Witch to practice the art of controlling the undead sounds dangerous, Valensa, who brought up this matter, is an Inner Templar Knight, so there's no need to worry about the Church of the Sun's questioning. In fact, the Great Witch has a saintess from the Church of the Sun by her side, so there's even less to worry about.

So the king and crown prince hesitated only symbolically for a moment before readily agreeing. They officially bestowed upon Princess Yu the title of knight and the position of commander of the expeditionary force, and appointed Valensa and Tia as deputy commanders and strategists, respectively, allowing them to act freely and expedite their plans in the desolate lands.

This result was a win-win situation, and everyone was very satisfied.

After leaving the palace, Valensa made another trip to the headquarters of the Culinary Association in the capital, exchanging all the ingredients from the Rainbow Giant Chicken that she didn't need for the time being for culinary points. Then, she used the culinary points to exchange for another material for a special pheromone solvent.

After everything was done, Valensa and Princess E rushed to Melina's place and used magic communication to send a message to Tia, asking her to come and take them to the underground ruins of the Wasteland.

Hundreds of thousands of wild beasts once perished in this area due to a nuclear explosion. Afterward, the wild beasts sent troops to investigate multiple times, resulting in even more deaths. They also fought several battles with Valencia's undead army equipped with automatic rifles. In short, the area is filled with wronged souls and has an extremely heavy yin energy, making it particularly suitable for cultivating and using necromancy.

Whether it's Princess Lily's training in controlling Frostmourne or Suzuran's research on Savat Landon's undead modification technology, they can now proceed with their full potential.

Under Frigia's guidance, Princess Jing's control over Frostmourne has made steady progress. According to the Great Witch's prediction, she will definitely reach the expected level within two months.

On the contrary, the research on Lily of the Valley encountered some difficulties, forcing Valensa to personally participate in devising solutions.

First, Suzuran has already verified through practical operation that Valensa's idea of ​​combining nuclear radiation and the undead is feasible.

Undead creatures are immune to nuclear radiation; neither skeletons, zombies, nor spirits will be harmed by it. Nuclear radiation can be used as a weapon by the undead.

Combining radioactive material with the undead isn't difficult; you can simply stuff radioactive material into a zombie's stomach.

However, this level of nuclear radiation was not enough to achieve the destructive effect that Valensa desired.

According to Valencia's known theories from her previous life, to kill a person with pure nuclear radiation, the radiation intensity in the environment would need to be at least 1000 times that of a normal environment to have a significant probability.

Considering that the physical strength of wild beasts is much stronger than that of technologically advanced humans, killing wild beasts with nuclear radiation would require a much stronger radiation intensity, which would necessitate inserting a large amount of radioactive material into the bodies of the undead.

But this will create new problems.

First, there's the amount of radioactive material.

The radioactive materials discovered in this world are all highly unstable due to the influence of magic, and their use would be extremely dangerous. Therefore, the only usable radioactive materials are those that Valensa stole from the US military base in the Asakura Mai world, and they absolutely cannot be wasted.

Secondly, there's the issue of the individual combat strength of the undead.

Undead created using necromancy are mostly quite fragile.

Simply stuffing a large amount of radioactive material into the stomach of a zombie might create the nuclear radiation undead that Valensa wanted, but it might not be very useful in actual combat.

Because wild beasts aren't stupid, after being harmed by nuclear radiation, they will definitely try to find the source of this inexplicable harm, and the nuclear radiation undead simply cannot hide themselves.

The zombies are weak. Not to mention those elite beast warriors and Radiant-rank experts, even ordinary Pearl-level beast shamans have many ways to deal with nuclear radiation zombies.

Using fireballs to bombard is suicidal. The radioactive dust from the explosion spreads through the air, creating a dirty bomb-like effect that will make the wild beasts suffer the consequences.

However, the Wild Beast Shamans are not only skilled in fire magic; they are also adept at wind and earth magic. Whether it is using earth magic to bury the nuclear-radiated zombies deep underground or using wind magic to blow them far away, both are correct ways to deal with them.

The wild beasts might not have thought of these methods at first, but they would eventually discover them after dying many times.

Therefore, the idea of ​​ordinary nuclear radiation zombies won't work. Undead that can use radioactive materials as weapons must be powerful enough, preferably elite warriors who are fearless against wild beasts, or even able to cause some trouble for Radiant-rank wild beasts.

The concept for creating these undead is readily available; it's the kind of flesh-and-blood stitched monster that Savart Langdon used to love—an ugly, fat creature that bears a striking resemblance to the Butcher character in a famous e-sports game from Valencia's past life.

The final version of the Flesh-and-Blood Stitch is powerful enough.

The flesh-stitched monsters that Valensa encountered in Poliland City possessed combat power roughly equivalent to a Star-level expert, and she truly couldn't defeat them without the power of the evil god.

The problem is, Suzuran isn't Savat Landon, nor is she a necromancer at the peak of the Star Glory realm; she simply can't create such a powerful flesh-and-blood monster.

The flesh-and-blood stitched monsters that Suzuran can currently create are still not even as strong as the Lighthouse; Valensa could easily destroy them with a single punch. These flesh-and-blood stitched monsters are still insufficient as a source carrier for nuclear radiation.

That's precisely why the research has stalled.

However, since Suzuran was chosen by the Sinful Angel to be his girlfriend and wife for almost 10 years, she naturally possesses talent that is absolutely no less than that of Savat Landon.

After failing to achieve her goal through past experience and information from Savat Langdon's notes, Suzuran didn't rush. Instead, she chatted with Valensa every day, listening to her stories, mainly about the various ways that technological civilizations used radioactive materials.

To this end, Valensa made a special trip to Vi's world. While conducting routine arms deals, she also obtained a lot of cyberpunk nuclear technology information from Vi, ranging from beginner to advanced levels.

After that, Valensa didn't care whether Suzuran, the alchemist and necromancer, could understand the information about technological civilizations, and just dumped all the nuclear technology information on Suzuran.

Suzuran spent her days engrossed in those documents... With the aid of a language-enhancing spell, she could basically understand the texts of the other world. If she couldn't understand them, she could ask Valensa to translate them. If she couldn't figure out any technical key points, she could ask Friggia for help.

More than ten days passed, and just as Valensa began preparing to conquer the dungeon, Suzuran suddenly approached Valensa with a stack of blueprints, excitedly saying that she had an idea.

Valensa curiously took the design drawings and looked at them, then asked Linglan some questions. She couldn't help but praise Linglan's talent, and even couldn't resist kissing Linglan's cheek, which made Lefrey, who happened to see this, stomp her feet in anger.

Lily of the Valley truly deserves to be a genius chosen by the Sinful Angel.

She actually designed a new type of reactor based on her previous knowledge of alchemy and dark magic, combined with the principles of nuclear reactors in technological civilization.

The basic principle of a nuclear reactor is not difficult to understand. Simply put, it uses circulating water to remove the heat continuously generated by the fission reaction, and then uses steam to drive the turbine to generate electricity... It's essentially a more efficient way to boil water.

The principle behind Lily of the Valley's new reactor design is similar. She uses a circulating form of black magic blood to absorb the heat of the fission reaction, making this black magic blood an energy source to power powerful undead.

Suzuran's idea is to create a giant flesh-and-blood monster with a height between 10 and 18 meters, using a new type of reactor as the heart of the giant flesh-and-blood monster, so that the giant flesh-and-blood monster has the powerful combat strength to be fearless against elite warriors of wild beasts.

Meanwhile, Suzuran also referenced various nuclear power plant leaks in technologically advanced civilizations, designing a device for the giant flesh-and-blood stitched monster to actively release nuclear energy. Once activated, the giant flesh-and-blood stitched monster would transform into a leaking nuclear power plant reactor, causing continuous and fatal damage to a wide range of organisms through nuclear radiation.

The black magic blood circulating within the giant flesh-stitched monster's body can also be used as a deadly weapon, ejected at high pressure. The black magic curse and radiation pollution it carries are enough to cause annihilation to fragile life forms.

In this way, the giant flesh-and-blood stitched monster can unilaterally crush ordinary wild beast warriors regardless of their numbers, and is not afraid of elite wild beast warriors at all. Even against a Radiant-rank wild beast powerhouse, it can make the opponent suffer losses or even be injured if they are careless.

Once those Radiant-Rank Wild Beast Powerhouses are injured, Valensa's Radiant-Rank combatants can launch a sneak attack, with a high probability of severely injuring or even permanently killing them.

The number of powerful beasts at the Radiant Rank is limited, and their cultivation is extremely difficult.

But the giant flesh-and-blood stitched monster of Lily of the Valley can be produced indefinitely as long as there are enough nuclear materials... and the flesh and blood used all come from the corpses of wild beasts.

Once the undead legion and the wild beasts go to war, these giant flesh-and-blood monsters, capable of overwhelming and slaughtering ordinary wild beasts, will undoubtedly become the primary targets of the wild beasts' Radiant-rank powerhouses. At that point, even trading five giant flesh-and-blood monsters for one Radiant-rank wild beast powerhouse would be a huge win. Using consumables to fight against the opponent's limited top-tier combat power, the undead legion will inevitably emerge victorious.

Genius! Lily of the Valley is truly a genius in alchemy and dark magic.

Based solely on this design of a giant, flesh-and-blood stitched monster, if Suzuran wanted to commit evil, her achievements would definitely not be inferior to Savat Landon's.

Even Saintess Velenkasa was astonished upon learning of Linglan's plan. She looked at Linglan with a strange expression, as if she were planning to catch her and lock her up now in case of trouble.

"This...this thing is far too evil and vicious!"

After seeing the design for the lily of the valley, Tia couldn't help but complain:

"Although I know that there's nothing wrong with using any vicious tactics against wild beasts, is it really appropriate for such monsters to appear in the expeditionary force led by a human princess and a holy knight? If unsuspecting people saw this, they would definitely think that we were the evil force persecuting the poor wild beasts, right?"

"...This kind of monster must be registered with the Church of the Sun."

After a moment's thought, Saintess Velenkasha made a decisive decision, staring at Valensa and the others with a very serious and earnest gaze:

"I have no objection to your use of these methods to combat the savage beast calamity, but these monsters are absolutely forbidden from entering the human realm protected by Her Majesty the Goddess, no matter the reason! Do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Although Valenkasa spends her days eating, drinking, and playing games, and occasionally acts silly, she is, after all, a Saintess of the Church of the Sun at the peak of the Moonlit Realm, and when she gets serious, she has quite a presence. Valenkasa and the others behaved very obediently.

Princess Yu made a very serious and proactive promise:

"Your Highness, rest assured, the undead legions of Fran will never leave the Wasteland!"

"Well, that's good."

Velenkasha then returned to her usual casual attitude, indicating that Lily of the Valley's ingenious design had been recognized by the Church of the Sun and could be manufactured and used as a weapon to combat the wild beasts.

Lily of the Valley was naturally even more motivated and continued to devote herself to the research, planning to create the first batch of giant flesh-and-blood stitched monsters when Princess Lily finished her training in controlling Frostmourne.

Valensa couldn't help with these matters; she was preparing to return to the capital with Tia to participate in the dungeon raid.

Chapter 15 Old Friends Reunite

The bald man had previously told Valensa that she could lead a small team of about 10 people to participate in this dungeon raid.

Valensa and Tia are definitely going, and Gina, after learning about it, enthusiastically expressed her desire to join as well.

Princess Yu has been engrossed in sword practice lately. Even though Gina is with her, they haven't had much time to talk or be affectionate. It would be better for Gina to go to the dungeon with Valensa.

Anyway, Valensa said that her team would only try their luck in the outer city of the dungeon and would not participate in the big battle in the inner city, so there should be no danger.

Gina's ice magic is quite powerful; in Valensa's previous life's game, she would definitely be a strong controller. Valensa naturally welcomed her joining.

After entrusting the affairs of the underground ruins to Friggia and overseeing them with Velenkasa, Valensa, Tia, and Gina returned to the War Academy to continue recruiting teammates.

Everything on campus remained the same as before Valencia left at the beginning of the year, with everyone continuing to improve themselves amidst a full schedule of courses.

"Going to participate in a dungeon raid? Great! I've read a lot of legendary novels about dungeons before, and I've always wanted to experience a dungeon raid myself. It's just a pity that there are no more dungeons on our hometown island."

The first one to be recruited was, of course, the Demon Ninja Chiba. Her ninja skills, such as invisibility and clones, were very useful in dungeon exploration.

Thousand-leaf grass naturally wouldn't refuse and agreed without hesitation.

After recruiting Thousand Leaf Grass into the team, Valensa thought about it and decided to go and see Melody and the others.

The three musketeers were all famous young geniuses in their hometown of Suli City, but there are differences between geniuses.

Since last year, the three musketeers' strength has been somewhat lagging behind Valensa and Tia, and blindly forming a team may cause the team's efficiency to decrease rather than increase.

However, as friends who had gone through various difficulties together during the entrance exam, the Three Musketeers and Valensa and Tia had always had a good relationship, especially Melody, whose dormitory room was next to Valensa's, who could be considered Valensa's best friend.

If this dungeon raid involves venturing into the inner city to make a fortune, Valensa will likely only bring Tia. But since it's just about broadening her horizons in the outer city, she might as well invite more friends along.

With her good looks and figure, plus her love for wearing rhinestone-studded white silk bodysuits, Melody is quite popular and charming in the academy.

More importantly, unlike the two top students who were internally matched, Melody, this hot and alluring super beauty, is not a girl and doesn't have a boyfriend!

Despite having Gil and Harry, her childhood friends and protectors, it couldn't stop the boys' enthusiasm for pursuing Melody. It was common to see someone confessing their love to Melody or handing her a love letter.

With such popularity, it's easy to find out the location of Melody and the other two.

Valensa and her friends found Melody and the others with almost no effort, just outside a relatively secluded grove on campus.

It was afternoon, and the three of them were doing their daily training here.

Harry has changed the most; Valencia almost didn't recognize him when she first saw him.

No one knows what Harry has gone through in the past six months; he looks very different from his previous skinny wizard image.

He was no longer wearing a robe, but instead a leather armor that exposed his shoulders and arms. His upper arms showed clearly strong muscles, and his skin tone was much darker, making him look healthier.

If it weren't for Harry still playing with the three elemental orbs of fire, wind, and ice, Valensa would have almost thought Harry had abandoned magic and become a warrior.

Giru's overall changes didn't seem significant; he was still the strong, muscular man, but he appeared to have grown taller, now exceeding 2.5 meters in his normal height. The massive sword, as thick as a door panel, whistled through his hands as he swung it incessantly, occasionally slamming it into the ground with a deafening roar, causing the ground to crack and sending fragments of stone flying.

"Oh wow, it seems they've all made breakthroughs recently." x2