The story of the black silk female knight

Some people even took out a small boat model that was only the size of an arm, and then used magnification technology to enlarge the model, turning it into a real wooden boat that could carry about 10 people, and travel through the underground river.

Valensa and the others weren't too worried about themselves either... Gina could also create ice floes, and Tia's flying cards could also be used as a means of transportation.

However, after a brief discussion, the opportunity to perform was ultimately given to Chiba.

As a demon ninja from an island nation, the ability to travel by water is also an essential skill.

Chiba took out several specially cultivated seeds, infused them with ninjutsu energy, and caused the seeds to germinate and grow at an extremely fast speed, eventually turning into a vine boat.

The interior of the rattan boat is made of comfortable soft leaves, allowing passengers to recline and rest comfortably. At the bow and stern, there are several hard, propeller-like blades that rotate automatically to propel the boat forward.

This is also one of the Chiba clan's secret ninjutsu techniques. Once this rattan boat is created, it will no longer consume ninjutsu energy; it can absorb nutrients from the water to sustain its movement. As long as there is water beneath the boat, it can keep moving indefinitely, making it a very useful support ninjutsu.

Everyone was very satisfied with the rattan boat, lying comfortably on the soft leaves as it traveled through the underground river.

As the intelligence indicated, this underground river has many tributaries leading in various directions, serving as the main means of transportation connecting the underground city to the outside world.

The elite members of the Gourmet Association and Adventurers' Guild, who were in charge of the preliminary intelligence, spent nearly a month just drawing a map of the underground river.

Thanks to their hard work, Valensa's team of over 100 adventurers made no wrong turns or detours, quickly advancing across the underground river and heading straight for the dungeon.

After about an hour, following the map, the group entered a tributary of the underground river and finally saw the underground city.

This underground city is quite large; roughly estimated, it can accommodate at least 20 people.

In Valensa's previous life, with its advanced technology and civilization, 20 people might not have been a big deal. But in this world, there are no 30-story residential buildings that can house thousands of people. A house that can house dozens of people at the same time is considered a large house.

A city that can accommodate 20 people would have a land area that, in Valensa's previous life, would only have a city with at least a million people.

At the very least, the distance from the outer city's dock to the inner city's center is about 4 or 5 kilometers, and that's not even the maximum radius of the entire underground city.

At this time, the attacks from the other two directions had obviously been going on for quite some time. There were many flames in the entire underground city, and explosions could be heard from time to time. In several places, there were also powerful-looking lightning and storms hovering in mid-air.

The most conspicuous anomaly was, of course, the enormous golden dome in the inner city center, which was estimated to be about a kilometer in diameter.

"It is one of Chairman Morton Vito's signature techniques, the Nen Shield."

Valensa used her enhanced vision to take a few glances into the distance, then smiled and said to her companions:

"The main force of the assault team is fighting the Lich King Gold Lord and his personal guard inside. It seems that the assault team has the upper hand. Lord Hunter and Guild Master Vito are teaming up to beat Gold Lord Gold Lord to a pulp... I feel that the golden skeleton won't last much longer."

"Then we need to hurry... otherwise we won't even get a few sips of soup, let alone any meat!"

Before Valensa could agree, Qianyecao accelerated the rattan boat, rushing from the back of the group to the middle and heading towards the dock.

The other adventurer teams seemed to share the same idea, and they all sped up, making the last few hundred meters pass in the blink of an eye. The adventure teams successfully landed at the dock in the outer city of the underground city.

As expected, quite a few monsters did not choose to resist the adventurers who broke in through the main gate, but instead planned to escape through the underground river with their wealth.

These are mostly monsters with little combat power, and many of them are merchants in the dungeon. Although their wealth is not as great as that of high-level monsters or powerful monsters in the inner city, it is still a considerable fortune for ordinary adventurers.

Once they landed, the adventurers could no longer contain themselves. They charged forward with strange cries, wreaking havoc on the panicked monsters and plundering their valuables.

The scene was quite brutal at first glance. If the monsters being slaughtered were replaced with humans, this would undoubtedly be an evil invasion.

But no adventurer showed any compassion, including Fran, who was theoretically a monster, who simply watched coldly.

Actually, there are some gentler monsters. For example, the big white snake that Valensa met while investigating the Misty Mountains was quite docile, except for being a bit lewd, and never attacked people on its own initiative.

There are many similar cases. Many monsters raised by humans develop familial bonds with humans, and are even more loyal than human friends.

Even adventurers who make a living by slaying monsters usually only hunt down quest targets and rarely carry out genocidal massacres and plundering of monster tribes.

However, there is one exception: the monsters that live in dungeons... Neither the Kingdom of Fran nor America has zero tolerance for dungeons; once discovered, they will inevitably be destroyed and the city annihilated.

This is because it relates to a shameful and blood feud from ancient times.

During the early stages of human civilization, which is the beginning of the new cosmic era as described by Frigeia, the blessings of the Sun Goddess did not directly descend upon the continent of Frenoia. At that time, the only continent on the entire planet Eve that received the Goddess's blessings was the Divine Favored Continent to the west of Frenoia.

Humans in the early stages of civilization did not have systematic cultivation methods, nor did they understand magic. They embarked on the path of cultivation entirely based on luck and talent.

Such humans are naturally quite fragile.

Therefore, at the beginning of the new era, the first to dominate the continent of Frenoia were monsters. The term "dungeon" does not refer to a city built underground, but rather to a city built and inhabited by monsters.

There are indeed some relatively gentle monsters, but they are too rare. Most monsters are either orderly evil or chaotic evil. Naturally, they would not be very friendly to the incredibly weak humans of that time. Instead, they treated humans as toys and food, just like humans treat poultry and livestock today.

It wasn't until Friggia, through a fortuitous encounter, gave humanity magic and a systematic way of cultivation that humans gained the power to fight against the domination of monsters and gradually built their own towns.

Later, paladins and priests from the continent of God's Blessing landed in the southwest of the continent, further helping humanity to completely defeat the monsters and gain control of the southern part of the continent.

Later, under the witness of the Church of the Sun, the humans who built the towns united to form the present-day Kingdom of Fran. The founders and rulers of the largest town became the Fran royal family, while the founders and rulers of the other towns became the kingdom's first great nobles.

After the Kingdom of Fran was established and human civilization gained a foothold, in order to prevent the return of monsters that also had complete social structures, the kingdom chose to exterminate the monster dungeons, a policy that continues to this day.

America was established later than the Kingdom of Fran, but its overall history was similar. Each of the major families first established their own cities, and then the kingdom was established with the help of the Church of the Sun.

However, the environment in the north of the mainland is different from that in the south. There are more land resources and minerals but less food. The traditional landed nobles could not compete with the emerging commercial families and were gradually replaced, which led to America, who now has a strong capitalist flavor.

Regardless of the trajectory of national development, humanity has not forgotten the humiliation and hatred of being treated as toys and food by monsters in ancient times. They continue to pursue the strategy of quickly exterminating the dungeons, and those humiliations and hatreds have been passed down from generation to generation through education.

Therefore, humans never feel guilty about invading, plundering, slaughtering, and destroying monster dungeons; instead, they see it as a good opportunity to vent negative emotions and make money.

Diverse social groups have much higher productivity than single groups. Monster dungeons are usually no less wealthy than human cities of the same population, and may even be more wealthy due to the presence of certain rare materials. Therefore, countless adventurers flock to each dungeon raid.

Of course, the monsters in the dungeon are not necessarily without a way out. If they are lucky, they can have a new life even if they are defeated by humans.

For example, Rika was once a dungeon lord, a Moonlight-level dark mage, whose status was similar to that of the Lich King, who is currently being beaten up.

She was one of the lucky few monsters in the dungeon; after being offered as a trophy to the Sun Goddess, she was not burned to death by the holy flames, but was instead purified.

Although she lost all her cultivation as a Moon-level Dark Mage and became an ordinary succubus nun, she also gained a chance for a new life... Afterwards, Rika diligently cultivated in the Divine Continent according to the standards of a nun for over a hundred years, which is how she became the Star-level Holy Knight Rika she is today.

However, Rika is an extremely special case. Normally, dungeon monsters don't have this opportunity. For example, the various monsters on the outer city docks are currently being slaughtered unilaterally by adventurers.

"...Let's go. There's no need for us to fight with everyone else. They rarely have a chance to make a fortune, and the monsters here aren't very strong. It's pointless to fight them."

Valensa stood on the dock for a moment, observing, then pointed to the outer city area behind the main entrance and made her decision:

"Let's go, there don't seem to be many adventurers around here yet. We can try our luck; maybe we'll get a pleasant surprise."

"it is good."

Tia and the others did not object to Valensa. The group quickly left the dock and headed towards the outer city, which was in the opposite direction from the main gate.

Their first target was a two-story house built of obsidian... It couldn't compare to the palatial, jewel-encrusted buildings in the inner city, but it was considered a decent building in the outer city, suggesting the owner was quite wealthy.

Valensa and Fran didn't rush to make a move; they simply provided cover, letting their friends have the chance to grab the first wave of loot.

"I'll go in and take a look first..."

As Chiba Grass spoke, she vanished into thin air, likely employing the stealth technique that ninjas excel at.

About two or three minutes later, the thousand-leaf straw man didn't appear, but a voice rang out around everyone:

“I went inside and checked. There was a group of goat-headed monsters, eight in total. The leader was quite strong, definitely at the Lighthouse level, but probably not at the peak of the Lighthouse. The other goat-headed monsters were not a threat, but they seemed to have prepared some kind of papaya-sized poison sacs, which looked like some kind of throwing weapon. Rushing into the house rashly would be dangerous.”

"This house is made of obsidian, so it's quite sturdy. It's difficult for forces below the Radiant Rank to destroy it directly with brute force. And the house only has one door... Hmph, quite a clever plan."

Tia took over the conversation, narrowed her eyes for a moment, and then pulled out a golden card:

"Could you please go in again, Cao Cao, and bring this with you?"

"okay."

Thousand Leaf Grass responded, and the golden card in Tia's hand disappeared.

Less than a minute later, Thousand Leaf Grass's voice rang out again:

"Got it! I secretly put your magic card, Tia, inside the clothes of that strongest goat-headed monster... It seems to have noticed, but it still hasn't been able to find me, hehe~~"

"Well done... I'll leave the remaining few goat-headed monsters to you, Cao Cao. I'll pull out the strongest one and take it down!"

Tia smiled and nodded, then winked at Gina and Giru.

Giroud immediately raised his greatsword, and Gina's eyes began to harden with frost.

Seeing that both of them had nearly finished charging up their power, Valensa pointed to the empty space between them and activated the Britannia family's Link Technique.

A 2-meter-tall ram-headed monster wielding a scythe appeared. Completely bewildered, it was frozen by Gina's secret technique, "Magic Eye: Hyoga," before being smashed like an ice pop by Giru's door-sized greatsword.

With meticulous planning and teamwork, a powerful Lighthouse-level ram-headed monster was easily and instantly killed.

After the only Lighthouse-level monster died, the remaining goat-headed monsters in the house posed no threat to Thousand Leaf Grass. The invisible Demon Ninja transformed into a Grim Reaper and easily finished off the minions... Those goat-headed monsters never understood what enemy had attacked them from where until their deaths.

After receiving a safety signal from the Thousand Leaf Grass, Tia and the others entered the Obsidian Room. Valensa and Fran exchanged a glance, leaving Fran to keep watch outside, before following them inside.

These goat-headed monsters will guard their homes fiercely, so there must be wealth in their homes.

Using their enhanced senses and magical perception, the group carefully searched the obsidian house and quickly discovered the treasure hidden by the goat-headed monsters.

A whole chest full of various gems and high-quality magic crystals, along with a small amount of gold and mithril.

"Wow, I'm rich!"

Several girls excitedly grabbed the gems and cheered... In fact, these gems were not as valuable as high-quality magic crystals, let alone gold and mithril.

But what girl doesn't love beautiful gems? Even Valencia was enthusiastically picking them out, and about half a box of gems was quickly divided up by the girls.

This behavior is actually against the rules for adventurers. Normally, the loot of an adventurer's party is kept together and then distributed after the adventure is over.

But Valensa and her team were definitely not ordinary adventurers, so it didn't matter to them. The only two men, Giru and Harry, didn't care either.

After looting the obsidian house, Valensa and her companions prepared to continue their journey towards the rear of the outer city.

Just as they were leaving the obsidian house, a very powerful aura suddenly appeared at the dock, followed by a series of screams from the adventurers.

"It's a Radiant-rank expert!"

Everyone's expression changed, and they all looked at Valensa and Tia, waiting for them to make a decision.

Valensa and Tia exchanged a glance, then Valensa rubbed her chin thoughtfully before saying:

"Let's go check the situation first... After all, those are people we've traveled with all the way... If it's an enemy that Fran and I can defeat together, then let's help them."

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No one objected to Valensa and Tia's decision. They remained in stealth mode and carefully returned to the dock.

In just over ten minutes, the place was devastated. Hundreds of monster corpses lay in pools of blood, many buildings were violently destroyed, and many others were on fire.

While Valensa and her group were looting the obsidian house, the adventurers on the docks had clearly also made a considerable haul, but now they were in deep trouble.

A very powerful monster is wreaking havoc.

The monster appeared to be slightly taller than the normal Gil, about 3 meters tall.

Its facial and limb features resemble those of a goblin, but it is many times stronger and has bluish-green scales on its body.

This monster was unarmed and its attack method was very simple: it used water.

The water spheres that are compressed and ejected at high speed, the water blades formed by the continuous high-pressure water jets, and the water waves that can sweep away and devour everything.

These three moves seem simple enough, but the adventurers are completely helpless against them.

Shields and armor are no match for the powerful water spheres... or rather, they can block them, but the person will be blasted away by the water sphere, suffering severe internal injuries, or even dying.

Some magical shields with kinetic energy-eliminating effects can block water spheres, but they are helpless against high-pressure water jets that are like sharp blades. If you can't dodge them, both you and your shield will be cut in half.

Some agile adventurers with good footwork can barely avoid water balls and water blades, but they have nowhere to hide from huge waves and can only be knocked unconscious or even killed by them.

From the moment Valensa and her companions heard the sound and crept over, only three or four minutes had passed, and more than thirty adventurers had been knocked down by the monster. Half of them had died on the spot and were beyond saving, and the other half would also be doomed if they weren't rescued soon.

The remaining adventurers couldn't abandon their teammates and run away, because this was a dock right next to the underground river, a battlefield that was absolutely advantageous to that monster, and people simply couldn't outrun the water.

If that monster continues its rampage, within five minutes at most, all 100-plus adventurers who entered the dungeon from the underground river will be wiped out.

The situation was such that Valensa and her team did not immediately take action, but continued to observe.

"This goblin is pretty strong... It can't be a pureblood goblin. Even if a pureblood goblin mutates, it won't become this strong."

Valensa stared at the monster's bluish-green scales for a while, then guessed:

“I don’t think those are fish scales. It’s more likely a dragon blood goblin, and a high-ranking dragon at that. Only that can explain its power.”

"Dragonblood Goblin?... Hmm, I think it's quite possible too. Let's give it a try."

Tia pondered for a moment, then nodded, and took out a magic arrow with a black shaft and white feathers, handing it to Valensa:

"This is the Dragon-Slaying Arrow developed by the Sage's Tower. It has an extremely high damage bonus against dragon-blooded creatures... Whether it is a dragon-blooded goblin or not, we should know after shooting an arrow."

"it is good."

Valensa took the Dragon-Slaying Arrow, then took out a composite bow with many pulleys. As she nocked the arrow and aimed, she said: