The story of the black silk female knight

Valensa felt she might be able to break this record again... As long as there were enough Radiant-rank enemies for her domain to absorb, her speed of breaking through to Lunar Radiance would definitely be much faster than normal.

Thinking of this, Valensa had a ten-second thought that she wanted to use her domain to devour the remaining three Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts as well.

However, after careful consideration, Valensa gave up.

Given the current situation, sending the corpses of these three Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts to Lily of the Valley and Princess Suzuran as necromancy materials is far more cost-effective than giving Valensa experience.

Therefore, Valensa's emotional fluctuations quickly subsided, and she continued to use the kiting tactic, slowly wearing down the remaining lives of the three Radiant Beasts.

But at that moment, the funniest thing happened.

Seemingly spurred on by the death of the beast that unleashed its powerful punch, the only spellcaster beast among the several Radiant-rank beasts, namely the monkey-headed pigskin beast, decisively chose to betray them.

Without its two companions being prepared, it unleashed a fire spell, originally intended to pursue Valensa, at near-zero distance directly onto them... This further aggravated the already severely injured two Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts, rendering them completely incapacitated.

Valensa raised an eyebrow, speechless, but didn't waste the opportunity. Holding Moon Kiss in one hand and a lightsaber in the other, she slashed simultaneously, finishing off the two dying Radiant-rank beasts. She then put their corpses into a special spatial storage bag to prevent them from being accidentally swallowed by her domain.

Throughout the entire finishing blow, the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast had opportunities to use magic to ambush Valensa, but it showed no intention of making a move, merely watching coldly from the sidelines.

When Valensa finished dealing with the two Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts and looked at the Monkey-Headed Pigskin Wild Beast, it revealed a very fawning smile.

"……what do you mean?"

Valensa asked the question knowingly, with amusement.

"Hehe... what else could I mean?"

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast spoke fluent common human language, its smile becoming even more obsequious:

"I just don't want to die... and in this situation, if I want to continue living, don't I only have one choice?"

After saying this, the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast, seemingly to completely reassure Valensa, actually placed his staff horizontally on her raised leg and then forcefully bent it:

"That means pledging allegiance to you!"

"..."

Valensa struggled to suppress a chuckle... She knew these old folks would do anything to survive, but their shamelessness was still beyond her wildest imagination.

"...You will pledge allegiance to me?"

Suppressing a laugh, Valensa slowly walked to the side of the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast, her Moon Kiss still radiating a deadly, icy moonlight.

"Then tell me... what use are you to me?"

"I……"

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast stared nervously and cautiously at the longsword in Valensa's hand, but his voice became even more ingratiating and obsequious:

“I can tell you the locations and defense information of other tribes! Since you have established an undead army on this land, you must want to conquer more territory and convert more undead, right?”

I can guide your undead army! I can even help you deceive the leaders of other tribes, making it easier for you to kill them! How about it?

"Oh, right!"

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast, halfway through its speech, seemed to suddenly realize the key point. It quickly knelt down, feigning piety, and made what appeared to be a prayerful gesture:

"I'm even willing to become Your Majesty the Sun Goddess! To be your slave! To lick your shoes every day! Please, please don't kill me!"

"Are you willing to be my slave, or are you willing to worship Her Majesty the Goddess?"

Valensa was even more amused. She slowly circled the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast twice before stopping in front of the old man, the moonlight gleaming from her longsword growing ever colder and brighter.

“That great prophet of your beast race didn’t say that… Last year, until I killed him, he firmly proclaimed that beasts would never be slaves and that they would believe in freedom.”

"What? The Great Prophet was...?"

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast was clearly stunned for a moment, then became even more terrified:

“That’s it… I should have realized it sooner… The huge explosion before was almost exactly the same as the one in the intelligence that wiped out the Great Prophet’s direct forces… So it was you…”

After the initial shock, the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast became even more cowardly.

“Those words are just the great prophet’s own cleverness, but I’m not as stupid as him. I just want to keep living. I don’t care whether I’m a slave or whether my faith is free.”

"That's it..."

Valensa narrowed her eyes, then lightly flicked her Moon Kiss sword, pointing the tip at the heart of the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast, and asked in a cold voice:

"Among those wild beasts, how many tribal chiefs share your thoughts? Tell the truth! If it's a meaningless lie, then it will be your last words!"

"I……"

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast nervously swallowed hard, its expression conflicted and anxious.

It was clearly hesitant to tell the truth, but it was even more afraid that Valensa might have a way to detect lies... After all, it was an ancient beast that had lived for over a hundred years and was familiar with some of the divine arts of the Church of the Sun.

So in the end, the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast still smiled bitterly in frustration:

"Not many... The vast majority of tribal chiefs and young people in the tribes admire the Great Prophet's ideas of freedom above all else... That's why my tribe is located in this remote place by the sea in the west, because we are actually cowardly surrenderers who are afraid of death."

When your human kingdom negotiated peace with us back then, it was us surrender faction who made the decisions... Actually, we have always missed those years... For us, it doesn't matter whether we work for humans or give up our own beliefs, as long as you humans provide food and lodging.

Unfortunately, for some reason, those ignorant young people were not satisfied with their already good life... I don't know where they learned their ideas, but they wanted to pursue freedom and often caused trouble for it, which eventually led to a complete break... The war between the tribe and your human kingdom was reignited.

Since then, our tribe, which cared nothing for freedom and only wanted to survive, has been ostracized by other tribes and has been living on this westernmost part of the coast ever since.

"Oh? Is that so?"

Even though she didn't believe a word of it, Valensa still pretended to be surprised.

"So, you originally belonged to the faction of wild beasts that were friendly to humans, so you wouldn't resist becoming my slave at all? Is that what you mean?"

As she spoke, Valensa, as if she truly believed it, dispelled the cold glint from Moon Kiss and made a gesture as if she were preparing to sheathe her sword.

"Yes, yes! That's it!"

Sensing that Valencia's killing intent had significantly weakened, the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast breathed a long sigh of relief and prepared to say a few more nice words to further increase its chances of survival.

But just as it was about to open its mouth, the instinct of a Radiant-rank expert made its heart tighten, and the fear of impending death made its whole body go numb.

what happened?

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast quickly looked at Valencia again, only to see that Valencia had already put away the gleaming longsword in her hand and had not made any attacking moves.

So what exactly is this feeling...?

The monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast suddenly shuddered, as if it had finally realized its oversight, but it was too late.

A blazing golden light shot from behind, striking the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast precisely on the back. The focused heat burned through its body, creating a hole in its chest, and burning away half of its heart.

However, the vitality of a Radiant-rank expert is tenacious. Even in this state, the Monkey-Headed Pig-Skinned Wild Beast did not die immediately. It simply lay on the ground in agony, its desperate face filled with confusion.

"Why... why?"

It couldn't understand why this paladin would still kill it after it had already surrendered, killed two old friends as a pledge of loyalty, and expressed its willingness to believe in the sun goddess.

Isn't it said that the Sun Goddess and her paladins are all benevolent, and that even evil monsters can be given a chance as long as they are willing to sincerely submit?

Although the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast knew that its sincerity was questionable, its determination to survive was absolutely genuine!

"I'm puzzled as to why I would kill you? Because you seem more valuable to me while you're alive? Heh~"

Valensa saw the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast's resentment, so she chuckled and raised her foot, stepping on the monkey's head with her combat boot:

"Considering that your sneak attack on those two guys saved me a lot of trouble, I'll let you die knowing why... The reason is actually very simple. I didn't kill the wild beasts because of any paladin's honor or the responsibility of a Fran soldier, but because of personal grudges! Do you understand personal grudges?"

From the moment that bastard great prophet tried every means to kill my Tia, I had already decided to kill all of you wild beasts, leaving no one alive!

Don't tell me your surrender is just a temporary measure to save your lives. Even if one day you beasts truly submit to humanity and are willing to worship Her Majesty the Goddess, I will never let you go! You have no chance to become good beasts again!

"And another reason..."

The combat boots began to exert more force, causing the monkey's head beneath them to crack with a sound like bones breaking.

"Compared to the information about the wild beasts you spout, which is hardly any truth, it's much more cost-effective to turn your corpse into necromancy material!"

"so……"

"Die!"

Snapped!

Without giving the monkey-headed, pig-skinned undead any further chance, Valensa stomped on its head, crushing it and extinguishing its life force.

At this point, all five leaders of the beast tribes west of the underground ruins in the desolate lands were dead.

"...Tia's battle plan is really useful."

After packing the corpse of the monkey-headed, pig-skinned beast into a pre-prepared spatial storage bag, Valensa withdrew from her domain and informed the underground ruins of the situation.

Now, none of the remaining four beast tribes have any Radiant-rank experts left, and it will take at least a few days for the many beast tribes east of the underground ruins to react to the news.

So Valensa, who had been fighting all night, couldn't rest yet... The next two days were the best opportunity to wipe out the remaining four beast tribes in the west and achieve initial freedom in obtaining necromancy materials!

Chapter 33 Establishment of the Isolation Zone

On the day Valencia arrived at the underground ruins after finishing her training at the Church of the Sun, Lily of the Valley had only created six large fat figures there.

During the days that Tia was developing and revising the detailed plan, Suzuran worked overtime and, with Freya's occasional help, made three more large fat men, making a total of nine.

In order to capture all the leaders of the five beast tribes, four of the fat men were used as bait according to Tia's plan. Currently, only five fat men are still capable of fighting.

On the undead side, after Princess Jing mastered the use of Frostmourne, she could indeed control an army of about 50 undead, just like playing a real-time strategy game. However, the undead she had previously stockpiled in the underground ruins were actually less than 30, and most of them were skeletons and wraiths.

There's nothing we can do. Although many wild beasts have died in the underground ruins, they were either killed by Valencia's nuclear bomb last year or died from the self-destruct command activated by special pheromones. It's lucky if a few bones are left behind; the vast majority are completely destroyed.

The undead army, which is extremely lacking in flesh and blood, can only consist of vengeful spirits and skeletons for the time being.

The vast majority of these skeleton soldiers, like the four fat men, became bait in the scheme to defeat the five leaders of the Radiant Beast Tribes, and were all wiped out by the nuclear bomb.

Therefore, more than 4% of the undead army currently following Valensa in attacking the four beast tribes are various kinds of vengeful spirits of beasts.

These vengeful spirits marched in groups across the desolate land, and even on a bright, sunny day, they could not dispel the billowing black smoke and eerie winds rising from the ground.

Each of the wild beast spirits had a ferocious and painful expression, and they let out miserable howls from time to time. The scene looked extremely evil, not much different from the spectacle that Savart Langdon had created in Poliland City.

Valensa was undoubtedly somewhat apprehensive about leading such an army to attack the enemy, despite being a paladin of the sun goddess.

To avoid embarrassing her goddess, Valensa had long since reverted to her black-armored death knight attire, completely concealing her face with a helmet featuring a visor.

The remaining four beast tribes are all distributed in this area, which is more than 900 kilometers from north to south and about 100 kilometers from east to west.

For the undead legion, which can fight continuously without sleep, it only took a little over two days to complete the entire raid.

One side has the Radiant Rank, the other doesn't.

On one side are vengeful spirits, and on the other are flesh and blood.

With the presence of the overpowered fat man who could practically slaughter the enemy minions, all four battles against the Wild Beast Tribe went very smoothly, without any unexpected incidents or complications.

Unlike those selfish and cunning old beasts of the Rank 4, many of the young beasts in the four beast tribes were still very brave. Even though they knew they were no match for the fat man and even less able to defeat Valensa, they still chose to take up arms and fight to the death, but unfortunately it was all in vain.

...No, it can't be said that it has no meaning at all.

Warriors who were brave and powerful in life are more likely to be transformed into high-level undead after death. The corpses of those beast warriors who dared to face the Radiant Rank 'Death Knights' were collected by Valensa in special spatial storage bags and then sent to Lily of the Valley and Princess Yu to become materials for creating high-level undead.

After working continuously for nearly three days, the first phase of Tia's plan was successfully completed, and all the beast tribes west of the underground ruins were wiped out.

Next, the task is to quickly transform the beast corpses and flesh obtained from the three days of battle into new combat power for the undead legion, to formally establish an isolation zone, and to clear out the scattered beasts living in the target area.

Meanwhile, the main tribes of wild beasts to the east of the underground ruins will surely receive the news. They certainly won't ignore what's happening here, and it's inevitable that they will send troops to investigate or even attack the undead legion.

At this point, the undead legion was no match for the beast army. Valensa could only handle two powerful beasts at the Radiant Rank at the time; if all three attacked at once, she would have to run away.

Therefore, the establishment of isolation zones cannot be rushed; we must be prepared to play it safe for a while.

After annihilating five beast tribes, Valensa immediately led her undead army back to the area of ​​the underground ruins, using the special pheromones still scattered in the region as cover.

Meanwhile, Princess Yu and Lily of the Valley, having obtained a large amount of fresh corpses and flesh, began working day and night under the care of Gina and Lefley, respectively. They had to turn these corpses and flesh into a more powerful undead army as soon as possible.

As for the inevitable army of wild beasts that will arrive during this period, Valensa can only continue to lead those vengeful spirits to delay them for a while.

When eliminating the three savage beast garrisons around the underground ruins, Valensa easily achieved intelligence blockade through a sneak attack.

However, when they subsequently raided five wild beast tribes with populations of hundreds of thousands, it became very difficult to completely block the information. The main wild beast tribes should have already received the news.

Sure enough, on the fourth day after Valensa led all the undead legions back into the underground ruins, an army of wild beasts totaling about 300,000 arrived, led by two Radiant-rank wild beast powerhouses.

They were clearly aware of the strangeness of the underground ruins area and had no intention of attacking directly. Instead, they bypassed the underground ruins area and first went to check the ruins of the five tribes.

This was a theoretically clever but actually foolish act. Those five tribal ruins were all battlefields of the fat men, especially the tribe that had been bombed by a nuclear bomb and killed four of them. The radiation residue from the black magic was extremely deadly. Even Valensa had to constantly wrap her whole body in holy light to protect herself when she was there.