The story of the black silk female knight

Sure enough, after a round of inspection, nearly a third of the 30-strong wild beast army was lost, and many of the remaining wild beasts were also wounded, with obvious ulcers visible on their skin.

However, the military skills of the Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts capable of leading such a massive army are clearly superior to those of ordinary Radiant-Rank Wild Beast tribe leaders. Although this inspection resulted in significant losses, they did uncover quite a few useful items.

The wild beasts seemed to know that Valensa had some kind of extremely powerful attack method, and they actually scattered the wild beast army.

They formed teams of 3000 to 5000 wild beasts, maintaining a distance of several thousand meters between each team, and gradually enclosed the area of ​​the underground ruins.

The two Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts were even more cautious. They not only stayed together and never separated, but also rarely lingered on the ground. Every time they approached the underground ruins area, they flew at high altitudes with excellent visibility, giving Valensa no chance to launch a nuclear attack again.

Due to the presence of special pheromones in the ruins area, the army of wild beasts, after dividing into multiple teams and surrounding the area, did not advance any further, but merely observed it from all sides.

During this time, Valensa tentatively sent out several teams of undead away from the ruins area, but they were quickly discovered and annihilated by the wild beasts.

Compared to the beastmen from the previous five tribes, this beastmen force was clearly much more elite. Even the most ordinary beastmen warriors could easily take on three skeleton soldiers single-handedly, using inferior weapons like bone spears and wooden clubs.

Many wild beast warriors even cultivate a kind of blood energy that can be attached to their weapons like sword energy or holy light to enhance their attacks.

The attack, enhanced by this blood energy, can also damage spirits... Although the effect is far less than that of holy light, it is still enough for the elite warriors of the wild beasts to easily kill ordinary vengeful spirits.

Even the fat man failed to achieve many military exploits.

At the beginning, the fat man's nuclear radiation range attack was still powerful, easily annihilating two teams of about 5000 wild beasts and killing several lighthouse-level elite wild beast warriors.

However, this army of wild beasts was clearly very efficient at gathering intelligence. The two Radiant-rank wild beasts received the news immediately and personally took action to eliminate the fat man.

When dealing with the fat man, the two Radiant-rank Wild Beast experts were extremely cautious. They used spells and magical artifacts to attack from a distance, hundreds of meters in the air, leaving Valensa, who was lurking nearby and trying to launch a sneak attack, no opportunity whatsoever.

Not only that, this time, by personally dealing with the fat man, he also allowed the two powerful Rank 1 beast warriors to discover the fat man's fatal weakness of lacking mobility.

So when Valensa sent the fat man out to probe again, those thousands of beast squads no longer fought him head-on, but ran away as soon as they spotted him from afar.

As a result, the second fat beast didn't even manage to kill a single wild beast before being taken down by two powerful Radiant-rank wild beast warriors who arrived after receiving intelligence.

Clearly, the current undead army is no match for this army of wild beasts.

The purpose of this army of wild beasts is also very clear... They cannot enter the ruins area, but they will also prevent the undead legion from easily leaving the ruins area to attack other tribes.

In this situation, even if Valensa were to fight back and defeat those two Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts, it wouldn't make much difference.

Because the undead legion currently only has Valenza as a Radiant-ranked warrior, if the beasts send another Radiant-ranked warrior to completely suppress Valenza, the undead legion, even after leaving the ruins area, will still be completely annihilated by this elite force of the beasts.

The fat guy is indeed powerful, but his movement speed is too slow; relying solely on him won't be enough.

To change the course of the battle, we must wait for Princess Suzuran and Linglan to create a new undead army using the corpses of the wild beasts they obtained earlier; there's no use rushing it.

And so another month passed.

The newly created undead legion has undergone a complete upgrade, no longer consisting only of skeletons and vengeful spirits, but also including many zombie beast warriors whose strength has reached that of the Pearl and Lighthouse.

The number of fat guys has increased to 11, and the three Radiant Beasts whose corpses were left behind after Valensa killed them have all been turned into undead warriors.

Unfortunately, neither Princess Yu nor Linglan possessed the necessary strength. The combat power of the Radiant-rank corpses they controlled did not reach the Radiant rank; they were only slightly stronger than Lighthouse-rank. They could easily defeat three or five Lighthouse-rank elite beast warriors, but they had no chance against Radiant-rank opponents.

Valensa had sparred once with the undead made from the corpses of those three Radiant-rank beasts, and she won easily without using any divine magic... The original plan failed; even if these three Radiant-rank undead corpses attacked together, they could not be considered as Radiant-rank combat power, but could only be used as slightly stronger beacons.

Overall, however, the fully upgraded undead army is sufficient.

The battle resumes.

As for the French expeditionary force, the men continued to perform their duties as they had at the beginning.

Valensa was responsible for cooperating with the undead army in the front-line battles.

Tia was responsible for constantly revising and correcting the detailed battle plan, and using spatial linking magic to remotely transport the large, less mobile enemy.

Princess Elseris is responsible for creating and controlling the undead using Frostmourne, while Lily of the Valley is responsible for collecting combat data to upgrade and modify the undead.

Gina and Leffre were responsible for taking care of the two above.

Friggia took over the creation of the giant fat man, while Velenkasa continued to exude fighting spirit and her own aura, exchanging intimidation with the Moonlit Powerhouse deep in the Wasteland, who was suspected to be the chieftain of the Wild Beasts.

This battle was quite intense, with both sides trading blows and experiencing victories and defeats.

During the month that Valensa and her team were upgrading and transforming the undead legion, the wild beasts also developed a tactic that did not require Radiant-rank powerhouses to deal with the big fat man.

They invented a magical version of a long-range catapult... Simply put, multiple lighthouse or pearl-level wild beast spellcasters work together to use wind magic to launch a large rock, about 5 meters in diameter, from thousands of meters away in a parabolic trajectory towards the big fat man.

Although the wind magic that powers the large rock is magic, the large rock itself is just an ordinary rock, and its kinetic energy impact does not constitute a magical attack. Therefore, the magic resistance upgrade that Lily of the Valley gave to the fat man is useless.

The fat man's mobility was so poor that even if he spotted the boulder coming at him in advance, it would be difficult for him to dodge it.

Two very fat animals were crushed to death by the boulder in this way.

Fortunately, the wild beasts still have no way to deal with nuclear radiation. Even if the giant fat man dies, he can still cause long-term and deadly pollution to the land, changing the battlefield environment and giving the undead army a great advantage.

Moreover, the undead legion relied on fighting to sustain itself, and the fallen wild beasts could only be replenished from the rear. Without the arrival of more Radiant Wild Beasts, the undead legion gradually gained the upper hand in the battle.

However, neither the expeditionary force nor the wild beasts currently have any intention of fighting to the death. Therefore, in the numerous battles that followed over the next two months, both sides were constantly testing each other's bottom line and demonstrating their own.

The bottom line for the Wild Beasts seems to be that they absolutely cannot allow the undead army to expand further east.

To test this idea, Valensa once confronted the two Radiant-rank beasts head-on, while simultaneously sending the main force of the undead legion eastward, along with six large, fat men.

As a result, the beast soldiers in that battle could be described as fighting to the death. They were completely unafraid of the deadly nuclear radiation, preferring to die with their bodies rotting so badly that they would rather shatter a few more undead before they died.

Those two Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts also used all their trump cards and didn't hesitate to call for reinforcements, summoning two more Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts from behind.

Valensa, who possesses a Noble Phantasm, a Secret Technique, and a Domain, is indeed much stronger than a typical Star-level character, but she is absolutely no match for four opponents.

She was beaten so badly that she fled in disarray, and even detonated a nuclear bomb before finally managing to retreat back to the ruins with her heavily damaged undead army.

Then the wild beasts pressed their advantage, splitting into multiple teams to surround the ruins, trying to confine the undead army to this area forever.

So this time, Valensa launched a furious counterattack... She didn't care about the wild beasts on the east side of the ruins, but if any wild beasts circled around to the west side of the ruins and set up camp, she would immediately lead the undead army to attack and wipe them out, no matter what the cost.

Even though the wild beasts had stationed their troops very far apart, and each nuclear bomb could only kill a maximum of ten thousand wild beasts, making it impossible to replicate the initial feat of killing hundreds of thousands of wild beasts with a single nuclear bomb, Valensa still used three more nuclear bombs without hesitation to demonstrate her determination.

Faced with the combined attack of four powerful Rank 1 beasts, Valensa even resorted to a crazy tactic that nearly scared Tia to tears.

She directly deployed her domain in the face of battle, covering all the powerful beasts of the Radiant Rank. Then, before being surrounded and destroyed, she detonated a nuclear bomb within her domain, blowing herself up as well.

Valenza's domain appears to be an endless sea, but it's just an optical illusion; its actual size is only a few hundred meters. Even if you hide at the edge of the domain, you're still within the nuclear blast's epicenter.

Completely unexpectedly, Valensa's daring and reckless actions resulted in the immediate death of one of the Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts. The remaining three Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts were also seriously injured and were terrified, no longer daring to force Valensa into a fight to the death.

Of course, Valensa herself was also blown up by the nuclear bomb... The other three Radiant Beasts were able to escape the domain after the nuclear explosion because Valensa herself was also seriously injured and unable to maintain the domain.

Afterwards, Valensa lay in the ruins for two days, and the beast army also withdrew completely, no longer thinking of completely surrounding the ruins area, but only setting up a defensive line on the east side.

The two sides seemed to have reached a tacit understanding: the undead legion would no longer expand eastward, and the wild beasts would no longer attempt to completely surround the ruins area.

Once autumn had fully arrived, a complete ceasefire was declared at the ruins... Most of the wild beast soldiers were dispatched to the south to attack the Fran border, but none of the three Radiant-rank wild beasts left, maintaining a high level of surveillance over the ruins area.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the undead legion no longer concealed its purpose and began a full-scale operation in the desolate lands west of the ruins.

They polluted the land extensively with nuclear radiation and black magic, turning the already barren ground into a no-man's-land where only the undead could roam freely with the deadly radiation residue... Even a powerful being of the Shining Rank must constantly protect themselves with energy if they want to move in that environment.

The three Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts seemed to have seen through the undead legion's plans and tried to stop them several times, but Valensa stopped them each time.

However, after personally witnessing Valensa's madness in detonating a nuclear bomb in her own territory, those three Radiant-Rank Wild Beasts no longer dared to fight Valensa seriously. Every time, they made a lot of noise but did little, pretending to fight for a few rounds before retreating.

They should have reported the situation here to other beast tribe leaders or even the Great Chieftain, but currently there are clearly no longer any beasts with the foresight, awareness, and wisdom of the Great Prophet.

For the wild beasts, nothing is more important than raiding Fran for food every autumn. What does it matter if a mere few hundred thousand undead pollute all the land west of the ruins? Anyway, it's land with little resource value to begin with, and there are plenty of such barren lands on the desolate plains.

Thus, taking advantage of the fact that the wild beasts were preoccupied with the autumn war, Valensa and her comrades successfully established the quarantine zone as planned.

By the time the beasts realized what was happening and tried to stop it after the war, a 20-kilometer-wide buffer zone had already been built, running north to south through the desolate land.

Although Valencia had used up most of the US nuclear bombs she had stolen from Mai Asakura's world, the results were still quite satisfactory.

The isolation zone was a complete no-man's land; none of the ordinary beast soldiers who attempted to cross it returned.

The powerful beasts of the Radiant Rank can indeed traverse these forbidden zones of life, but it's useless.

They tried various methods, but none could dispel the pollution in the forbidden zone of life. They were also attacked by the undead in the isolation zone, or even by Valensa herself.

The die was cast, and the beasts had no choice but to abandon their plan to reclaim those lands and continue to keep a close eye on the undead legion.

With this, Valensa and her team's plan to establish a buffer zone was completely completed. The next steps were to open a trade route along the coast of the Barren Ridge and to establish an insurance company.

Since the wild beasts were incapable of clearing up the nuclear contamination, Valensa and Princess Elses returned to the capital of Fran together.

The matter of opening trade routes should ideally be reported to the king by Princess Yi... She needs this prestige and achievement to escape the fate of being forced into marriage, while Valensa and the others only need practical benefits.

Princess Yu's position as the commander of the expeditionary force was officially appointed by the king.

At first, many nobles and ministers didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just for gilding Princess Yu's image... After all, that was a desolate land, and there were too many lives to spare to build an expeditionary force there.

No one expected that Princess Yu's expeditionary force would actually annihilate a lot of wild beasts, and even gain a stable territory in the desolate land, which would connect the north and south and enable land trade between the two countries of Fran and America!

The nobles and ministers were well aware of the immense benefits that would result from opening this trade route, and many of them were filled with regret.

If they had known earlier that the expeditionary force had this capability, they would have insisted on sending some people in, so that they could get a share of the spoils later.

It's definitely too late to attack the trade route itself now; the expeditionary force, which has already firmly grasped control of the route, will absolutely not let go.

Although the entire expeditionary force nominally consisted of only three people, all of whom were young women, it looked like they were playing house.

But these three women are a royal princess, a high-ranking member of the Church of the Sun, and the next head of the Britannia family... Trying to forcibly take the cake from their mouths is tantamount to courting death.

Therefore, the quick-thinking nobles and ministers began to change their mindset, studying what business their families could do with America after the trade routes opened, in order to seize the market as soon as possible.

Of course, it's best to discuss these deals with allies to avoid the blunder of friendly forces fighting each other.

In short, with Princess Yu bringing back the achievements of the expeditionary force and the related plans to open trade routes, the entire noble circles and officialdom of France were quite lively.

However, none of this matters to Valensa for the time being... She and Princess Ni had already agreed that most of the credit for the expeditionary force would go to Princess Ni, and she just wanted to sit back and collect the money.

Therefore, Duchess Sunflower, who was nominally entitled to participate in the council of ministers, had no intention of going to the palace to join the fun, but instead went to the Nora Trading Company.

Chapter 35 Milk Tea, So Delicious!

"A bubble tea shop?"

Valensa looked slightly confused.

"Are you kidding me? According to that number you just gave me, I'll be getting 2% less of my share... Is that something your little milk tea shop can justify? What are your milk teas made of that expensive stuff... You can't possibly be using Holy Dragon Milk, can you?"

"No, it's just regular milk tea, the kind where you can buy a dozen cups for 1 gold coin."

Yashilo smiled and waved his hand:

"Besides, that milk tea shop is mine, not yours... I'll give you VIP treatment, but you'll still have to pay for the milk tea."

"what?"

Valensa's eyes widened completely:

"So this counts as a benefit for me? You're definitely kidding me, aren't you?"

"Of course not... Don't be in such a hurry, let me explain slowly~"

Yashilo seemed very confident in his idea. He calmly peeled another banana, took two small bites, and then slowly said:

"On the surface, it's just an ordinary milk tea shop, except that it's in a better location, near the headquarters of our chamber of commerce."

But the real important thing about this milk tea shop isn't the milk tea itself, but the people who go there to drink it... Milk tea is a drink that's especially popular with young girls, so it's normal that most of my customers are young and pretty female employees of our chamber of commerce, right?

As a high-end milk tea shop, it's quite normal for it to have a few hidden luxury rooms for its VIP customers to relax, right? Got it?

"you……"

Valensa finally understood.

She shook her head, speechless.

"You actually tried to bribe me like this... Hmph, do I look like someone who could be bought off like this? I admit I enjoy physical pleasure, but what's the difference between going to your milk tea shop and going to a brothel? The profit share I give you is enough for me to go to brothels every day... Do you really think I'm stupid?"

"Ha~~ To say something like that, you think I'm a fool, don't you?"

Yashilo bit the banana in half, which he had only taken two bites of, and grinned slyly:

"With your current status and income, you could be going out to brothels every day, but do you really dare to do that? Those brothels have very good intelligence networks... You don't want others to know that the famous Sunflower Duchess is this kind of person, do you?"

But it's fine at the milk tea shop... You're the only VIP at this milk tea shop, and it's no secret that you and I are good friends. It's perfectly normal for you to come to my shop every now and then for a cup of milk tea and a break, right?

And besides... those girls who will accompany you to drink and have fun may be beautiful and gentle, but their beauty and gentleness are not just for you, they will be available to anyone who pays them.

But the pretty girls in my bubble tea shop are different... They're not hostesses, but female employees of a chamber of commerce with proper jobs, some even with their own lovers. They just occasionally succumb to the temptation of high bonuses and make a mistake at the bubble tea shop... Hehe, you've seen how excellent my employees are on the first floor before, haven't you? Don't you really have any thoughts about them?

"How about this? As long as you dare swear to Her Majesty the Goddess that you haven't had any designs on my employees, I'll agree to the profit split you mentioned, and maybe even give you an extra 1%, how about that?"