The story of the black silk female knight

"I……!"

Valensa wanted to shout, "I'm not that kind of person! It's just making a vow!"

But when she was about to open her mouth and swear, her experience in the lobby on the first floor kept flashing through her mind like a movie.

The beautiful female employees' sweet smiles and soft voices, their heavy yet alluringly curvaceous figures beneath low-cut lace blouses, their tight-fitting skirts that clung to their rounded lower legs and a third of their thighs, their flesh-colored pantyhose that clung to their legs like flawless skin, and their high heels that clattered with every step, each step captivating...

Gudong.

"No, I can't do it."

After swallowing hard, Valensa lowered her head in frustration.

"I dare not lie to Her Majesty the Goddess."

"Phew, that's more like it, this is the Valensa I know~~"

Yashilo revealed an expression of absolute confidence, as if he had Valensa completely under his control:

"How about I offer you an extra service... If you ever get to know any pretty girls you're close to but don't want Tia to know, I can have them work at the bubble tea shop. I'll arrange an easy job for them where they only have to serve you, and give them a salary that allows them to enjoy a luxurious lifestyle. How about that?"

Is this okay?

Valensa was utterly speechless.

No wonder the education I received in my past life always said that the enemy's planes and cannons are not scary, but sugar-coated bullets are the most difficult to guard against.

Now it seems... that it really can't be defended against, it's simply impossible to defend against.

"you win."

Realizing that her weaknesses had been completely exploited by her opponent, the female knight decisively surrendered:

"Then let's stick with the profit split you mentioned before... When can the milk tea shop open?"

"Don't worry, it will be soon."

Yashilo's face now only showed the smile of a victor:

"If you're willing to stay in the capital for a few days this time..."

"I do need to stay in the capital for a few days."

Valensa nodded and said:

"The isolation zone has now been successfully established, so I don't need to keep an eye on the expeditionary force every day anymore... Moreover, the new academic year at the War Academy has started, and as the top student in the elite corps in my third year, I should make an appearance more often these few days."

"Then there's no problem~"

Yashilo snapped his fingers, then took out two glasses of chilled juice and lightly clinked them together with Valensa, using the juice instead of alcohol.

"The bubble tea shop will open by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. If you have time these next couple of days, feel free to come over anytime for a bubble tea and a break~"

"Then I'll look forward to it!"

. . . . .

While Valensa and Yahilo reached an agreement, some matters concerning the new trade route were also finalized at the royal palace.

The first issue, naturally, is the ownership of the new trade routes.

Although the new trade route was entirely conquered by Valensa and her group, they were all members of the French Expeditionary Force. Most of the spoils of war belonged to the state, so theoretically the Expeditionary Force did not have full ownership of the new trade route.

Although nobles could turn newly developed lands into their own fiefdoms, the area of ​​the new trade route far exceeded the upper limit of Valensa's fiefdom, and the Britannia family already had fiefdoms, so it was impossible for them to claim ownership of the new trade route.

So even though they knew the chances were slim, some nobles and ministers still suggested that the kingdom's government take control of the new trade routes... so that they could put their own people in and get a share of the profits.

If the expeditionary force really only consisted of Valensa and Tia, then the schemes of these nobles and ministers might actually succeed.

Fortunately, there was still Princess Yu.

Even if Princess Yu was useless before, she was still a direct descendant of the royal family and a first-class prince.

The rule that nobles can turn the land they have acquired into their own fiefdoms also applies to members of the royal family, and theoretically there is no upper limit to the size of a duke's fiefdom.

As the commander of the expeditionary force, Princess Yu could declare the entire new trade route her royal fiefdom.

However, if you really do that, you will indeed make a lot of money, but you will also offend everyone.

This is a new trade route... Even just collecting tolls would generate enough revenue to make the royal family envious... These tolls are essentially customs duties, and in theory, the customs duties of France must be controlled by the royal family.

So after some discussion, the division of toll fees for the new commercial route was settled.

Princess Yu, as the nominal owner of the new trade route, would receive half of the profits, while the remaining 3% of the toll would go to the royal family and 2% to the expeditionary force.

Of course, since the entire expeditionary force consisted of only 3 people, the 2% was actually given to Valensa and Tia.

This was a profit-sharing plan that the royal family could accept and suppress the objections of other ministers and nobles, but it was clearly not very fair to the greatest contributor to opening up new trade routes.

Fortunately, Princess Yu was quite sensible. She immediately contacted Valensa and Tia privately, saying that she would only keep 5% of her 1% share to support herself, and the remaining 4% would go to Valensa and Tia.

In other words, the distribution of toll fees on the new commercial route was actually as follows:

Valencia takes 6%, the royal family takes 3%, and Princess Eunuch takes 1%.

To be honest, Valensa was still a little dissatisfied... Originally, she wanted to get 7% of the toll, and at most give the royal family 2%.

Fortunately, the business plans that Yashilo came up with would bring Valensa more income, so the 1% toll was no big deal... just consider it as buying favor with the royal family.

The matter of the new business route was settled.

Suddenly transformed from a useless princess into the commander of an expeditionary force with an army of undead and a new trade route, Princess Yu's value skyrocketed overnight.

The young male nobles who had previously looked down on her suddenly began to pursue her with great fervor... Many nobles who knew Princess Jing's interests even had their daughters dress up in their finest clothes every day to cultivate a relationship with her.

The king and crown prince, who were previously worried that their daughter (sister) would not be able to get married, now refuse to marry off Princess Yu no matter what... Many nobles and ministers who went to the palace to propose marriage were brushed off with various excuses.

As for Princess Yu herself... for the first two days she felt quite good, having a great time with several noble ladies who took the initiative to throw themselves at her, as if she had returned to the days of her extravagant spending.

Gina didn't argue with her; she just left with the words, "Have fun," and went back to her hometown.

Three days later, Princess Yu realized that none of those scheming women who had ulterior motives towards her were good people, and that Gina was the most considerate. So she fled the palace that very night and went to Gina's hometown to sweet-talk her angry girlfriend.

The Sharon family, to which Gina belongs, originally did not think highly of Gina and Princess Jing... If Princess Jing weren't a princess after all, the Sharon family would have forcibly separated the two long ago.

But now... the Sharon family will only help Princess Yu persuade Gina to calm down. If they could get the two of them to settle their marriage, that would be even better.

However, since Gina agreed to date Princess Jing in the first place, she must have been very familiar with some of Princess Jing's old habits... She wasn't actually that angry at all.

So after a symbolic tiff back home, allowing Princess Yu to get acquainted with her family, and two days of fun in her own fiefdom, they returned to the underground ruins.

Princess Yu was, after all, the commander of the expeditionary force and the master of Frostmourne, and the undead legion could not leave her for long... After the new trade route was officially opened, she had to live in the underground ruins for a long time.

Valensa, however, did not return to the underground ruins and remained in the capital.

As she had told Yashiro before, she was now the top student in her third year at the War Academy. Even if she couldn't stay at the school for long because of the expeditionary force, she still had to show her face a few times, at least to let the new students get to know her.

So during this period, Valensa would basically go to the academy in the morning, have a cup of milk tea at a newly opened milk tea shop in the afternoon, and spend the night at Melina's place.

Tia also returned to the capital during this time, but she was busier than Valensa... In addition to needing to make an appearance at the academy as the top student, she also had many family affairs to handle.

The strategies and tactics that Tia devised in the trade route opening campaign seemed to satisfy the strategist.

Moreover, the Britannia family is too powerful now, and there's no use in hiding our abilities... In order to avoid becoming the target of everyone's criticism, the strategist plans to retire as soon as Tia graduates, so the things that were originally planned to be taught to Tia slowly over several years can now only be taught at a faster pace.

This level of busyness meant that even if Tia knew the secret of a certain bubble tea shop, she could only turn a blind eye to Valensa, and at most, she would take the opportunity to beat her up to vent her anger... although for Valensa, this was more like a reward.

That afternoon, Valensa once again walked out of the bubble tea shop feeling refreshed, stretching contentedly in the sunlight:

"Nora's milk tea is so delicious!"

buzz~

Just then, the leg ring inside Valensa's skirt vibrated twice, immediately attracting strange looks from several passersby.

Valensa ignored the stares, yawned, and quickly returned home. Only then did she open the community interface of the Dimensional Hardware Store terminal while drinking the black tea that Melina had brewed.

Sure enough, Wei sent her another message by replying to her status update.

[Company Boss's Wife: Aren't you busy right now, sis? Can you lend me a hand?]

[The serious female knight: Just had some milk tea, feeling quite energetic... So, tell me, who are we going to take down or what are we going to destroy this time?]

Valensa's breakthrough to the Radiant Rank of life evolution seems to have stirred up Vi's competitive spirit.

To achieve the same goal, Vi accelerated her plan to evolve into a nano-cluster life form. For the past few months, she has been leading the Arasaka Corporation's army in corporate warfare to seize the resources and technology she needs.

In that cyberpunk world, while Arasaka Corporation was a top-tier company, it wasn't the only one; it still had several formidable rivals.

Those companies also have elite troops and genius commanders. Even with the two cheat codes of the transmigrator's memories and the dimensional hardware store, it's not so easy for Wei to win. She often encounters some equally matched and outstanding opponents, or super fortresses that are difficult to conquer.

After all, that world is completely nuclear-free, and any force that uses nuclear weapons will become the enemy of the world and be wiped out by all the companies... Arasaka isn't that arrogant.

In this situation, if Vi wants to quickly eliminate her powerful enemies or capture certain fortresses, she can only turn to Valensa, a humanoid superweapon who has already advanced to the Radiant rank.

Previously, when Valensa was fighting back and forth with the wild beasts in the Wasteland, Vivi had already called her over to help twice... once to assassinate a genius commander from the opposing company, and once to obtain information from a heavily guarded research institute.

Two things that would be very difficult for a normal cyberpunk person were a piece of cake for Valensa.

The cyberpunk civilization, which had given up nuclear weapons, was powerless to stop the Radiant-rank powerhouses who had completed their full evolution. Valensa could come and go as she pleased there.

Assassination turned into a violent killing, and data theft became outright robbery, and all of them were successful.

[Company Boss's Wife: Milk tea? Why have you been going to drink milk tea so much lately...? Is the milk tea where you live really that good? Let me try it next time!]

[The serious female knight: That's not your average milk tea... Hmph, you'd better tell me what you need my help with this time.]

[Company Boss's Wife: Oh... this should be the last time I need your help in this company war... we're about to win! But precisely because of this, the opposing company has pulled out a really outrageous weapon, trying to rewrite the outcome... and we really don't have any solutions for the moment, so we can only rely on you, my friend.]

[Serious Female Knight: You were about to win when your opponent's secret weapon turned the tide? What kind of weapon is that powerful? Don't you have nuclear weapons on your side? Do you have other weapons of mass destruction?]

[The company boss's wife: It's not a weapon of mass destruction, it's a spaceship they sent into geosynchronous orbit! Our weapons have a hard time hitting that location, but they can use the spaceship to attack our facilities at will... My place was just hit by a space-based missile, and if I hadn't run fast enough, I would be dead.]

[Serious Female Knight: A spaceship, seriously... Don't you guys have any space weapons? Or could you shoot it down with a long-range missile?]

[The company owner's wife: Our company doesn't invest much in space projects, and we don't have any space stations or satellites that can be used for this kind of combat. As for ultra-long-range missiles... we've definitely tried them, but that space battleship's missile defense system is very powerful, and the missiles' hit rate is extremely low... unless nuclear warheads are used, the effect is very poor.]

[The serious female knight: Oh, I see... So how do you plan to get my help? I'm not capable of going to space by myself, am I?]

[The company boss's wife: Based on the previous two missile attacks, we've calculated that the effective range of that space battleship's close-in weapon system and interceptor missiles is about 10 kilometers. We plan to hide you inside a missile and launch you there... With your abilities, you should be able to force your way onto the ship from a distance of about 10 kilometers. After that, you can cause a huge disturbance and damage that space battleship.]

[The serious female knight: Launch me up there with a missile... emmm, you guys really know how to order people around, ladies.]

[Company Boss's Wife: Oh dear, please help me out again! I'll have more time to do that thing you asked me to do after the war is over, right?]

[The serious female knight: Alright, alright... I've never been in the sky in either of my lives, so I'll just experience it a little this time... When do we go?]

[Company Boss's Wife: Is it okay now?]

[The proper female knight: Okay.]

Soon, Valencia's dimensional hardware store membership terminal, which resembled a leg ring, vibrated again, and a pop-up window appeared in front of her asking whether she should accept Wei's friend's summons.

Select OK.

The surroundings immediately transformed into a bizarre and familiar scene. A few seconds later, the view of the room completely disappeared from Valensa's side, turning into a military base filled with various mechanical noises—a large missile launch site, no less.

"Hey over here, sis!"

With only half an hour to spare, Vivi, dressed in a crop top and hot pants, didn't waste any words. She waved and led Valensa to a missile about 19 meters long, and opened the manned cabin located under the warhead.

The cabin wasn't large, but it looked quite comfortable, with soft bedding and even two cute girl body pillows.

Valensa glanced at Vi with amusement, then lay down without saying anything. She then hugged one of the cushions with her left arm and took out a long, rectangular crystal box from the storage space of the artifact cloak with her right hand, handing it to Vi.

"This is?"

Wei looked at it curiously for a few moments and discovered that it was a very strange red sticker inside.

"A sacrificial offering that can absorb the power of faith."

Valensa explained simply:

"It can store that power, and then every month when I come here or you go there, I can absorb the power of faith from it."

"OK, got it."

Wei immediately looked enlightened and carefully put the crystal box away.

Although Valensa and Vie are friends with other transmigrators, even sisters need to keep things clear. A friendship based on one-sided effort is destined not to last, and Vie understands this principle.

Vivi originally intended to pay Valensa's commission for participating in the war with a large amount of technological weaponry, but Valensa refused after a moment's hesitation.

Valensa was still envious of the fact that a certain sticker could negate a mysterious and powerful force, and when Friedeja told her about a way that might be able to reproduce that power, she naturally wanted to try it.

So Valensa asked Vivi to find a way to create a cult in the cyberpunk world that believed in 'absolute science' to gather faith power for the revival of stickers.

Wei naturally wouldn't refuse... Anyway, there are already many cults in the cyberpunk world, and many of them are a means for large corporations to control order... The Arasaka Corporation already controls several cults, so one more won't make a difference.