The story of the black silk female knight

"it is good."

Without hesitation, Valensa tossed the stone in her hand upwards again.

"Ok?"

Sure enough, without Tia's explanation, Valensa sensed that something was wrong.

The stone flew up to almost the same height as the first time, but its falling speed was much faster, almost five times faster than the first time.

This phenomenon itself is not strange. It can be done with the most basic earth magic, and wind magic should be able to as well. There are even more ways to do it with higher-level magic.

But regardless of the spell, once the falling speed of the stone is increased, its kinetic energy should also increase... After all, the mass of the stone has not changed, and kinetic energy equals mass multiplied by speed.

With Valencia's keen sense of touch, she could clearly feel the change in the kinetic energy of even a small stone that had just fallen.

The problem is that the stone fell at almost five times the speed of the first time, yet its kinetic energy was exactly the same, which is somewhat unreasonable.

The mass and kinetic energy remained the same, only the speed changed... Considering that Tia said it was a time-related trick, the answer is obvious.

"Time acceleration? Darling, you just accelerated the time of this stone?"

Valensa asked, somewhat excitedly.

"Hmm...it's not really time acceleration, is it?"

Tia frowned, seemingly unsure how to express it accurately:

"True time acceleration is a Radiant-rank spell, which I can't use right now... I can't even accelerate such a small stone."

What I just used was actually a clever trick... Just like how the Linking Arcane connects two locations and acts as a form of teleportation, I simply connected that little stone directly to its future, about a second from now, saving it the time of falling for that one second.

This phenomenon may seem similar to time acceleration, but to be precise, it would be more accurate to call it time jump or time deletion.

However, for now I can only interfere with objects as large as small stones. To truly utilize this technique in combat, I'll probably need to advance to the Radiant rank.

"That's already amazing! This is a time-based ability!"

Seeing that Tia seemed a little frustrated as she spoke, Valensa quickly comforted her:

"As for advancing to the Radiant Rank, it certainly won't be difficult for you, my dear... You are already a very powerful magical genius, and you possess the strengths of many schools, so advancing is only a matter of time."

Anyway, there's still about two weeks until graduation, and I'll be free during that time, so I can spend time with you, my dear, training diligently... Whether it's high-intensity sparring or replenishing mana, it's fine. Who knows, maybe you'll suddenly advance in rank? Judging from your magical power and knowledge accumulation, you should already be considered a peak spellcaster at the Lighthouse level, right?"

“…What you said is indeed true, but my practical experience is far inferior to yours, and advancing to the Radiant Rank requires a lot of preparation; it’s not that simple.” Tia shook her head with a wry smile.

A spellcaster's spiritual advancement generally requires progress in three aspects simultaneously.

The first method is to increase the intensity of magic power. The main methods are usually through deep meditation or by quickly replenishing magic power after it has been depleted.

Tia was a magical genius with extremely high meditation efficiency. In addition, she frequently used remote teleportation to deplete her magic power so that Valensa could replenish it, which caused her magic power to increase rapidly... She reached the maximum magic power level in less than a year after entering the Lighthouse.

The second is theoretical knowledge of magic... which is not a problem for Tia.

The Bretania family already has a complete lineage of spellcasters, and Tia is also the prized student of the seventh seat of the Sage Council. Now she has even received guidance from the witch... In terms of theoretical knowledge alone, Tia is no less than a Radiant-rank spellcaster.

However, Tia is lacking in the third aspect – practical experience, or rather, the spellcaster's proficiency with their own spells.

In this respect, spellcasters and warriors are actually the same... Repeating the same thing a thousand times in the training ground is not as effective as actually defeating a strong enemy of the same level in real combat.

As a spellcaster who should be versatile, Tia is currently severely unbalanced... She is only quite proficient in teleportation spells that link space, while her proficiency in other combat spells is still far from sufficient.

Of course, for Tia to have reached this level in less than two years since joining the Lighthouse is already quite impressive; she is definitely a super genius.

Unfortunately, the people around her were too overpowered.

With her innate bloodline as an evil god and the unparalleled favor of the Sun Goddess, Valensa completed in just 6 years a journey that a normal human cultivator might not be able to finish in 60 years.

This speed of becoming stronger is beyond the reach of human geniuses... Humans have limits, and unless they can obtain the power of time, even geniuses cannot keep up with this speed.

Valensa understood these principles, but she was relatively optimistic... Since Tia currently lacked practical experience, wouldn't it be better to let her participate in some practical combat over the next two weeks?

Considering the rampant cults causing trouble throughout Fran, Valensa, as a future Inner Templar Knight, felt she should contribute. She decided to take Tia on several expeditions to exterminate the cults, giving Tia some experience... With her, the Holy Knight of the Evil Cult, by her side, what trouble could these mere cultists possibly cause?

"correct."

Valensa was just figuring out what to do with her free time for the next two weeks when Tia suddenly gave her a strange look and said:

"Do you remember Vincent, the 11th seat of the Council of Sages? He's the guy who kept asking me about you, and you suspected he had ulterior motives."

"Of course I remember... I hope he won't make things difficult for you again this time?"

Valensa immediately stopped her wandering thoughts and asked with concern.

"No, he no longer has the chance to make things difficult for me."

Tia's expression became even stranger:

"I only heard about it from a senior brother after I woke up from deep meditation and was preparing to come back... It seems that the guy defected from the Sage's Tower and he has disappeared."

"Defected? Disappeared?"

Valensa's eyes widened in surprise:

"Why? What bad thing did he do that the Sage's Tower discovered?"

"do not know."

Tia shook her head:

"According to that senior brother, Vincent disappeared suddenly without any warning, and it was not discovered until many days later... It was at the regular monthly meeting of the top 20 members of the Sage Council that the other sages noticed Vincent's unexplained absence and sent their apprentices to look for him, only to find that he had disappeared."

"Can it still be like this?"

Valensa was stunned.

A top 20 sage just vanished without a trace, and the others only realized something was wrong during the routine monthly meeting... How could the internal management of the Sage Tower be so lax?

"What about his apprentices and confidants?"

Valensa then asked:

"And what about all his other properties in America?"

“Some of his apprentices are still alive and know nothing about his disappearance, but those who were close to him also disappeared.”

Tia shrugged:

"As for his properties in America... they are basically deserted, and some have long been sold to others for money."

"Ah... then it seems his disappearance was premeditated."

Valensa thought for a moment and said:

"He must have done something terrible that would get him killed by the Sage's Tower if exposed... and he's probably already shown some flaws, so it's best for him to leave now. Has the Sage's Tower found out what he did yet?"

"I don't know. I heard that the Sage Tower is still conducting an internal investigation."

Tia shook her head:

"The only thing we can be sure of right now is that when Vincent ran away, he took a batch of very valuable research materials from the Sage Tower with him... but I can't find out exactly what they were."

"That's it..."

Valensa hesitated for a moment:

"Anyway, it's always better to be cautious. I'll go and give the church a heads-up and ask the paladins in various places to keep a close eye on any suspicious entities that may resemble Vincent's gang."

"fair enough."

Tia did not object.

After discussing these matters, the two ate a meal cooked by Melina at home, and then went directly to the underground ruins that night.

Tia wanted to ask Friggia for more advice on time magic, while Valensa wanted Friggia to try planting dragon-slaying grass, or to keep an eye on the new trade route.

During this period, the new trade route has been without any problems, and the wild beasts seem to have given up completely, not launching another attack.

As a result, a great deal of gold coins flowed into Valensa's pockets. Valensa did not break her promise to Frieda and purchased a lot of research equipment and materials for Frieda to conduct research to bring the ancient Eve people back to life.

Being able to continue fulfilling her wish made Friggia quite happy, and she readily granted Valensa and Tia's requests.

First, there were some questions Tia had about practicing time magic.

In this regard, Friggia couldn't be of much help either... Although she was close to being pseudo-omniscient and pseudo-omnipotent back then, the mysteries of time were precisely the area she hadn't been able to understand in depth.

However, the Eve people, during the height of their civilization, did conduct some research on time and even attempted to build a time machine... although they ultimately failed.

These scientific findings about time are still stored as pure knowledge in Friggia's mind, and she has compiled all of this knowledge and given it to Tia.

Although these are basically scientific studies and understandings of time, science and mystery can complement each other to a certain extent, and Tia is a very talented person, so she may be able to gain inspiration from these scientific studies.

In fact, Tia was quite interested in this kind of knowledge... Having been dragged into video games by Valensa, she was already quite familiar with the concept of science.

In order to understand the knowledge that Friggia gave her, Tia even asked Valensa to get some basic science textbooks from Mai Asakura and Vie respectively to help her understand.

Valensa's plan to grow dragon-slaying grass didn't go so smoothly.

After personally examining the Dragon Slayer Grass and conducting some experiments, Friggia reached a conclusion similar to that of the Sage's Tower—the Dragon Slayer Grass was not a plant of this world; it should have grown in the negative space.

In other words, it is impossible to grow Dragon Slayer Grass in this world using normal methods; there are only two ways to grow it.

One option is for Valensa to personally provide the Dragon Slayer Grass with negative energy so that it can absorb and grow... But this would be putting the cart before the horse. Valensa's purpose in planting the Dragon Slayer Grass is to consume and absorb negative energy, so it would be completely meaningless for her to provide energy in return.

Secondly, just like the reason why dragon-slaying grass grows near that small mountain village—large-scale blood sacrifices through cult rituals can artificially create an environment suitable for growing dragon-slaying grass.

But this is even worse... As an Inner Templar Knight, using a heretical blood sacrifice for power would get Valensa's buttocks beaten to a pulp by the Sun Goddess.

Therefore, Valensa had to give up on planting the Dragon Slayer Grass.

To prevent herself from making a mistake in the future due to temptation, Valensa decisively ate the two dragon-slaying herbs as well, leaving no lingering thoughts.

After spending two days at the underground ruins and telling Princess Yu and Suzuran about their trip to the Witch's Forest, Valensa and Tia returned to the capital of Fran.

Valensa told Tia about her previous plan, and Tia agreed.

In the last two weeks before graduating from the War Academy, they planned to participate in several more Sun Church operations against cults, giving Tia more practical combat experience.

Apart from established cults like the Yuanling Society, most cults are actually not very strong. A whole cult organization may only have one or two Yao-level experts, and many cult organizations don't even have one or two.

However, this does not mean that cults are easy to deal with, because almost every cult has a set of powerful sacrificial methods. They can temporarily obtain the power of evil gods by using various bloody and cruel rituals. After undergoing such rituals, even a Pearl-level cult member may be able to rival a Star-level member for a short period of time.

Therefore, after countless bloody lessons, all localities are very cautious about cults. They will no longer send city defense troops, police forces, or adventurers directly to fight for credit. Instead, they will report any clues to the Sun Church as soon as possible.

The Church of the Sun has very strict regulations for exterminating cults. Unless it is an accidental encounter, each extermination team will consist of more than 12 formal paladins, and at least one of them must be a Radiant Paladin captain.

However, not every human settlement has a captain of the Radiant Rank Paladin. They are usually only found in large cities like the provincial capital of Valensa's previous life. Even in the capital of Fran, there are only two captains of the Radiant Rank Paladin: Lika and Fran. Fran was promoted later.

In the past year or so, due to what appears to be deliberate sabotage by the Sinful Angels, the incidence of cult incidents in various parts of Fran has been almost 20 times higher than normal, making the already short-staffed paladins of the Sun Church even busier.

For example, Fran has hardly had any rest since her promotion. Many times, she has just finished one mission and hasn't even had time to come back and submit a report when the next mission is issued. She has to rush to the next mission location without stopping.

Valensa often wanted to play with the little bat and chat with Fran before going to bed, but the little bat was always dizzy and listless... Fran had to seize every opportunity to rest and had no time or energy to chat with Valensa.

Now that Valencia is also willing to carry out the mission of exterminating the cult, the members of the Sun Church in the capital of Fran are naturally very happy.

According to the rules, Valencia should also receive at least 11 paladin subordinates to form a crusade, but unfortunately, the paladins are currently short-handed, and the Church of the Sun simply cannot spare any more men.

Valensa then suggested that she take Tia alone, and the Church of the Sun in the capital of Fran agreed after a brief discussion.

For other paladins, even those of the Radiant rank, dealing with a cult alone is very dangerous.

Valenza was the only exception.

She is an evil god whose bloodline has been awakened, making her immune to all evil spells and able to use the Evil-Slaying Slash to inflict double damage on cultists... For her, beating cultists is like a father beating his son... no, it's even easier than a grandfather beating his grandson.

Indeed, Valensa and Tia were extremely efficient at completing their missions, often traveling to several locations and dealing with several groups of cultists in a single day.

Under the perception of the evil god's shared power, no matter how the cultists disguised themselves, they had nowhere to hide in front of Valensa and could only come out to be beaten.

And they're even less likely to win in a fight... Even if they were to sacrifice their own flesh and soul in a desperate attempt, it would be completely useless.

Because Valensa herself is an evil god, the sacrifices that cultists make with their own souls will be intercepted by Valensa... Normally, these would be the cultists' ultimate move to fight to the death, but when facing Valensa, they become a suicide technique.

In fact, if Valensa hadn't wanted to give Tia more opportunities for real combat, she would have been even more efficient at eliminating the cultists herself.

Tia didn't waste this opportunity. During the day, she followed Valensa to fight cults, practicing against cult members of similar strength to quickly gain practical experience. At night, she diligently studied the information from the Sage's Tower and the knowledge given to her by Friggia, further deepening her theoretical understanding of time.

Chapter 49 Graduation Trip Begins

With a wealth of theoretical knowledge to guide her, and numerous cult members generously offering their lives as sparring partners, Tia's growth was rapid.

At first, when Tia fought against cultists of the same level, Valensa had to watch over her. Several times, she almost lost because of her lack of practical experience... After all, many cultists' bizarre and desperate methods were quite effective at killing on first sight.