The story of the black silk female knight

At a distance of approximately 500 meters in a straight line from the merchant ship and an altitude of over 300 meters, Valensa's hand-crafted thermobaric bomb collided violently with the giant acid ball.

The deafening explosion was so powerful that even the Imperial Guards, who had been so skilled and adept at fighting the monsters, couldn't stand firmly on the deck. The blast sent up a giant wave dozens of meters high, crashing against the merchant ship and washing the deck thoroughly, soaking almost everyone's clothes.

But the captain paid no attention to the situation on deck; instead, he shouted orders at the top of his lungs:

"Activate the shield! Quickly! Maximum power!"

Because the real danger and deadly attack will only come after the explosion causes a huge roar, shockwave, and giant waves.

Valensa's hand-crafted thermobaric bomb managed to shatter the giant acid ball, but since the acid ball was a charged attack from a Radiant-rank monster, the Blazing Evil Light Bomb couldn't evaporate all the acid directly. A significant amount of acid was simply blasted to a higher position, about to fall as raindrops.

Sure enough, shortly after the merchant ship activated its water-attribute shield, a torrential rain of acid covering an area of ​​hundreds of meters poured down.

This rain of acid, in terms of sheer power, seemed less imposing than the magical baptism of the previous group of demons, but its power was far greater.

The merchant ship's shield, which had easily withstood the spell, couldn't even last half a minute before being completely pierced by the powerful corrosive force of the acid, leaving it riddled with small holes, like a door panel riddled with bullets from a submachine gun.

The droplet-shaped acid that passed through the water-attribute shield landed on the deck, immediately causing a chorus of groans... Those with the ability could dodge or use a magical shield to block it a second time, but those without the ability were doomed if they got the acid on them.

If you're lucky, the acid will corrode and melt your hands and feet within seconds. If you're unlucky and the acid gets dripped on your head, there's no saving you.

Even the deck itself was pitted and corroded by the acid, many cannons were damaged, and the entire merchant ship looked unrecognizable.

This is just the power of a shower of acid that was blasted apart. If that huge ball of acid had hit the merchant ship directly, it would have definitely pierced a hole 20 meters in diameter, and sinking would have been unavoidable.

Fortunately, this was the only wave of acid rain that was blown up; once we got through it, everything was fine.

At the same time, Valencia, who had just jumped out and conjured a thermobaric bomb to withstand the acid ball, crawled out from a pile of rubble on the deck... She was immediately blasted back from mid-air by the thermobaric bomb she had conjured.

The silver-white paladin armor was corroded beyond recognition, and the black pantyhose on her legs were riddled with holes from being burned by high temperatures or corroded by acid, almost completely gone... She looked like a defeated CG from a female knight-themed eroge.

However, Valensa herself was unharmed. Moreover, the armor she wore was essentially made of divine particles, and the black stockings were woven from the energy of the earring "Heart of Stockings." No matter how severe the damage, it could be restored with a single click by spending energy to repair it.

With each step Valensa took out of the ruins, her armor and black stockings were repaired a little. By the time she had completely walked out of the ruins and reached the edge of the deck, she had transformed back into the dashing paladin in silver armor, a short skirt, black stockings, and combat boots.

"Be careful, if you encounter any more danger, follow Tia and teleport away. I'm going to deal with that bastard who ambushed us earlier."

After confirming that her friends on deck had not been harmed by the acid rain, Valensa gave them a few instructions and, like Mr. Sakura, jumped off the deck.

However, Valensa wasn't as good a swimmer as Mr. Sakura. She wasn't a fast swimmer, so she could only imitate the Flash, running at supersonic speed on the water's surface as she rushed towards the monster that had just launched the acid ball.

Valensa had already spotted the monster. It was 10 kilometers away from the merchant ship, and even after launching an acid ball, it didn't leave, remaining in the same spot... It was unclear whether it was waiting for an opportunity or gathering strength for a second attack.

But no matter what, they couldn't just leave it alone, so Valensa chose to jump out of the merchant ship camp... If they waited for the monster to get close before fighting it, the aftershocks of the two Radiant-ranked warriors fighting at full strength would easily capsize the merchant ship, and the battle itself would be meaningless.

Running at at least three times the speed of sound on water, Valensa quickly reached the monster and saw its full form.

The shape of this monster was rather strange; when Valensa saw it, she couldn't even quickly determine whether it was aquatic or insect.

Its head looks like a crab, with two huge claws.

Its body resembles a centipede, reaching nearly a hundred meters in length, with limbs on both sides resembling insect legs. The tips of these insect legs have the structure of a duck's foot, allowing it to swim quickly in the water.

Its tail, like a scorpion's tail, is raised high. The tip of the tail not only points in the same direction as the head, but it also has a large, round mouth that looks like a death worm. Inside the mouth are interlocking sharp teeth that can easily tear apart anything it eats.

Now, its mouth at the tip of its tail is pointing upwards at a distance, with a large amount of highly corrosive acid compressed and gathered in its mouth, clearly indicating that it intends to launch a second long-range projectile attack on the merchant ship.

Valensa certainly couldn't let the second acid ball be launched... There were no Radiant-rank experts on the merchant ship now, and if it took this acid ball, it would undoubtedly sink.

In an instant, the Noble Phantasm Rikka transformed into six floating cannons that took off from Valensa's right arm and arrived near the tip of the monster's tail, unleashing a barrage of sunbeams that scorched the tip of the monster's tail with intensely hot sunbeams.

Unfortunately, pure Yang Flame Divine Power doesn't explode; Valensa's attack was somewhat like using a high-powered laser to boil water.

The acid that gathered in the monster's mouth at the tip of its tail boiled and evaporated almost instantly, but the evaporation rate was not as fast as the monster's gathering rate, so the acid ball would still be launched at this rate.

Valenza then tried to jump up and use her Sunfire Divine Art to finish her off, but the crab part of the monster's head certainly wouldn't just stand by and watch; its two large crab claws immediately clamped down on Valenza.

The crab claws looked rather clumsy, but they were actually quite agile and fast. Each attack even left an afterimage, suppressing Valensa and giving her no chance to jump and attack the monster's tail.

Seeing that the second giant acid ball was already taking shape in the mouth of the monster's tail tip, enduring the constant evaporation from the sunbeams, Valensa had no choice but to unleash her ultimate attack to protect the merchant ship in the distance.

"Field, expand!"

The surrounding environment changed instantly. It was still the boundless sea, but the merchant ships that could be vaguely seen in the distance had completely disappeared. The sun hanging in the sky suddenly became much brighter, while the dark and chaotic abyss in the middle of the sea swallowed everything.

Moo!

The monster clearly hadn't expected a two-legged creature to be able to use a domain. Unable to attack the merchant ship any longer, it let out a bellow in frustration, and then the acid in the tip of its tail exploded on its own.

Bang!

The scattered acid rained down, quickly turning the seawater green, as if it were turning the entire space into an acidic environment.

Valensa was initially startled, thinking that her inner sea had been contaminated by acid.

She breathed a sigh of relief after carefully sensing it... Her mind was still crystal clear. The current phenomenon was that this monster had also activated its domain, trying to cover and erode Valensa's domain.

Having your territory forcibly covered is a terrible feeling, and playing away in the opponent's territory is even more dangerous.

Seeing that the monster had stopped waving its giant crab claws and was focusing on controlling its domain, Valensa also chose to concentrate her main efforts on fighting back through her domain.

The effect is that the deep whirlpool in the center of the ocean suddenly increases in strength, swallowing up all the acid that has stained the seawater green, and gradually turning the seawater back to its azure blue.

Moo!

Upon seeing this, the monster let out another bellow, and more acid gushed out like a fountain from the tip of its vertically pointing tail, accelerating the rate at which the acid turned the seawater green, transforming this area once again from ocean space into acid space.

Valensa then increased her power, making the abyss vortex suck even faster... Just like the masters in her previous life's martial arts novels competing in internal energy, she and this monster completely entered a state of mutual confrontation using their domains.

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On the other side, on the merchant ship.

After confirming that Valencia had successfully forced the attacking monsters to deploy their domains from a distance, the captain immediately ordered the wounded to be treated and the deck to be tidied up, and to prepare for the next round of battle.

His intuition, honed by years of seafaring experience, told him that the attack wouldn't end so easily... and that they might have to abandon the ship this time.

Actually, even without him saying it, about a third of the passengers on the ship had already abandoned their cargo and chosen to escape using teleportation scrolls, while the rest planned to continue to observe... As long as Mr. Sakura and Valensa could defeat their opponents, they could still continue to follow this ship.

Fortunately, although the acid rain just now injured many people on the deck, the water-attribute shield still played a significant role... Not many people actually died or completely lost their fighting ability, and more than 170 of the Imperial Household Guards were still able to fight.

With the addition of more than twenty passengers who also maintained their combat capabilities and appeared to be significantly stronger than the Imperial Family's guards, there shouldn't be any major problems as long as they don't encounter a third Radiant-rank monster.

As it turned out, the captain's premonition was correct. About four minutes after Valencia's territory battle began, new enemies appeared on the water and immediately launched a volley of spells.

Unlike the chaotic and disorderly spells thrown by the monsters earlier, the newly appearing spell attacks were not much stronger in power than those monsters, but they were quite orderly and disciplined, like an army's attack.

In fact, the attack was carried out by an army, a regular army of an aquatic race.

"The Sailian Clan?"

Looking at the humanoid creatures wielding spears or staffs on the water, the captain's face turned extremely ugly, and he even shouted in exasperation:

"What do you want? Don't forget you signed an agreement with us humans! Do you intend to unilaterally break the agreement and start a war?"

Chapter 52 Yang Yan breaks through

The Seren race is a type of humanoid intelligent life form on the continent of Frenoia.

With a human upper body and a fish lower body, they resemble the siren from Valencia's previous life in mythology. The entire race has no males, is oviparous, and has reproductive isolation from humans, elves, vampires, and succubi, but can produce hybrid offspring with dragons.

When the Sailian tribe and humans first came into contact, there were quite a few frictions.

The Seren army attacked human ships and plundered human property, and humans also captured Seren people as toys and ornamental fish.

Fortunately, both sides are intelligent life forms and can communicate and negotiate. More importantly, the Seren race lives on the seabed and is also seriously threatened by the Fog Demon.

The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend, but we can form an alliance to avoid unnecessary losses.

So after a series of negotiations, the Seren race finally signed a friendly treaty with humans and, with the introduction of humans, joined the Intelligent Life Alliance of the Frenoia continent.

Although there wasn't much contact between the Fran and the Seren tribe afterward, the Four Islands Alliance and the Seren tribe maintained close relations. They not only traded but also joined forces to fight the Mist Demon on several occasions.

The captain of this Ditang family merchant ship is an old captain with nearly 30 years of sailing experience, and naturally he has also dealt with the Sailian tribe.

He was rescued by the Sailen tribe when he was in distress at sea, and he also rescued Sailen people who had been captured by poachers.

If it weren't for the reproductive isolation between humans and the Seren race, the captain might have had a Seren wife.

Now, a regular army of about 100 Sailian soldiers has attacked the merchant ship. The captain is naturally very upset and his first reaction is not to order a counterattack but to question the other side.

However, the Seren tribe clearly didn't want to pay attention to the captain. Not only did they not respond to his questions, they also focused their attention on him by firing a volley of ice arrows at him.

Fortunately, Tia and Chiba were standing not far from the captain. Chiba quickly pulled the captain away, while Tia immediately set up a portal in front of her.

Most of the ice arrows aimed at the captain went into the portal, and then a new portal opened above the Sirens, allowing their own ice arrows to rain down on them.

The Seren tribe clearly hadn't expected there to be someone on the ship skilled in spatial techniques. Caught off guard, several Seren tribesmen died instantly, their heads pierced directly through by ice arrows, red blood and pale yellow brain matter flowing out together, their still pretty faces contorted in pain.

Now peace was no longer an option for either side, and the fighting officially began.

The Seren tribe knew very well that they couldn't defeat the humans once they were on the ship, so they only used ranged spells such as ice arrows to attack from the water.

If the merchant ship's own magical shield were still intact, it would naturally be unafraid of this level of magical attack. Unfortunately, the merchant ship's magical shield had just been corroded and pierced by the acid rain and could not be repaired in a short time. The people on the deck could only rely on their own abilities to deal with the magical attacks of the Seren race.

The Imperial Household's guards could only rely on their armor and aura to withstand the attacks, while simultaneously firing crossbows and magic needle guns into the water.

However, the Seren clan also possessed magical shields, which were difficult for ordinary ranged weapons to penetrate. The guards of the Imperial Household suffered casualties one after another, falling one after another.

The other guests on deck were stronger, including three lighthouse-level spellcasters who could use magic to support others and effectively kill the Sirens.

However, these skilled individual travelers were too few in number. Faced with the coordinated attacks of hundreds of Sailian tribe members, who were as well-coordinated as an army, their effectiveness was ultimately limited, and they were quickly suppressed.

The only one who stood out was Tia.

Regardless of what kind of magic the Serenians used to attack, Tia used two connected portals to constantly change positions to defend herself, returning all the magical attacks in one fell swoop. In particular, the portal responsible for the attack appeared in very tricky positions each time, making it impossible for the Serenians to defend against it.

After several rounds of frost arrows, only a dozen or so guards of the Imperial Family were killed, while nearly 30 members of the Seren Clan were killed by Tia using a teleportation portal... They were all killed by their own people's spells from tricky angles, and their faces were full of resentment.

The Seren clan members gritted their teeth in anger, their gazes towards Tia so intense they seemed ready to leap onto the deck and devour her, but the Seren clan members didn't dare to come up... The Imperial Palace guards were also seething with rage; if the Seren clan members dared to go up on the deck, it was uncertain who would be devoured.

So the Seren tribe simply changed their spell; instead of conjuring ice arrows by hand, they suddenly began singing like a choir.

The singing was ethereal and melodious, yet carried a hint of ambiguity and eeriness.

Tia and Chiba didn't feel anything, but the guards of the Imperial Household reacted strongly.

"Hehe, little beauty, hehe, your big brother is here (?﹃?)!"

They were like infatuated lovers, their eyes shining and drooling. They threw away their weapons and took off their armor and jumped into the water, only to be stabbed to death by the Sailian tribe with spears.

Almost all the men on the deck were gradually seduced by the singing. Even the captain straightened his back and wanted to take off his pants, but was knocked unconscious by the decisive Chiba Grass with a slap on the back of the head.

Many of the ordinary people who had already taken refuge in the cabins followed the Imperial Family guards and jumped into the sea. Only the women were unaffected, but unfortunately there were not many women on the deck who could fight.

Almost all the men succumbed to the allure of the Seren tribe's songs, except for two.

It's Giroud and Harry.

They were initially affected by the singing, but they just swayed and returned to normal.

Because they had already been ensnared by Melody's permanent charm spell called love, and those who have been charmed cannot be charmed again.

The Siren tribe's Enchanting Song attack also inspired Melody.

The fact that the Seren race can charm humans indicates that their aesthetic values ​​are similar, so humans can naturally charm the Seren race as well.

The auditory allure of the Seren tribe's songs is powerful, but Meludy's allure, combined with light hypnosis, is by no means weak, and it just so happens to be a bright and sunny afternoon!

So Meludy immediately stood on the edge of the deck and began to dance, where all the Serenians could see her clearly.

The fiery figure encased in a white silk bodysuit became increasingly alluring with each dance move, the diamond fragments embedded in the garment shimmering brilliantly in the sunlight, their rhythmic light capable of influencing the brains of all humanoid beings.

Soon, some of the Serenians also entered the bewitched state, stopped singing, threw away their staffs, and leaped high into the air with their fish tails slapping the water's surface, jumping to Melody's side and trying to lick her feet.

Snapped!

Without hesitation, Gil, who had been guarding Melody's side, raised his greatsword and unleashed a ruthless attack, smashing the Seren tribe member who had jumped onto the deck into mermaid sauce.

Once there's a first, there's a second; both sides' charm skills remain in effect.

Men on the deck kept jumping into the sea and being stabbed to death by the Seren tribe's spears, while Seren tribesmen themselves kept jumping onto the deck and being slaughtered by humans.

Soon, some of the Siren realized the threat posed by Meludy and tried to use magic to target her, but all the targeted spells were blocked by Tia... Many of the projectile-based targeted spells were even sent back through the portal, causing even more Siren to die.

Moreover, as the battle against the charm spells continued, Tia discovered the secret of the Siren Clan's Charm Song from the overall flow of magic within the Siren Clan.

This song may seem to be sung by every Seren, but in reality, most Serens are just providing backing vocals, and there are very few lead singers who play a key role, less than 10.

Thus, Thousand Leaf Grass had a chance to shine. She coated the dagger Valensa had given her with two kinds of deadly poisons that could kill fish instantly, and then quietly jumped off the ship. Under Tia's covert command, she locked onto the lead singer of the Serenian Enchantment Song one by one.

Soon, a Sailian tribe lead singer inexplicably developed a cut on her neck, spurting blood. Her companions quickly used water magic to heal her, but it was too late.