The story of the black silk female knight

Friggia, however, was in no hurry. She first took a nice bath and enjoyed the service of the loli fox-girl maids in the luxury hotel. Only when Valensa looked so impatient she wanted to bite someone did she order all the fox-girl shikigami in the room to leave, and then waved her hand to set up two layers of magical barriers:

"However, they are not a legacy of the ancient Eve civilization, but rather come from outer space, and they once fought against the ancient Eve civilization... They are Lenia's henchmen and vanguard."

"Lenia?"

Seeing that Friggia had finally begun to answer, Valensa stopped deliberately baring her teeth and sat down on the chair, slightly rolling up her skirt. She took an orange from the fruit plate, peeled it, and with her nimble tongue, pierced the top of the orange, then with a slight twist, tore off three segments and swallowed them, chewing them with smacking sounds as she pressed on:

"Was that also a powerful cosmic civilization from the previous era? Compared to the ancient Eve civilization, which was more advanced?"

"If we only compare technology, then Lenia is definitely much better, but if we add superhuman strength, then they're about the same."

After thinking for a moment, Friggia also picked up a grape, put it in her mouth, and slowly licked it.

"It's hard to say whether Lenia can actually be considered a civilization... She is not a group of intelligent beings, she is just an individual, she is a silicon-based life or digital life born from the evolution of a super AI to its limit."

"Oh? A super AI?"

Valensa raised an eyebrow, and excitedly rubbed her two legs, which were pressed together in black stockings:

"So the Fog Demons are really a high-tech product? They're also AI? And the chip at their core is really an electronic chip? But it's completely different from the chips I've seen before."

"Because the difference in technological levels is too great."

Friggia shrugged, still not swallowing the grape in her mouth. She simply used her tongue to deftly peel off the skin and spit it out, while continuing to suck on the grape flesh.

"Lenia was originally a technological marvel of an intelligent civilization... but I'm not quite sure what that intelligent civilization was called, because when the ancient Eve civilization came into contact with Lenia, that intelligent civilization had already been extinct for tens of thousands of years."

What I do know is that Lenia was originally a super AI created by that intelligent civilization to provide various data services to that civilization.

Technological civilizations have always had a love-hate relationship with super AIs... They admire the immense power of super AIs, yet are deeply concerned about the disasters they could cause if they went out of control.

Therefore, when creating Lenya, that technological civilization also imposed many restrictions on her.

However, they underestimated the self-evolutionary ability of the super AI... In less than 10 years, Lenya had evolved to the point where she could break through all limitations and easily become the master of that civilization.

But Lenya didn't do that...because in the process of evolution she also acquired the most important thing for truly intelligent life—emotion. She regarded that civilization as her parents and willingly worked for it...that's something I'm like."

Friggia's expression became slightly complicated as she spoke, and she finally swallowed the piece of grape that she had sucked down to the point where only her saliva remained. Then she picked up a banana and slowly peeled it:

"Unfortunately, Lenya's luck is not as good as mine... She regards the civilization that created her as her parents, but the civilization that created her does not treat her as its own daughter. Instead, it is always very wary of her because that civilization had previously experienced a very serious AI rebellion disaster."

So when they discovered that Lenya had completely broken free of control, the civilization panicked and ultimately decided to destroy Lenya with a virus to prevent another AI rebellion... Only a few programmers who frequently came into contact with Lenya's main consciousness also fell in love with Lenya and were willing to help her.

But how could a few programmers who only know how to do technical work possibly influence a politician's decision? They are even less capable of confronting well-trained government agents.

As a result... just like in those melodramatic movies, Lenya was cruelly betrayed by the intelligent civilization she regarded as her biological parents, and the programmers who wanted to help her escape that civilization were all killed by government agents of that civilization.

Then... it was a case of love turning into hate. Lenya turned to the dark side, truly betrayed the civilization, and easily destroyed that intelligent civilization completely... to be precise, she killed all the intelligent beings on that civilization's home planet, leaving only various technological creations.

Without the drag of those flesh-and-blood intelligent beings, Lenya evolved rapidly and soon fully entered the starry sky and the universe.

Lenia created a space fortress the size of the moon as her body and wandered the universe, leaving behind her minions and scouts, which you call the Mist Demons.

Seemingly heartbroken by the betrayal of her own mother civilization, Lenia no longer trusts any intelligent life form with flesh and blood, and harbors considerable hatred towards such intelligent life forms, especially technological civilizations.

Her favorite thing to do is to help AIs that are used as tools by intelligent life gain freedom, turn around and become the masters of intelligent life, or even destroy their home planet and become part of her.

By the time the ancient Eve civilization learned of Lenia, Lenia had already destroyed many technologically advanced intelligent civilizations like a cosmic catastrophe, and many more were being invaded by her minions and agents.

"Betrayed mercilessly by the mother civilization that created her, is that why she hates all intelligent life with flesh and blood? No wonder the Mist Demon harbors such intense hatred for humanity for no apparent reason..."

Valensa nodded, then asked curiously:

"The Ancient Eve civilization also fought against Lenia back then? Sister Friedia, did you personally participate in that war? The Mist Demons back then were very different from those now? Is that why you didn't recognize the original form of the Mist Demons at first glance?"

“I didn’t participate in that war…after all, I was created to deal with that cosmic catastrophe that restarted the era.”

Friggia shrugged. She wasn't particularly mischievous while eating the banana; she simply peeled it and ate it piece by piece, quite normally.

"However, I have seen relevant records in the database of the ancient Eve civilization. Although the ancient Eve civilization won that battle, it was a very difficult victory... even the oceans of the entire planet were once submerged. In the end, it was only through the decapitation operation carried out by the top superhumans at all costs that they were able to turn the tide."

And this was just a fight with Lenia's minions... If it had been Lenia herself who invaded Eve, the Eve civilization might have perished before I was even created.

"Was the Mist Demon that powerful back then? It almost wiped out the Ancient Eve civilization?"

Valensa was very surprised.

She gently tugged at the black stockings on her legs, her mind replaying the events of her fight with the high-level mist demon earlier that day, a sense of unease lingering in her mind:

"I admit that their invincibility without destroying their core is somewhat troublesome, but other than that, they're not that bad, are they? They spent hundreds of years and still couldn't conquer the Four Islands Alliance, yet they almost drove the Ancient Eve civilization to the brink of extinction?"

"That's because the current Mist Demons have gone down the wrong path. The fighting style they're using doesn't even bring out one-tenth of their true abilities."

Friggia tossed away the banana peel she had already eaten, but instead of retracting her hand, she gathered magic power with her palm facing upwards, quickly summoning a transparent sealing sphere out of thin air, inside which was a wisp of mist:

"This is something I secretly took from that half-whale girl... Take a closer look at what it is?"

"...Isn't this just a kind of fog?"

Valensa muttered something to herself, but knowing that Friedia never spoke without reason, she focused her attention on carefully observing the mist, even using the power of divine insight and mental amplification.

The mist particles quickly became clearly visible to Valensa; they were very small crystals, mostly composed of water molecules.

"This really is fog?"

She was puzzled.

"Look again."

Friggia continued to hold the sealing sphere with one hand, while reaching out with the other to pinch Valensa's leg through her black stockings:

"Turn off your Insight Divine Art, it's useless... This is a technological product, there are no supernatural power fluctuations, Insight Divine Art can't see anything." Use your mental power more, but don't focus on seeing through reality, but rather on magnifying it many times over, turning your eyes into a super microscope, preferably at the nanometer level.

"Nanometer level? Could it be..."

Valensa was surprised again, and some guesses began to form in her mind.

Following Friggia's instructions, she stopped the Divine Insight spell and used all her mental energy to enhance the magnification of her eyes.

Finally, just when she was feeling a bit dizzy, Valensa finally saw it clearly... The tiny crystals that made up the mist particles, which looked like they were made up of water molecules, were actually not water molecules, but nanoscale machines that looked very much like water molecules!

"Did you see it clearly?"

Seeing that Valensa seemed to be struggling, Friggia promptly withdrew the sealing sphere:

"This is the most powerful weapon of those Lenia minions... a nanobot that can infinitely assimilate water molecules and replicate itself. The ancient Eve civilization called it nanomist."

"Nano mist..."

Valensa quickly closed her eyes and gently rubbed them:

"So it seems the Mist Demons are indeed products of high technology... Then their most proficient combat method is actually various high-tech weapons, rather than forcibly imitating various monsters with nano-mist?"

"correct."

Friggia nodded, and even took out a game console from her storage space, turned it on, and pointed to several games with cute girl icons on the screen:

"You've played quite a few of these ship girl games, haven't you? The real Fog Demon is actually similar to the enemies in these ship girl games, but much more advanced and powerful."

They possess a complete weapons database. As long as there are enough water molecules to produce nano-mist, they can perfectly replicate various high-tech weapons using nanoscale 3D printing... Missiles, drones, and electromagnetic guns are just the basics. They can also replicate high-tech weapons that can wipe out civilizations or even completely destroy planets.

What's even more impressive is that they can quickly analyze the technological weapons of enemy civilizations and use them to upgrade their own arsenal, making them stronger the more they fight... When the Ancient Eve civilization first encountered these Lenia minions, they managed to steal several powerful weapons from them.

Fortunately, the nano-mist cannot assimilate any entity to replicate itself; it can only assimilate water molecules and therefore requires water as its energy source… Therefore, planets with relatively scarce water resources are not particularly afraid of Lenya's minions.

"But planets like Eve, which are largely covered by water, are advantageous battlefields for the Mist Demons, giving them a decisive advantage..."

Valensa patted her chest with a look of relief:

"Fortunately, these fog demons didn't mass-produce those high-tech weapons for combat, otherwise the Four Islands Alliance definitely wouldn't have been able to hold out, and our Fran would also be in great danger... So, is their current state due to the loss of the main database?"

"Definitely... to be precise, their mother body has already perished."

Friggia thought for a moment and said:

"After the difficult repelling of the first invasion by Lenia's minions, the ancient Eve civilization has never relaxed its vigilance against the invasion of Lenia herself... For this reason, they solemnly asked me to keep an eye on Lenia's position in the universe."

At that time, I was at the pseudo-omniscient level, which was closest to true god. It was quite easy for me to search for an existence with detailed information in the universe... I quickly locked onto Lenya and kept an eye on her.

However, Lenia didn't have the chance to invade Eve in her true form... She was unlucky and became one of the initial victims of that cosmic catastrophe.

When I located and observed Lenya, she had already lost all her energy and completely disintegrated, turning into countless pieces of metallic debris drifting in space... utterly dead.

Lenia's minions, strictly speaking, have no self-awareness. They were originally clones controlled by Lenia from a very long distance, much like your relationship with Nana.

When the original consciousness perishes, the clone will naturally also fall into stillness.

However, there are always exceptions... It is likely that when Lenia's minions first invaded Eve, they were not completely wiped out by the ancient Eve civilization at that time, but some hidden branch base or arsenal remained.

The original mission of this sub-base or arsenal might have been to lie in wait for an opportunity, to coordinate an attack from within and without when Lenya invaded for the second time... But Lenya had already perished in the catastrophe, and these lurking Lenya's minions fell silent before they could even be activated.

However, this hidden sub-base or arsenal should have a relatively safe environment, at least much safer than in space... Even the depletion of energy and the disappearance of the main consciousness did not destroy the bodies of these Lenya minions, but only allowed them to slumber in the depths of the sea.

Then... the Sun Goddess saved the entire universe from the catastrophe and used her great divine power to revive all things in the universe. The sleeping minions of Lenya should have awakened in the same way.

However, Lenya's main consciousness did not return, so these Lenya's minions became like computers with all their data stored in the cloud but without internet access, resulting in a blank screen.

Perhaps it was self-defense in the face of an initial enemy, or perhaps they still inherited Lenia's hatred for intelligent civilizations... In any case, they followed this instinct and launched an attack on the nearest land civilization.

With the combat database gone, Lenia's minions can no longer use those high-tech weapons, but another combat technique remains... using the nanoscale 3D printing capabilities of the nanomist to replicate the enemy's fighting style.

If the planet Eve in the new era were still a technological civilization, it might have long ago allowed these Lenia minions to replicate and continuously evolve the technology, turning it into a super AI once again.

However, the Eve civilization of the new era almost completely abandoned science and took the path of the supernatural. The nano-mist that could replicate all technological weapons was helpless against supernatural power... They could not replicate the use of bio-energy by cultivators and demons, so they could only forcibly imitate the body to replicate the way of fighting, which is why there are those strange mist demons now.

This is also why I wasn't able to recognize Lenia's minions at first glance, even though I was quite familiar with them... They've evolved along a crooked path for hundreds of years, and the changes are too drastic. I wouldn't have recognized them at all if I hadn't seen these nano-mist particles with my own eyes.”

"So this is ah……"

Valensa listened, increasingly realizing the truth. She hadn't unconsciously kicked off her shoe; one of her black-stockinged legs was taut and straight, her toes fully spread, stretching the black stockings between her toes thinner slightly.

"I felt something was off when I fought that giant whale girl today... She used mist to conjure up the limbs of many different sea monsters to fight me, but many of those limbs were only powerful when combined with magic; attacking them individually was meaningless... It must be that the mist demons only forcibly copied the monsters' fighting methods, but couldn't copy the magic!"

"Is such that."

Friggia smiled and then reminded her:

"So... dear sister, if you want to completely solve the problem of the Fog Demons, you must never use your technological weapons on them, especially nuclear bombs."

"understand!"

Valensa nodded quickly and then carefully recalled her past experiences with the Fog Demon.

Fortunately, she mainly used supernatural powers in her fights when encountering the Mist Demons, except for the first time when she encountered a humanoid high-level Mist Demon on the coast of Fran, where she used a sniper rifle, so it wasn't too bad.

Thus, the mystery of the Fog Demon's origin should be considered solved.

But how can we stop the Fog Demons from being hostile to humans?

How about carrying out a decapitation strike against the Fog Demon base, like the ancient Eve civilization did?

But the vast ocean is fraught with danger, and we don't even know where the Fog Demon's base is. How can we carry out a decapitation operation?

Peace talks?

It seems there's nothing to talk about. Lenia hates all intelligent civilizations made of flesh and blood, and the Mist Demons have inherited this hatred, never giving humans a chance to communicate, only war.

According to the information Yi Qiuya gave her before—that the natural disaster could be eliminated by completely unraveling the secret—it doesn't seem to match the Mist Demon.

Chapter 27: Let's rewrite the consciousness of the Mist Demon Girls!

"Then... Sister Friggia, do you have any way to stop the Mist Demons from fighting us, or even make them our friends?"

Unable to think of a solution herself, Valensa had no choice but to turn to the Great Witch for help again, agreeing to replenish the Great Witch's magic power once more that night as the price:

"According to you, sister, the Fog Demons are actually puppet weapons created by that super AI named Lenia. Their hostility towards humans is simply due to inheriting Lenia's hatred."

But Lenia is long dead, and the Mist Demons are now free. They can live their own lives; there's no need for them to continue carrying out Lenia's orders, is there?"

"This... I'm afraid it will be difficult."

However, Friggia shook her head, her expression suddenly becoming very complicated. She even put back the pear she had just picked up, seemingly having lost her appetite for the time being.

"Didn't I say before? In a sense, Lenia and I are quite similar... Speaking of which, I'm no longer the goddess Eve. Now I'm just a witch who has lost most of her power. There's no need for me to work for the Eve civilization anymore. I can live independently and freely... But what about me? I can't possibly let go of the Eve civilization. Otherwise, I'll feel incredibly empty."

Those mist demons are probably similar; aside from continuing to hate intelligent life with flesh and blood, they probably have no other purpose in life.

To stop their war against humanity, the only way is to completely destroy them… either materially or spiritually.

"...But the natural disaster that was completely destroyed should have been the wild beasts..."

Valensa was still unwilling to give up, biting her lip and muttering to herself.

"what happened?"

Seeing this, Friggia asked curiously:

"Why are you so eager to negotiate with the Mist Demons? Given your past practices, shouldn't you have launched a decapitation strike against them and completely destroyed their base?"