The story of the black silk female knight

However, she didn't overestimate herself and, after thinking for a moment, added:

“Leave conventional warfare to me. I can handle most of the chieftains of the wild beast tribes, but that Grand Chieftain at the peak of the Moon Radiance realm… you’ll probably have to deal with him.”

In short, nothing else matters. This time, you're not allowed to steal my thunder in destroying the wild beasts! This is the greatest wish of our Bretania family for thousands of years! It will finally be fulfilled by me!

"Okay, okay, I promise I won't steal your thunder, my darling... Even if it's that difficult beast chieftain, I'll try my best to take him down secretly."

Valensa readily agreed with great affection, then thought for a moment and smiled:

"Looking at it this way, that great prophet of the wild beasts back then was quite capable... At the very least, he must have really seen the future, and the wild beasts really were wiped out by you, my darling Tia."

"Yes."

Tia smiled too, and after a moment of reminiscing, she was quite moved.

Back then, that Great Prophet of the Wild Beasts was a formidable enemy they could hardly defeat. He even managed to kill Tia once and beat the two of them so badly that they fled in terror from the underground ruins.

But now... the mere Great Prophet of the Wild Beasts is no longer a concern. Even if it wins the resurrection match, it absolutely cannot prevent the Wild Beasts from being wiped out. Valensa and Tia now have enough strength to take it down one more time.

"correct."

After a brief moment of shared reflection, Valensa asked with some concern, raising her fist rather fiercely:

"Tia, my darling, how have things been at the Allied Forces headquarters these past few days? Have any of those officers bullied you or tried to take advantage of you? Tell me, and I'll go beat them up right now!"

"……snort!"

Unexpectedly, Tia instantly became angry, her blazing eyes seeming to pierce through Valensa's magical projection.

"You have the nerve to ask me what's been going on these past few days? I've been dealing with all sorts of challenges and questions from those officers, and I've been training them. I'm exhausted. But what have you been doing these past few days? Aside from doing some serious work the first couple of days, what have you been doing?"

"Goo!"

Valensa's momentum instantly plummeted, and she surrendered, covering her head in disbelief.

"I'm...I'm sorry."

She's been having a lot of fun with Frigia these past few days, and during breaks she's often ambushed by Chiba... She's practically become the heroine of some kind of game, and whenever Tia looks at her, she's almost always sending out CGs.

More importantly, Valensa could sense that Tia was watching her the whole time, so she had no chance to argue or deceive.

Therefore, it would be better to just surrender and admit our mistake:

"I have indeed gone a bit too far these past few days. I admit my mistake. From now on, baby, no matter what punishment you give me, I will absolutely not resist!"

"……snort."

Seeing that Valensa's attitude in admitting her mistake was somewhat sincere, the fire in Tia's eyes subsided a little, and a smile appeared again:

"I will indeed punish you properly... I'm not afraid to tell you in advance that I have successfully developed a super spell specifically designed to punish you! Prepare yourself!"

"Yes, I will obediently accept the punishment."

Valensa chuckled:

"You can do whatever you want to me then, baby... like stepping on me hard while wearing white over-the-knee stockings, stepping on me hard while wearing white garter stockings, stepping on me hard while wearing white pantyhose, it's absolutely no problem!"

"So this is your reward, huh? You shameless idiot... Hmph, I'm not going to let you have your fun this time, you wish!"

Tia rolled her eyes, and her attitude became more serious again:

“I have indeed developed a new spell… Actually, I wanted to use this spell when I dealt with Elena last time, but I was interrupted before I could use it. It is a super spell that can be used to defeat powerful enemies, and it will likely be used in the future. I might as well test it on you first… If even you, an evil god, cannot resist it, it means that my idea should be correct.”

"what?"

Valencia's dreamy smile froze on her face, turning into a wry smile:

"Tia, are you serious? You're really using me to test your new spell?"

"Who told you to bully people like that the other day? You deserved it, humph!"

Tia glared at Valensa again, huffing, before explaining:

"Don't worry, that spell is a bit special, and its effects are controllable... It won't cause you any real harm. At most, it will just give you a memorable lesson."

"Gulp... Okay, alright."

Valensa cooperated by feigning fear and shrinking her head back, trying to amuse Tia and ease her anger by appearing as weak, helpless, and pitiful as possible.

Seeing that Tia had finally stopped glaring at her, Valensa asked again:

"So, when are you coming over to officially begin planning the extermination campaign against the wild beasts? Is there any preliminary support work you need me to do?"

"As for me... I think I'll have to wait a few more days."

Tia thought for a moment, then brushed her long silver hair behind her ear with her hand:

"Let me develop a preliminary training plan for the allied forces that have already assembled here, and wait for all the officers who haven't arrived yet to come... Her Majesty Himiko will also be coming here in a few days with Miss Xin and Miss Rui, and then I can entrust the work here to her."

By the way, when I took over the Beast Extinction War, most of the Allied Forces officers probably went with me to observe and learn from my command and combat.

You probably still don't want to make the underground ruins public, right? Then you'd better build another camp on the surface to house them.

“Build a ground camp to house your precious students, right? No problem.”

Valensa smiled and nodded to indicate that she remembered, then asked:

"Is there anything else?"

"Other things... emmm."

Tia thought about it again:

"As the art of war says: Initial planning is the first priority. No matter how well prepared your side is, the reconnaissance of the enemy's intelligence cannot be ignored! If you're really bored these days and don't want to do those shameless things that would betray me, then go and gather intelligence on the wild beasts."

Chapter 29 The Big Red Dot on the Map

Building a military camp to house the Allied officers and gathering intelligence on the wild beasts were the two tasks Tia assigned to Valensa.

Building a military camp is a very simple task. The "Camp Building" spell in the marching spells is one of the popular elective spells for spellcasters in the War Academy, and many graduates know how to use it.

For example, Gina uses this spell very well; she learned it all from her dates with Princess Elsers in outdoor environments.

A military camp with magic that even a princess can use should certainly be no problem for officers to live in... The problem is where to build the military camp.

Previously, in order to prevent wild beasts from attacking the new trade routes, Valensa had covered the entire territory controlled by the expeditionary force with nuclear contamination as a buffer zone.

That contaminated land, a mixture of black magic curses and nuclear radiation, is so polluted that humans below the Radiant rank would not survive more than 10 minutes without any protection. It is a paradise for the dead and a forbidden zone for the living.

Finding a safe place to set up a military camp in such a remote area was quite difficult for Valensa.

The main reason is that Valensa herself is completely unafraid of dark magic curses and nuclear radiation. She can't sense where the pollution is lighter or heavier; to her perception, they are all the same.

With no other option, Valensa had to call Suzuran back from her trip with Levre and entrust her with the task of selecting a location for the military camp.

The fact that Lily of the Valley was chosen by the Sinful Angel as a target for marriage fraud means that her talent in necromancy and black magic far surpasses that of others. The pollution of this isolation zone was her doing; no one knows better than her how to deal with polluted land.

Lily of the Valley did not disappoint Valensa. After taking necessary precautions, she took various equipment and walked around the quarantine area, finding a relatively easy-to-clean area.

The sand contaminated with nuclear radiation could be collected using magic and transported to other places, while the remaining black magic curses were mostly purified by Valensa's use of Sunfire Blaze.

After a busy day, the two managed to bring the land to a point where it was barely safe.

It would definitely not be suitable for ordinary people living in a technologically advanced society to stay here. The few remaining harmful residues would still cause them to get sick frequently and significantly shorten their lifespan.

However, it shouldn't be a problem for the officers of the Allied Forces to stay here for a while... People from extraordinary civilizations are physically much better than those from technological civilizations, and the elite officers selected to join the Allied Forces are at least Pearl-level in strength, so they have that much resistance.

After clearing out a suitable area, Valensa entrusted the construction of the military camp to Gina, while she herself began to gather intelligence on the wild beasts.

The previous reconnaissance work had been done by Princess Yan controlling the undead. Last time, Valensa only asked a few simple questions about the general situation, but now she needed to know more details.

"More details...that might be a bit difficult."

Princess Valencia looked quite troubled by Valencia's request:

"You'll understand once you take a look, or you can try it yourself."

She didn't explain much, but instead led Valencia to what was essentially her workspace.

This place was built with Tia's help, so that everyone except Princess Yu could keep track of the undead army's movements at all times.

It was a huge wall-mounted screen, about 4 square meters in size, with a small round platform in front of it and a deep groove in the shape of a sword blade in the middle of the platform.

Princess Jing walked to the small round platform, took a deep breath, and summoned the demonic sword Frostmourne, which had almost merged with her soul, and inserted it into the deep groove of the small round platform.

Immediately, the wall-mounted screen lit up like a computer monitor that had been turned on, displaying a map of the entire Wasteland, with numerous points of light on it.

All those points of light were concentrated on the left side of the map, which is the western side of the Barrens, where the undead army was controlled by the cursed sword Frostmourne.

Where there are points of light, the maps are quite detailed, almost like high-resolution satellite images, with every small slope and every sand gully on the ground clearly visible.

On the other side where there are no light spots, the map is quite simple, basically only showing the general terrain of a large area, with no details at all.

"You just watch..."

Princess Jing pointed to the boundary between the expeditionary force's controlled area and the wild beast's controlled area on the screen. There were also a few points of light there, which were the undead that Princess Jing had sent out to gather intelligence.

As Princess Yi manipulated the magic sword with her mind, the details at the boundary were magnified continuously, and soon locked onto a nimble skeleton soldier.

Just like playing those ARPG games, the screen changed from a large map to a third-person game perspective of skeleton soldiers... This was because the skeleton soldiers' bodies were temporarily completely taken over by Princess Yu.

The skeleton soldiers in the picture are quite agile, without any of the sluggishness of undead creatures... They can run like ninjas with their arms slightly spread behind them, like a thousand-leaf grass leaping among the trees. They will also bury themselves in the ground to hide temporarily when they encounter wild beast patrol soldiers, relying on the sound of footsteps to judge whether the other party has left, and continue to penetrate deeper into the enemy-controlled area after the other party has gone far away.

In short, Princess Yu seems to have quite a talent for stealth games. She controlled the skeleton soldier to evade more than a dozen beast squads and penetrate dozens of kilometers into the beast-controlled area.

During this time, everything within the skeletons' field of vision was also synchronized in real time to the big screen, so that Valensa, who did not have Frostmourne, could also see it.

Just as Princess Yu had said before, the wild beasts seemed to have used a scorched-earth tactic. There wasn't a single wild beast settlement within these dozens of kilometers, only patrolling wild beast soldiers... and no wild beast civilians or settlements could be seen.

Many places that were once clearly settlements of wild beast tribes have now been abandoned, and not a single wild beast can be seen, only stone houses that have been mostly buried by sandstorms.

"This is pretty much it."

As Valencia was analyzing the skeleton soldiers' gains from their stealthy journey, Princess Meng spoke up to remind her.

Sure enough, the skeleton soldier, who had repeatedly evaded the beast patrols by burying himself in the ground, was suddenly discovered by the beasts.

It was a beast shaman, with a human body and a rabbit's head, and his upper body was uncovered, only covered with colorful paint. In his hands, he held a hexagonal stone disc and a bone dagger.

It shouted loudly for the nearby wild beast soldiers to surround the skeleton soldiers, while it used a bone dagger to cut its wrist and bleed into the hexagonal stone plate, seemingly preparing to use some kind of magic.

Faced with the beast soldiers wielding bone spears and wooden clubs surrounding him, the skeleton soldier quickly took off the automatic rifle from his back and began spitting fire at the nearest beast soldier.

Multiple bloody holes immediately appeared on the two wild beasts, and they fell down screaming in agony.

But the beast shaman's spell was completed quickly—a beam of blood enveloped all the beasts, greatly enhancing their strength and defense, making them immune to automatic rifle bullets.

The skeleton soldier emptied his magazine but couldn't kill another beast. He tried to fight in melee with his bone sword, but he was outnumbered and quickly smashed to pieces by the beasts. He even took a blood-red spell from the beast shaman.

Complete death, connection lost, the big screen reverted to the large map.

"That's it."

After personally demonstrating it like playing a level-based game, Princess Yu spread her hands and said:

"Wherever you approach the core territory of the Wild Beast Control Zone, Wild Beast Shamans and Wild Beast Warlocks will personally lead patrols... They are extremely sensitive to the aura of necromancy, and my undead will be found no matter how well they hide. Unless we directly launch a massive army to push through, it will be difficult to obtain more information by infiltrating alone."

"Are they only deploying a few patrols on the perimeter, while maintaining a tight defense in the core area?"

Valensa nodded, then stared at the big screen for a while before asking:

"Have you tried scouting from the air? Your Highness, you've had Frostmourne for a while now, and you can even create zombie maids, so you must have flying undead as well, right?"

"Of course... actually, the first kind of ghost loli could fly, but deep reconnaissance missions were too dangerous, and I couldn't bear to let them go, so I created this one later."

Princess Jing rubbed her hand holding the sword hilt slightly, and the image on the big screen changed again, zooming in on the boundary between the two controlled areas once more. This time, however, the final perspective was locked onto a flock of skeletal crows.

This flock of skeletal crows, numbering more than ten, was originally patrolling a fixed route to check for any wild beasts attempting to cross the buffer zone to attack the new trade routes on the west coast.

After Princess Yu took direct control, only half of the skeletal crows continued patrolling, while the other half suddenly accelerated and flew towards the area controlled by the wild beasts.

The skeletal crows were not large, but the wild beasts had better eyesight and could not hide in the ground like they could on the ground. The six skeletal crows were quickly spotted by the wild beasts.

At first, the beast patrol soldiers on the ground pulled out slingshot-like weapons and shot stone balls at the skeleton crows, forcing them to rise higher. Even so, one skeleton crow was hit in the wing by a stone ball and fell to the ground, where it was smashed to pieces by the beasts.

Only when the altitude exceeds 2000 meters is the skeletal crow completely free from the threat of ground beasts... The individual strength of those beast patrol soldiers is really not weak. Many of them are Pearl-level, and there are quite a few elite beast warriors at the Lighthouse level. The power of slingshots in their hands is comparable to that of rifles.

Fortunately, these slingshots are just slingshots after all, and their anti-aircraft range is limited to 2000 meters.

Seeing the skeletal crows flying rapidly into the depths of the beast-controlled area, Valensa had assumed they would go deeper than the skeleton soldiers, but the opposite turned out to be true.

They had flown less than 20 kilometers when the skeletal crows were attacked again... by a flying beast that looked somewhat like a harpy.

This harpy beast not only can fly, but it also possesses considerable wind magic, and it immediately shot down two more skeletal crows.

The skeletal ravens are purely reconnaissance units with almost no combat capabilities. Faced with the pursuit of the harpy beasts, they can only keep fleeing... to higher ground.

Fortunately, the flesh and blood of the living have their limits. The eagle-bodied beast could no longer keep up after chasing for more than 1 meters in the air... It must have been because it was too weak to withstand the thin air and cold temperature at that altitude.