The story of the black silk female knight

But how is that possible? The other party clearly doesn't possess any aura of a Radiant-Rank expert!

Despite being very confused, the remaining elite warriors of the wild beasts acted quickly... Encountering the obstruction of a Radiant-rank expert was within their expectations, and they had ways to deal with it.

They quickly closed in, drew their bone daggers, but instead of attacking the phantom thief, they stabbed themselves.

More blood gushed from the beast warriors' bodies, only to be quickly absorbed by the lantern. The blood's color and concentration became even more bizarre, like egg whites, completely devouring the remaining beasts, seemingly intending to fuse and mutate them, allowing them to fight in new forms and with greater power.

Faced with this strange phenomenon, the phantom thief was very cautious and did not approach easily... Although she had the combat power of a Radiant Rank, she did not have the strong vitality of a Radiant Rank, and it would be easy for her to die if she overturned.

At that moment, Tia's voice, urging her to finish the battle quickly and rush to the next one, rang out through the magic card hidden in her collar, causing her to sigh again.

"Although I'd love to see your final struggle, I'm sorry, I'm in a hurry."

As she spoke, Miss Phantom Thief took a deep breath, tilted her head back slightly, and then suddenly exhaled forcefully towards the direction of the wild beast and the blood-red light.

"The breath of the Frost Dragon!"

A surging cold current and icy mist swept in instantly, freezing all the wild beasts along with their lanterns.

No matter what tricks they had tried to use to fight back, they had no chance. Their bodies were frozen in that moment by the ultra-low temperature, and then they were all turned into ice shards by a slap from the white bear's paw.

"It's done."

Clapping her hands, the phantom thief slightly pulled up her collar and said to the magic cards inside:

"This group of enemies has been cleared out. Move me to the next location."

Immediately, golden magical light reappeared, carrying the phantom thief away to continue slaughtering other elite beast squads that were approaching the new trade route.

Besides the phantom thief, there are two other people who are also carrying out the same combat mission under Tia's command.

Another elite squad of wild beasts, whose luck was so great they could be called the chosen ones, was also discovered by the skeleton crows just as they were about to reach the new trade route, and then a flash of golden light appeared before their eyes.

They had expected a powerful enemy to arrive with the teleportation spell and were on high alert, but found that after the golden magical light disappeared, there was no one in front of them, and they could not sense any hostility or danger.

what's the situation?

The three elite beast warriors of the Lighthouse level in the team looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and then chose to continue rushing towards the new trade route according to plan.

They were originally minors in the group, and they didn't understand strategy or tactics. They were just following the orders of the adult wild beasts.

The adult wild beasts told them that if they could rush to the new trade route and slaughter the vulnerable human merchants, they could force the expeditionary force to return to defend their territory, save their people, and become heroes.

What hot-blooded teenager doesn't want to be a hero? So they came, even though they knew they could never go back, they were fearless.

However, just as success was within reach, they all collapsed on the eve of it.

Still unable to sense any life force, hostility, or danger, the members of the Wild Beast Squad were one by one sliced ​​open in vital areas by sharp blades, blood gushing out incessantly.

Other wild beasts that wanted to help would soon suffer the same fate... Despite using all their strength to sense and search, they could not find the enemy's presence, and only fatal wounds kept appearing.

That eerie blade not only pierced the vitals of the wild beasts silently, but it was also coated with poison—a deadly poison that would kill almost instantly upon drawing blood.

After being stabbed in vital areas, the wild beasts knew they wouldn't live much longer. They wanted to sacrifice their lives and blood to the spirits of their ancestors to carry away the unseen and terrifying enemy.

But they couldn't even do that... The dizziness that immediately followed the stab left them with no strength to perform the sacrifice, and they completely lost consciousness and life.

A squad of 11 elite warriors from the wild beasts was wiped out in less than half a minute... There was no fighting at all; it was a one-sided massacre.

Only after all the wild beasts had died did a petite figure appear out of thin air. It was Thousand Leaf Grass, wielding two swords, both of which were stained with the blood of the wild beasts.

Unlike her usual silk-mesh bodysuit-style anti-demon ninja uniform, this time Chiba Kusa covered herself up completely, with almost only her eyes showing.

After all, this is an isolation zone, filled with black magic curses and radiation contamination. Without proper protective measures, it's easy to get injured.

Thousand Leaf Grass's Leaf Concealment Technique requires the complete elimination of her own aura and energy fluctuations, so she can't directly wrap her whole body with magic for protection like others. She can only wear this tight-fitting protective suit that Valensa specially ordered for her from Vi.

Seemingly not expecting Thousand Leaf Grass to kill enemies so quickly, Tia hesitated to contact Thousand Leaf Grass to arrange her next mission.

With a moment's respite, Thousand Leaf Grass curiously approached the corpses of the wild beasts, wanting to examine the lantern more closely.

Tia and Valensa were very interested in this strange lantern and wanted to capture a complete one for research.

But so far, things don't seem to be going very smoothly.

Most of those beast squads would sacrifice their lives and blood at the last moment, turning their lanterns into powerful sorcery bombs... Many zombies and skeletons who participated in the siege of the beast squads have already been wiped out in one blow.

Miss Phantom Thief could easily overwhelm these beast squads head-on, but she couldn't kill them all before they used their lanterns... In most cases, she could only destroy the beast squads along with their lanterns.

Only Thousand Leaf Grass, who can kill wild beasts with a single blow while invisible using a poisoned dagger, managed to wipe them out before the wild beast squad could use their lanterns, giving them no chance to fight back or struggle.

This made Thousand Leaf Grass a little smug.

Hehe... I completed the task so neatly and beautifully. My older sister will definitely reward me handsomely afterwards, right?

With her eyes slightly moist, Qianyecao cautiously approached the lantern, preparing to store it in her storage space as a trophy.

However, the moment Qianyecao's finger touched the lantern, even though the entire beast squad had been wiped out, the lantern's evil bomb function was suddenly activated. Within seconds, it drained the blood from all the surrounding beast corpses, and then exploded with a bang, releasing a sky full of bloody light that covered an area of ​​nearly a hundred meters.

Thousand Leaf Grass was also within the blast radius of the evil magic bomb, but when she was engulfed by the blood light, she turned into half a piece of wood with a "poof," and then the wood was directly corroded by the blood light.

The real Thousand-Leaf Grass appeared hundreds of meters away in a cloud of white mist, patting her flat chest with a look of lingering fear.

"Thank goodness... Luckily, I was cautious and used a substitution spell on myself beforehand, otherwise I would have been seriously injured, and my older sister might have had to find a way to revive me... That broken lantern can turn into a bomb on its own? No wonder the previous capture operations failed."

After a short while, before Tia could contact them to arrange a new task, Thousand Leaf Grass proactively contacted Tia using a magic card to report what had just happened:

"...That's right. Those lanterns are very strange. Even if the Wild Beast Squad killed them all before they could react, it would be very difficult to capture those lanterns...I suspect they are remotely controlled by evil magic."

"I see... Okay, I understand. You can come back and rest now."

Tia quickly replied, and before Thousand Leaf Grass could answer, she remotely activated the teleportation function of the magic card, pulling her back to the underground ruins.

The Substitution Technique is a ninja's life-saving skill, but it consumes a lot of energy. Chiba no longer has enough ninjutsu energy to maintain her invisibility and continue killing, so she needs to rest.

Of course, there are other ways to quickly replenish it.

But what Chiba wanted was clearly that other way... Her eyes darted around, and she ran to Tia's command room, looking at the real-time battlefield intelligence projection in front of Tia.

After watching for a short while, the thousand-leaf clover smiled:

"Hehe... I didn't expect there to be so many lucky beast squads. It might be a bit difficult for Sister Hong and Suzuran to clear them out by themselves, right? Hehe, I can go and kill a few more waves... as long as I can replenish my ninjutsu energy."

"……snort."

Tia puffed out her cheeks, clearly somewhat reluctant, but the battlefield situation was indeed not good, and having another excellent ninja who could kill efficiently would improve things considerably.

So Tia took out a bottle of white drink and tossed it into Chiba's hand amidst her gleaming joy:

"Here you go...drink it quickly and then get to work!"

"Wahahaha".

Thousand-leaf grass was so excited that she scrambled to catch the bottle.

There's nothing I can do. Valensa is really strange. She doesn't mind playing all sorts of shameful games with Chiba, but she's strict about this stuff... Several times when Chiba tried to sneak a sip, Valensa refused and spanked her.

I finally got it.

When was this made? Is it fresh?

"Isn't it enough that it can replenish your ninjutsu energy? Why are you being picky?"

Tia glared at Thousand Leaf Grass again, clearly annoyed, then sighed:

"Don't worry, they're very fresh...they were just born last night."

"Then I'm not welcome!"

Upon hearing this, Qianyecao became even more excited. She immediately unscrewed the bottle cap, tilted her head back, and gulped it down in one go. Then, she licked her lips, her face flushing, as if she wanted more.

"It really does smell like my older sister... Oh, oh, the power is surging! Tia, is this how you always feel when you quickly recover your magic? It's so enviable..."

brush!

Tia didn't give Thousand Leaf Grass any more chance to show off. With a teleportation spell, she sent her back to the vicinity of a group of elite beast warriors.

Fortunately, skilled ninjas react quickly. By the time the teleportation was complete, the elite warriors of the wild beasts, who were already on high alert, had not noticed anything and were unaware that death was imminent.

Unlike the Phantom Thief's direct crushing victory and Chiba's stealthy slaughter, Suzuran's interception of those elite beast squads was a completely different story.

Originally, Suzuran was a genius of dark magic, but since she used to be a school doctor, she could only use the medical skills related to necromancy, so it could be said that most of her talents were wasted.

After acquiring a new body and registering with the Church of the Sun, Lily of the Valley's talents can finally blossom.

With the dark magic materials given to her by the Sinful Angel, the guidance of Friggia, and the inspiration and ideas Valensa occasionally provides from a technological perspective, Suzuran can now definitely be considered an expert in dark magic.

Limited by her age and cultivation level, Lily of the Valley's magical power may be somewhat insufficient, but her theoretical knowledge and spellcasting skills are no less than those of witches who have lived for hundreds of years.

Even Friggia praised and lauded some of her research findings on dark magic.

The deadly contamination in the isolation zone, a mixture of black magic curses and nuclear radiation, is one of Lily of the Valley's greatest masterpieces... This also makes the isolation zone Lily of the Valley's true home ground, much like the domain opened up by the Lord of the Radiant Beasts.

Lily of the Valley, standing on polluted land, is not as strong as a true Radiant Rank, but she is about the same as Valensa before she was promoted to Radiant Rank... She can basically mow down enemies below Radiant Rank.

Those elite warriors of the wild beasts who gained the strength of the Lighthouse entirely through the ritual of the ancestral spirits were no match for Lily of the Valley; no matter how hard they tried, they could not get close to her.

Linglan wasn't in a hurry to kill these wild beasts. Instead, she would experiment with different black magic spells, like conducting experiments in a laboratory, to make each wild beast die in a different way. She would also record the results of her experiments in a small notebook.

"Hum, just as I thought."

After torturing a squad of elite beast warriors to death with different forms of dark magic, Suzuran ignored the grotesque beast corpses on the ground and focused solely on scribbling away in her notebook:

"These so-called elite warriors do not actually possess the strength of the Lighthouse or the Pearl... That power is essentially more like a curse that resides within them, sustaining itself by constantly squeezing out their life force."

That's why the wild beasts didn't care about the losses of these so-called elite warriors, because even if they were left unattended, these so-called elite warriors would most likely not live for more than six months... and if they encountered high-intensity battles, there was a chance they would die directly in the fighting.

As she spoke and wrote this, Linglan glanced up at the nearest wild beast corpse at her feet, which was also the only one that was still relatively intact.

This was the last wild beast that Suzuran experimented on with black magic... Suzuran did not use offensive black magic to directly destroy its body and soul, but only used control magic to immobilize it and observe and record its struggle process, wanting to test the current physical limits of its abilities.

However, the beast died suddenly during the test... It kept pushing itself to the limit in order to break free from the shackles of black magic, and eventually exhausted its life and soul prematurely.

"In short, we've probably figured out how these so-called elite warriors are made... The best way to deal with them is with purification spells or dispelling curses, which can directly turn them back to their original form."

After muttering these last words to herself in her notebook, Linglan closed it and held it close to her chest. Instead of rushing to the next battlefield, she faced east and fell into deep thought.

"However, that so-called ancestral spirit ritual seems to have another purpose... There's something wrong with the evil curses on these wild beasts... It seems that it's necessary to go and see the ritual site to fully understand it."

Thinking of this, Lily quickly took out the golden magic card and, like someone in a technologically advanced society calling a friend on a cell phone, sandwiched the card between her face and shoulder to contact Tia:

"Tia? Remember to remind that reckless girl not to destroy too much when she breaks through the large settlement of wild beasts... At least leave me the site of the ancestral spirit ritual, I need to study it... Also, those shamans and sorcerers of the wild beasts, it would be best to capture a few alive."

"...Reminding her will definitely be fine, but you'd better not get your hopes up too high."

Tia thought for a moment and said:

"Based on current intelligence, the Wild Beasts take this Ancestral Spirit Ritual very seriously, and their secrecy measures are unexpectedly strict... I've had the idea of ​​capturing them alive for research for a long time, but I haven't succeeded even once yet. Those Wild Beast shamans and warlocks who might know something have all had some kind of evil magic implanted in their bodies that can remotely kill them. Even if we raid them, knock them unconscious, and seal them away, we can't stop their deaths and the self-destruction of their souls."

If they can be so ruthless with their own lives, then the ritual sites of those ancestral spirits must also be set up with some kind of mechanism... Even if Valensa manages to conquer the large settlements intact, the things you want to study might not be preserved.”

"I see... Okay, then I'll do a few more sets of experiments and see."

Linglan felt somewhat helpless, and after thinking for a moment, she reminded him again:

"Oh, and one more thing, the essence of this ancestral spirit ritual is most likely a kind of evil curse. Soaking the rifle bullets used by the undead legion in holy water should significantly improve their efficiency in breaking through that blood-light defense... Given your relationship with the Church of the Sun, getting more holy water should be easy, right?"

"Let the undead legion use bullets soaked in holy water... tsk."

Even though Tia thought her tactical ideas were already quite advanced, she still couldn't help but click her tongue in amazement when she heard Suzuran's suggestion:

"Getting holy water isn't difficult. Valensa can just talk to Fran, and we should be able to borrow the Sun Dew Holy Water Pool in the capital... The problem is that holy water also has exorcising effects, right? Are you sure our undead army won't be harmed by the holy water first?"

"This……"

This is indeed a problem. Linglan thought for a moment before saying:

"Ordinary zombies and skeletons might not work, but those ghost lolis and zombie maids around Her Highness should be worth a try... I think they're quite intelligent, maybe we can get them to worship the Sun Goddess too? Normally, vampires can't be exposed to sunlight, but look at those vampire paladins and vampire priests in the Sun Church, they can even use the Sunfire Divine Art."

The undead created using the cursed sword Frostmourne should be very eager to align themselves with the princess, right? So, if we can get the princess to be a little more devout, her ghostly loli and zombie maids might soon be able to comprehend the Holy Light.

“Well… okay, I’ll arrange it and give it a try,” Tia said.

In short, the Wild Beasts' plan to use a large number of elite squads to infiltrate the rear of the expeditionary force and harass the new trade routes in an attempt to relieve the siege of Wei by attacking Zhao was essentially a failure.

So the 30 undead army at the front line did not stop, leaving pollution behind as they went, just like coloring a map in a game, and gradually approached the first large settlement of the wild beasts.

The massive sandstorm barrier was still howling, and the magical fluctuations were even stronger than before, clearly indicating that the wild beast had further strengthened it to fight against the undead army.

Valensa, disguised as an ordinary zombie and mixed in with the undead army, remained extremely vigilant, wary of the powerful beasts of the Radiant Rank who might rush out from behind the sandstorm barrier at any moment, especially the large red dot she sensed the last time she came.

Strangely, this time the undead army was even closer to the beast colony than when Valensa came to scout it out herself last time, but the big red dot on the minimap still didn't appear.

Chapter 36 You can hold me and cry when you come back

The top experts who were stationed in the large settlements disappeared when the large settlements were attacked by the undead legion.

It was outrageous, but the beast's series of abnormal actions had made Valensa not entirely surprised by the incident.