The story of the black silk female knight

As for the people of the ancient Eve civilization... well, in anime terms, they were all beast-eared lolis and beast-eared shota. So when Sister Friggia first started her research, she very crudely and forcibly fused human factors with various beast factors to create the wild beasts of various tribes.

Therefore, strictly speaking, according to the research paper by the Sage's Tower, the race of "Wild Beasts" should not be a simple race of "Wild Beasts," but rather a simplified form of a composite race that includes various beasts, including "Humans"... It's just that Sister Friggia fused too many beast factors and used too sophisticated methods, so the Sage's Tower still hasn't been able to decompose the complete field of "Wild Beasts."

Furthermore, for thousands of years, people have always perceived wild beasts as "wild beasts." This collective perception of intelligent life has, in turn, influenced the essential concept of the wild beast race, just as the power of faith can, to a certain extent, disregard rules and create miracles... In short, wild beasts are now a very strange race in terms of mystical concepts.

It is precisely because of the inherent uncertainty of the concept of the [Wild Beast] race that the Wild Beast Chieftain's plan has a certain probability of success... at least it has a higher success rate than other races that completely erase their original racial attributes and transform into a new race.

Another point is that this Ancestral Spirit Ritual is clearly not something that the Wild Beast Clan came up with in a short period of time, but rather something that has been researched for many years... It is very likely that after the Wild Beast Great Prophet saw the future where the Wild Beasts were wiped out by me, the Wild Beast Great Chieftain had this plan.

The subsequent attempts to rewrite fate by assassinating me were likely the work of the Great Prophet of the Wild Beasts and his supporters… and the Great Chieftain of the Wild Beasts probably intended from the very beginning to follow this path of changing their race to avoid extinction.”

"That really shows it has some ideas."

Valensa frowned slightly:

"They've persisted for so many years without giving up, and now they're acting like they're doing everything they can to stall us and buy us time... Could they be about to succeed?"

"It might happen soon, but it might never succeed."

Tia replied:

"The idea behind the Ancestral Spirit Ritual is sound, even quite ingenious. If this idea can ultimately be realized, it can indeed erase the original racial concept of wild beasts and transform them into a completely new kind of evil spirit creature... well, let's call it an evil spirit for now."

If the Wild Beast Clan were to be completely transformed into evil spirits, we would be in real trouble... Spirit creatures are almost completely immune to physical attacks, have no physical body, and are not afraid of genetic collapse. Our two strongest attack methods, special pheromone solvent and nuclear bombs, would lose their effectiveness.

However, both evil creatures and spirit creatures are afraid of holy light. Your divine magic will most likely be very useful, but you alone will definitely not be enough... At that time, if we want to completely exterminate the new form of wild beasts, we can only ask the Church of the Sun to launch a large-scale operation.

But paladins and priests like yourself are primarily responsible for protecting the lives and safety of believers and the glory of Her Majesty the Goddess… The Church generally guards the lands favored by the Goddess and rarely launches offensives to exterminate entire races. Even if you have good connections within the Church, it would be very difficult to force the Church to launch a large-scale war in a place like the Desolate Ridge, which is not favored by Her Majesty the Goddess, wouldn't it?”

"That's true."

Valensa nodded with a wry smile:

"As a Paladin of Farron, if an enemy of the Goddess appears within Farron's borders, I can mobilize all the clergy of Farron to wipe them out at any time. But in a place like the Wasteland... at most, I can ask Fran and Sister Rika to help me in their personal capacity. Don't even think about mobilizing paladins on a large scale or using divine artifacts."

"So... we can't let the beast's plan succeed."

This time, Tia resolutely pulled her foot away from Valensa's grasp, sat up straight, and said with a very serious expression:

"It's time to start the third and final battle of this war."

"Is this the final battle already? How fast."

Valensa was slightly surprised and somewhat puzzled:

"Could it be that the research on the wild beasts is really about to be successful?"

"...To be precise, their spell principles are already quite perfect, and there may even be successful cases, but the success rate should be very low, which is why they haven't been widely adopted."

Tia sighed and said:

"That's why the wild beasts are now doing everything they can to buy time... Would they be doing this if they hadn't seen hope?"

"Hmm...that's true too."

Valensa was persuaded by Tia, and her brows furrowed:

"But if we launch a full-scale attack now... forgive my bluntness, but the main city of the beasts might not be as easy to conquer as you think... even if we have nuclear weapons and special pheromone solvents."

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

Tia raised an eyebrow:

"Just because of that beast chieftain who beat you up several times?"

"Hmm... the Great Chieftain of the Wild Beasts is not so scary. I can still deal with it if I try hard enough."

Valensa thought for a moment and said:

"Nana and I alone can't beat it, but in the real battle, I can call over Sister Dreigan to fight it three to one... I'm a dragon knight, so it's reasonable for me to fight alongside a dragon, right? If that doesn't work, I'll just become an evil god... But I'll have to be careful then, since quite a few of your students are watching this battle, and I don't want to expose my evil god bloodline in front of them."

In short, I said this final battle might be tough, not because of the Great Chieftain of the Wild Beasts, but because of that ridiculously exaggerated magical barrier outside the Wild Beasts' main city... Who knows how many lives the Wild Beasts sacrificed to build and strengthen that barrier? Honey, do you even know how big that barrier is now?

As Valencia spoke, she gestured a spherical shape with her hand, her expressions and movements exaggerated as she said:

"The sandstorm alone is a full 5 kilometers thick! With such a thick barrier, even if you bombed it directly with a nuclear bomb without any interception, it probably wouldn't be able to penetrate it. Not to mention that the barrier not only has an interception system, but it can also condense all kinds of sand beasts to launch a strong attack on our artillery positions... Just thinking about it gives me a headache."

Even with special pheromone solvents, the absolute coverage area is only 15 kilometers.

Leaving aside whether the solvent's effectiveness would be affected by the sandstorm barrier, even if it weren't, placing the special pheromone solvent close to the barrier would only have an effect of about 10 kilometers after penetrating it. The basin where the main city of the wild beasts is located is quite large; even if we deployed the special pheromone solvent along the sandstorm barrier, we couldn't guarantee complete coverage within the barrier.

If the Wild Beasts didn't have that Great Chieftain, I might consider rushing into the barrier with the special pheromone solvent to activate it... but that's clearly impossible. That's the Wild Beasts' final fortress; if I dared to rush in, the Great Chieftain would definitely beat me to a pulp.

"...Hum, from what you're saying, it does seem quite difficult... And you think the most fundamental reason this battle is so difficult is that sandstorm barrier enhanced by evil magic, right?"

Tia listened patiently to everything Valensa said with a light laugh, and then, instead of being troubled, confidently asked a question in return.

"Uh...did you already have a plan, honey?"

Valensa immediately understood Tia's meaning. She was somewhat surprised, but even more delighted, and couldn't help but lean in and kiss Tia before saying:

"You're amazing, honey... Tell me how you did it? And I don't think I told you about that massive sandstorm barrier before, did I? You already had a solution?"

"if not?"

Tia didn't refuse Valensa's kiss; instead, she squinted her eyes with a smug look on her face.

"Didn't you tell me that story when I was a child? To burn the enemy fleet with fire on the water, you first have to trick the enemy into chaining all their ships together with iron chains... In the first two battles, I was able to give the beasts the illusion that the scorched-earth tactic was very effective, making them gather together on their own initiative. Why can't I give them the illusion that the sandstorm barrier is very useful, so that they will devote all their resources to the sandstorm barrier in the final battle?"

"Oh...this was all part of your plan, darling?"

Valensa was stunned; she hadn't expected Tia's tactical deployment to have this layer.

"But……"

Even after hearing Tia's explanation in person, Valensa still had some questions:

"How would we do that? To forcibly break through a magical barrier of that scale, the nuclear yield required would be ridiculously large... If we actually used it, it could very likely affect the geology and geography of the entire Frenoia continent."

"It wasn't a nuclear bomb."

Tia chuckled and kissed Valensa before explaining:

"The best way to deal with magic is, of course, to use magic... You know, when I was still a sage's apprentice, my teacher warned me many times that if I ever fought a witch, I had to be very careful of one of her spells... Well, I ended up becoming a witch myself, so I know how to use that spell too~~"

"What kind of magic is so powerful? What are its effects?"

Valensa, curious, quickly pressed for more information.

"The name and effect of this spell are very straightforward. Like the witch's attack, it is a miracle power that the witches directly invoke. The effect is completely unreasonable."

Tia narrowed her eyes slightly before giving the answer:

"The name of this spell is—Dispel Magic."

Chapter 44 I'll really beat you to death.

"Dispel the spell? Hmm... that's quite a straightforward name."

Valensa frowned, thought for a few seconds, and said in disbelief:

"But...could this spell really be like its name suggests, capable of canceling out the effects of all magic? That would be incredibly powerful!"

"After all, it's the miraculous power summoned by the witch; sometimes it's just that unreasonable."

Tia shrugged, then thought for a moment and said:

"It probably won't be able to dispel all magic, but the effects of most spells can be dispelled by this spell, especially various elemental barriers, which are particularly vulnerable to dispelling spells... After all, this spell was originally created for internal conflicts among spellcasters."

"Oh? A civil war among spellcasters?"

Valensa asked curiously:

"Could this spell have some kind of origin or story?"

"There must be a story behind that."

Tia chuckled softly again:

"You are well aware of the significant differences in the philosophies between the two advanced paths of spellcasters, namely the Sage and the Witch, right?"

The sage believed that magic is wisdom, technique, and theory, not miracles.

The witch's view was exactly the opposite—you're already using magic, why bother delving into techniques and theories? Just expend magic power and use your heart to summon miracles, that's all. Magic that can't create miracles can't be called magic at all, it's just elemental manipulation.

Such opposing ideas naturally sparked a lot of conflict... In the past, the sage and the witch had fought quite a few times. Even though both sides were relatively restrained and no one was killed, many were injured and had to recuperate for a year or two.

In reality, if they really fought tooth and nail, the sage would definitely lose to the witch, because the power of miracles is simply unreasonable and cannot be countered by theory and technology alone.

However, the more powerful a miracle is, the more price it requires. These are people who have worked hard to cultivate to the Shining Rank, and they generally won't really risk their lives for a battle of ideologies.

This is what gave the sages a significant advantage in the initial battles... In fights where no desperate measures are used, witches who rely solely on intuition and impulse to cast spells are generally no match for sages who have made thorough preparations and theoretical research... until the witches invented the method of dispelling magic.

Because a straightforward, counter-strategy approach wouldn't be enough, the witches once again resorted to their most powerful abilities... a completely illogical miracle that effortlessly dispelled all the spells painstakingly conceived and arranged by the sages, turning what should have been a battle of wits and skill into a pure contest of magical power and physical strength. And how could the sages, who spent their lives conducting research in their laboratories, possibly compete with the witches who lived in the Witch Forest and spent their time casually battling monsters?

Since then, the sages have rarely fought with the witches... Even if they disagree on their beliefs and have a disagreement, they'll at most have a big argument, but try their best to avoid physical violence, because the spell of dispelling magic is just too powerful in a spellcaster's internal conflict; there's no way to win. It's the kind of skill that would be banned in the first round in a PVP game.

"If the Dispel Magic spell really has the effect you described, then it is indeed a very powerful spell."

Valensa nodded at first, then worry appeared in her azure eyes:

"But what about the price? The witch's miraculous power is indeed very powerful, but some miraculous powers come at a terrible price... What price is required to undo the spell?"

"That's what I want to say next."

Tia's face still wore a smug smile:

"If the cost were not completely within an acceptable range, dispelling magic would not have become the most popular miracle spell among witches, just like a witch's attack, nor would it have been widely used only in ideological battles."

You should remember the price of the Witch's Strike spell, right? Sister Elanfeier demonstrated it to us personally last time... The price of this spell is a significant increase in physical desire. Sister Elanfeier immediately devoured her little apprentice that time.

The cost of dispelling the spell is about the same... except that what the caster finds difficult to control is not lust, but anger.

Witches who use dispelling spells will be extremely irritable for a period of time after casting the spell. The stronger the dispelling spell, the greater the intensity and duration of this irritability.

So I'm warning you in advance, okay? You'd better not mess with me after I've used my dispelling spell. I might pretend to be playing along with you, but then beat you to a pulp.

"Ah... okay, I'll remember that."

Valensa nodded speechlessly, but the worry in her eyes did not disappear:

"A few days of bad temper is an acceptable price to pay, but darling, you're facing a massive magical barrier created by the entire beast clan. Do you think it will be that simple?"

"Hum... the fact that you have this kind of worry shows that you really don't understand the principles of magic at all."

Tia smiled and rubbed her white-stockinged foot against Valensa's black-stockinged leg, explaining:

"Didn't I say before? The most powerful thing about the Dispel Magic spell is that it can ignore most of the spell theories and techniques, turning what should be an exquisite spell duel into the purest contest of magical power."

In other words, whether the magical barrier I want to dispel covers only a single tent or an entire city, the cost of dispelling it is the same. Only the spell's effect, not its power, affects the magnitude of the cost.

Take the sandstorm barrier of the wild beast as an example. Its effects include automatically intercepting flying objects, generating sand beasts, and absorbing and transferring explosive power. Its strength is determined by the size of the coverage area, the number of flying objects it can intercept at the same time, and the upper limit of the explosive power it can absorb and transfer.

The price to pay for dispelling magic depends only on the effect, not on its strength... Even spells powerful enough to affect the world can be dispelled as long as the witch using the dispelling spell has enough magic power.

The technical principle behind the sandstorm barrier is actually not complicated. You think it's powerful because the wild beasts consume a lot of their life force to enhance its strength... This won't cost me any more. I just need enough magic power to easily dispel this magical barrier.

And speaking of magic… have you forgotten Lily of the Valley’s most amazing invention? Those wild beasts can convert life into magic to continuously strengthen their magical barriers, and I can also use the magic produced by nuclear reactions to cast spells… Using magic circles to absorb external magic to enhance spellcasting is a basic skill for sages. I did become the Witch of Time, that’s true, but I haven’t given up the Sage’s Tower magic that I’ve diligently practiced for over ten years.”

"Is that so... That's good."

Valensa was finally completely relieved and agreed to Tia's tactical arrangements:

"So when should we make our move? Since the wild beasts are desperately stalling for time, shouldn't we act as soon as possible?"

"Yes, the sooner the better. Just wait until my massive dispelling magic is ready."

Tia nodded:

"What I just mentioned, Sister Frigia and Suzuran are already doing for me... They will draw a magic circle above this ruin that links all our current nuclear reactors, helping me to gather enough magic power so that I can use a dispelling spell to remove the magical barrier that the wild beasts regard as their final fortress."

This process... well, it'll probably take about two days.

"Alright... then let the wild beasts live for two more days."

Valensa rubbed her hands together in anticipation.

. . . . .

Two days later, all preparations were completed, and the decisive battle officially began.

Princess Yan replenished the undead army to the maximum she could control, nearly 80.

Of these, 20 remained in the isolation zone to prevent the beasts from infiltrating again, while the remaining 60 were all assembled at the front line to launch an attack on the beasts' final fortress together with Valensa.

The 2000 heavy mortars on Wei's side have all been delivered. These heavy mortars are now being loaded onto skeletal centaurs and formed mortar squads with zombie loading soldiers. Every 500 mortar squads form a firing square, surrounded by about 10 other undead guards.

The movement of the 60-strong undead army could not be concealed in the desolate lands, and the beastmen responded immediately after learning of the intelligence.