The story of the black silk female knight

Valensa came to find Yi Qiuya, naturally to ask her about the key to the third node.

This time, Yi Qiuya remained silent for almost an hour before speaking only four words to Valensa in a very solemn tone:

Trust your intuition and stay true to yourself.

. . . . .

Time flies, and more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

During this period, the entire continent of Frenoia was almost in a state of national mobilization, with everyone working hard to resist the invasion of the Central Continent Empire.

Those capable of fighting on the battlefield, whether soldiers or adventurers, will diligently train to improve their strength as much as possible.

Ordinary people without combat capabilities also work diligently and produce goods, ensuring that soldiers don't have to worry about logistics while also learning wartime self-rescue skills to avoid adding extra burdens to the soldiers during the war.

Tia's life basically revolved around the military camp, the combat laboratory, and the training ground. Apart from the occasional time when Valensa forcibly sneaked out to relax a little, she had almost no entertainment or rest.

Valensa was also making the most of her time to train. She challenged top experts, including the bald-headed principal and the witch of destruction, Elanfiel, and also trained in combat with many powerful dragons and elves.

About a year and a half ago, the Sunfire Spear reached its maximum compatibility with Valensa in battle, becoming Valensa's third Noble Phantasm.

Valencia also took this opportunity to officially break through, becoming the youngest Moon God in history, adding another chapter to her legendary story.

On a deep-sea island between the continent of Frenoia and the continent of God's Favor, the ship girls used purely technological means to build multiple ports and factories. Every day, a large number of precision weapon parts are produced and continuously sent to the Allied Forces base to help the Allied Forces upgrade their weapons and manufacture new warships.

Princess Yu and her undead legion were not disbanded after they annihilated the wild beasts. Valensa gave the undead legion a new job—to build a fortress with the Netherworld in the heart of the ice plains to defend against an offensive that the Central Continent Empire's army would most likely launch from there.

The fortress's name, still chosen with Valencia in mind, is "The Frozen Throne."

The Frozen Throne fortress will play a very important defensive role, as it is almost certain that the Middle-earth Empire will attack from the Icefield.

Under Tia's deliberate arrangement, the old woman, a spy from the Central Continent Empire, completely believed that the people of Frenoia were ignorant about the earth.

In her letters to the Central Empire, she wrote more than once that the Frenoia continent was completely unprepared for the northern ice plains, and that the imperial cavalry could easily march straight in from that direction, without even waiting for the imperial navy to be built, and could launch an invasion directly.

The Central Continent Empire may have been tempted by this plan, but ultimately did not agree. In their reply, they told the old lady to be patient... The Empire's army would definitely attack from the north, but it would have to join forces with the main force of the Empire's navy to launch a pincer attack from the north and south, and try to take over this continent in one fell swoop.

In short, both sides made ample preparations for the war, and the war arrived as scheduled.

"They're coming."

The first to sense the main fleet of the Central Continent Empire was the Demon Queen Himika.

After all, the super maze between the two continents and the ocean was a great formation that the Holy Water Sect collectively sacrificed themselves to set up.

Even though Xiao Yu had stolen the key to the great formation, Himiko still had ways to roughly understand the situation of the formation, though it was rather vague.

"There are more of them than we thought!"

After sensing it more carefully, Himika's expression turned grim:

"It might be more than 10 times the size of the vanguard fleet..."

"I've received the news too."

The second to discover the enemy attack were Valensa, or more accurately, the ship girls.

Now that the ship girls have been put on the right technological path, spy satellites, a powerful tool of war, are of course indispensable.

In the past two years, the ship girls have launched hundreds of satellites into the sky above the Frenoia continent.

On the one hand, it was to gather more and more detailed intelligence; on the other hand, the high-altitude environment of Eve was too dangerous, and a purely technological satellite without magical protection would find it difficult to sustain itself for long.

On the continent of Frenoia, only dragons can stay in the sky for long periods of time, and even for dragons, guarding satellites in the sky for extended periods is a very arduous task.

Valensa was reluctant to let Dreigan do this job long-term, and hiring other dragons to do the work would be even more costly. It would be better to launch more satellites.

Anyway, with the ship girls' nano-mist technology, satellites can be manufactured quickly as long as there is water, and the cost is very low... After learning about this, Vi even went back to Valensa to buy technological products.

The spy satellites are quite reliable.

Although the satellites launched by the ship girls couldn't see through the maze in the center of the ocean and detected the arrival of the Central Continent Empire fleet a step later than Himiko, they discovered the Central Continent Empire fleet as soon as it emerged from the maze and quickly transmitted high-definition images, which were far more detailed than Himiko's arcane perception.

Himiko and Valensa's successive performances made the sages and witches feel a little embarrassed.

They also used magical means to set up a large number of surveillance measures on the sea, and now the other side has sent back high-definition images, but they don't even know that the enemy has arrived.

"I'll go and see for myself!"

The witch in charge of this work blushed and tried to run away in a hurry, but Tia grabbed her arm.

"There's no need for that, and it's not your fault."

Tia smiled and shook her head at the witch:

"The Central Continent Empire must have gathered a lot of intelligence about us beforehand, and with the help of those traitors from the Sage's Tower, it's normal that they were able to evade our magical detection methods."

Now that they've already been photographed by Valensa's satellites, there's no need to use magical perception to verify their authenticity... Remember, magical perception is two-way; the moment you detect them, they'll also lock onto you.

"Ugh... I understand, Commander."

The witch nodded obediently, then bit her lip reluctantly.

"Those despicable traitors from the Sage's Tower... I must improve my perception magic again, so that the enemy will never break through so easily again!"

"Well, I believe you."

Tia smiled and comforted the witch a couple more times, making Valensa want to chuckle to herself.

Others may not know, but Valensa does.

The Allied Forces' magic perception detection technology was actually deliberately leaked by Tia to that old spy from the Central Continent Empire.

With complete technical data, it's quite normal for those traitors in the Sage's Tower to develop targeted disguise spells to deceive magic perception, which was already part of Tia's plan.

Anyway, the Allied Forces have various detection methods such as satellites and radar. Using magic to sense the leakage of technical data to lull the enemy into a false sense of security is strategically worthwhile... It's just that those witches and sages who painstakingly developed the magic sensing technology are somewhat pitiful.

"Let's show everyone the live footage from the spy satellite."

After calming down the witch in charge of magic perception technology, Tia looked at Valensa.

"Ok."

Valensa naturally didn't refuse. She took out her phone, connected it to the large screen at the coalition command post, and broadcast the enemy's situation live to the officers who were constantly gathering after receiving the information.

Then almost everyone in the meeting room fell silent, their faces grim.

Previously, everyone estimated the size of the Central Continent Empire's main fleet based on the fact that it was 10 times the size of the Central Continent Empire's vanguard fleet, and many officers thought that they had overestimated the enemy.

After all, a single mechanical behemoth like Xuanwu is roughly the size of four aircraft carriers.

Even if the Central Continent Empire unified the resources of an entire continent, it would be quite impressive if they could produce 10 of those kinds of war weapons; 20 would be an exaggeration no matter how you look at it.

However, the truth is that the strength of the Central Continent Empire still exceeded expectations. Among the main fleet that sailed out of the super maze, there were 31 mechanical behemoths, each about 600 meters long and 150 meters wide, resembling 31 large mobile fortresses.

Surrounding these 31 colossal mechanical beasts, Xuanwu, are thousands of warships of varying sizes, each resembling a lanternfish, and filled with armored imperial soldiers.

"...How long will it take for the Seven Rainbows Fleet to enter effective firing range?"

It was Tia who first broke the silence in the meeting room. Her expression was very calm, as if the enemy's size was half again as large as expected.

"I have already given the order to Crimson One, and the ship girls are assembling."

Valensa glanced at her phone, then thought for a moment and said:

"For the ship girls' carrier-based aircraft and missiles to hit their targets accurately, they must be personally controlled by the ship girls. Their effective combat radius can be estimated at around 2000 kilometers."

To avoid being discovered by spies from the Central Continent Empire, I've always deployed them in the deep sea, far from the mainland... Given the speed of the ship girls and the Central Continent Empire's fleet, it will take at least half a day before we can launch a precision strike against the enemy.

"Half a day... I understand."

Tia narrowed her eyes slightly and pondered for a moment before waving her hand to open a projection map of the entire Frenoia continent and the surrounding seas. The map also showed the current deployment of the allied forces.

"If I'm not mistaken..."

Tia first pointed to the northeast corner of the Frenoia continent on the map:

"The Central Continent Empire will definitely allocate some troops to attack the Sage's Tower. After all, they have taken in many traitors from the Sage's Tower, so they should be well aware of its value... The plan I proposed before should be ready by now, right, teacher?"

"Don't worry, everything will be fine."

The Seventh Sage answered with great confidence, yet also with a hint of gritted teeth:

"I was worried those bastards wouldn't come... They destroyed the Sage's Tower so badly last time, this time they'll pay the price!"

"Yes, I believe in the abilities of the teacher and all the sages, but the enemy should not be underestimated. So everyone must follow the plan and not be too eager to win."

Tia chuckled and added another word of advice before decisively giving the order:

"Then let the Sage Tower deal with the enemies attacking it, according to plan."

"Yes, Commander!"

Despite being Tia's teacher, the Seventh Sage showed no airs at all. He gave Tia a formal military salute before turning and leaving to prepare.

"Next is the Witch's Forest."

Tia swiped her hand down again on the projected map:

"Although I don't think the Central Continent Empire will forcefully break through the natural barrier of the Witch Forest, it would be best if someone kept an eye on it just in case... How about I leave it to you, Your Excellency Mountain Witch?"

"No problem... In fact, this is the most correct order."

A witch with short, brown hair and a rather imposing figure swayed forward, lifting the hem of her skirt with both hands to give Tia an elegant bow, performing a ladylike curtsy.

"Commander, rest assured, the mountains on the eastern slopes of the Witch Forest will never fall."

"I think so too... but the Central Continent Empire is really quite unexpected."

Tia returned the same witch's greeting and smiled:

"Therefore, Your Excellency Mountain Witch, please do not act rashly... If the Central Continent Empire has any designs on the mountains of the Witch's Forest, do not act impulsively. The most important thing is to send back a message as soon as possible. If necessary, the Elf Clan and the Dragon Clan will support you together."

"Yes, Commander."

The Mountain Witch also obeyed the order and left.

Tia's gaze continued south and west across the map, toward Fran and the Four Islands Alliance.

"If they want to conquer such a large territory as the Frenoia Continent, even if the Central Continent Empire is arrogant, they probably won't intend to finish the war quickly... So they need to take some islands as springboards to establish bases and logistics."

Tia's finger traced a light line along the southern coast of France before finally landing heavily on the Four Islands Alliance:

"Therefore, the enemy will detach a small force to attack the coastal towns in southern France, but this should only be a feint to disperse our allied forces. What they really want to attack with all their might is the territory of the Four Islands Alliance."

"As the master of the Four Islands Alliance, I will certainly treat them well!"

Himika was eager to get started:

"The coalition forces should support us with their main forces, right? And can we use all the new weapons that the combat lab has developed over the years?"

"The first large-scale battle between the Allied Forces and the Empire will most likely take place in the Four Islands Alliance, but I intend to hand over the task of commanding the defensive operations at the front to General Maiser."

Tia first gave Himiko a somewhat apologetic smile, then looked at the admiral in sunglasses:

"Is it okay?"

"Hmph, who do you think I am?"

The man in sunglasses arrogantly adjusted his sunglasses.

"Although I lost to you in the election for commander of the Allied Forces, I have always been the best at commanding defensive battles in simulated combat... As long as there are no problems with logistics, I will definitely let those bastards in the Central Continent Empire know what an impregnable fortress is!"

"Very well, I'm handing over command of the Second and Third Fleets to you, Admiral Max. Please make sure you stop the enemy's main force on Sword Island."

Tia snapped her fingers:

"Victory or defeat doesn't matter, as long as we can slow down the enemy's advance as much as possible and prevent too many Allied soldiers from being killed... General Maiser, you are indeed more capable in this regard, please."

"Just leave it to me."

The general in sunglasses saluted Tia and then waved into the conference room.

"Did you hear that? Ladies of the Second and Third Fleets, it's time to get to work."

"Yes!"xN

More than a dozen senior officers stood up in response, saluted Tia together, and then left the conference room with the general in sunglasses.

"Mmm..."

Tia continued to stare at the projected map for a few more seconds, then tapped the table lightly with her fingers a few times before looking up at the other officers:

"Let's prepare for the coastal defense battle. We can evacuate all the civilians... The mechanical behemoth Xuanwu is likely an amphibious mobile fortress. Let's execute Plan C2."

"Yes, Commander!"

More than ten senior officers stood up, saluted in turn, and then left to receive their orders.