Things about the female knight in black stockings

White phosphorus bombs will definitely be effective against the armored bear, but at most they will burn away the bear's fur... It may not be possible to completely defeat it with this, because it is also strengthened by earth-attribute magic power with extremely high defense.

If you want to truly complete the crusade mission, you still have to rely on the power of the divine power runes.

Chapter 14: I’ll blow you up first, then rebound your attack

Stack the thickest armor, take the hardest beating, and then activate the divine power rune to deflect the attack, exchanging the death of the enemy at the cost of slight injury to yourself. This is Valencia's current tactical thinking.

Although the skirt and armor she is wearing now is thin and light, its material selection and workmanship are top-notch in the entire Serkin Town, and it is enough to defend against stabbing and slashing with conventional sharp weapons.

But when faced with a blunt weapon like a two-handed square hammer that uses kinetic energy impact as its main means of destruction, single-layer metal armor is ineffective no matter how good its quality is.

Improve!Must be severely improved!

Although this improvement method will temporarily make Valencia look a little bloated, she gritted her teeth and endured it. She does not yet have the strength to remain elegant in battle at all times. She just wants to win now.

Returning to Melina's two-bedroom staff dormitory, Valencia took off all the clothes on her upper body except for her underwear in one breath.

Afterwards, she rummaged around in her room and found a very tight leather vest, which she wore as the first layer over her underwear.

She continued to search, and this time she found a thick cotton-padded jacket that was only worn in winter. It seemed very hot in this season, but for the sake of victory, Valensa endured it.

After putting on the thick cotton-padded jacket, Valensa put on the armor that she had taken off at the beginning. After putting it on, she continued to put on a thick layer of cotton clothing outside the armor.

"That's about it... Wearing it any longer will affect your agility and mobility too much."

After wearing four layers of armor in a soft-hard-soft-semi-hard manner, Valencia could clearly feel some tightness in her chest, so she gave up the idea of ​​continuing to layer the armor.

She endured the sweltering heat and did some warm-up exercises in the room for a while to allow her body to fully adapt to fighting in this kind of wear, and then set off with the simple white phosphorus grenade she had made before.

This is Valencia's third mission to defeat the armored bear men, so she is naturally familiar with the task.

The armored bear man was very ambitious...or maybe he was overconfident. He had been knocked on the door many times by the adventurers from Serjin Town, but he never changed his home.

The Armored Bear Man still lives in the same place. As a monster that can use tools like humans, it even built itself a tent-like hut using stones and dry firewood.

The comfort level is definitely not comparable to that of human buildings, but it is enough to provide protection from wind and rain.

When Valencia found it, the armored bear man must have just finished hunting and was sitting by the hut holding a deer leg and feasting. The deer with only three legs next to him was still alive and still struggling and wailing.

Seeing Valencia, the armored bear man was stunned for a moment, and an obvious expression of ridicule appeared on his big bear face.

It didn't even bother to stand up and continued to eat the deer leg.

He can use weapons and tools and build his own house. The armored bear man's intelligence is definitely not low, and he naturally remembers Valencia, a defeated general who has been here twice.

Her weak attack power can't scratch her at all, but she jumps up and down very flexibly. It's a complete waste of time to fight her seriously. It's better to continue eating meat.

Anyway, based on the previous two experiences, as long as you defend yourself well, this female human will run away on her own after being scratched for a while.

The Armored Bear Man did not sense the aura of strengthening in Valencia, and it did not think that today's ending would be much different from the previous two times.

"Damn it, a mere monster is actually mocking me!"

Valencia naturally saw the armored bear man's expression and guessed its psychological activities, which made her already angry mood even more irritating.

But she was annoyed, but Valencia was not impulsive... Those female knights who liked to draw their swords and strike when their brains got hot did not end well. She still vividly remembered some of the strange comics she read in her previous life.

Still going as planned here.

"go with!"

The first simple white phosphorus bomb was quickly thrown by Valencia, but the target was not the armored bear, but the small shack built by the armored bear.

The violent impact caused the glass water bottle to shatter, and the fire attribute magic crystal powder also exploded into flames, igniting the white phosphorus in the bottle, causing the white phosphorus to fully burn in the hot and humid air of the summer jungle.

This effect was even more powerful than the magician's fireball spell, at least as good as the ignition spell. Within a few seconds, the home of the armored bear man was completely enveloped in flames, and there was definitely no way to save it.

Roar!

Seeing the home he had worked so hard to build being burned down, the armored bear man roared angrily, and the deer leg in his hand suddenly lost its fragrance.

As if to vent its anger, it completely trampled the struggling deer next to it, then picked up the long-handled square hammer not far from its hand and glared at Valencia.

What greeted it was the second simple white phosphorus bomb.

Having seen the power of this bottle, the armored Ursine did not dare to overdo it. Even though it was very heavy, he still tried his best to dodge and barely avoided the simple white phosphorus bomb.

But it was useless, because at the same time that the armored bear man made a dodge action, Valencia also threw out the last simple white phosphorus bomb, completely locking the armored bear man's dodge landing point.

As a result, the armored bear man was still hit by a simple white phosphorus bomb, and the bear fur all over his body was ignited.

Even the deer beside it was not spared. It was affected by the second simple white phosphorus bomb and was covered in flames in the blink of an eye.

Humph.

Looking at the result of three consecutive hits of her simple white phosphorus bomb, Valencia had a smile in her eyes.

I burned your home, burned all your hair, and burned your food. Are you angry?

Of course the armored bear man was very angry. He was almost furious.

Even though it knew that there was a huge difference in agility between the two and the attack would most likely be useless, it still charged forward with a long-handled square hammer in both hands and smashed it in the jungle.

The trees as thick as a bowl were as fragile as newspaper shells under the sledgehammer, and were easily broken and smashed. A large number of branches and leaves that had lost their roots continued to fall like rain and snow.

The squirrels and birds living on the top of the trees were innocently implicated, barking and jumping wildly, and a large area of ​​the jungle was trembling under the armored bear and its sledgehammer.

But Valencia relied on her excellent agility to always keep herself out of the attack range, and deliberately jumped up and down around the armored bear man, provoking from time to time.

The armored bear man became even more furious, completely losing his mind and falling into madness, and the sound of breaking through the air when swinging the big hammer was loud.

Finally, Valencia seemed to have stepped on her foot by mistake. She screamed in panic and fell backwards.

The armored bear man, who was completely mad, had no doubt of the deceit. He raised his sledgehammer high and hit it hard with the strongest blow of the day.

when!

The sledgehammer successfully hit Valencia's upper body, but the armored bear man looked a little confused... The feeling of this blow was very strange. Valensa seemed to have expected it, and after following the direction of the blow, The jump actually didn't hurt much at all.

Could this be a trap?

The armored bear man just thought of this, but it was already too late... He felt a sharp pain coming from his chest, as if he had been hit by a big hammer, and almost all of his sternum was shattered.

Chapter 15 This lady is rich again

"Huh... so dangerous, so dangerous."

When the armored bear man fell, Valencia, who flew out, patted her chest and stood up.

Even though she had been prepared and wore four layers of protection to reduce the kinetic impact, and she jumped back with all her strength in the direction of the hammer the moment she was hit, the blow still made her quite uncomfortable.

There was a turmoil in my chest and abdomen, and I almost vomited my lunch.

However, Valencia was not worried about lunch. In contrast, she was more worried about whether the figure she had finally grown into would be flattened by a sledgehammer. She was not relieved until she personally confirmed that her size had not changed. One breath.

The armored bear-man definitely used all his strength in this blow, which can be seen from the fact that it is constantly vomiting blood and taking in less air and outgoing more... It is almost dying.

But Valencia still didn't approach easily... Many monsters have high intelligence and are cunning and ruthless. They are good at pretending to be dead and fighting back.

Many inexperienced young adventurers were deceived by this trick. As a result, they were killed by their prey when they were about to win, and they were reduced to food or toys.

Valencia's adventure experience is not actually rich, but she has read a lot of comics in her previous life, especially those about defeating female knights, priestesses, and female magicians and being bullied by monsters. There are too many of them.

Therefore, after Valencia became an adventurer herself, she has always been as cautious as possible, and would rather miss the reward than involve herself in it.

At this time, she kept a distance to observe the armored bear man and waited patiently.

Even though the strengthening effect of the earth magic power on the armored bear man had disappeared, his breathing was very weak and he had lost consciousness, Valencia still did not act rashly.

She took out the round shield that would bounce back twice when thrown, and hit the armored bear man's head hard, which could not resist.

Facts have proved that she must have been overly worried this time. The armored bear man was completely crippled by the full force of the attack. Under the impact of the shield, he quickly lost his life and his body gradually became cold.

Valensa then carefully approached with her long sword, cut off the armored bear man's head, and dug out a fist-sized piece of earth-attribute magic crystal in its heart.

"yeah!"

The bounty reward for the Armored Ursine alone is 30 gold coins. This earth-attribute magic crystal is worth more than 20 gold coins even if it is cheaper and faster.

The money to buy the magic shield scroll was half enough in one go, and Valensa couldn't help but jump on the spot a few times like scissor hands.

As long as she gets the magic shield scroll, she will be able to easily pass the first level of the Zhan Zhan Academy's admissions exam in one month.

In fact, in addition to buying a magic shield scroll, drawing a blind box at a dimensional hardware store is also an option.

If she could pull out a useful gold...no, purple-quality protective prop from the blind box, Valencia would be confident that she would perform well in the admissions assessment of the War College.

But the randomness of this kind of thing is too high, and Valencia doesn't really believe in her luck...otherwise she wouldn't have just saved up enough money to see the golden legendary item for the first time.

So after careful consideration, Valencia decided to give priority to purchasing the magic shield scroll with the money she earned.

As for the number of blind box draws... Anyway, there is a new way to obtain it now.

Let's try again tonight, this time with a different target... For example, Qili and Lulu at the front desk are good. We can use the success of the subjugation mission as an excuse to ask them out for a few drinks to celebrate.

While thinking about the 'bad things' she was going to do that night, Valencia put away the loot, took a short rest and waited for the discomfort in her chest and abdomen to completely disappear before starting her return journey.

"Haha, I am rich again! Qili, Lulu, let's go have a drink together tonight... eh?"

Before entering the door of the Adventurer's Guild Hall, Valencia pretended to be cheerful and extended an invitation to the two ladies at the front desk.

But after pushing open the door curtain, she was stunned because the atmosphere in the hall was quite serious and a little sad.

In addition to the usual adventurers, there were actually several fully armed Kingdom soldiers who were saying something to Melina with solemn expressions.

Not only that, at a table in the corner of the hall, there was a young adventurer with blood-oozing gauze hanging on half of his arm sitting there. His eyes were very red. There was a big ax on the table in front of him, stained with blood. .

This……

Valencia's newly adjusted smile froze on her face, and she almost bit her tongue.

She made a quick observation and found that the kingdom soldiers and Melina were probably talking about official business. She could just ask Melina directly later.

But the young adventurer in the corner... Valencia had an impression that he was the nephew of the senior adventurer Hand?

The big ax on the table probably belongs to Hand... Something happened to him?

Hand is a genuine pearl-level warrior. None of the beasts and monsters that appear near Serjin Town should be able to kill him... Could it be related to what the soldiers are talking about?

Valencia made a quick guess based on the situation at the scene, hesitated for a moment, and still did not choose to go directly to the corner to ask the young man.

He must be sad now that he has just lost his uncle... What if a beautiful girl like me goes to talk to him and he falls in love with her?

Licking a dog is difficult to deal with, which is why Valencia asked to retain her aristocratic status. The class difference can help her avoid a lot of trouble in this regard.

So Valensa chose Qili and Lulu's side. She pointed at the young adventurer who was staring at her uncle's relics in the corner, and asked in a low voice:

"What's going on over there? Do you two know?"

"Hey, don't mention it, Uncle Hand is quite unlucky too."

The two ladies at the counter looked at each other, and Lulu replied with a wry smile:

"I don't know when a Winged Blade Falcon came to the cliff in the north. It is a peak pearl-level monster that can be dangerous to lighthouse-level adventurers.

Uncle Hand and the others who happened to be active in the north today were attacked by a Winged Blade Falcon. Uncle Hand died on the spot to protect his nephew, and even his body was snatched away by the Winged Blade Falcon and turned into food... Although his nephew, a novice adventurer, reluctantly He escaped, but also lost an arm. I'm afraid it will be difficult to even farm in the future. "

"Wing Blade Falcon? A monster at the pinnacle of the Pearl Level?"

Valencia frowned. She chewed the name over and over again, carefully recalling the information she had read in the Monster Manual.

Wingblade Falcon has wings as sharp as fine enchanted blades, with a wingspan of about 5 meters. It is extremely fast. Although it is only rated at the Pearl level in terms of comprehensive evaluation, there is still a high chance of being injured or even killed by the Lighthouse level if accidentally attacked by it.

The information in the Monster Manual seems to be only this, and Valensa is not very satisfied.

If that Winged Blade Falcon will stay near Serjin Town for a long time in the future... it will be necessary to wait for the young man to calm down and ask carefully.

Chapter 16 The lurking danger

"Yeah, okay, I understand, then it's settled..."

While Valencia was thinking about what words to use to ask the young adventurer for information about the Wing Blade Falcon, Melina's conversation with several kingdom soldiers had ended.

Before leaving the Adventurer's Guild Hall, several Kingdom soldiers who saw Valencia looked surprised, and one of them seemed to want to strike up a conversation.

However, they immediately discovered the emblem representing the noble status on Valencia's body, suppressed their unrealistic thoughts, and left silently.

Hum, man.

Valencia, who was fully aware of the changes in the mental states of the several soldiers, curled her lips before walking towards Melina, who still looked serious:

"What happened, Sister Melina?"