The story of the black silk female knight

By the time Valensa reached the sixth brick, the power of her sword strike was completely exhausted, and the blade was stuck in the middle of the sixth brick, unable to penetrate any further.

"The score is the same as last month's test score..."

Seeing this, Valensa couldn't help but sigh:

"It seems the owner of the Dimensional Hardware Store was right. My physical performance has been enhanced to its current limit by the enhancement device. No matter how much I train, it won't improve unless I make a breakthrough."

"fine……"

After a brief moment of frustration, Valensa raised her sword once more:

"I have gained new power, now let's see the results!"

"drink!"

The blade once again slashed at the blue bricks amidst a flash of silver light, but this time, Valensa activated her mental power to enhance her attack.

A slight ripple appeared in the pool of the heart, less than a tenth of the original size remained, but the blue brick could no longer block the sword light and was completely cut open from top to bottom, without even slowing down the speed of the blade.

"This power... is awesome."

Valensa was quite satisfied with the neat cuts on the blue bricks. She then put away her longsword, took out her shield, and hurled it at a nearby tree.

Bang bang bang!

The round shield spun and collided with several large trees before bouncing back into Valensa's hand, leaving only deep cracks on the tree trunks. One of the thinner trees was even smashed in half.

"Hmm... I can break trees with a single throw... There's no doubt that my strength has reached at least the Pearl level after being enhanced."

Valensa approached a few trees to check the results and became increasingly satisfied with the effects of the mental power.

Next is the test to enhance agility.

There isn't a precise stopwatch in this world, so it's not very convenient to test agility by comparing the time taken to move the same distance.

Valensa did the opposite; she bought a very fine hourglass from the Nora Chamber of Commerce to test how far she could move in the same amount of time.

The first time, without using her mental powers to enhance her agility, she ran 27 laps around the clearing in the woods where she trained when the sand at one end of the hourglass ran out.

The second time, she also used about one-tenth of her Heart Pool reserves to enhance her agility, and ran a full 61 and a half laps in the same amount of time.

"This increase in strength is even greater than the increase in power?"

Valencia herself was somewhat surprised by the result:

"It seems to be the opposite of what I guessed before... The strengthening effect of mental power will not be weakened by my own strength, but will instead make the strong even stronger... That's amazing."

For the rest of the day, Valensa tested herself in a similar way.

Just as Miss Phantom Thief said, mental power can enhance the body in all aspects.

In addition to strength and speed, Valensa's stamina, defense, and healing abilities can also be greatly enhanced by mental powers.

It's hard to estimate in terms of endurance, but Valensa feels that after the enhancement, she can run for four or five hours at full speed without any problem.

Her defense was less than ideal... because women's skin is inherently delicate, even though Valensa used up a quarter of her heart's reserves in one go, she still couldn't withstand the dagger's stab with her skin and bled a lot.

The enhancement of her self-healing ability is quite good. After the defense enhancement test, Valensa immediately activated her mental power to enhance her self-healing.

She thought it would be very taxing, but to her surprise, the water in her heart pool had only decreased by about 5%, and the wound, which was at least 2 centimeters long and 0.5 centimeters deep, had already scabbed over.

When the skin has been reduced to 7%, the scab falls off, and new skin, like that of a baby, has grown back. The whole process takes less than 20 minutes.

"That's good... I knew it! How can a knight not have a self-healing ability?"

Valensa was very satisfied with the result and couldn't help but laugh out loud:

"That way, even if I have to use the power of divine runes to trade blows with the enemy in the future, my ability to heal quickly will give me an advantage."

After the single-attribute enhancement test ended, Valensa rested for a while to allow her depleted Heart Pool reserves to recover before starting a new comprehensive test.

The results are pretty good.

If all of Valensa's physical abilities are enhanced at the same time, although her current mental reserves can only last for less than 20 minutes, her strength during that short time can reach the Pearl level, or even the peak of the Pearl level.

With this level of explosive power, as long as she's careful and doesn't let her guard down, Valensa would have enough to pass the War Academy's entrance exam, even without the help of equipment, props, or divine runes.

But Valensa wasn't satisfied; she didn't want a high probability of success, but absolute certainty.

Because she was about to come of age, this entrance examination was her last chance. If she failed, she would have no choice but to marry a man and have children under the kingdom's laws, or give up everything and go into exile.

Valensa absolutely could not accept failing the assessment.

There's an old saying from a past life that Valensa still remembers vividly.

The amount of water a barrel can hold is never determined by the longest plank, but by the shortest.

Valensa believes the same principle applies to spiritual practitioners.

Strong individuals are often able to maximize their strengths.

The strongest can overcome all their weaknesses and be invincible in any environment.

In many games from my past life, that was for the sake of balance, there was no other way.

But there are no numerical designers in this world, so Valensa wanted to give it a try.

Try being a hexagonal female knight.

Therefore, she must find her weaknesses in the third round of testing and try her best to solve them.

So she started to put herself in other people's shoes.

If you were a bad guy and you discovered a female knight in black stockings like yourself, what methods would you use to defeat and capture her?

Chapter 58 17 consecutive draws

Overwhelming them with sheer strength is undoubtedly the safest approach, and it's also the most unsolvable situation Valensa faces when confronting formidable opponents.

However, this situation can be temporarily disregarded in the admissions assessment for the War Academy.

Because this is just an assessment, not a real battle.

The War Academy will not set up challenges that require excessive strength. Even if an unexpected and powerful enemy disrupts the proceedings, candidates can ask the examiners for help.

So the real point of failure is getting stuck in an environment you're not good at.

Some chess masters enjoy playing chess against themselves, and Valencia is doing something similar now, using herself as a hypothetical opponent in mental simulations to counter each move.

Surprisingly, this method worked quite well, and it wasn't long before Valensa noticed her weakness.

She can't fly... Aside from jumping fairly high, she has almost no three-dimensional maneuverability.

In fact, most warriors below the Star Glory level cannot fly, so when many mages fight warriors, their first action is not to put on a shield, but to take off.

To cope with this situation, soldiers usually try to enhance their three-dimensional mobility or use some long-range attack methods to fight the air.

Perhaps it's because the jungle terrain near Sergin Town is somewhat similar to a tropical rainforest; the dense canopy means adventurers rarely have to face aerial threats, and Valensa has experienced the same for the past three years.

Therefore, she not only lacks any three-dimensional mobility, but her air defense capability is also close to zero.

This is undoubtedly a very fatal weakness.

Given an environment like a swamp where it's difficult to move on the ground, and with several firefly-level flying monsters constantly harassing and besieging Valensa, there's a high probability that Valensa's stamina will be exhausted, turning her into a defeated black-stockinged female knight.

This is absolutely not okay.

Valensa immediately began to think of ways to make up for her weaknesses, and the first thing she thought of, of course, was to use her magical mental powers.

I can fly, I can fly, I can fly...

After muttering these words to herself, Valensa used up most of her Heart Pool reserves in one go, then leaped upwards, wanting to experience the feeling of flying.

The result... it flew up, but it wasn't flying at all.

It's less like flying and more like swimming in the air, in that dog-paddle style, very slow and with unsightly movements.

Regardless of how much use this flying technique can play in combat, the fact that it almost empties the heart pool after swimming less than 20 meters into the sky is enough to make Valensa give up immediately.

"It seems my previous analysis was absolutely right... The effect of strengthening mental strength is that you become stronger when faced with a stronger opponent. It's still too difficult for someone like me who can't fly at all to force myself to take flight."

As Valensa fell from mid-air, she brushed the dust off her black stockings and sighed with a wry smile.

It seems impossible to acquire three-dimensional maneuverability in a short period of time using only our own strength, so we can only increase our anti-aircraft firepower.

The experiment went relatively smoothly. Valencia had played with compound bows as a hobby in her previous life, and she hadn't completely given up her archery skills in this life.

While they can't compare to professional archers, they can still enhance their vision with mental power, making it possible to hit stationary targets with perfect accuracy, and their hit rate against flying targets is around 80%.

For warrior-type cultivators who are not archers, this archery skill is sufficient.

So Valensa still focused on improving her three-dimensional mobility... Even if flying enemies can be dealt with with arrows, what about environments where it is difficult to move on the ground?

If prolonged aerial movement is not possible, surely there should be some kind of explosive 3D maneuverability?

Unfortunately, Valensa thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with any better solutions... at least, she couldn't rely entirely on her own strength.

"Looks like that's still the only option. I hope my Plan B works."

After making up her mind, Valensa first went home, took a nice bath, and slept to fully restore her physical and mental energy before running to the big tree in the northwest corner of the town.

Run three laps counter-clockwise around the tree, climb onto the broken branch, and jump upside down.

After a familiar scene change in mid-air, Valensa once again found herself in the Dimensional Hardware Store, a magical place located between worlds.

"Welcome, Miss Valensa."

The machine shop manager, with his square-shaped monitor head and tracked chassis, quickly came out to greet us:

"What kind of service do you need today? Enhancement? Blind box draw? Or just to chat?"

"Buying blind boxes".

Valensa stated her purpose directly.

She had tried to get information from the store manager through casual conversation several times over the past three years, and she knew long ago that the store manager would never say anything he shouldn't, so no matter how much she inquired, it was useless.

"OK, just a second."

The store manager scanned Valensa a few times with the mechanical monocular on the cube-shaped monitor's head, and then read out the number of blind box draws Valensa currently had.

A total of 17 times... Valensa basically earned these from Melina, Kiri, Lulu, and the noble ladies of Clara City.

Oh, and the lap pillow and massage given to Miss Thief that night also earned Valensa two extra times.

"Do you want to use up all your draws?" the store manager asked.

"Yes."

Valensa nodded, then hesitated for a few seconds:

"I also want to ask... are the items in the blind box revealed only when you open it, or is the outcome already determined when you take the blind box out? Can I use my abilities to interfere during the draw?"

"Miss Valensa wants to use mental power to enhance her luck, right?"

The shop owner immediately understood Valensa's meaning, and a sly smile appeared on the top of the square monitor:

"In principle, there's no problem with this... but Miss Valencia, you should be prepared. The feeling of mental exhaustion is very unpleasant... dozens of times worse than motion sickness or being drunk and having a hangover."

"Yes, I know that." Valensa nodded.

"Just be prepared, I've already done my duty to remind you."

The shop owner then answered Valensa's first question:

"As for the items in the blind box... since Miss Valensa came from a technological civilization in her previous life, she must know a little about quantum mechanics, right? Then she should also understand... before opening the box to observe, the items in the blind box are uncertain... that's all I can say."

"Does opening the box really confirm it...? I think I understand."

Valencia nodded thoughtfully; this was more in line with her wishes... In this way, the items inside the blind box would be determined by the luck of the person opening the box, rather than by the shop owner who took out the box.

"bring it on."

Having made up her mind completely, Valensa sat down on the long-legged stool in front of the hardware store counter, pressing her hands on the table and her chest down as well:

"I'm sure I've used up all my draws... 17 draws, open the box!"

Chapter 59 The young lady changed her own card pool.

"okay."

The shop owner's face, with the soybean-shaped smile on his square monitor head, was beaming, just like a small business owner meeting a big customer.

In fact, this was indeed the most consecutive draws Valensa had taken in three years.