The story of the black silk female knight

Chapter 10: Experimentation with New Abilities

"Young Miss, what are your plans for today?"

At the breakfast table, Melina smiled as she ate small bites of bread and sausage, looking at Valensa.

"Speaking of which, I forgot to ask yesterday... How was your guaranteed minimum? Are you satisfied?"

"It's alright. I've gained a new ability that can grow with me. If its effects are as I predicted, I can even build certain tactics around it."

Valensa slurped up her milk in big gulps and answered with a smile:

"I plan to test this ability today, so I won't take on any missions for now... Of course, if there are any missions with high cost-effectiveness, I'll have to ask Melina to save them for me."

"That's easy to say."

Melina nodded, swallowed the last piece of sausage in her hand, and stood up.

"Then I'll go downstairs first. Kiri and Lulu should already be here, and the adventurers who just returned last night should also be waiting to turn in their quests."

"Okay, bye-bye, Melina. Hope your work goes well~~."

Valensa waved goodbye to Melina as she left before lowering her head to continue drinking her milk.

"Gulp... Ha~~".

Before long, Valensa had drunk a large glass of hot milk. A little white liquid residue dripped down her chin, but she wiped it clean with a towel before it got on her clothes.

Where to go next?

After eating and drinking her fill, Valensa sat at the table, resting her chin on her hand, deep in thought.

The divine runes' abilities can currently only be tested once a day. While testing them on monsters is possible, it's certainly not as direct and accurate as testing them on humans.

If we're going to test it on people... who should we target?

She had cultivated an image of a warm, cheerful, and approachable noble lady in Sergintown. Bullying others might ruin that image, which would be a huge loss.

Asking someone who is also an adventurer to train in combat... is not really an option either. How can one easily let outsiders know about such a powerful ability as divine runes?

...emmm

It seems there's only one way left.

Valensa stood up from the table, then lay down on the floor, burying most of her body under the bed, leaving only her shapely buttocks and calves, encased in black pantyhose, exposed.

"Phew...Found it."

She rummaged under the bed for almost half a minute, panting, before finally pulling out a small box about the size of a shoebox.

The box looked old, with many tears on the edges and corners, and the surface was covered in dust. It didn't look like something Valensa, a noble lady, should have.

Because the props in that box were what she used to disguise her identity.

pat.

The clasps on the suitcase were a little tight due to rust, but Valensa still managed to open them smoothly, revealing a gray interior.

It was a tattered, beggar-style cloak, quite large, that completely concealed Valensa's already well-developed figure, making her look like a homeless person you could easily find in the slums.

Beneath the tattered cloak, there was a cheap pearl bracelet that looked worthless but was still worth a few dozen copper coins. Valensa wore it, and it was faintly visible under the cuffs of the tattered cloak.

"OK, the disguise is complete, now it's time to go 'fishing'."

After looking in the mirror and confirming that she couldn't see any flaws, Valensa opened the window and jumped directly from the 5th floor.

This look would be too conspicuous in the lobby; it's better to go through the window.

After leaving the Adventurers' Guild, Valensa glanced around and easily blended into the crowd, deliberately using a staggering gait to completely disguise herself as a poor and old person.

At first, the pedestrians on the road were quite friendly. Even if they looked down on her tattered cloak that made her look like a beggar, most of them would give way and not show any malice.

But as Valencia headed north to the most dangerous and thuggish street in Sergintown, she suddenly found herself receiving more and more hostile stares.

Perhaps because the thugs also wanted to sleep in, most of the malicious glances directed at Valensa were just stares, and no one actually made a move.

It wasn't until she seemingly accidentally lifted her sleeve a few times, revealing the cheap pearl necklace, that a prey finally couldn't resist taking the bait.

"Hey, you old man!"

A hideous man, wearing only underwear and shirtless, jumped out and blocked Valensa's path.

"What's that thing on your wrist? Show it to me right now... I'm short on some coins for drinking these days."

"...No, that won't do."

Valensa strained her voice, producing a hoarse tone, and trembled as she backed away, seemingly terrified.

"This is my last piece of jewelry, you can't..."

"No, I can!"

The already hideous man's expression became even more ferocious, and his eyes even gleamed with a sadistic light:

"Stop talking nonsense and bring me the thing right now!"

"no no!"

Valensa became even more terrified, turned and fled towards a more secluded alleyway nearby.

"Ha, you foolish old man."

The man chuckled, looking as if he was about to catch a turtle in a jar, and strode after him.

"Bring it to you!"

Once they reached a place where no one else was around, the man no longer bothered to hide and pounced on Valensa roughly, grabbing her wrist.

"no, do not want!"

Valensa seemed to be dodging in a panic, but as if by coincidence, she tripped right under the feet of the unsuspecting man, causing him to fall face-first into the mud in an extremely unsightly manner.

"Old man!"

The man was completely enraged.

brush!

He pulled a dagger straight out of his underwear and charged forward, roaring.

"you wanna die!"

But that's exactly what Valensa wanted. She narrowed her eyes, used her almost pearl-level dynamic vision to lock onto the dagger, and pretended to panic as she raised her hand to block it, while activating her ability at the same time.

when.

"Ouch! My wrist... my wrist!"

The dagger pierced Valensa's right wrist, but she was unharmed because beneath that tattered, beggar-like cloak lay metal bracers, easily deflecting the thug's dagger attack.

On the contrary, the thug himself suddenly developed a wound on the same spot on his right wrist, the size and shape of which matched the dagger perfectly. It was currently bleeding profusely and he was rolling on the ground in pain.

"Noisy!"

Valensa stopped acting and kicked the thug in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious.

"It's just a little blood, what's all the fuss about... A real man can't even handle this little bit of pain, no wonder he's so pathetic as to rob an old man here... What a waste of food and oxygen!"

Despite her complaints, Valensa frowned and knelt down next to the thug to examine the wound on his wrist, all to ensure an accurate assessment.

"...Hmm, just as I thought."

A few minutes later, Valensa stood up with satisfaction, kicked the man under her feet into the corner of the alley, and then turned and left gracefully.

Chapter 11 Office Supplies in Another World

Although only one test was conducted, Valensa was able to confirm it.

The damage reflection ability of my divine rune, which only occurs once a day, is exactly as I understand it: it causes the enemy to receive the same attack, but not the same damage.

These two situations may seem similar, but they are actually quite different.

Using the game mechanics Valencia was most familiar with from her previous life, if you want to deal the same amount of damage to the enemy, then the amount of damage you want to deal through reflected damage will also depend on how much health you lose... It's a completely useless double-edged sword, except for dealing with certain enemies with low health and high attack.

But if the enemy is subjected to the same attack, then it's a completely different story.

Because attacks can be defended, parried, dodged, and the damage can be minimized by using various spells or items.

In a situation where the enemy is caught off guard, tactics can be built around this counter-damage capability, making the enemy lose inexplicably, just like that thug from before.

Valensa has thoroughly examined the hoodlum.

Although the wound on the thug's right wrist matched the size and shape of his dagger perfectly, the dagger itself was clean and showed no signs of having just pierced someone's wrist.

The wound appeared as if by some natural phenomenon, suddenly appearing in the same spot where the thug had stabbed Valensa with a dagger... It can only be said that it was indeed the power of God.

Although the damage is not high, the mechanism that causes the damage is likely to be top-tier.

Valensa's mind immediately started working, and she now had many ideas about the first hurdle of the War Academy's admissions assessment that had been troubling her.

brush.

In a good mood, Valensa stopped pretending, took off her tattered cloak, and transformed back into a cheerful young girl, running back to the Adventurers' Guild with a lingering fragrance.

"Sister Melina~ Sister Melina~"

She ran up to the second floor and pushed open the door to the supervisor's office:

"Could you help me find some information?"

"Miss?"

Melina, who was working, immediately put down her pen and pushed the documents in front of her aside:

What kind of intelligence do you need to investigate?

"Use the Adventurers' Guild's intelligence network to investigate for me..."

Valensa pondered for a few seconds:

"Check the recent mission rewards for me to see if there are any damage mitigation items... preferably those that can mitigate damage based on the number of attacks and have extremely high damage reduction!"

"A defensive item that negates damage based on the number of uses? Is it meant to complement your new ability, Miss?"

Melina immediately understood, and of course she wouldn't refuse:

"I understand, I'll take a look for you right away."

She walked from the desk to the corner, where there was a metal safe the size of a bookshelf.

The cabinet door is not only equipped with a rotary combination lock, but also requires a blood test for magical authentication... because the cabinet contains the Adventurers' Guild's most valuable property, and only Melina, the manager of Sergintown, is authorized to access it.

Melina quickly opened the cabinet door, inside were some precious paper documents, several bags of magic crystals, and an exquisitely crafted magical artifact.

The upper part of the prop was a diamond-shaped crystal, while the lower part was made of pure metal and had many control modules that looked like buttons.

Valensa was certainly not seeing Melina use this magical item for the first time; she had seen it much more often when she was a countess in the capital.

Although this thing is complex to make and quite expensive, in Valensa's eyes it is just an office computer that she could see everywhere in her previous life, and it is the oldest and most outdated model.

However, in this world of swords and magic, magical items that allow ordinary people to remotely upload, download, and access information are extremely valuable and must be used with caution.

Melina followed the procedure exactly. First, she took out a water-type magic crystal from the bag containing the magic crystals, rubbed it repeatedly in her palm, and washed her hands with the purest water to prevent any unknown residues on her hands from reacting with the Lian Nian crystal device and causing damage.

Melina carefully took the Linking Crystal Device out of the safe and placed it on her desk. She then took out a non-attribute magic crystal and used coarse sandpaper to grind off some magic crystal powder, which she used as the starting energy for the Linking Crystal Device.

Once everything was ready, Melina held up her monocle with one hand and gently operated the Liannian Crystal Instrument with the other to make a query.

Although this device can connect to the internet to search for information like Valensa did in her previous life, its speed is far slower than that of a computer and the internet.

She waited for a long time, even yawning several times, before Melina finally put down her monocle, looking somewhat tired.

"So, Melina? Any success?"

"Not much was gained."

Melina sighed and shook her head:

"The vast majority of rewards for Adventurers' Guild quests are in gold coins. It's rare for quest clients to offer physical rewards, let alone specify the type of item..."

"Of course I know that, that's why I had to ask Melina to use this."

Valensa smiled and pointed to the crystal conjugation device:

"Even if the proportion is small, given the population of the entire Kingdom of Fran, it's impossible that there aren't any, right?"

"...There is indeed a mission reward that meets the requirements, but..."