I am a female swordsman.

However, the Allies also suffered heavy losses, and both sides turned their attention to unconventional forces after the Battle of Casablanca, seeking a decisive victory. This was because the mastermind behind the Hercules Plan was an elite German superhuman force.

Author's Note:

P.S.: This world is an alternate universe based on the end of World War II, incorporating various elements. There are quite a few elements involved, so I won't list them all here. In short, the main theme of this world is different from the first world. I'll try to capture that feeling and then elaborate on it later, lol.

PS2: My friends! Happy Chinese New Year!!!

Huang Quan Character Design

Doll: "My daughter, your father has been very worried about you lately..."

Huang Quan: "Hmm? (Noticing)"

The doll said, "You'll definitely never get married in the future, and you'll be all alone. What will you do then?"

Huang Quan: "It's okay, I'll always stay with Papa-san! (Opens eyes wide, looking cute)"

Doll: "Really?! (Overjoyed)"

Huang Quan: "You old geezer! It's fake! (Sichuan opera face-changing)"

Doll: "...(heart and lungs stop functioning)"

P.S.: High-resolution images are in the doll group chat!

Chapter Four: Raising a Glass

In the autumn of 1945, the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain met in Casablanca. The agenda included, but was not limited to, consolidating the unconventional forces within their respective countries. If the meeting proceeded smoothly, the Allied power would experience a qualitative leap, providing an opportunity to end the protracted and tedious war.

Nazi Germany, of course, did not want the Casablanca Conference to proceed as planned.

After intercepting information about the trilateral summit, SS field agents abroad made accurate judgments based on clues about the Allied mobilization of conventional and unconventional forces.

Hitler ordered the recruitment of Germany's best agents and talented individuals to form a special operations team.

Praised by Churchill as "the most dangerous man in Europe," Colonel Skorzeny commanded the army. This decorated general spearheaded numerous operations that astonished the Allied General Staff, most notably Operation Oak, which rescued Mussolini by glider when the Allies deemed it impossible.

This team has once again created a miracle in Casablanca.

The Allied deployment became a laughing stock for the whole world!

On the day of the Casablanca operation, a high-ranking Allied informant betrayed the team. Despite capturing and controlling several enemy superhumans, the conventional forces of the three kingdoms in Casablanca could not withstand the immense pressure, allowing the team to forcefully reverse the situation from the brink of defeat! The team even broke into the underground fortifications and at one point reached the room of the three kingdoms' leaders!

In the end, not only did the enemy rescue the captured superhumans, but they also took away a large amount of research data on super soldiers. It is conceivable how serious the morale blow of this battle was.

Disdain, sarcasm, ridicule!

The Justice League has utterly disgraced itself by being overturned by the enemy despite having an overwhelming advantage!

To be honest, after hearing the old charlatan's equally disdainful and sneer-filled account, Huang Quan was somewhat impressed by the Allied commanders.

I admire his incompetence in the face of battle!

Even Captain America was severely criticized and punished by the Allied Command for this. The questioning of the Justice League's abilities created an urgent need for more powerful superhumans in the Allied Powers, even if they came from the lawless West, a place rife with evil and sin!

"...So, our enemy is the Nazis, and our ally is justice... Hmm, these idiots and fools??"

[Shadow] sneered; he didn't find the joke funny at all. He had accepted the mission, but that didn't mean he was going to his death. Having experienced the Civil War, he knew all too well how many people a fool could kill on a battlefield filled with flying bullets. And they, a group of extraordinary individuals who had emerged from the brutal killings of the West, would never easily entrust their lives to others.

【Raven】, a half-demon whose surroundings are permeated with the stench of blood.

[The King of Cards] is a notorious gambler and conman in the West.

It's more realistic to hope that God will personally come down and deal with the Nazis than to rely on the character of these two people.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with that understanding." The priest hesitated for a moment but still agreed with Shadow's description of the Justice League as idiots. "However, you don't need to worry about their lives... you're just like that anyway." The priest spoke the last sentence very softly, as if he were grumbling.

But to the other three people in the room, the whispers were no different from shouting in their ears.

[Shadow] shrugged noncommittally, [Card King] smiled slightly without saying a word, and Huang Quan, who was always expressionless, didn't even react.

Even disregarding life and death, one must distinguish between people and matters.

"Your train tickets are ready. You'll depart in a week. During that time, you can do whatever you want. Even if you rob a bank in town, no one will stop you. From the moment you step out of this room, you will be special agents of the Allies. Let those self-important Europeans experience the passion of the West!"

The priest's expression was indescribable!

Standing in the dimly lit room, he was surrounded by a halo of milky-white particles. He was holy and beautiful, his confident expression just like those great figures who firmly believed in the Mandate of Heaven back then.

………………

The wind is picking up...

The wind howled loudly at night, a mournful whistling as if unseen monsters were lurking outside the house. But this was nothing to Huang Quan, who had survived in such harsh natural conditions for a long time. The light in her room flickered, casting her shadow on the wall, sometimes visible and sometimes hidden.

Perhaps it's just my imagination.

In the flickering light, Huang Quan's shadow sometimes no longer resembled a human figure, but rather a tormented, twisted demon struggling in agony.

The clean and tidy house was filled with an unstable and violent atmosphere!

The demon, as if imprisoned in a cage, menacingly intimidates and threatens its guardians. If it were to break free from its cage, it would bring devastating disaster to all living beings.

Suddenly, a warm flash of light swept across the entire room!

Sizzle!!

It sounded like something burning rapidly, and a plume of thick, black smoke drifted and dissolved into the air.

"call……"

With a long sigh of relief, Huang Quan, drenched in cold sweat, sat at the table. An old missionary book clutched to her chest was slowly turning to ashes and dissipating into the air. Once again, she teetered on the brink of collapse, a tug from the depths of her soul almost making her give up.

However, no matter how many reasons there were not to want to die, Huang Quan had to pull through once again.

Of course, she relied on more than just willpower...

"This one isn't working either, I need to find a new one." Relying on the pure life force that contains to maintain the balance of her body, Huang Quan has been trying to find a way to solve her physical predicament since she came to this world, and this object containing pure life force is one of her discoveries.

However, objects containing the power of life are extremely rare, and they have obvious effects on strengthening the body and prolonging life for ordinary people, which shows how precious they are.

Even in the chaotic western region where special items are frequently sold as stolen goods, Huang Quan failed to acquire many items.

From crosses and Ecclesiastes to shamanic bone knives, Native American totems, and even mysterious artifacts and weapons from Asia, the demonic energy within Huang Quan's body is like a bottomless black hole, constantly devouring objects imbued with life force. When the demonic energy reaches a balance, it temporarily recedes and rests, but it will surge forth again with overwhelming force.

This went on and on, and Huang Quan was tormented beyond words.

Fortunately, experience has taught her a valuable lesson, and through repeated, excruciating torment, she gradually gained some experience regarding her physical condition. Huang Quan was no genius; all the exceptionally talented masters of the Demon Sword throughout history had died from its corruption and assimilation. She didn't believe she could completely solve this problem; it was merely a temporary fix.

However, in this mysterious and unpredictable world, she might have a lot of time!

Slightly out of breath and deep in thought, Huang Quan casually opened the system.

Chapter Five: Departure

A system you've never relied on is like a dead thing in this world.

Allowing Huang Quan to explore the outside world on his own sometimes resulted in noticeable lag and slowdowns when the system responded to Huang Quan's calls. It seems that as Huang Quan's body developed problems, the system also started experiencing issues.

To be honest, Huang Quan thinks he might be a pretty peculiar host.

Other transmigrators who get a system would love to exploit it to the fullest extent, wanting whatever they can get and never having enough. But she was different. She was wary and cautious of the system from the bottom of her heart, preferring to endure hardship and gradually gain control of the power rather than take shortcuts. Sometimes Huang Quan would even laugh at herself for it.

This might also be a kind of pathological thinking.

In the system taskbar, besides the two purple job change quests that are still displayed as usual, there is also a white normal quest.

To her shame, this was a task assigned to Huang Quan based on [Crow's] identity and background when she first arrived in this world. However, Huang Quan, preoccupied with extending her life, completely ignored the task until [Father] mentioned the Communications Committee's request this morning, at which point she suddenly remembered it.

task:

Golden Dawn

Mission Requirements: Visit the Golden Dawn Society and investigate the key reasons for the mysterious evolution.

Mission reward: none

Accept the task: Yes/No

……

That's right, this is a mission with no reward whatsoever. The details about the mission are extremely vague and ambiguous, as if it's a fabricated explanation made up to avoid revealing too much. The system wants Huang Quan to figure out what exactly happened in this world that has deviated from the original timeline—was it due to human intervention or natural evolution?

Does this mean that the world will undergo even more dramatic changes in the future?

The Golden Dawn Society, as the premier magical organization in Europe, is renowned among ordinary people and is also very famous in the circle of extraordinary individuals.

Contacting them is not difficult.

However, the truth is that the Golden Dawn Society had already split due to internal problems as early as 1900. The complex mysticism studied by many magical societies today is basically based on the mystical theories established by the Golden Dawn Society. One of the Golden Dawn societies chose Germany after the split.

The Nazis were surrounded by astrologers and prophets, many of whom actually came from the Golden Society!

As she embarked on her journey to Europe, Huang Quan hesitated about whether she should approach the members of Golden Dawn. If her guess was correct, she also had a Golden Dawn identity, which might lead to some unforeseen events.

After thinking for a while, Huang Quan turned off the TV and prepared to go to sleep.

The Spear of Fate, the Holy Grail, the Earth's Axis, the Time Machine...

Her mind wandered uncontrollably, conjuring up her own insights into the mysterious tales of Germany. Some were absurd and obviously hoaxes, while others were so convincing that they possessed an alluring charm.

So, can these artifacts, imbued with ancient and mysterious legends, solve one's physical problems?

Huang Quan doesn't know.

Doing your best, leaving no regrets, is always better than doing nothing at all. She had learned her lesson in the ghoul world and wouldn't repeat the same mistakes in this one. The habit of passively developing—solving problems with a calm and detached attitude—was deeply ingrained in Yomi's mind.

Turn off the lights, go to bed, and drift off to sleep.

Goodnight, West.

………………

One week later, at an unnamed train station platform.

The letters on the black, suspended metal sign had long been eroded by the yellow sand, making them unrecognizable. No one wanted to enter this godforsaken place, and no one wanted to leave either. The reason was simple: people who came from the western part of the desert had very distinct accents, which easily led to discrimination.

Those who live and grow up in the yellow sand have the mark of the sand imprinted on their bones, and very few say they can overcome this obstacle and eventually break free from the embrace of the yellow sand.

Ugh—!

The train's resounding whistle echoed across the empty platform before finally disappearing into the distant dust. [Shadow] glanced at his watch and frowned.