The villain daughter did all kinds of things

Marcy's tone was still soft and weak:

"But I did serve the young lady as her personal maid for several months, so I can more or less guess what she's thinking... so I roughly know how to create an opportunity?"

"Trying to guess what the target is thinking..."

Viliana frowned slightly, then nodded gently:

"Yes, that is indeed a method of assassination, using some means to guide the target to create an opportunity for the assassination... Tell me your thoughts, they might actually be helpful."

"Is such that……"

Seeing that Viliana seemed attentive and willing to listen, Marcy cleared her throat and began to speak:

"Your general idea of ​​creating a big commotion to attract attention and create an opportunity for assassination is correct, but there are many problems with the details."

"The young lady is the daughter of a wealthy family in the Federation. She pays great attention to her own safety and is quite indifferent to the lives of ordinary people."

"If you're just trying to create a disaster in Locke City, you won't get the chance to assassinate the young lady. In fact, you might make the assassination even more difficult. The young lady won't care how many people die in Locke City. She'll just hide in the safe house as soon as possible and have all the strong people, including the M22 squad, protect her. You'll have almost no chance of succeeding."

"emmmm..."

Viliana bit her lip and thought for a long time before finally nodding:

"You're right... So what do you think we should do?"

"Didn't I tell you? Your general idea is correct, it just needs some modifications in the details."

Marcy, on the other hand, suddenly seemed confident and began to speak fluently:

"You still need to find a way to create a major disaster to attract attention, but this disaster can only fail, not succeed. Moreover, during this disaster, you must demonstrate some knowledge or technology that is enough to arouse the covetousness of others... Sister, as a member of the royal guard, you must have learned some elven secret arts that humans have never seen before, right? Just pick one that you are best at and show it."

"Secret techniques that would arouse human covetousness? Hmm... I actually do have some."

Viliana rubbed her chin with her hand:

“During the war with humans, the royal court developed many war spells targeting the natural environment of human kingdoms. Many of them were never used before the war ended. However, those spells were not abandoned. Each member of the royal guard can choose to practice what they like, and I happen to know two or three war spells. Once I use them, they should attract enough attention.”

"But what do you mean by saying that my operation can only fail and cannot succeed?"

"Of course, it's to create an opportunity for assassination."

Marcy smiled slightly:

"Didn't I tell you? The young lady is a very cautious person. If the disaster you create doesn't fail, she will only hide in a safe house and have her elite mercenaries protect her."

"But conversely, if your plan to create a major disaster fails, and you yourself escape, what do you think will happen?"

"...If I used a war spell that would attract covetous people, and failed and escaped at the last moment, then humans would definitely want to capture me, torture me, and get information about that war spell from me! Humans have been using this method to obtain magical knowledge since the very beginning! Many sisters have not been able to withstand the despicable torture of humans!"

Viliana's military acumen was quite high; after Marcy's reminder, she quickly got back on track, though with a hint of resentment:

"The Melson family is the largest manufacturer of magical artifacts in the world. If that Melson heiress could obtain my war magic and develop a magical artifact that can unleash war magic, she would surely make a great contribution to her family. Therefore, she must also want to capture me, and the chances are very high."

“But I am a member of the Royal Guard. Even if I am defeated and seriously injured, I am not someone that ordinary human police or gang thugs can catch. She can only send out her M-level squad!”

"And once the M-class squad leaves her side, and my serious injury was faked... Hehehehehe, that will be my best opportunity to assassinate her!"

"Wow, sister, you truly are a descendant of the Scarlet Moon family!"

Viliana completely understood Marcy's meaning, and laughed heartily, patting Marcy on the shoulder:

"If this plan succeeds and I return alive, I can recommend you to join the Royal Guard training camp. Then you'll be my junior... No matter what trouble you have with the Crimson Moon family, it won't bother you anymore!"

"Well, then I'll thank you in advance, senior."

Marcy feigned surprise and immediately changed her tune, her tone becoming much more excited compared to her previous timidity.

Viliana grew increasingly pleased with Marcy, and after a moment's thought, she asked:

"Your idea is good, I'll adopt it... So, how do you think my plan to cause such a catastrophe should fail?"

"...Actually, you've already figured out the answer, haven't you, senior?"

Marcy smiled and looked at Viriana for a few seconds before shrugging.

"The most famous thing in our Locke City right now, besides that big copper mine, is that golden-haired goofball who flies around all day. Even if you hadn't heard of her before, senior, hadn't you fought her before?"

"She's the kind of person who loves to meddle in other people's business. If you, senior, cause signs of a major disaster in Locke City, even if the young lady orders that blond fool to protect her, that blond fool will definitely not sit idly by and watch Locke City be filled with dead and injured. He will definitely take action to stop it."

"While that blonde goofball isn't as strong as you, senior, you've said before that her close-combat abilities are outrageous, haven't you?"

"If a senior has just used a large-scale war spell and is careless for a moment, allowing the golden-haired fool to seize the opportunity to get close and defeat him, that's normal, right?"

"After you are defeated, you can tell that blond fool how to stop the disaster you created. She will definitely choose to stop the disaster first. This will give you a perfect opportunity to pretend to flee and actually carry out an assassination."

Chapter 82 The Show Begins (20/20) (Bonus Chapter End)

Viliana took Maxie's advice, and Julia listened to Amelie, so both the actors on the positive and negative sides of the movie received the scripts.

For the next four days, just as Emery had predicted, the entire city of Locke remained peaceful and undisturbed.

Viliana is adjusting her body to its best condition while gathering various magical materials through Marcy to prepare for the large-scale war spell she will be unleashing.

In elven magic, spells that can be defined as war spells must at least possess the ability to cause significant damage to a city. Such spells are often extremely complex and consume a great deal of resources.

In theory, a fully-fledged elven mage can use all elven magic, but this is only in theory. Spells of a scale like war magic are generally only easily used solo by archmages. Mages often know the theory of spellcasting but lack the magical reserves to actually unleash the spells.

Viliana is the same. She knows how to use that war spell and even has practical experience in the Royal Guard's training camp, but her magic power alone is not enough. She needs the assistance of a large amount of magical materials and magic circles.

Normally, the desire to purchase a large quantity of magical materials in a short period of time would attract attention.

However, Marcy was Emerald's personal maid, and Emerald had been acquiring large quantities of magical materials for her training in the past few months, so Marcy's actions did not arouse any suspicion, and Viliana successfully obtained everything she needed to cast her spell.

On the other hand, Yulia, who had undergone three days and three nights of intensive training with the M22 squad, also made significant progress.

Not only does Yulia undergo relentless training with the M22 squad during the day, but she also uses a magical device that can customize dreams to continue battling against the elf mages she creates in her dreams while she sleeps at night, accumulating combat experience. It's like she's training 24 hours a day.

If a normal person trained like this, they would definitely have given up long ago. Even if their body could recover from fatigue with the help of a magical artifact, their mind would inevitably be exhausted.

But is Yulia a normal person? She clearly isn't.

Just like a fool can't catch a cold, a golden retriever has absolutely no idea what mental fatigue is.

After three days and three nights of intense training, Yulia showed no signs of fatigue; instead, she appeared refreshed and full of energy.

Amélie was worried that Yulia was forcing herself to stay strong, so she dragged her to have her body checked with a magical device. The results showed that Yulia was in quite good condition and had no problems.

In response, Emerald could only sigh that Julia truly lived up to her reputation as the protagonist of an adult game; her stamina bar was the biggest bug in the game. No wonder she could manage so many women in the original game with ease. If it were anyone else, they probably would have died of exhaustion in bed before even saving the world.

It seems I need to work on my physical fitness as well.

A warning bell rang in Amelie's heart, and she secretly began to make new plans.

She didn't want to one day completely win over Yulia only to become a pushover in bed due to exhaustion; that would be too humiliating.

Although the test results were all normal, Amelie still forced Julia to go to the bedroom to rest for a while, saying that she would have the police and the White River Gang keep an eye on her and notify her immediately if there was any news.

Yulia couldn't refuse Emerald, so she took a bath, slept for a few hours, ate a few pieces of steak and two fish, changed into her magical costume, and went out on patrol with pancakes.

After flying around Locke City a few times, easily helping a few citizens solve some minor problems, and chatting with a few familiar fans, Yulia finally focused her attention on searching for Viliana's scent, hoping to find her.

But it wasn't that simple after all. Just as Pancake said, it was far too easy for an elven mage skilled in wind elemental magic to conceal their own scent.

Despite feeling slightly frustrated, Yulia did not lose heart and continued her patrol with full concentration, not letting go of any suspicious clues.

Yulia had no idea that everything was under Emery's control. She genuinely believed that a major disaster was likely to strike Locke City and was prepared to fight to the death.

This kind of genuine emotion is something that no actor can easily portray with acting skills alone, and Pancake, who had been by Yulia's side, captured some excellent footage.

The afternoon after the intense training ended, Yulia was on aerial patrol when she suddenly heard shouts of alarm coming from the direction of the Velon Copper Mine. It seemed that something serious had happened, and many people were frightened.

coming.

Yulia's heart tightened, and she immediately flew towards the mining area.

Upon arriving at the mine, they discovered that tens of thousands of miners who should have been working inside the mine were now outside, many of them looking visibly shaken.

"What happened?"

Yulia swooped down and landed at the mine entrance, asking loudly.

"...Water, the mine suddenly flooded."

A miner who often watched Yulia's short plays in the tavern and had even had the chance to interact with Yulia swallowed hard and quickly explained the situation, though somewhat nervously but clearly.

The situation was not complicated. The miners were working normally when the mine was suddenly flooded by water from an unknown source, triggering an emergency alarm.

Miners, regardless of the world, are in a high-risk profession, constantly facing various dangers that may occur deep underground.

However, the miners in this world are much luckier than those on Earth in one respect: they are generally quite wealthy, and this world also possesses magical wonders.

Life is the most important thing, and miners certainly understand this principle. Therefore, they will generally cut back on their food and clothing to buy a life-saving item to carry with them. The most common items are various disposable short-distance teleportation items, which can allow them to instantly return to the surface when they encounter danger in the mine.

This is a good habit. At least from the data, the number of mining accidents in this world is not much less than that on Earth, but the number of miners who die in mining accidents is less than one percent of that on Earth.

The same is true for the miners at Vinylon Copper. Although the floodwaters in the mine came fiercely and quite suddenly, the vast majority of miners managed to escape back to the surface. Only a few unlucky ones were too slow to react and were swept away by the floodwaters, and it is estimated that they have little hope of survival.

"So, someone else has died...?"

Yulia bit her lip, looking very sad, and then stared intently at the entrance to the mine.

The mine of Vinylon Copper Industry has been operating normally for hundreds of years. Due to the special void mineralization phenomenon in this world, it has been very stable. How could a flood suddenly occur?

It's highly likely that it's that racist, evil elf who's behind this.

Chapter 83 Discovering the Source

In worlds with different fundamental laws, minerals are also different.

The natural minerals on Earth are formed over a long period of geological changes. Although the reserves are abundant, the regeneration cycle is very long. Therefore, most mineral veins are one-time occurrences, and once they are mined out, they are gone.

This means that the mines on Earth need to be dug deeper and deeper, and the dangers miners encounter during mining are almost all related to excavation, whether it's a landslide or a flood.

But the world is different.

Just like how monsters in the wild respawn whenever a monster tide arrives, various collectibles in the original game also have a respawn mechanism.

The plants gathered are no different from those that grow naturally, except that they grow faster under the influence of magic.

The mining of ores is quite interesting. In some ways, it's no different from the monsters in the Demon Tide – mined areas will periodically spawn new ores. So, a super-large copper mine like Velon Copper Industry can, without any surprises, allow a family to be rich for generations.

This means that once a mining area in this world is built, it is basically fixed. The internal structure of the mine will not be expanded at will. Miners only need to use magic devices to mine the ore that is refreshed periodically at their workstations.

In most cases, mining disasters in this world are caused by monsters. For example, in the original game, the mine of Velen Copper Industry was lost during the invasion of the monster tide and became a paradise for monsters. It also became the first dungeon in the newbie village where players could repeatedly farm equipment to improve their combat power.

As for why the ores in the veins would respawn like monsters in a demonic tide, the people of this world have offered an explanation—experts believe that all ores in this world are crystallizations of magic, and as long as there is magic in the world, all resources can be infinitely regenerated.

Whether this statement is true or not is currently unknown, but even Emery can't find fault with it for the time being, because magic is indeed very magical.

In short, large mines like Vinylon Copper Industry, which have been operating stably for hundreds of years, are unlikely to experience any accidents except for being attacked by the "demonic tide" or worker errors. Such a sudden and inexplicable flood is highly unusual and is very likely the work of malicious individuals.

Yulia almost immediately wanted to rush into the mine—her magically enhanced body was completely impervious to water and could even breathe directly underwater. She wanted to stop the flood from spreading further and, more importantly, try to search for any survivors who might still be inside the mine.

"Wait a minute, Julia!"

However, just as Julia had gathered her strength in her calves, preparing to move, the magical device resembling an earring on her earlobe emitted a sound—it was Emery's voice:

"Forget about the mine for now, head to the beach! Viliana should be there! My team detected a large-scale, abnormal flow of magic there, which is very likely the root cause of the mine disaster! You need to stop it there first!"

"……seaside?"

Yulia's voice sounded somewhat puzzled:

"How could the seaside have anything to do with the mines?"

"Because there is an underground waterway inside the mine that connects directly to the sea!"

Emery speaks very quickly, but her pronunciation is exceptionally clear:

"My team of experts believes that Viliana must have used some kind of magic to make the seawater flow back along the underground waterways, which is why the mine was flooded almost instantly, and the water level is still rising! You can't do anything by rushing into the mine. Even if you are a mage, Yulia, do you think you can fight against the power of the sea by yourself? Only by dealing with Viliana, the source, can we truly stop this disaster."

"...I understand, I'll go to the beach right now."

Yulia hesitated for a couple of seconds, then took to the air, flying towards the sea as instructed, while glancing worriedly towards the mine.

"What about the mine? Even if the miners can evacuate to higher ground, Locke City is not far away! Locke City is located on the lower side of the mine. If seawater keeps gushing out of the mine, the entire Locke City could be flooded."

"...There's no other good way."

Emery paused for a moment, a hint of bitterness in her voice:

"The seawater is flowing back very quickly. According to the expert team's prediction, it will flood into Locke City in at most half an hour. And the spell Viliana used to trigger the seawater backflow is a new type of elven magic that has never appeared in any records. We don't have a quick response plan, so the only way to stop it is to use the most primal means..."

"Defeat the caster of this spell, right?"

Julia interrupted Emerald, clenching her fists and her eyes blazing with fury:

"I will never forgive this kind of wicked spirit who disregards human life! I will give her a good beating so she will realize her mistakes and correct her thinking!"