Things about the female knight in black stockings

In other words, heroic warriors can have human rights, especially young soldiers who have made significant military exploits during their lifetime.

Therefore, after some discussions, the military decided to award the Ordinary Soldier Award in this year's Golden Iris Award to this young soldier.

On behalf of the royal family, the king recognized the military's decision and not only rewarded the young soldier with a large amount of money, but also gave him a set of spiritual warrior training methods and corresponding training resources.

The existence of heroic warriors is indeed quite rare, but rareness does not mean that there is no such thing - Valencia heard from Tia that the royal family seems to have a very powerful secret guard, and its members are all made up of masters of previous palace guards. After death, they turned into heroic spirits and became the royal family's most ace high-end combat force.

Judging from the reward given to the young soldier by His Majesty the King, it seems that there is a plan to absorb the young soldier into the royal secret army.

Gee.

After the heroic soldier boy received the reward and thanked him for his kindness, Valencia clicked her tongue.

The experiences of this young soldier could almost be the protagonist in some novels written about his previous life.

After commending and conferring awards on the ordinary soldier recipients of the Golden Iris, the next natural choice is the officers.

This officer was quite ordinary, with a standard aristocratic background. He had the reputation of being a genius when he was a boy, and he had been working hard to improve himself.

Now he is over 40 years old and is a high-level military official. He is the commander of a large fortress and can be considered one of the mainstays of the military.

The reason why he received the Golden Iris Officer Award is simple - in this autumn's war, the fortress he was responsible for had the lowest casualty rate and the highest number of enemy kills.

A total of nearly 200 elite wild beast warriors and nearly 50 ordinary wild beast cannon fodder fell forever under the walls of that large fortress. However, the number of casualties in the unit in charge of this officer during the entire autumn war was less than 2000 people... and most of them are injured. They can return to the battlefield after a period of training.

Even with absolute terrain advantages and equipment advantages, this battle loss ratio is outrageous. This officer's Golden Iris Award can be said to be well-deserved.

After the commendations and awards for the Golden Iris Officer Award were over, it was finally Valencia's turn.

The starting steps were the same as before. The royal affairs officer read the names of the winners loudly. Valencia came out from behind the military counselor, performed a knighthood on the red carpet in the middle of the audience hall, and then knelt down half-kneeling, waiting for His Majesty the King to speak.

The old king, who was over 60 years old, laughed heartily after seeing Valencia:

"Look who this is? Isn't this our Lady Sunflower...I said at that time that you would definitely become the Sword of Fran. Now it seems that I am not dim-sighted yet...it's only my first time on the battlefield. Go deep into the ground and kill the enemy leader! With such talent... With you here, how can I, France, fear the natural disasters of wild beasts!"

"Your Majesty, thank you very much. In fact, it was just a little bit of planning and a little bit of luck."

Valensa spoke in a very humble tone, but her expression couldn't help but be smug - this was the way Tia repeatedly told her she should show before coming.

You need to have the frivolous mentality of a young and successful person, but also the self-cultivation and calmness of a great nobleman, so that the royal family can both appreciate and feel at ease.

Chapter 127

In the audience hall of the Royal Palace of France, Valencia and the king had a friendly exchange of compliments.

Valencia kept praising the king for being wise, wise and meritocratic. The stable and prosperous life that the residents of France have today is all due to the leadership of His Majesty the King.

The king also continued to praise Valencia for her young talent and bright future. She is a rare pillar of France and a sword of France that will be even sharper in the future.

Both of them praised each other with beautiful words and were very happy. Most of the ministers around them also echoed and praised the two people together.

Even those ministers who had some political disagreements with the military advisor just remained silent at this time, and some even spoke in agreement.

Although Valencia is the future son-in-law of the Master Strategist and must belong to the Brittanian faction, she is also an inner temple knight of the Church of the Sun, representing the behemoth of the Church of the Sun that can be said to be the overlord of the planet.

Anyone with a normal IQ would not be willing to offend the Church of the Sun, and the same is true for the political opponents of Master Military Advisor. At most, they would not take the initiative to give Valencia benefits, and they would never deliberately seek trouble for Valencia.

Valencia and His Majesty the King had a great conversation, the ministers echoed their praises, and the atmosphere in the entire audience hall was very good.

The atmosphere is good, His Majesty the King is in a good mood, and the rewards are generous.

He asked Valencia to tell her what needs she had, saying that she could choose anything from the royal treasury except for some particularly valuable items.

Valencia was still very excited for a moment, but she held it back.

There must be good things in the royal family's treasury that Valencia will covet now, but with the Church of the Sun and the Dimension Hardware Store, she will not be short of similar good things in the future.

Therefore, the reward is not as good as choosing what is most needed now, such as gold coins.

Regarding Valencia's request of 'I want money, I want a lot of money', His Majesty the King was stunned for a moment, then laughed and waved his hand, and rewarded Valencia with a full 50 gold coins.

According to the ratio of 1:300 to the currency of the previous life, these 50 gold coins are already a small goal. It is enough to cover the expenses of an ordinary family for several generations, and can also solve Valencia's urgent need for gold coins.

And His Majesty the King is very happy.

For the king, 50 gold coins is indeed not a small amount, but the good things in the royal treasury that Valencia can like are likely to be worth more.

Valensa chose to ask for money. In the king's eyes, Valensa was very sensible and showed her favor to the royal family.

Then the royal family cannot appear stingy.

Therefore, in addition to rewarding Valencia with 50 gold coins, the king also readily agreed when Valencia proposed to solve her fiefdom problem in accordance with the "Pioneering Order".

Not only did she readily agree, the king also gave Valencia additional preferential treatment.

Although Valencia's baroness is still at the same level as a baron, Valencia's territory can be larger, equivalent to the standard of a viscount, and she is also allowed to have a private guard of no more than 500 people.

In short, it can be said that everyone is happy with the awards for the heroes of the Autumn War.

. . . . .

Zhan Zhan Academy, in Tia’s dormitory.

Valencia and Tia were both wearing only thin gauze nightgowns and black and white stockings. They lay face to face on the bed, their calves tilted up, and they swayed their feet playfully from time to time.

The toes completely filled up the black and white stockings. Under the light of the light-attribute magic crystal on the roof, you could vaguely see the slight redness of the fair skin on the feet, which was the trace of a good soak in the bathroom just now.

Between the two people lying down, there was a map of the entire territory of France. Tia was holding her chin in one hand and holding a pen in the other, clicking on the map to tell Valensa, while Valensa sometimes frowned and sometimes shook her head.

The "Development Order" has been obtained, and the next thing to do is to naturally choose a piece of land in the French territory and pretend to be developed to buy time for the ruins.

The size of the viscount-level territory can be almost 20 kilometers in radius, which is enough for Valencia to capture the ruins where Frigia was sealed.

However, according to the requirements of the land deed, she must drive away the wild beasts currently monitoring the ruins before she can officially complete the ceremony of the land deed.

This is not an easy task. It should not be completed in a short period of time, and it is very likely that you will have to face a powerful person of the brilliance level of the wild beast.

Therefore, when choosing a false development target as a smoke bomb, you must choose carefully.

First of all, the difficulty of developing this land should not be too high, and the location and environment should not be too bad.

After all, the nobility's territory must be established as a human settlement, at least a village. If it develops well, it is not impossible to become a big city.

Therefore, the territory to be developed must be attractive to the people.

Either the natural environment is livable, the transportation location is convenient, or the minerals or material resources are rich...otherwise, if others are living well in their hometown, why would they want to settle in your new territory?

Therefore, places with difficult terrain, harsh environment, numerous dangerous monsters, or too remote locations are not suitable as false targets.

Secondly, the difficulty of developing the false target land cannot be too low.

For example, some other conditions are good, but the location is too remote or the transportation is very inconvenient.

These places are often the first choice for new nobles to use the "Pioneering Order" to obtain fiefdoms for themselves.

It's just that in addition to developing the target land, they also need to spend a lot of money to build roads so that their territory can at least be directly connected to the official road.

The saying that if you want to get rich, you must first build roads makes sense in this world... In places with inconvenient transportation, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, few people are willing to go there, let alone settle there.

The real difficulty in building this kind of territory lies in building roads in the later stage. It is not difficult to open up. Generally, nobles hire some adventurers and bring private soldiers, which can take as little as three or four months or as fast as half a month.

Because the so-called development mainly involves cleaning up the monsters in the target location, and there are very few brilliance-level monster lords in France, which is located to the west of the Misty Mountains. In most wilderness, lighthouse-level monsters can dominate.

Although lighthouse-level monsters are very powerful for ordinary people, nobles who can use the "Pioneering Order" are either very powerful themselves or have enough financial resources to hire high-level adventurers. It is not difficult to clean up these monsters. .

With the strength that Valencia has shown so far, and the Brittania family that will definitely support her, she will definitely not lack the force to clean up the monsters when she expands her territory.

Therefore, this kind of territory is not good. It will not delay much time at all, so that Valensa and Tia can find a way to drive away the wild beasts near the underground ruins.

There are not many undeveloped and unclaimed lands that meet the requirements of good natural environment, convenient transportation, and relatively difficult to clean up with monsters inhabited.

Valencia and Tia lay on the bed and searched for a long time before finally finding a similar place.

Chapter 128 Troublesome Monster

"That's it."

The two upturned little white feet clicked against each other twice. Tia, who was lying on the bed, drew another circle on the map with a pen, then threw away the pen and looked at the tiles with her chin in her hands. Rensa:

"What do you think of the Mouthmora Basin?"

"Mum..."

Valencia's two black silk legs also swayed back and forth, at a slightly faster speed, just like a non-swimmer holding a swimming ring and practicing freestyle leg movements in the air:

"Other conditions in this place are really good... Surrounded by mountains and lakes on three sides, it is about 110 kilometers away from the nearest city, and the nearest official road is less than 30 kilometers away. Of course, the most important thing is the nearest city This is the territory of your Brittania family.”

"Well, with our relationship anyway, if you want to expand your territory, you can't help but ask me for help. So it makes sense to choose a place close to my home territory."

Tia smiled, raised the hand she was using to support her chin, and stretched:

"This place not only has a good environment, but also has a good climate. It is located in the northwest of the kingdom, surrounded by mountains and water on three sides. It is much cooler than the royal capital in summer! With our resources, we can definitely build a royal capital there. The directly connected small teleportation array is for the nobles to use and build it into a resort!

This is a completely reasonable development plan that will definitely not make the royal family suspicious. It is enough to buy us time to secretly acquire the land we really want. "

"Yes, it will definitely buy us enough time... because although its conditions are very good, it also has a trouble that is difficult to solve. It is the territory of the Crypt Monster."

Valencia sighed, and as if influenced by Tia, she also stretched:

"But we need to open up the difficulty a little to buy time... Well, let's do it. Tomorrow we can go to the Adventurer's Guild to issue a mission and recruit some adventurers to do the preliminary work. At the same time, it can also send out a signal to let others think that we are We really have to attack the Mouthmora Basin.”

"can."

Tia nodded, took off the map on the bed and put it away, preparing to sleep with Valencia.

However, when the two of them lay down side by side, Tia hesitated again:

"Do you still need to think of another excuse? After all, that is the territory of the Crypt Monster. If we can't come up with a way to deal with the Crypto Monster, we may still face some suspicions, and even hire adventurers while pretending to open up. There will be obstacles... or at least more money."

"The crypt monster... Tsk, it's really troublesome."

Valencia turned her body to Tia's side, stretched out one leg naturally, and pressed on Tia's body.

She was thinking, and information about the Crypt Monster kept appearing in her mind.

The Crypt Monster, as can be easily seen from its name, is a humanoid monster.

This monster is almost the same size as a human being, except that it has thick long hair all over its body, no nose and ears, and only one big eye on its head and a toothless mouth.

This is a kind of swarming monster. The number of each group of crypt monsters exceeds four digits. The strength of individual crypt monsters ranges from candlelight to lighthouse.

The weakest candlelight level crypt monster is basically a big monkey with fully enhanced strength, speed, and physical strength. It can use long-handled cold weapons and has no special abilities except its own racial talent.

The strongest lighthouse-level crypt monsters have different abilities based on their mutation methods, but most of their abilities are related to their one-eyed and long tongues.

The one-eye can emit spell rays with various curse effects, and the long tongue is as flexible as a tentacle. It can also explode with strong penetrating power when protruding the tongue, enough to penetrate the defense of a lighthouse-level warrior.

In each tribe of crypt monsters, there are generally no more than 10 lighthouse-level mutant crypt monsters, there are about 100 pearl-level elite crypt monsters, and the rest are all ordinary crypt monsters.

This level of power is very dangerous for ordinary adventurers, but for the pioneering team hired by the nobles, it is just that.

In battles of the same level, humans who can use various equipment and props have a greater advantage than monsters. In theory, five lighthouse-level adventurers and a team of skilled adventurers can deal with a tribe of cave monsters.

But that's only in theory, because although the crypt monsters can't defeat the adventurers, they can run away.

Monsters like Crypt Monsters, no matter how strong or weak they are, have a very disgusting innate ability - turning things into mud.

To put it simply, any object that the burrowers can cause them to come into contact with, including metal, stone, and wood, turns into ooze.

If the weapons of ordinary mercenaries are not protected by enchantment, they will be directly destroyed if they hit the crypt monster... This is also the reason why many mercenaries are unwilling to accept the task of subjugating the crypt monster. It is too expensive to fight, and may even cause damage. deficit.

Although spellcasters and adventurers with sophisticated enchanted weapons are not afraid of the Crypt Monster's move, the really disgusting part of the Crypt Monster's move is not for fighting, but for escaping.

When they are at a disadvantage, they will dive into the ground like a fish diving into water, and quickly swim deep underground in soft mud that is similar to porridge.

Cryptozoologists have no noses, do not need to breathe in the conventional sense, and can stay underground for quite a long time.

And the substance turned into ooze by the crypt weirdo using the racial talent [turn matter into mud] will also completely become a new substance in the mystical sense... Earth is no longer earth and will not be transformed by earth magicians control.

In other words, once the crypt monsters escape underground, even adventurers who are much stronger than them will have a hard time chasing them down and killing them all.

And the crypt monsters are very vindictive... wherever they are bullied by humans, they will definitely come back to take revenge.

The environment and location of the Moumora Basin are good, so it has naturally been favored by other nobles.

That nobleman was also quite generous. He even used favors to invite a star-level expert to cooperate with a team of elite adventurers to eliminate the cave monsters in the Mouthmora Basin.

The clearing battle went very smoothly. It can be said that the tribe of cave monsters collapsed at the first touch. The lighthouse-level individuals were killed by the star-level strong ones as soon as they came up, and the remaining weak ones were also defeated one after another.

But even with a strong team led by Xingyao, facing this group of monsters that can quickly burrow into the depths of the ground, it was impossible to eliminate 100% of them, and a few cave monsters escaped.

At that time, humans did not know that the crypt monster was extremely vindictive, and the noble thought that the Mouth Mora Basin had been controlled by him.

So he began to build his own small castle there, and built villages along the periphery of the small castle. He also used preferential policies such as tax breaks and subsidies to attract people to settle there.