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Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Intimidation!
Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Intimidation!
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After her meeting, Adriana went to a comfortable and secluded place, where she opened a Portal and returned to Earth, where there, she created a Scenario Dungeon, which she asked to be a scenario that rewarded with techniques and methods of using Mana.
As such, the System provided her with a Scenario where she was in the service of a nobleman, who wanted her to hunt a Knight who ran away with a very important book.
As a result, Adriana found him in a few hours, captured him and took a look at that book, it was a Breathing Technique of Knights, there are also concepts relevant to Meridians and Pressure Points, but they were very rudimentary.
The technique is called [Flaming Heart], when cultivated to certain levels, it will create a Flaming Core, which we can say is the [White Stars] that Adriana and Luria had.
It's the same concept and Adriana already knew that, but the System erased that information, but now she has recovered these important concepts in parts.
In that book she shows proper breathing to unclog the necessary Meridians, where to strengthen them, as well as an incantation on how to improve your Affinity with Fire.
"At most it's a Medium Level Technique!" - Adriana said calmly, of course, for Tier 3~4 worlds, it must be a High Level technique or even one of the best, but Adriana has a broad vision and compared to everything she has ever had, this is average.
But since she has nothing else, it's better than nothing.
Not to mention that what she will teach her subordinates is something very standard, just facilitating the circulation of Mana, means of storing a little more Mana and that's it, it's not a grand technique, just a trick so to speak.
But with Breathing Techniques, the situation changes a lot!
"Well, I'll get about 10 to 20, I also need some stealth techniques, sword techniques and etc., I need a lot" - Adriana looked at the fleeing knight and smiled.
A mansion was covered in blood, in a luxurious office, a fat nobleman was nailed to the wall, his face horrified, knights and soldiers scattered everywhere.
Adriana was in a vault containing all the noble's treasures, about 2,000 Gold Coins, not that much, as the noble manages a large territory and this is not the main vault.
But Adriana does not have access to it, as the mission area is limited.
But Adriana's attention was not on the riches and some Uncommon and Rare equipment, which of course, she collected everything!
Its objective was books containing all kinds of martial knowledge, such as the Fencing Techniques of the Empire, it is a set of techniques with a very simple sword, together with an advanced one that must be presented to Army Officers, where one learns to use Mana in their attacks and exert a lot of power.
There are also minor techniques created by Mercenaries and Commanders throughout their lives, it's nothing that special, but there are some treasures around here and Adriana took everything, but it's far from enough.
Adriana kept repeating these types of quests, the EXP she gave was average, as she doesn't want to run into Level 100+ beings now, but still, she gained good EXP and regained skills.
She spent 1 week going in and out of the Scenario Dungeons, due to the time difference, minus 2 days passed in Aphrodite.
And she managed to collect a lot of good things, having Breathing Techniques linked to all Elements, she also got some rare scrolls containing priesthood knowledge, they are magical healing techniques so to speak.
Adriana also achieved many other things, but the best we can say is Gold!
Adriana thought it would take a long time to earn 30 Million Credits, as she never thought she would make that much money in the Scenarios, but she did and a lot!
When she noticed, she was already at Level 64 and with over 60 Million Credits at her disposal!
When she found out that she already had so much money, she couldn't believe it, it took her a long time to understand that this was indeed real!
But she didn't rush to summon them, she calmed their spirits first.
She returned to Aphrodite, talking with Ajacky and the others, at the same time she received a summons from the Lord, Carmem Azevich, for her to go to Prune City and wait for her arrival.
Adriana expected that she would have to go to the capital of the province, but as it was next door and it will take a while for Lorde to arrive, Adriana still has time.
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"As you may have heard, I was summoned to meet with Lorde about the things I discovered in Demonic Mountain, as such, wait for my return and continue training, when the 1 week I gave passes and I have not returned, you teach whatever is in this book for them, learn it too." - Adriana said calmly as she passed the book called [Beast Swordsmanship].
This is a set of techniques that is both physical and magical, training in it will help develop a balanced body both in strength, agility and endurance, as well as having a specific breathing method that will help improve stamina and of course, prepare for use Mana in the future.
Adriana, of course, learned the technique:
[Beast Swordsmanship(Mastery 37%)]
- Type: Combat Technique
- Description: A set of fencing techniques created through the ferocity of wild beasts and the understanding of a fencing genius, who infused diverse concepts into each of the 36 sword moves and 12 stances!
The interesting thing is that now the System is categorizing the techniques in a different way, having this "Mastery" thing, but as soon as it reaches 100%, it will become a Skill, but Adriana did not understand very well how this works, but she knows that it can evolve this technique.
She also learned some others and is still practicing, at the moment there is no effect on her body, because she is already very strong, but with time the changes will come.
As for the fact that she uses an ax and not a sword, Adriana has decided to stop thinking about useless things, she has decided that she will use all the weapons she can and learn as much as possible, sooner or later she will find something she likes to use and is more suited to Is it over there.
In 2 days, Adriana returned to Cidade da Prune, where she went to find the Lady of the City, who was already waiting for her.
"You are Adriana, I presume?" - Asked the Lady of the City calmly, an elderly woman with a sharp look.
"Yes, my lady." - Adriana said with due respect.
"Well, sit me down and tell me, why are you late?" - asked the Lady of the City sternly.
"Late? It's been 3 days since I was informed of the summons and I left the next day after receiving it, so I wouldn't say I'm late." - Adriana said calmly.
"I summoned you 1 week ago, are you going to tell me you didn't listen?" - asked the Lady of the City coldly.
"In fact, they didn't tell me anything!" - Adriana said carefree.
The Lady of the City looked at her, sighing and snapping her fingers, one of her guards approached her. - "Have the case officer brought here!"
And in a few minutes, there was a blonde woman, the same one who interrogated Adriana, she came in and knelt down.
"I summoned Adriana 1 week ago, but she is telling me that she was not summoned, only 3 days ago, can you explain to me why?" - asked the Lady of the City coldly.
"That I have no excuses, ma'am, no matter what we tried, we couldn't get in touch with Adriana!" - Said the officer with her head down.
"Couldn't get in touch with me? If it was 5 days ago, it would be understandable, but 1 week ago, I pretty much spent all my time in the tavern." -Adriana said confused, but soon thought of some escapes she gave to Earth and some Dungeons to level up.
"Ah, sorry, I remembered that I was going out a lot in that time too, so now I understand that they didn't find me, but couldn't they have informed someone?" - Asked Adriana and the officer was silent, she had no excuses for such incompetence.
The City Mistress snorted and waved her hand, the officer was raised and will obviously be punished for it, but it shouldn't be something too serious.
"Well, apart from that incompetence, I'll be direct, what do you think about serving me?" - asked the Lady of the City calmly.
"I don't think anything, I never thought of something like that." - Answered Adriana carefree.
"Then think and tell me!" - Said the Lady of the City more severely.
"And the answer is no, I am a Mercenary and I like my freedom, I have no interest in becoming a Knight." - Adriana said without hesitation.
"A Mercenary? I had been told she was just an adventurer." -The Lady of the City said calmly as she drank her tea.
"I recently created, we already have about 35 members, we are the Scarlet Mist!" - Adriana said smiling confidently.
"I see, too bad your little dream won't last that long." - Said the Lady of the City.
"And why is that?" - Asked Adriana frowning.
"You have just reported a new species that is infiltrating and causing thousands of deaths throughout our territory, if not all nations on the continent, you have lost much of your freedom now my child, you have no choice!" - Said the Lady of the City calmly.
"I see, I kind of don't care, no one can arrest me, so if they try to force me, I guarantee no one will get what they want!" - Adriana said carefree.
"Are you saying you will go against the crown?" - asked the Lady of the City fiercely.
"I am a free woman who is contributing, if they want to enslave me, they will not succeed and if they are insistent, I will have to take it a little hard, understand my lady, threatening me is not wise, the Kingdom of Valeeior will not stand to have me as enemy!" - Adriana said smiling and ignoring the swords already pointed at her.
"I can kill you here and now!" - Said the Lady of the City.
Adriana smiled and said. - "Do you think that because these swords are pointed at me I will die? I tell you one thing my lady, they can't even make me bleed!"
Suddenly Adriana's energy exploded and a distinct characteristic of Astral Energy showed itself, the effect of amplifying mental damage!
And along with her burst of energy and amplification, was Adriana's murderous intent, which is so heavy that it manifested itself, making everyone in the room shudder in horror.
Adriana caused the death of thousands of people, did horrible acts that would place her as a villain, an evil demon that must be eliminated, but who could do something with someone who had the power of a God?
And even though the System has restricted her power, it hasn't changed the fact of all the lives she's taken and how that has impacted her killing intent, a unique and superb power, which is enhanced the more she kills.
"Stop! Stop!" -The Lady of the City feeling suffocated, she was on her knees, begging you to stop.
Adriana was cross-legged, not bothered by any of this.
"I hope by that you understand, just because you're noble doesn't mean I wouldn't dare to behead you now, at most it'll just be one nation bothering me, but it's not like I haven't already annihilated 1, 2, 3 or 15 nations in the past!" - Adriana said coldly, her murderous intent getting more twisted and macabre.
Some female soldiers fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, the City Mistress was in a cold sweat, not understanding what is happening, but she is very terrified.
"I BEG! SAVE ME! SPARE ME!" - She started to beg for her life desperately and only then did Adriana stop.
With that, everyone could relax and breathe.
"I'll leave, I don't want to waste my time anymore, send someone to leave a message at the inn and I'll be there, when the Lorde arrives, in case they keep bothering me, maybe the City of Prune, will no longer need to exist!" - Adriana said calmly.
Leaving, Adriana found an inn and rented a room indefinitely, she wanted to summon her wives but stopped, she wants to finish all this first, in case she can't, she might as well bring Ajacky and leave the rest, in case Ajacky doesn't want to come , it will be a pity, but that's about it!
She then started making Scenarios in order to level up, hunting powerful creatures, earning lots of materials and EXP!
City Mistress Gadra was horrified as she looked in the mirror, she feels like she has aged a few years.
Just thinking about that macabre vision that seemed to come from hell made her think of Adriana's every word.
"That is not human!" - Said Gadra with all certainty, but just thinking about killing her, filled her with terror, she doesn't feel she is capable.
Adriana didn't do anything, she just demonstrated something she is familiar with, Killing Intent, anyone who has fought in wars and killed many enemies, knows what it is, since sometimes a bloodthirsty army manifests something like that.
Gadra has seen this many times, she herself knows how to manifest a Killing Intent, but that... that was beyond what one can imagine!
How many hundreds, no, thousands, no! Tens or even Hundreds of thousands of people Adriana killed?
What kind of lunatic monster is walking the streets? How does she not know anything about such a being? Unless you come from another continent
It is a very common story among nobles, that there are other continents, but due to maritime technology not being very advanced, they are mostly rumors, but nobles who research a little, know that there are indeed other continents!
If Adriana is from one of them, a Continent that is constantly at war, it wouldn't be strange if she really is as strong as she says... but then she thought about that about 15 nations, which made her fearful.
And if on the continent that Adriana lived, she annihilated all nations, if so, for what reason?
"Send someone out quickly and get all the possible information we have on Adriana! Run to all nearby villages and ask, NOW!" - Gadra roared in panic, she needs to know and now!
6 days later!
The Province Lord finally reached Prune City, due to her craving to know everything in detail, she came on her war horse as fast as she could.
This way it arrived in less than 2 weeks, which would normally take 1 month by conventional means.
Because of this, she didn't hear anything on the way and immediately went to the home of the Lady of the City, Gadra.
"Madam!" - Gadra knelt before Carmen, who nodded as a meal was served.
"I want to know about this new race and who discovered it?" - Asked Carmem authoritatively.
"Immediately, someone will leave a message for the person in question and the corpse of the creature is in the basement, being preserved." - Gadra said calmly.
"Message? Is that person not here?!" - Carmem frowned hearing that.
Gadra hesitated, then started talking about who Adriana is and what she discovered.
"You mean maybe this woman is from another continent and she ended up on ours due to some teleportation trap?
That's a problem, but what about annihilating nations, that's just pure speculation, there's no way a single woman can go up against an entire continent!" - Carmem said calmly, very thoughtful.
"I know, but she's terrifying my lady! That woman must have killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people, her Killing Intent made me feel like I was going head-on against an army of 10,000 Valkyries!" - Gadra said obviously terrified.
Carmen looked right at Gadra, knowing that she has to take this seriously since this subordinate of hers who was one of her Knights in the past, one of the best and received a noble title as such, was so terrified.
About 4 hours later, someone arrived at the entrance to the castle of Senhora da Cidade, it is obviously Adriana who just received the message.
Adriana has spent the last few days hunting hard, successfully reaching Level 71, and Adriana has finally decided on her Subclass.
The chosen Subclass is [Tamer], which gave him 3 Skills:
[Inferior Taming(Lv.1/25)]
- Type: Passive
- Description: Allows you to easily tame small creatures!
- Effect: +1% Taming Chance!
[Animal Bond(Lv.1/10)]
- Type: Active & Passive
- Description: Create a bond with a tamed creature, giving it System properties, but no player or creature control!
[Lower Animal Communication(Lv.1/25)]
- Description: Communicate with animals to some extent, getting stronger by creating a bond!
Due to their lack of use at the time, Adriana did nothing about them.
But apart from that, as Adriana is pretty sure that this Lord must be above Level 100, as well as a true elite of this world, she wanted to prepare herself!
So [Astral Force] reached Level 105, along with it was [Astral Manifestation] that reached Level 100!
[Astral Force(Lv.105)]
- Description: Magic and Spirit run through your veins, granting you power that can exceed many barriers!
- Effect: +14 STR, AGI, RES, INT and WIS & +21~63 Damage & +42 Defense!
- Cost: 1 AP per minute!
- Storable: 0/525
[Astral Manifestation(Lv.100)]
- Type: Active
- Description: Manipulate through your will and creativity, your Astral Energy to be molded and manifested in the way you want, either for attack or defense!
- Effect: +10% Manifestation Speed & +100% Damage & Defense!
With that, his Attributes underwent significant changes, which improved his brain capacity and his strength astronomically.
Along with that, she got 3 Attribute-boosting Passive Skills:
[Elephant Skin(Lv.Max)]
- Effect: +5 Resistance & +5~15 Defense!
[Hare's Muscles(Lv.Max)]
- Effect: +5 Agility & -5% Body Weight!
[Gorilla Strength(Lv.Max)]
- Effect: +5 Strength & +33% Carry Capacity!
This gave him a huge boost in his physical capabilities, around 10~15%, which will be a huge advantage, not to mention that in the future these skills can be assimilated with others of the same type, creating even better effects.
Adriana also got her hands on 3 Accessories, there are more but she will give her subordinates.
[Ruby Heart Necklace Artifact, Tier 1]
- Category: Accessory / Necklace
- +2 Strength
- +2 Intelligence
- +15% Damage from Fire Spells!
[Glittering Gold Ring Artifact, Tier 1]
- Category: Accessory / Ring
- +2 Wisdom
- +20% Damage to Evil Creatures!
[Blaze Mage Bracelet Rare]
- Category: Accessory / Ring / Magic
- +8% Damage from Fire Spells!
- 2/2 3rd-Level Spells "Fire Blast" Stored!
Even if Fire Magic isn't your forte, it can still amplify the power of [Fire Blasts], it should be enough to deal severe damage to Tier 3 individuals.
And well, with all that preparation, but a Rare armor with high defense and impact reduction, as well as her Astral Axe, Adriana is prepared for whatever comes!
A beautiful woman with short blonde hair, several scars on her body, while wearing tight clothes made of some expensive and luxurious fabric.
This is Carmem Azevich, being 45 years old, but maintaining a youthful appearance, perhaps due to part of her Elven blood, she also has the various resources used to maintain her beauty and strength!
[Carmem Azevich(Lv.150) HP: 120%]
[Imagem]
Adriana as soon as she entered, ignored everything else and focused only on this beautiful blonde woman, with an authoritative and powerful aura, a long sword, no, a long saber in its scabbard held in her hands, while sitting comfortably in an armchair .
Gadra who went to say something, quickly noticed that she was being ignored, as the two women were looking at each other and analyzing, the rest didn't matter, introductions? Will they wipe their ass with it?
So Gadra could only remain silent and watch as Adriana sat down and continued to look at Carmem.
The environment remained in deadly silence until Carmem spoke. - "Do you come from another continent?"
"Perhaps." - Adriana said carefree.
"Do you have plans to go against the crown?"
"If you don't give me reasons for it!" - Adriana said carefree.
"Can I trust you?"
"It depends!" - Adriana said a little surprised by the question.
"Depends on what?" - Asked Carmem calmly.
"What do you expect to get from me, if you expect loyalty, you're not worthy, loyalty, you're my type, but I don't want to get too involved with nobility, it gives me a headache!" - Adriana said, shrugging.
Carmem didn't come to the city alone, she has a small group of her elite troops with her, who were about to draw their swords, but Carmem stopped them.
Carmem may feel that Adriana is dangerous and, if they fight, she will not be able to guarantee the safety of her subordinates.
"I believe you hid a lot of information you got from that Demon, correct?" - Asked Carmem calmly.
"In fact, it would be annoying to explain how I got it and I know everything." - Adriana said calmly.
"Then can you tell me?" - Asked Carmem and Adriana took a book from her robes.
"This is the diary of the Demon called Laminis, it has information on the last 4 years of her actions, not to mention a lot of information about her species and potentially the location of her territory!" - Adriana said calmly.
Carmem held out her hand and Adriana threw it to her, Carmem took it, but - "I can't read"
"It's in the demon's language, it's normal that you don't understand a language you've never seen before." - Adriana said calmly.
"So one of the reasons for not wanting to report on this is due to the explanation?" - Asked Carmem, throwing him the diary.
Adriana took it and already took another book from her robes. - "In fact, I have a translation artifact, which allows me to read, write and understand languages in moments, very useful and unique in the world!"
Carmen nodded and picked up the second book, which she saw was the translated diary.
"I made sure to avoid translating parts about some hot demon she fucked or had her eye on, as well as useless stuff!" - Adriana said smiling.
Carmem read the diary, frowning at such information, she didn't ask questions, but stopped reading in no time.
"The information here is very crucial, not to mention the evidence we have, would you be interested in coming with me to the Capital? I'm sure the Queen would reward you handsomely!" - Said Carmen.
"Not interested, I never get along with royalty, they like me to kneel and I don't kneel to anyone weaker than me!" - Adriana said, shrugging and snorting.
Carmem frowned hearing that, but then asked. - "So what do you want as a reward?"
"Take my name out of all this shit, make up some story to get it translated and take all the credit, I'm really not interested in rewards your nation can give me, I just don't want to be pissed off and avoid talking about me, most of the Royal Families I murdered was because of that, they knew about me, so they wanted me under control, as a result, I killed them all!" - Adriana said smiling coldly.
Carmen frowned, knowing Adriana is dangerous, she wants to deal with this woman right now but she doesn't have the confidence to do so.
Sighing, Carmem calmed down and said. - "Well, I will avoid talking about you, but understand that if you cause problems, I will make sure that this whole nation hunts you down!"
"I've heard this threat many times, some have accomplished this feat, unfortunately they didn't realize it!" - Adriana said smiling provocatively.
Carmem huffed and insinuated that she could leave, Adriana smiled, waving at her and leaving right after, it ended simple and fast, it might seem like that, but, in fact, the environment was full of tensions.
Both had to be careful with what they said, since Adriana seems to be the type of person who gets angry easily and seems to constantly want to incite fights, at least that's what Carmem thought of her.
As for Carmem, she had a greater range of words and authority, but she understood that none of this intimidated Adriana, it means that she does not fear the strength of a nation, not to mention that she also has an exorbitant amount of Mana, Carmem noticed this and believes that Adriana did it on purpose.
She couldn't have someone of her level allow her Mana to be exposed like that, meaning she was showing it to make her understand the difference between them.
Then comes the obvious murderous intent, which even though it is very light, is still noticeable to the attentive eye and is more than enough for Carmem to understand the horror.
But something that reassured you is that it doesn't seem to be a sadistic or cruel type of Killing Intent, which makes you think that it must be the necessary or chance type.
Whatever it is, it doesn't change the fact that Adriana must have caused seas of blood to have something this potent.
'I hope the Queen doesn't come to cause problems...' - Thought Carmem sighing, as loyal to the crown, she cannot allow such a threat not to be reported to the crown.