After agreeing to the Black Widow Spider's loyalty, the number of existences Cyan could perceive increased by one. No matter how far the Black Widow Spider was from her, she could perceive her existence.
[Detected that Survivor No. 11766 possesses a pet for the first time. The Survival Imprint function is activated, and the pet slot is opened.]
[Note: Pets placed into the pet slot will fall into a deep sleep. Storing them in the pet slot for a long time will decrease their loyalty! Once loyalty drops below 50 points, the pet has a certain probability of resisting orders, running away, and other actions! Please treat your pet well!]
[Note: After a pet dies, a special quest must be completed before it can be resurrected!]
The pet slot had three spaces. Cyan checked through the Survival Imprint and found that both the pet slot and the inventory could be expanded by consuming survival points. Expanding the pet slot by one space required 2000 survival points, while the inventory required 1000 survival points.
[Survivor No. 11766's Pet: Black Widow Spider, Loyalty: 65.]
[Strength: 3, Agility: 6, Constitution: 3, Intelligence: 5, Spirit: 4, Perception: 9, Charisma: 10.]
[Skills:]
[Spider Sense (Passive): The Black Widow Spider can perceive danger and evade in advance. Perception +3, Agility +2.]
[Deadly Poison (Passive): The Black Widow Spider injects venom into enemies through biting, causing muscle spasms, brain paralysis, and other effects based on the dosage of the venom.]
[Webbing (Active): The Black Widow Spider can weave a web to entangle prey.]
The moment she was taken as a pet by Cyan, memories regarding the survival space appeared in the Black Widow Spider's brain. After reading the additional memories in her brain, the Black Widow Spider glanced at Cyan with a trace of resentment in her eyes.
I must find an opportunity to bite her!
Huh?
Cyan suddenly perceived the Black Widow Spider's thought.
"You want to bite me?" Cyan looked at the Black Widow Spider, who was lowering her head.
"Ah?" The Black Widow Spider froze for a moment, and then looked at Cyan in terror.
Seeing the Black Widow Spider's terrified expression, looking as if she were about to be scared to death, Cyan said truthfully, "I can perceive your thoughts that carry malice towards me. Those without malice cannot be perceived."
Hearing Cyan's words, the Black Widow Spider let out a sigh of relief, but suddenly felt a grim gaze looking over.
"What did you want to do to Master just now?" Nishi played with the short sword in her hand with a gentle smile on her face.
"Time to go."
Cyan grabbed the corpse's leg, threw the corpse into the wardrobe, picked up the wardrobe, and walked outside.
"Master! I'll open the door!" Nishi ran to the front of the door and opened the wooden door.
The Black Widow Spider stayed in place for a brief moment, a trace of hesitation showing on her face as she looked at Cyan's back. She touched the Super Crown on her head and chased after her. The Black Widow Spider jumped up, landed into the fluff on Cyan's collar, nudged inward, and crawled inside.
[Survival Quest One: Eliminate the evil Grand Duke Garibaldi and obtain the Golden Holy Grail.]
[Survival Quest Two: Survive in the world of Knights of the Round for 15 days.]
[Rescue Quest: For every 1 Lakota Village villager rescued and protected until the minions of the evil Grand Duke Garibaldi invading Lakota Village are annihilated, receive 100 survival points.]
The moment she walked out of this house, Cyan received the quests issued by the Survival Imprint.
Cyan's footsteps paused slightly. She lifted the wardrobe, walked towards the burning house opposite, and threw the wardrobe inside. Leaving this corpse here might cause unnecessary trouble. According to the hint of the hidden quest, it wouldn't be long before one of the three—Arthur, Lancelot, or Perceval—led an army to support Lakota. If the corpse were discovered by them, the person holding that letter would become the suspected object. In order not to be suspected, Cyan could only burn Royu's body to avoid suspicion.
A rescue quest meant that currently there were still many living people in the village.
Cyan patted the dust on her hands, looked at the information of the rescue quest, and shared the information of the survival quests and rescue quest with Nishi and the Black Widow Spider along the way.
"Separate actions?" Nishi looked at the quest information and sought Cyan's opinion. The reward of 100 survival points for rescuing each villager was truly too generous.
"Okay. Let her assist you. There might be other survivors in the village; use extra caution." Cyan grabbed the Black Widow Spider hiding in the fluff of her collar and threw her into Nishi's embrace.
Cyan looked at the reluctant Black Widow Spider and said, "Assist Nishi well. This is also for your own sake."
"Understood." The Black Widow Spider's small head nodded.
Cyan and Nishi ran in two different directions. This village only housed a few dozen families, so searching was not troublesome. They searched while killing the enemies they encountered.
Infinite Flow • Gale Slash!
The sword qi gathered on the Demon Blade in Cyan's hand. She flew past a greatsword knight clad in armor wielding a heavy greatsword, sidestepped to dodge a short sword thrusting from a soldier, punched him on the chin, and pierced his abdomen with a sword.
Having tasted human blood after a long time, the Demon Blade vibrated with excitement. A streak of blood-red appeared in Cyan's silver-white eyes. She kicked away the soldier's corpse, exerted force with her waist, and turned back with a slash.
The soldier without a helmet on his head, who attempted to launch a sneak attack from behind Cyan, had his wide-eyed head spinning in the air; he saw his own blood-spouting corpse.
"Don't try to influence me." Cyan flicked the blood on the Demon Blade, suppressing the boiling killing impulse in her heart.
The greatsword knight's head fell to the ground, a trace of astonishment on his wide-eyed face. His body still maintained the posture of holding the greatsword ready to attack; he didn't even realize what happened before his head was chopped off by the sharp sword qi.
In just a single encounter, this greatsword knight and two soldiers died by Cyan's hand.
A bronze card floated above the greatsword knight's corpse, and under one soldier's corpse lay a dark iron card emitting a faint light.
[Used bronze card, obtained 500 survival points, Golden Teacup.]
[Golden Teacup]
[Type: Decorative Item]
[Remarks: A teacup used for decoration, can be exchanged for 50 survival points.]
[Used dark iron card, obtained 100 survival points, Wine.]
[Wine]
[Type: Recovery Item]
[Function: Restores 15 points of spirit strength.]
[Remarks: Although the Roman Empire has collapsed, the wine they brought is still well-circulated in England.]
Looking at the Golden Teacup in her hand and touching the patterns on it, Cyan placed it into the inventory. They had to live in this world for 15 days, so there would always be times when money was needed; this Golden Teacup should be worth quite a bit of money.
On the other side, Nishi was working hard to find surviving villagers. Suddenly, she saw a man ahead desperately fighting two soldiers with farming tools to protect his wife and child behind him. She accelerated her speed.
"Puff!"
The short sword in Nishi's hand pierced into the back of a soldier's heart. She pulled out the short sword and threw it towards the other soldier. A slender spider silk shot out from the hands of the Black Widow Spider, who was crouching on Nishi's shoulder and covering her body with a handkerchief, precisely hitting the soldier's eye through the gap in his helmet.
The soldier howled in pain as if his eye were pricked by a needle, and was then pierced through the chest by the short sword. Nishi grabbed his head with both hands and twisted hard.
"Crack!"
The soldier collapsed limply into Nishi's embrace and was thrown to the ground by her with disgust.
"Beautifully done~!" Nishi praised the Black Widow Spider. Without her help, it might have taken a bit more effort to settle this soldier.
The Black Widow Spider tugged at the handkerchief covering her body, not wanting to speak.
"Are you all alright?" Nishi looked at the villagers who were looking at her warily, and pulled the short sword out from the chest of the soldier's corpse.
"Don't worry, I am here to protect you. Are there any other survivors in the village? Can you take me to find them?" Nishi looked at the villagers who obviously did not believe her, and said further, "Whether you believe me or not, you also don't want the people in the village to be killed by the minions of the hateful, evil Grand Duke Garibaldi, right?"
"Okay, I'll take you to find the others!" The man grit his teeth and made a decision. "Mary, you and Ike hide, I'll go with her..."
"No, no, no, you better come with me together. Enemies will come over very soon. Right now, this village is full of enemies everywhere. Leaving your wife and child here is not as safe as having them follow you and me." Nishi interrupted the man's words. She was not alarmist; on her way over, she had seen more than one greatsword knight leading multiple soldiers heading this way.
Hearing Nishi's words, the man knew that not letting his wife and child follow to take risks was already an impossible thing.
"Please walk this way." The man glanced at his wife and child, grit his teeth, and walked quickly in front to lead the way.
On another side, a girl wearing an eyepatch over her left eye held a knight's lance with barbs like bones in one hand, and a shield in the other hand. The giant shield blocked a greatsword knight's attack, and the lance in her hand pierced through the greatsword knight's body, lifting him up and smashing him heavily onto the ground. Her sunset-orange long hair drifted with the wind. Looking at the shivering woman not far away and the little girl held in her embrace, a flash of dejection crossed her blue eyes, looking as if she remembered a sad past event.
"If you don't want to die, come with me. Are there any living villagers nearby?"
"You... you are here to save us?" The woman cautiously sized up the girl, and the girl held tightly in her embrace poked her head out to look at her.
"Correct." The girl responded.
"Milady! There are still people over there, but I don't know if..." The woman's eyes were red, a trace of a sob in her voice.
"Let's go over quickly!" The girl interrupted the woman's words. On one hand, it was to quickly settle the enemies in Lakota Village; on the other hand, it was to save more people. Whether survival points were given or not, she would still do so.
"Milady, please follow me!" Holding the child, the woman walked quickly in front, and the girl followed closely by her side. Along with her running, her black trench coat revealed the red, tight-fitting combat suit inside.