Volume 0 Chapter 5 - The Birth of the Legendary Pirate Queen (1/2)

It is easy to lose your sense of humanity when you are killing, especially when you are lopsidedly slaughtering the other side. Bella was surrounded by the enemy, but she had the upper hand in the fight; the enemy archers were afraid of friendly fire and were unable to attack, only able to watch allied foot soldiers rush to their deaths.

Bella didn’t know if it was because Felia had trained intensely while still alive, or if it was the blood that the body received during the ritual. Felia’s body was currently like a cheat character in games, the enemies’ attacks had no effect on her while she was able to one-shot any of them.

Bella had hesitated to kill at first, as she definitely would not have dared to do something like this in her past life. However, it was the other side who had initiated hostilities; if Bella had been a normal human, she would have perished in the sea of flames.

Within 10 minutes, the enemy lost a few dozen men; Bella grew more and more used to the slaughter while the enemy continued to lose ground. If you were to go around telling people that several hundred armed soldiers were being pushed back by an unarmored dame, they’d laugh at you, but it was a fact.

“Everybody fall back, I’ll stop this beast.”

Wounded, tired, and losing hope, the soldiers fought for their lives; in their eyes, beset by this singular demon in a dame’s guise. Promise arrived at their flank, reinforcements charging out from the cabin. It was a middle-aged knight clad in heavy armour; he appeared to be in his 40’s, but his face was marred by the wrinkles of a burdened man. The knight was armed with a long steel lance and large shield.

Richi Bernard was shocked by the youthful appearance of the intruder that looked like a girl no more than sixteen years of age; his view from the cabin had been obstructed by the clouds of smoke that obscured the battlefield and bloodied chaos she incited..

Bella was currently grinding ‘newbie missions’ when suddenly a middle-aged knight blocked her path. Without minding him, she just threw a punch at him, but he raised his shield, blocking her blow.

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“Eh? This uncle has some skill!” Bella felt as if she punched a wall, but she didn’t feel any pain from the impact.

Bernard was even more shocked than her, he knew how powerful his defences were as a holy knight; it had been enough to kill several of his enemies through rebound, but the girl in front of him looked completely unaffected. It looked as if he would have to hold her here and wait for Shawn to come and reinforce him; this kind of opponent can only be dealt with by a dragon knight.

“Little girl, we have no enmity or grudges between us, why must we greet each other with weapons?”

“Shut up, you uncle, my only possession in this world was the boat that you guys just sunk; you say we have no enmity or grudges between us?”

“We can pay for your damages, is that okay?”

The surrounding soldiers were shocked when the holy knight Bernard decided to discuss conditions with the beautiful girl. A damn Holy Knight was frightened of a girl, was his title bought?

Bella was not convinced by the uncle’s laughing face; she had already killed dozens of his men; if that was so easily forgiven, world peace would have been achieved long ago. This uncle was probably the level of a mid-boss for newbies so there was definitely some way to bypass his high armour.

“There is no way for someone of your level to break through the defence of a holy knight, you should give up now!” Bernard strengthened his defence further after feeling that Bella’s hostility towards him had risen and began to radiate a holy aura.

Bella was a little surprised to find someone with the same occupation of Felia out on the open seas, she had thought that only the Octavian empire would have holy knights. However, his words gave away that there was a way to break through his defence.

When Bernard saw that Bella had stopped moving, he thought that he had managed to intimidate her. As he was about to keep talking to distract her, he saw Bella’s plotting grin. Bella immediately turned her attention away from Bernard and ran straight into the surrounding soldiers. Screams of despair could be heard on deck from where Bella had punched into their lines.

“You…” Bernard watched as Bella decimated the soldiers. He was starting to panic as this had not been part of his plan, which was to keep her distracted until further reinforcements could come and neutralize her.

“What’s there to be surprised about, Uncle? Even though I can’t beat you, you can’t stop me from beating up the other guys, right?” Bella taunted Bernard while one-sidedly pounding the soldiers, it didn’t take long for her to knock down another few dozen. Bella was confident that this holy knight didn’t have the ability to beat her, which was why he was trying to drag it out; if Bernard thought that Bella could be defeated, he wouldn’t be wasting time trying to keep Bella talking, he would be fighting.

Bernard knew that if he let this go on, even if Mister Stanley managed to arrive, his own reputation would be severely damaged so he could do nothing but fight. The role of a holy knight is to protect so if he is unable to do that, he has no existential value.

Bernard raised his lance and shield and rapidly dashed in Bella’s direction. Bella guessed that Bernard was using something similar to a ‘Charge’ ability like a typical knight class in MMORPGs.

Bella had been waiting for this moment, she had observed Bernard’s posture while she was decimating soldiers; Felia had been a holy knight before her death so she should probably be able to use this defensive ability. Well, there was no harm in trying as he wouldn’t be able to damage her anyways, even if she had failed to activate the ability.

“Heh, there’s no way an outsider can learn… what!” Bernard was about to laugh when he saw Bella adapt the stance that he had taken earlier, but he felt as if his Knight Charge had hit a metal wall.

In the moment that Bernard’s body stopped, Bella moved behind him and delivered a flying kick to his back. Afraid that he might have any cards up his sleeve, Bella had used every ounce of her power on this kick. When she was pounding the soldiers earlier she had not used much power, just hitting them normally.

Her full power was nothing to laugh at, Bernard flew right off the ship with a bang, travelling another few dozen meters in the air before landing in the sea. His armour had been completely shattered by Bella’s kick, its shards remaining on the deck.