Waking up from the dream, Marika looked at the ceiling confused, the content of her dream had begun to become blurry to her mind.
"Ah ... a stranger's ceiling ..." After joking with a little meme reference, Marika got up and stretched her arms, her naked, graceful figure glistening in the sunshine sprinkling in from the window. Although her body as an empyrean allowed her to not have any cramps waking up, she still thought the inn's bed was too small to give her a comfortable sleep/
At this time, a knock came from the door. Marika hurriedly dressed herself, and then opened the door. It turned out that one of the female clerks last night brought water, a washbasin, and towels for grooming. Marika took the items and briefly thanked the clerk. She closed the door and returned to her room to wash herself. After she finished up and unaccustomedly put on her jewelry, she opened her room's door to find Ladybug had also washed and waited for her outside the door.
"Morning Boss! Had a good sleep last night? Was the bed too small? Since, you know, you're pretty tall and all."
"After we have our own residence, we should buy a bigger bed." Marika said. Ladybug kicked himself internally for asking such a stupid question and hurriedly changed the subject of conversation:
"I just asked the clerk what we are having for breakfast. They said that they had some bacon and some bird's egg. I have no idea what the egg is but it sounds delicious, let's go and get ourselves some of it!"
"Ok." Marika agreed. She carefully and discreetly studied Ladybug's expression and came to the conclusion that he probably didn't notice what happened last night.
When the two walked down the second floor, they heard a commotion from outside the hotel. Marika and ladybugs hurried forward to check, and found that the clerks were crowded in front of the inn's main entrance, watching the door nervously, as if something big was happening.
"What happened? Where is Miss Lof?" Marika asked worriedly to one of the clerks.
The questioned clerk turned back to see Marika, and told Marika in a panic tone:
"Miss Marika, it's really bad outside! Just now a bunch of the mayor's soldiers came and specifically demanded to take you to the mayor's mansion no matter what Miss Lof says. She is currently holding them off outside, but I am afraid that they will break in any second now. You should run away now! "
"God damn it! Boss, this is all my fault! It must be my bad luck again that they caught on to you so quickly!" Ladybug blamed himself with regret, his hand cupping his forehead in distress.
Marika turned her gaze to Ladybug, feeling bad for him, she said:
"This is not your fault. The mayor will get wind of me sooner or later. Even if we run away successfully, he will still definitely send someone to come after us."
"Really?" Ladybugs asked a little hopefully.
"That's right! Now let's go and see what those soldiers are up to now!" Marika affirmed to Ladybug.
"Okay! Let's go!" The ladybug pulled himself together, and walked towards the hotel door with Marika, regardless of the waiters' pleas for them to escape. Marika was determined to confront Bass to the end. She finally had a second new life, with powerful abilities to protect herself. How can she be willing to be a perverted noble's plaything? 'He thinks I am some damsel waiting to get fucked? Well he is dead wrong, this damsel still has plenty of fight in her!' Marika thought.
As Marika made up her mind to fight, the system assigned a mission to her as if on cue:
"Mission triggered: The host has caught the eyes of the deplorable mayor Bass, and he has sent 12 soldiers to abduct the host. You are now asked to immediately kill all soldiers at the scene and let them regret the day they offend Queen Marika the Eternal. Mission difficulty: Easy. Reward: 7000 ruins, unlock exiled soldiers. "
Marika and Ladybug walked out of the hotel in a confident stride, and saw the owner of the Wild Boar Tavern confronting twelve of Bass's soldiers with a broom. The passers-by around the scene did not dare to step forward because they were afraid of the long swords worn by the soldiers. When the soldiers saw Marika behind Lof, a smug grin formed on their faces.
Lof turned her head to see Marika behind her, and said in surprise and frustrated tone:
"Are you stupid? They are coming to catch you! Go back to the tavern and hide!"
Marca shook her head with a smile and said:
"Don't worry. Let me deal with it."
Under Lof's puzzled gaze, Marika and Ladybug stepped forward to confront the soldiers. The soldiers looked at the beautiful woman in front of them and in their mind they all began to secretly hope that once the mayor had his fun with her, he could let them have a piece of her as well. Marika in their eyes is like a trapped bird with no way out.
At this time, Ladybug came forward and said:
"Listen guys, you really don't need to fight us. Otherwise it's gonna end really badly for you. You don't want to lose your life over that jerk Bass right?"
Hearing Ladybug's peace offer, all the soldiers began to laugh at him in ridicule. When they all finished, the captain of the soldiers stepped forward and threatened fiercely:
"You're kidding me right? Who the hell do you think you are? Oh ~! Are you the bodyguard? Okay! Well here is how it's gonna be! Your employer seems to have caught the fancy of Lord Bass. If you know what's good for you, get out of our way or die! Or do you really think you can take on all of us? Hero~" The captain jeered in a menacing tone.
"I know, but she can." Facing the threat of the team, Ladybugs just pointed at Marika calmly.
When he step forward, ready to join the fight, Marika reached out her arm to stop him and said softly:
"Just let me handle it."
Then she continued to walk slowly towards the soldiers. The soldiers all began to laugh at the foolishness of this woman, thinking she stands a chance against twelve soldiers. Only the captain felt something was wrong and put his hands on the hilt of his sword.
Marika watched the ugly, jeering face of the soldiers and thought of their inexcusable crime. An anger began to boil in her heart, but her expression was terrifyingly calm.
(Author's recommended BGM: Kamen Rider Black Sun OST-BLACK SUN)
Everyone present began to feel a great pressure permeating the scene, and the source of the pressure was none other than Marika. In the eyes of onlookers who have learned the mana appraisal magic, a vast and raging golden mana field can be seen flowing around Marika. The soldiers who faced Marika's aura suddenly felt as if they were staring at some ancient unspeakable existence that should never be gazed upon by mortal eyes. This is the effect of one of Marika's skills, Divinity (A). The effect of Divinity is to let Marika release her powerful aura as a goddess, thus psychologically suppressing any enemy without divinity or has a level of divinity lower than her's, weakening their morale. And she has A grade divineness, so not many can match her divineness. Confronting a true god, these soldiers who are only good at bullying the people could only quake in their boots
Golden lights condensed in Marika's left hand, summoning her iconic weapons from the system inventory, Marika's hammer. As Marika tightened her grip of the stone hammer, its broken surface lit up like an ignited engine, and particle-like runes emerged from the cracks of the hammer. The captain couldn't hold his fear any longer and charged her, sword raised in hand. Marika held the hammer with her left hand, and nonchalantly swung it from right to left to meet the captain, but this blow in the eyes of the captain was faster than the speed of lightning. He could only watch helplessly as the power of the hammer's impact sent him flying, the huge kinetic energy shattering everything in his body and killing him on the spot. With an unpleasant "splat!", he was a barely recognizable mess of meat by the time he landed.
But Marika was not over yet, she suddenly charged the soldiers with terrifying speed, as the hammer condensed more and more rune energy. The soldiers wanted to retreat in fear, but it was too late, Marika leaped into the air slowly, raised the stone hammer high, concentrated the power of runes into it, and then flew at the soldiers while smashing down her hammer. The moment the hammer hit the ground, a large amount of rune energy was released, creating a powerful energy explosion. The soldiers who were caught at the center of the explosion were burned into charred minced meat. Only two soldiers were not killed immediately because they were far enough from the explosion, but they were more or less injured from its blast. The surviving soldiers crawled for their dear life to escape, but Marika couldn't let them go. She used the golden teleportation incantation, appearing in front of them in a flash of golden lights, and then shattered their heads with a swift swing from her hammer.
After witnessing the battle, Ladybug was scared to approach his employer. Looking at the blood on the ground, all the once arrogant soldiers are now lying dead and squashed. Marika stood in front of two headless corpses. The blood on the hammer and Marika's face evaporated by the boiling power of runes.
"Holy Shit! I thought you were just going to beat the crap out of them!" Ladybug exclaimed in horror and disbelief.
"If I don't kill them, they will only continue to threaten us." Marika said coldly.
Ladybug is speechless. Although he usually likes to solve most of the situations by means of peace, as a hired killer, he naturally does not shy away from killing. Not to mention most of these poor excuses for soldiers deserve it. What surprised him the most was his usually kind and beautiful boss killing someone so easily in such a brutal fashion.
"So what do we do now?" he asked.
Marika did not answer. She put away the hammer and opened the system interface. She saw that she got 7000 runes for completing the task, and in addition the soldiers of Bass she killed won her 6,000 runes. She then turn her gaze at another new mission from the system:
"The mayor of the city of Uro is insatiable and obscene, the people suffer in misery under his tyranny. Kill Lord Bass and usurp his position as the mayor of the city to usher in a new start for the Golden dynasty. Mission difficulty: medium. Reward: Elden ring gacha pull x1, 10,000 runes, unlock Banished Knights, unlock cosmetic item: Elden Throne. "
Taking in the mission, Marika's thoughts drift back to what the system said to her last night, "You are you, not someone else. You are Marika now, but you are the Marika of this world. The old Marika in the Lands between means nothing to you now. So quit fussing over some pointless crap like this! Just do what you want to do! ".
'Yes, that's right! I am me, not anyone else, right now all I need to do is follow my heart. I am free. It's up to me to save myself and the people here. I will be the one to write the tale of Queen Marika in this world!' Her heart filled with determination, Marika decided to accept the mission. Even if she couldn't become the mayor of the city, she will for damn sure kill that bastard Bass.
After making up her mind, Marika immediately turned to ask Lof
"Miss Lof, I need your assistance now. Do you know how many troops are under Bass's command?"
"Ah? Um ... I don't know the exact number. But, there are probably like a hundred soldiers, likely on the same level as those guys just now? Oh! And I heard that he has a pretty strong knight captain under his command, I heard he is stronger than most adventurers in this city."Laph replied honestly. Though she was frightened by Marika's fight just now. But she could see that Marika wanted to deal with Bass, so Lof was more than happy to help Marika.
"If that's the case, then I will be able to get a surprise attack on him if I move right now. Ladybug, you can stay here, I will deal with them alone."
Marika was about to leave when Ladybug suddenly asked:
"BOSS! Let me go with you! I am supposed to be your bodyguard, it's my responsibility to protect you. Look, I know that you are strong, and you probably don't need someone like me to protect you. But at the very least let me fight alongside you!"
"Ladybug... Okay, let's fight together!"Marika was moved by the resolve of Ladybug, her usual gentle smile returning to her face.
Lof saw that they were leaving, so she gave the duo her blessing:
"I wish you two good luck!"
Marika nodded to Lof, picked up the ladybug and ascended into the air with her bio-telekinesis, and flew to the mayor's manor.