<h4>Volume 3 Chapter 111: Mutiny Incident at Alcott Valley</h4>


    Trantor: The Light


    Edits by Yukan


    Outskirt of Olsylvia Academy, Alcott Valley outback center.


    Be went forward to hold Pam who wanted to turn and leave. Before that, Pam came down from the warhorse to scout out the situation. She did not manage to go back to her horse before she was held back by Be. The soldiers who followed Pam looked at each other in dismay; at that moment, they were at a loss in responding to the sudden situation.


    In a normal situation, it was considered impolite if a person who did not give prior notice and grab another empire’s General. General Pam’s military rank was higher by a few levelspared to Ingrid the Beautiful Dragon Knight, who she had met earlier. Although she was not the Duke of Manasvir Empire, Be had an exclusive Dukepel badge; it was already considered influential among the human race empires.


    “Your Excellency the Duke, please ... please kindly let go! We do not know each other and for you to do this, I will feel very confused.”


    “I am the Duchess of the Gabriel Empire, Grand Duchess Bellina of Sarnia Duchy. Of course, you can also call me Be, which is my nickname. Alright, now we can be considered to know each other! Is it possible to let me know your name?”


    “Just call me Pam. Duke Be, could you kindly release your hand now.”


    Pam looked at Be with a face full of smiles but her heart felt an indescribable sense of nervousness. She could not exin the cause of why she was feeling nervous. When Be grabbed her, she thought of struggling free. She felt helpless as Be’s strength was too great and she was held too firmly so she could only open her mouth to plead for Be to let go of her.


    In any case, Be was a duchess and Pam could not start a grudge by directly throwing her hands off. If that was the case, everybody would have no face. Considering that she needed to take care of the other’s identity and reputation, Pam decided to negotiate with Be but she did not realize that by doing this, it would be falling into Be’s trap.


    If Pam had left forcefully, she would not have any more interaction with Be in this lifetime. Pam’s hesitation started the bond between Be and her, it had also indirectly saved herself.


    Pam was wearing a light knight’s armor; this armor was only worn by knight when they were participating in general ceremonies. As this was a decorative armor that was used in ceremonies, the defense was not much and the style was exceptionally gorgeous. Thanks to this light armor, Be was fortunately able to appreciate Pam’s good figure.


    The ceremonial armor that the knights used to attend a ceremony was differentiated by gender and this was different from themon standard knight armor. For example, this suit of ceremonial armor that Pam was currently wearing, the lower half of the armor was a skirt and Pam’s pair of legs, which was snow-white, was not covered andpletely exposed in the air.


    Pam’s beautiful hair was scarlet, wavy and curly. Although she was wearing the knight helmet, her long hair was not covered up at all and draped over her shoulders. She was estimated to be around sixteen years old; her beautiful face held traces of youth and was different from Ingrid the Beauty Dragon Knight, who was more mature.


    Pam’s eyes color was a beautiful shade of scarlet and her gaze was different from Ingrid the Beauty Dragon Knight. Although both were female generals, Ingrid’s gaze was more firm and steady than Pam. When she was facing Be, Ingrid had seemed calmpared to Pam. At least, she was different from Pam who was feeling slightly nervous now.


    “Pam, I seemed to have heard about you from my good friend Jenny, you are Manasvir Empire’s...”


    “Duchess Be, can you please stop the conversation first, I don’t think we are familiar with each other yet!”


    “Pam, please call me Be which is my nickname and don’t add on Duchess. Is it alright with you? If not I will shout Princess Pam.”


    Pam did not expect that Be would know her princess identity and for a moment she sunk into a state of bewilderment. Be seized the opportunity to pull her to her side. When Pam regained her senses, she was already at Be’s side and her warhorse was very far away; she had fallen into the mode of “enforced dialogue”.


    “How do you know about it, I don’t remember when I had ever told Jenny...”


    “Secret, Princess Pam. Can you lend me a few giant shields, my shields will soon be broken.”


    “Don’t you have a lot of mercenaries and schoolmates over here, you could ask from them?


    “No, I only like to ask you, is there a problem? I simply do not like to request help from guys; is this thinking very weird?”


    Pam’s full name was Manas Pam and Be’s roommate, Manas ine together with tomorrow’s business transaction partner, President Manas Isaman of Euphemia Imperial Academy’s student union, were all princesses of Manasvir Empire. Of course, Be did not hear about this information from Jenny who was the daughter of Manasvir Empire’s richest individual. Jenny was just the daughter of the richest individual and would not be familiar with members of the royal family of the Manasvir Empire.


    The thing that had betrayed Pam’s identity was her ring that belonged exclusively to the family members of her royal family. The shape of the ring was normal, it was worn on the index finger and it would appear unremarkable, almost no one would know that this ring, which was far from being gorgeous, would be proof of the royal family in the Manavsir Empire among the five big empires in the human race.


    All along, Be would carefully observed beautiful girls. She had seen this unremarkable ring on President Isaman and ine. Therefore, Be’s bold guess was that this ring was the article that marked a member of the Manasvir Empire royal family and at least all princesses would have it. This was the same characteristic with the Promise Dagger which symbolized the Octavia Empire, and was carried by Felia, her substitute.


    Pam had not known that Be had guessed it when she and Be had a round of conversation; Be relied on her many years of umted experience in hitting on girls and easily fished arge number of secrets from Pam. Pam was the most doted on princess of the king of Manasvir Empire; ine and Isaman were her elder sisters in the name.


    Pam was just a nominal student at Olsylvia Academy and from young, she liked to read all kinds of military books thus she did not appear in the school. Her originally intended to enroll in Olivia Wizard Academy as that academy was famous for cultivating various kinds of talents and her lifelong dream of being a general could only be cultivated there.


    However, the King of the Manasvir Empire insisted on enrolling her into Euphemia Imperial Academy. The King had pampered Pam too much. Additionally, his thinking was conservative and he subjectively believed that girls should not brandish swords and y with spears.


    Also, he had no people in Olivia Wizard Academy so what if Pam was bullied over there? Olivia Wizard Academy’s students always had crooks mixed in with the honest folks. She was better off in Euphemia Imperial Academy and he also felt reassured that with the academy’s Student Union president, Isaman, who was her sister, that at least Pam would not be bullied inside.


    Of course, Pam was not happy but the King’s order was difficult disobey so she could only go to Euphemia Imperial Academy to report and be there in the name. Maybe the Manasvir Empire’s King had known the dissatisfaction in Pam’s heart and decreed that she was to defend the outside of Alcott Valley as themander-in-chief of the Security Regiment which specialized in taking responsibility for the safety of Simon Quarry. This was considered to have fulfill her dream.


    This military post was a position with practically no obligations as the location of Olsylvia Academy was in the central district of the human continent area. This was the district that was most impossible to be involved in the fire of war. Being a general in the garrison over here had the same nature as being a nominal local official.


    “Be, since the few of you are my schoolmates, pleasee to my army camp to be a visitor. I’ve had no visitors for a long while.”


    Be and the few people had agreed to Pam’s invitation, it just so happened that Be wanted to use the excuse of renting shields from Pam. She needed rest as the attack from the rock puppets had caused both hands, which were supporting the shield, to feel slightly numb. If she did not rest, she was afraid that her hand would be injured and at night she could not use her hands to take liberties.


    As Be and the beautiful girls followed General Pam’s army of light cavalry and walked off, the mercenaries who were watching had also gone back to clean the battlefield. After all, life had to go on. It was just good to just look at beautiful girls; killing monsters honestly to earn money was the correct path.


    After the students of Olsylvia Academy had sent the squad away, they had also gone back to school. Be and the few people had killed more than half of the rock puppets over here. The rest of the monsters had not “refreshed” and they did not want to stay here to “fight over monsters” with the mercenaries thus they could only return the next time.


    Nobody noticed that those rock puppets’ corpses that had been blown apart by Be and others with those mysterious stones, had inexplicably disappeared. Those fragments had secretly moved to the surroundings of the Simon Quarry and ahuge mutation was silently brewing.


    On the outskirts of Olsylvia Academy, surroundings of Alcott Valley, garrison base camp of Simon Quarry in Manasvir Empire.


    Be, Kriss, Ariel, and Ivy rushed back with Pam’s cavalry. From very far away, Be had seen the army camp with tight security. The surface area of the army camp was huge; this ce ten thousand people was stationed here. If this ce was not big enough, it was inexcusable.


    “Pam, your soldiers are pretty good, all of them should havee from the battlefield!”


    “Be, all these are new soldiers, my old man would not dispatch veterans from the battlefield for me who is an amateur and still learning military affairs! Your eyesight isn’t very good!”


    “Is it, then it’s true... true that I do not have good eyesight!”


    The army horse that Be was riding followed with Pam’s mount closely. President Ivy was seated behind her and on the other side of her mount was Kriss and Ariel. Both of them were riding together on a horse. Before that, Kriss and Ariel were always fighting over the chance to ride the same horse as Be. For the purpose of harmony of the harem, Be had to choose President Ivy and put up with her for a while.


    At first, President Ivy did not agree; due to her profession, she disliked close rtions with people. As Be had promised to give her a few cute dolls, this ice-cold beautiful female assassin agreed to Be’s invitation of riding together in the end.


    Be swept her eyes over the soldiers of the Manasvir Empire standing on two sides of the avenue who were weing them. On the surface she had no expression, but in reality, Be suspected that the soldiers had some issues. Based on Pam’s sayings, these soldiers should be new; they should not have such a strong aura of death.


    In the past, Be had gone onto a real battlefield; the human soldiers who had attacked her and killed thousand of Ocras, those soldiers who had killed people before would have the aura of death. This group of new soldiers also had the aura and this was illogic.


    Soldiers of the Manasvir Empire were standing on the roadside, with standard military posture and their backs upright. Those eyes eyed on Pam and the others covetously. In their gazes, Be could not see a trace of respect for Pam. No matter how good a soldier was, the soldier at the very least would have respect for their general. It was a big problem if these soldiers did not have any.


    Be’s hand consciously pressed the storage rings on her right hand and this was a sign that she was about to draw out her weapon. Kriss and Ariel, being Be’s awesome teammates, had also quickly discovered the problem over here. These two girls had gone through the mutiny of Sack Reed and were considered to be veterans of the battlefield.


    Kriss’ hands did the same action as Be, her left hand was on the back of her right hand. Her weapon was taken out from the sword space so there was no need for any storage rings. She did that to trick other people and let them think that her weapon was taken out from a storage ring.


    From the beginning, Ariel had worn the big cloak,.Be temporarily could not see her obvious abnormality, but her little hand that was previously exposed hand had been pulled back into the big cloak and it was unknown what she was “fiddling with secretly”. Ariel’s magic attack was instant and if she ran into a sudden attack, she could react quickly.


    President Ivy was seated behind Be and she could clearly feel Be’s nervousness. Ivy did not ask; she was a high-end assassin and from her sharp observation skills, she realized the problem with this road. Many people were lying in wait in the forests on both sides of the road. These people had a secret line of sight and there was almost no murderous intent leaking.


    But when the sneak attackers’ line of sight was on Pam, their aura held obvious fluctuations. In that short duration, Ivy caught them. As Ivy thought about this, she crossed her arms over her chest. She had already prepared two concealed weapons in secret when no one noticed. Because her hands were in her embrace, the outsiders did not notice that she was already in battle preparation mode.


    Besides Be and the others who had noticed the peculiarity, Pam and the two thousand cavalry that she had led had actually not realized anything. Pam was gratified that her soldiers would form a wee squadron along the way. Her soldiers were mostly new and those with a little experience inbat were transferred to Simon Quarry to stand guard.


    Although Pam did not remember when she said she would be back, and that she did not ask for a wee squadron, Pam did not think deeply about all these abnormalities as she was in a state of happiness.


    “Pam, how many people do you have in your army camp? There is a great number of soldiers lined up here.”


    “Be, this is not a military secret so why are you asking so mysteriously? My army camp has four thousand people staying behind, I took two thousand light cavalry to look for you and the rest of the six thousand were stationed at Simon Quarry.”


    When Be was asking she had lowered her voice down, she already knew the answer after getting Pam’s reply. Be, being a Demon King, could perceive the approximate number of humans in a certain region. Minusing the two thousand light cavalry that Pam was bringing back, the army camp surprisingly actually had about four thousand life reflections.


    The two thousand people was definitely problematic as Pam had transferred six thousand people to Simon Quarry so there should only be four thousand people over here. Now adding on the light cavalry that Pam had brought back, there were six thousand people. The extra two thousand people definitely spelled trouble.


    At the thought of this, Be quickly motioned for Pam to stop as perhaps there would be a mutiny. In her past life, Be was familiar with all kinds of history books and she had read many examples of this type of military coup. Currently, Be, Pam, and the others were close; this could prevent the risk of the beautiful girls being captured when they encountered a sneak attack.


    “Why, Be, I thought you wanted to go to my army camp to visit and also borrow a few shields!”


    “Wait, Pam, stand nearer to me. Can you first send a person to go back to the army camp and verify the number of people inside!”


    When Pam’s light cavalry stopped, the soldiers who were lined up became unstable. A few of them had fierce gazes and red at Be, it seemed that they were unhappy with the actions of this gold-haired beautiful knight. When Be saw all this, she was even more convinced that the army camp had a problem.


    “General Pam, you are back? You also brought with you a few visitors. Please go back to the camp, we have already arranged a banquet.”


    “Captain Lauren, thank you for your hard work, then we...”


    Be was climbed down from the horse before Pam. She walked to the front of Pam and stopped her froming down the horse. After that, she walked to the officer. This little officer also had a problem.


    “Oh, your grace, the duchess, hello, you are....”


    “You are not the person himself at all...”


    Be quickly took out her sword from her storage rings and stabbed it into Captain Laurent’s chest. This unprepared attack stunned Pam who was behind Be. Even a duchess was guilty when killing a soldier from the empire who was on active duty without a reason. Punished lightly, her rank could be lowered; if not, her title could be stripped away. As a duchess, Be had no reason to do this.


    Before Pam reacted, a more shocking matter happened. Captain Laurent, who had been stabbed in the chest by Be, did not die and stood there without copsing. Immediately after that, countless arrows were shot out from the undergrowth of two sides of the roads.


    The archers who had sneak attacked were obviously veterans. They had especially shot the small cracks in the helmets of the light cavalry who were on the horses. These people who were new soldiers did not manage to react and were shot to death.


    Those sneak attackers who could urately aim and shoot through the cavalry helmets and kill them, even in the Kristoff Empire which was the empire of archers, were considered the cream of the crop.


    “Enemy attack, quickly withdraw!”


    “Stop, you are attacking your allies! I...”


    The light cavalry who was ambushed was a mess. The allied soldiers who were standing at the two sides of the road instantly turned into their enemies. They carried pikes and hurled them out directly and urately, piercing the legs of the horses that the cavalry was on.


    Because of speed, the horses of the cavalry relied mainly on lightweight and portable equipment for the armor. The horses were not equipped with leg armor ting like the heavy cavalry. If the legs were pierced by the pikes, the results were obvious. Many light cavalry soldiers did not manage to react and fell off the horse because of the warhorse’s overturning. The unlucky ones were crushed to death by the warhorses.


    “Hmph, this haughty female duke. Later on, I will capture you alive to the army camp, strip you and let you be the sex ve of the army. Not just you, all of you can’t run away!”


    Captain Laurent’s facial features had twisted until he did not look look human. Regarding this change, Be was not nervous and her look instead had turned gloomy. Did the human not know how precious life was? He actually wanted the Demon King to be his sex ve. His courage wasudable, but it was a pity, he got the wrong opponent.