A Righteous Female Knight Never Compromises!-Chapter 7 : Anna wants to see her lovers
{Chapter 7} Anna wants to see her lovers
In the end, Anna still did not spare the life of the bandit leader, as she had indeed lost too much blood and could not be saved.
After giving the bandit leader a swift death, Anna next faced the awestruck gazes of the merchant caravan.
But Anna had no intention of engaging in much conversation with anyone in the caravan, so being revered was fine by her.
"Are you injured?" Before returning to the carriage, Anna first checked on her coachman.
"Thank you for your concern, Lady Anna. I am unharmed," the coachman replied with neither humility nor arrogance.
"If they come looking for me later, tell them I am resting."
"Yes, Lady Anna."
Stretching lazily, Anna returned to the carriage. She removed her casual clothes, stored them in her spatial ring, and changed back into her previous attire.
As for the blood-stained longsword, Anna had no choice but to store it in her spatial ring without sheathing it.
"Is this the feeling of advancing a major rank... My body still feels somewhat light and airy."
Clenching and unclenching her hands, Anna was still savoring this sudden surge of power, lost in thought.
After the final simulation's conclusion, Anna had indeed gained 100 points, successfully accumulating enough achievement points to exchange for the Strength Enhancement Potion β.
[Bandit's Plaything (Silver): Played with both body and mind by a group of bandits, yet managed to turn the tables and become the bandit leader.]
[Reward: 10 Achievement Points] [Gold Unlock Reward: None]
[You're Song Gongming? (Gold): As a bandit, you were recruited by the authorities, and after rendering meritorious service, you died from poisoned wine.]
(Song Gongming or Song Jiang - A bandit leader in Chinese history)
[Reward: 100 Achievement Points] [Platinum Unlock Condition: None]
...The first upgraded achievement could be ignored for now.
The second achievement, also Anna's second gold achievement, had many specific conditions, though she didn’t quite understand the name "Song Gongming," which clearly sounded from the east.
Are gold achievements always ones with a long list of specific conditions?
In any case, having successfully accumulated 200 achievement points,
Anna naturally chose to exchange them for the Strength Enhancement Potion β.
The divine lightning summoned by the goddess after consuming the potion indeed secured today's victory.
To be honest, relying on divine lightning for a comeback was a spur-of-the-moment idea by Anna, with a strong element of gambling.
Her intuition hadn’t even hinted at whether such a plan would succeed. Anna had gone all in, and fortunately, the bandits were indeed a disorganized rabble.
No point dwelling on it. After spending the 200 achievement points, Anna still had 49 left, which wasn’t too shabby.
Honestly, Anna hadn’t seriously looked at the updated achievement store yet.
The new version of the achievement store had a similar layout to before, but the biggest update was the addition of nearly half as many new items as the original stock.
Flipping through, about three to four out of every ten items were new.
With so many more items, Anna’s eyes were practically glazing over.
"Automatic Cleaning Kit... Buy this and I won’t have to spend time maintaining weapons and armor anymore... Looks good."
"This knight armor looks amazing! Seems way better than my current set... 30 achievement points doesn’t seem too expensive..."
"Quick-study Magic Scroll? Can directly learn Flame Sword... Isn’t that a D-rank knight’s spell? And it’s only 40 achievement points!?"
"Restaurant Coupon, can be used at any restaurant for a free meal, no limit on the number of people... Looks great! Can go with Helga and Louise, and it’s only 1 achievement point..."
Anna wanted everything she saw, but her frugal nature restrained her. The more she wanted to buy, the harder it was to decide.
After flipping through the achievement store for a while, Anna ended up just window-shopping, spending none of her 49 achievement points.
Instead, having just fought, Anna found herself yawning while browsing the items.
"...Forget it, none of these seem particularly necessary. Might as well take a nap."
After much hesitation, Anna decided to stop deliberating and just sleep.
Reluctantly closing the achievement store and returning to her normal vision, Anna glanced at the steel longsword by her side.
If she didn’t clean off the blood soon, it would be a hassle later.
"...Might as well exchange that Automatic Cleaning Kit first."
Achievement Points -10
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After placing the longsword into what looked like an ordinary bucket, the Automatic Cleaning Kit, and taking a quick nap, Anna woke up to find it was already night outside.
...And because she had slept so long, she was feeling a bit hungry.
Fortunately, the caravan was also taking a rest, and her carriage was parked by the roadside. Anna decided to get off the carriage and grab some food.
However, as soon as she stepped off the carriage, Anna could feel the awestruck gazes from those around her, which made her slightly uncomfortable.
‘Can’t they just ignore me like before?’
Anna knew that after today’s battle, it was unlikely these people would ignore her, but these reverent gazes made her even more uneasy.
"Ah, Lady Anna!"
The young man who usually communicated with her seemed to be collecting his share of food.
Upon noticing Anna approaching, he hurriedly bowed, not daring to look at her directly as before, instead keeping his head down in a posture of humility, not even glancing in her direction.
"Hmm."
Seeing the young man like this, Anna inexplicably felt a pang of sorrow.
After collecting her portion of food and leaving the area, the young man remained in that humble posture, still bowing.
In the past, as a fallen noble, Anna had never personally experienced this sense of alienation.
Even at the academy, she had never faced such a divide. When she was assigned to the border town as a knight, she hadn’t felt much of a gap with the common folk either.
Now, truly feeling this sense of alienation, Anna returned to her carriage in silence.
"No wonder Father was so disliked."
If it was her father’s teachings in the past that made Anna detest the class divide that felt like two separate worlds, perhaps now, for the first time, Anna genuinely despised this sense of alienation from the bottom of her heart.
And the more she despised it, the lonelier she felt.
"...When will we reach the royal capital?"
The lonelier Anna felt, the more eager she became to see her beloved.
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Chapter 7 : Anna wants to see her lovers
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