System: Is This How You Use What I Gave You?

The carriage door opened, and the Minotaurs' eyes instantly went wide.

An exceptionally beautiful Loli stood there, her smooth golden hair reaching her waist, her skin delicate enough to seem breakable at a touch, and her large azure eyes framed by folded Cat ears. Her Tails swayed constantly. She wore a black-and-white frilled Maid Outfit that exposed her Fragrant Shoulders, with black stockings ending just above her knees. Between her skirt and stockings was an eye-catching Absolute Territory untouched by any clothing. She wore little leather shoes, and a bow was tied to her tail.

"What an exquisite Cat demi-human!" The Minotaur Leader wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth. "She might even compare to those legendary Princesses and Saintesses. Too bad she doesn't have the title." After saying that, he looked toward the other person.

Parted golden hair, a face as sharply sculpted as if by a blade, a high nose bridge, and a pair of... blood-red eyes that looked terrifying. He wore black-and-white overalls, utterly mismatched with his striking inverted-triangle upper body.

He held a sword in one hand and a wand in the other.

The Minotaur Leader said, "This pretty boy isn't bad either. Hehe, he's a little too muscular, but it wouldn't hurt to switch things up once in a while."

Lynn swept his gaze over the surroundings. The militiamen and Knights were not seriously hurt, but their morale was terrible.

A group of militiamen around five foot seven and Knights around five foot ten facing three-meter-tall Minotaurs—of course they had been frightened.

The several hundred slaves following him looked lifeless, as though they had already accepted death.

The Minotaurs had no armor and no ranged units. The forty militiamen had spears, while the Knights were all armored soldiers. Without horses, their formation was far too dense. One swing of a Minotaur's axe would put them in their place.

"Lord Lynn, please take Miss Lilim and escape!" Eckley, the captain of the Knight squad, stood in front of Lynn with both hands gripping his sword. "There are too many Minotaurs."

Lynn ignored the plea and immediately began giving orders. "Eckley, you will command the Knight squad. All Knights, move ten meters to the left, assemble into an attack formation, and prepare to advance!"

Eckley was a little dumbfounded by Lynn's order. "Lord Lynn, are you joking?"

"Military orders are absolute!"

"Yes!"

As the disgrace of the Nobles, Lynn naturally had no Nobles willing to follow him. Eckley and the other Knights were all commoner Knights—in plain terms, Villain Blondy's lackeys.

Villains always got along affectionately with one another.

There would naturally be no scheming among them. Besides, in a world where all paths upward had been blocked, someone willing to lead you across class boundaries was already a benefactor among benefactors.

"Sys... Master, What are you doing?"

"Soldiers, do not be afraid. Hold fast. I am with you!"

When facing a Strong Enemy, the best method was to Break them one by one—to concentrate superior firepower. My main force is ten Knights; the other forty militiamen are Cannon fodder.

The best approach now was for the militiamen to hold back the Minotaurs while the Knights broke them from the flank.

The issue now was not that the Knights were too few, nor that they were weak. It was the militiamen's morale.

With that in mind, Lynn stepped in front of the militiamen.

"You didn't run away. Instead, you came toward me?" The Minotaur Leader chuckled, tightening his grip around his axe as he walked toward Lynn. "Do you want a One-on-one with me?"

One-on-one was a traditional pastime in this world, where generals fought generals just like in Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Lynn looked behind him. The militiamen's morale was too poor. With such loose organization, they would collapse at the first charge. He could only fight One-on-one.

As a villain destined to be trampled by the protagonist, he naturally had to possess high status, position, and strength, but poor character. That was what made him the protagonist's enemy.

Lynn was not that weak. Among ordinary people, he was a genius. Among geniuses, he was Lungs fog.

This world's power system was divided into Battle Qi, magic, Divine Favor, and Faith.

Battle Qi and magic were the most common, the usual staples of Western fantasy works.

Battle Qi belonged to close-range fighters like warriors, tanks, and assassins, while magic belonged to mages, archers, Wet nurses, support classes, and the like.

Divine Favor was the right to use rule-based power bestowed by gods. It was rule-based power weaker than authority.

Faith referred to divine servants, who received blessings by believing in gods.

Neither Faith nor Divine Favor had levels. Faith depended on how much a god favored you and what valuable things you had sacrificed to that god.

Divine Favor depended on how much a god liked you. Lynn's system, Lilim, was a fake system. She originally possessed the Divine Favor of the God of Love, allowing others to be unable to see Lilim. She could also turn herself intangible and become a true system-like being, parasitizing others while possessing all the panels, system shop, system lottery, system space, system skills, and system loans of a system.

But because of a certain blond-haired man, she failed to win over even a single heroine, then borrowed wildly from the God of Love without repaying anything. After Lynn reached his ruined ending, she lost her Divine Favor and could no longer parasitize others like a system.

Fortunately, what had already been given away was spilled water; it could not be taken back. Lilim and Lynn were not left with nothing.