The Villainess Returns with a System

With dark rings around her eyes from the insufficient amount of sleep she had to endure, Vivian was confronted by her father who scolded her for not telling anyone about her midnight reading. She could only justify herself by saying that she was saddened about the news of Voros’ wife and couldn’t sleep so she found herself in the study to distract herself.

While having breakfast, the news about the attack on the Blackguards Market seemed to have reached the gazette. It was announced that the attackers were two assassins, a female human and a Duergar who wreaked havoc and performed an evil blood ritual according to surviving witnesses. Of course, the title was "The Blood Swan Killer On The Loose!" and it was more of a drama written from the imagination of the writer mixed with the uneducated opinions of the drunken eyewitnesses and uncultured harlots.

Such a juicy story is exactly what the press needs but saying it is an evil ritual and all that was just pure comedy to Vivian, who kept sneaking peeks at the back of the newspaper in her father’s hands.

But the important matter was the situation regarding Voros’ wife, Anastasia.

Vivian scoured the ledgers she stole last night almost till 4 AM and barely found Voros’ name, who seemed to have long been forgotten by the slavers who started to call him the Animal. He was flagged as a Craftsman but from what he told her, he barely worked on anything and only helped in the smelter to get by during his 14 years of slavery.

Vivian looked for the name Anastasia in the records before and after but aside from a few crossed unreadable names, Vivian had to guess that Anastasia’s name was most likely deleted from the records.

Now there were methods to restore such crossed lines but Vivian wasn’t an expert and most likely no one still is. However, what Vivian remembers about this restorative process from Nadia’s memories is that if the ink used for writing and the ink used for crossing were different, the two types would be analyzed in a lab. Then a compound would be synthesized to make some effect such as dissolving the ink used to cross the entry or making some ingredients of the entry ink glow.

Whatever it is, Vivian needed an alchemist and the best place to look is in her company.

Once she got to her company, the place was so busy that it was impossible to breathe properly outside her office. Right now, the Moore Conglomerate has tasked ViTech to take a step towards producing a direct and constant electrical current, which led to bringing many scientists together in order to figure out how.

With Vivian guiding the project with her futuristic hints, the scientists were on the verge of discovering the electrochemical cell, a device capable of either generating electrical energy from chemical reactions or facilitating chemical reactions through the introduction of electrical energy.

And while the electrochemical cell was a good idea, Vivian was driving the scientists towards electromagnetic induction but even her knowledge was lacking in this field. All she could contribute was what she could remember from Faraday’s Law and Maxwell’s Equations to inspire the scientists she was working with in regard to producing electromotive force.