[Holy Relics] are generally weapons made of Soul Steel.... 'Soul Steel', composed of nanomachines harder than diamonds, is the most suitable material for channeling Honkai energy...
The weapons called [Holy Relics] undoubtedly represent their creators, who came from the Previous Era of humanity... In the civilization before the current one... a super-ancient civilization with technology dozens of times more powerful than the present, they researched and created these super weapons to resist the [Honkai], fighting against the Honkai, Honkai Zombies, and even Herrschers...
That glorious human civilization spent countless resources to create thirteen [Divine Keys], the most powerful weapons among the [Holy Relics]...
Among these were two weapons, [Xuanyuan Sword] and [Abyss Flower]... of which [Abyss Flower] possessed the power of [Creation] to counter the Herrscher of Death... And this weapon was found by 'Schicksal'... and given to one person, the... strongest person among humanity at the time... Cecilia Schariac.
"Shigure Kira...." Theresa blankly uttered the name of the girl floating in mid-air...
"No looking..." Yae Sakura pouted, her little face scrunched up. She reached out from behind and completely covered the eyes of Li Xuan, whose brain had just blue-screened...
Although... the girl from the ice crystal made a grand entrance, it still couldn't hide the fact that her delicate body was exposed to the air for a moment... As a harmless otaku, Li Xuan had never seen such a scene, and he was completely stunned...
"Kira... why are you here?..." Theresa asked urgently, dragging her golden cross as she walked towards Shigure Kira, who was slowly descending from the air and now stood on the ground with her head lowered.
"Why are you the only one... Where are the others? Patrick, Cheng Lixue... and Cecilia?" Theresa muttered to Shigure Kira, who stood not far away with her head down, her long ice-blue hair obscuring her face and upper body...
"Something's wrong... Bronya has detected that the Honkai energy she's emitting is getting stronger and stronger!" Bronya reminded Theresa anxiously. The Honkai energy reading on the detector in her hand was still rising...
"*Hoh hoh hoh!~*" With a sound that seemed to be forced from her throat, Shigure Kira suddenly raised her head. Her ice-blue eyes met Theresa's... Their reflections mirrored in each other's pupils... Their faces were the same as before, unchanged... as if time had turned back sixteen years...
"So that's how it is?... You've also been..." Theresa's expression suddenly became dejected. She spoke with a sigh, her golden cross, 'Judah's Oath', standing before her like a giant shield, its sharp end piercing through the solid ice on the cave floor...
"**Roar roar roar!!~**" Shigure Kira suddenly let out a sound like a Honkai Zombie. A visible white light, like a white ribbon, wrapped around her body... It was Honkai energy, concentrated to the extreme, changing the rules of the surrounding space...
"All units, prepare! Prepare to attack! Target—Shigure Kira!" Theresa shouted as if venting, pulling the golden spear from the now-unfurled 'Judah's Oath' mount... The golden spearhead pointed directly at her former friend, now her enemy...
"...." A milky white halo surrounded Shigure Kira, and the white light slowly faded... A gorgeous short dress, like a formal gown, materialized on the girl's fair body. Black over-the-knee stockings covered her long, slender thighs, and the purple dress bloomed like a violet, exuding a pure and extreme beauty...
"**Haaah!!!~**" Facing them with their weapons drawn, Shigure Kira showed no fear. Instead, she suddenly thrust her hands into the frozen ground, her snow-white hands ignoring the solid ice and plunging straight into the earth...
"What's going on?..." Li Xuan, holding a golden sword defensively, muttered in confusion. According to the script, shouldn't she be charging at them?
".**Crack!~**" The ice-covered ground suddenly trembled. The solid ice around Kira's hands instantly turned into ice chips and scattered... She pulled her hands back...
At the same time, two objects were pulled from the frozen earth by the girl's hands... a white spear and a jet-black sword... Li Xuan's eyes widened as he looked at the two weapons, and his heart seemed to skip a beat... It was a very strange feeling...
"That's!!..." Theresa couldn't help but show a shocked expression. She almost cried out, "Black Abyss! White Flower!!"
"Auntie Himeko... why is Principal Theresa so surprised?..." Kiana suddenly interjected, asking Himeko, who was also taken aback by Theresa's expression.
"...." Himeko frowned, tightening her grip on her 'Sunfire Greatsword', and said, equally confused, "I don't know either..."
Although she was a major... there were many things about 'Schicksal' that she, as an A-Rank Valkyrie, was not qualified to know...
"**Crack! Crack! Crack!**...." Ice needles, with tips as sharp as daggers, rapidly formed behind Shigure Kira. Her hands hung at her sides... as she slowly advanced, the tips of her two blades carved two deep gashes in the ground...
"Be careful!" Theresa warned, raising the golden cross 'Judah's Oath' to block Shigure Kira's path...
"**Swoosh swoosh swoosh!**..." Shigure Kira hadn't moved yet, but the ice needles that had condensed behind her due to her manipulation of Honkai energy began to spin. The streamlined needles, as hard as steel, shot through the air like bullets, firing indiscriminately at Li Xuan and the others...
"**Clang clang!~**" Himeko directly shattered the incoming ice needles with her 'Sunfire Greatsword'. Kiana and Mei didn't even have to do anything, hiding directly behind the giant shield on Bronya's Project Bunny...
"No need for Xuan-kun to do anything~" Yae Sakura said with a smile. Li Xuan couldn't even see her movements; he only saw a flash of pink light suddenly appear in front of Yae Sakura... and then it was over... only ice dust remained in the air.
"**Roar roar!**" Seemingly annoyed, Shigure Kira raised the black sword 'Heiyuan' in her hand, and stomped her foot hard on the frozen ground, sending ice chips flying...
"**ROAR!!**" With unparalleled force, the sword 'Heiyuan' struck down unreservedly on the 'Judah's Oath' standing before Theresa...
With Theresa at the epicenter... the frozen ground cracked as if on the verge of shattering, forming a dense web of fissures... The body of an A-Rank Valkyrie whose physical fitness was already at the pinnacle of humanity sixteen years ago, now further enhanced by Honkai energy and the power of 'Heiyuan'... she was like a humanoid tyrannosaurus...
As Shigure Kira swung this blow as if venting, the dress on her body began to emit a white glow once more....
(End of Chapter)