"Though they've grown quite a bit stronger, it's still not enough. It looks like I'll have to bring them all into the Elysian Realm for training later."
As the Valkyries from St. Freya Academy arrived, Shen Fei observed the battles of Kiana, Mei Raiden, Bronya, and the others, then could not help shaking his head lightly. Without Otto's intervention, Kiana had yet to truly mature, and the same was true for Mei Raiden.
In the original work, Mei Raiden would already have mastered the power of the Herrscher of Thunder by now. The Herrscher of Ice and the Herrscher of Earth had been defeated by her and Durandal working together. But now, she could not even defeat Rita, the weakest among the S-rank Valkyries.
The three great S-rank Valkyries of Schicksal had enormous gaps in strength between them. Of those three, Rita was undoubtedly the weakest. Only after she later obtained Durandal's World Bubble and gained the Astral Harness did her strength truly reach the standard level of an S-rank Valkyrie.
Not having to suffer and being allowed to grow normally was naturally a good thing. But this was the Honkai world, and everyone had a Sword of Damocles hanging over their heads: the Finality Herrscher.
The Finality Herrscher's power was utterly incomparable to that of the previous Herrschers. In other words, she was like ORT from the Moon World, an existence that could not be defeated through ordinary means. Otherwise, World Serpent would not have kept pursuing the Stigmata Project.
That made Kiana's growth crucial. She was undoubtedly the vessel of the Finality Herrscher, but at her current stage, she could not possibly bear that kind of power. This vessel could not be replaced. Only she could fully carry the Finality Herrscher's power; no one else, not even Kevin,