In the past, there had been a Honkai Beast extermination mission in India that had left a deep impression on Theresa.
Because the mission briefing was vague, the Valkyries who received it had treated it as an ordinary extermination mission. None of them had made sufficient mental preparations or completed the necessary pre-battle training.
The reason was simple.
"It's only a Honkai Beast. As long as it isn't something absurdly powerful, we can deal with it easily."
Their teamwork had been excellent. If they were still alive, they might even have been as well-coordinated as Yae and Kiana. Unfortunately, it was precisely because their coordination was too perfect compared to others that they failed this mission.
The Honkai Beast they were supposed to exterminate was not some Rush-type or Chariot-type creature whose weaknesses and attack methods had been thoroughly documented. It was a far more terrifying existence.
If the threat an Emperor Honkai posed to ordinary Valkyries could be compared to the difference between an eagle and a snake, then the threat that creature posed to this highly synchronized group of Valkyries was more like the obvious difference between a lion and a rabbit.
Before they even engaged it, they had already lost their lives. They saw only an enormous figure—and the beam composed of Honkai Energy that it spat from its mouth.
The mission had cost the lives of a squad consisting of two A-rank Valkyries and several B-rank Valkyries. Even an existence like an Emperor Honkai should not have been able to kill every member of such a squad.
Yes, every last one of them. That Honkai Beast was so powerful that it could kill a team formed by several Valkyries in an instant. Only after losing contact with that Valkyrie squad did Schicksal Headquarters begin taking the