Murata Himeko and Romani Archaman's Relationship Was... (1st Update)
In the Light Screen footage, Romani's flashback came to an end.
Then came a series of scenes: boarding a plane, getting off it, changing transportation, and finally traveling from Yingzhou by special means aboard a ship headed east, toward an isolated island in international waters somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
Sitting aboard the ship, Romani looked through the documents in his hands. At that moment, the Light Screen footage displayed some of their contents.
It was a briefing document explaining the origins of the Valkyries.
Fifty years ago, the financial backer who founded St. Freya Academy excavated an ancient ruin containing relics of an ancient civilization, including methods for creating supernatural power.
Using his connections, St. Freya Academy's backer contacted the Holy Britannian Empire to jointly develop those relic technologies. In the end, after incorporating the properties of magic power, they successfully created something known as a "Stigmata."
Valkyries who possessed Stigmata could use them to generate vast quantities of highly purified magic power to strengthen themselves, gaining strength, speed, resistance, and endurance far beyond those of ordinary humans, as well as potentially acquiring special abilities.
However, "Stigmata" could only merge with girls no older than five, which was why Valkyries had to begin training from childhood.
That was quite thought-provoking. This so-called "training from childhood" was certainly not as simple as it sounded.
At the very least, as Romani read the information in the file, an expression of sorrow and melancholy appeared between his brows. "They have to be trained from childhood... To make this technology mature, how many children had to be sacrificed?"
Those softly murmured words sent chills through countless people in the real world.
Yes. Since the Stigmata could only merge with girls under five, how many