(Additional content has been added to the end of Chapter 89, somewhat related to this chapter.)
"Now that all of you have awakened your Magic Armaments, and Little Brocade, who has progressed the fastest, has already advanced to Leaf Rank, it's time for Magic Armament development to enter its next stage."
After lunch, in the base's underground training hall, Larkspur stood before a small blackboard that had somehow been brought in and spoke to the younger girls gathered before her.
The timing happened to coincide with the holiday. Both she and the girls had rarely enjoyed such a long stretch of free time, so Larkspur decided to give them a substantial lesson and officially begin their preparations for the assessment.
After all, the arrival of the new year meant that only around two months remained until the magical girls' certification assessment.
Emerald had already given Larkspur the news: March 3 would be the specific date of this year's certification assessment.
The exact examination site should have been confidential, but it was no secret to Emerald either. The testing grounds had been unsurprisingly set in Luen Nore—the City of Knowledge, home to the Kingdom Research Institute.
Larkspur was not surprised by this information in the slightest. If anything, she would have been surprised if the examination site had not been in Luen Nore.
Without question, that city was where Emerald's power could be amplified without limit. Within its borders, aside from the Queen herself, no one's voice could outweigh Emerald's. It could be called her territory.
Emerald had taken such an enormous risk to approach her for a deal. There was no reason for her to hold the transaction on someone else's turf.
But that also meant Larkspur could not wait until the end of February, like most magical girls, before