"According to your previous request, I conducted a systematic check on Blood Knight: Muramasa. There are no backdoor programs, so Schicksal cannot track us."
"Is that so? Then I'm relieved."
"However, I found a sub-project in the main system called 'Gleipnir'."
Everyone listened to their conversation, and these words confirmed their suspicions.
Theresa's battlesuit indeed had another purpose.
"Under this sub-project, the release rate of the activation factor is greatly suppressed, probably only 15% of its full state."
On the screen, Einstein explained calmly.
Hearing this, Theresa outside the space exclaimed in surprise:
"Only 15%? That's practically ineffective."
Everyone was shocked, realizing that the usual S-Rank Valkyrie Theresa was actually an incomplete form, possessing only 15% of her full strength.
Based on Einstein's explanation, everyone gradually understood.
The release of the activation factor is divided into five stages, and the system locks it at the Stage One level.
Rather than a restriction, the current Muramasa is more like a binding armor that seals Vishnu.
Once the restriction system is lifted, the release rate of the activation factor will rapidly increase, with Stage Three being dangerous and Stage Five being untouchable.
Tesla gasped: "She's an S-Rank Valkyrie with only 15% power? What about 100%? Hey~ Does your Schicksal have any SS-Rank Valkyries?"
Rita: "Currently, we don't have Valkyries of that category, as S-Rank Valkyries are already rare. We don't have SS-Rank Valkyries yet, but if someone with that level of strength exists in the future, or if an SS-Rank Valkyrie wants to join Schicksal now, we can create a separate SS-Rank classification at any time."
After speaking, she subtly glanced at Yunduo with her eyes.
Unexpectedly, this glance was noticed by Theresa, and the very dignified Headmaster immediately became unhappy.
Right in front of her, someone dared to poach her talent?
No!
It was only after Rita agreed to gift five more Gaia Mechas as compensation that Theresa finally nodded in satisfaction.
Nearby, Kiana couldn't help but say, "Speaking of which, I think Einstein seems quite reliable. Headmaster, can we poach her to our Academy now? I feel like she'd be very useful."
"Eh~ that actually seems possible. We'll be allied in the future anyway, and Tesla is already at the Academy. Let me think—"
Having just had someone try to poach from her, the Headmaster was now meticulously considering poaching from Anti-Entropy.
However, the target was one of Anti-Entropy's executives, so the difficulty was quite high.
Tesla just stared at them coldly in silence, not saying a word.
She had already seen through these people's true colors.
If Einstein could come to the Academy, she, Tesla, would be a dog!
...Outside Haiyuan City.
Three children were discussing what game to play.
"Hmm~ what should we play? How about hide-and-seek? There are three of us today."
Rozaliya suggested, her pink little Tail swaying gently along with her.
"Hide-and-seek is good. You don't have to move. I like it," Liliya said.
"Bronya doesn't like it. Are there any other options?"
Hearing this, Rozaliya hesitated for a moment before saying:
"Then, since we rarely have an audience today, why don't we let Bronya see our little theater?"
"Hehe~ you'll definitely be shocked. While you were away, Liliya and I did something quite incredible."
"We've entered the Siberia entertainment circle and become the famous child star duo, the 'Vodka Girls'!"
At this, she was incredibly excited, her pink eyes seemingly sparkling with little pink stars.
Then, Liliya's cold words interrupted her: "Only within the Cocolia Orphanage."
"There are countless performances every year." "Actually, there was only one in total."
"Every performance has a full house."
"It's all children from the Orphanage."
"Many audience members don't have seats and have to stand for the whole show."
"Sigh~ it's all because there are too few stools, only three in total."
"Liliya, can you say a few words less!"
Constantly being undermined by Liliya, Rozaliya puffed out her cheeks like a little hamster stuffed with pine nuts.
The two of them played off each other like a comedy routine, truly dramatic.
As they talked, Bronya followed them to a small island, which they heard had broken off from Haiyuan City.
Surrounded by bright shells and emerald green seaweed, with standing eroded rocks, it looked like an undersea world from a fairy tale book.
"We were chased by Schicksal for four months, hiding all the way. Everywhere we went was ruins, wilderness, and abandoned cities."
Looking at the beautiful scene, Rozaliya explained.
"This is..."
A small pile of stones lay quietly among the overgrown coral, with the most beautiful shell placed on top.
Without explanation, Bronya could understand what that represented.
In the Cocolia Orphanage, children often died, and they had no tombstones.
The small mounds of earth covered in fresh flowers were their only place of peace.
"Did someone... leave?" An inexplicable pain Shuhu surfaced from Bronya's heart.
Liliya didn't answer, but just sat down quietly on her knees and spoke softly to the tombstone.
"Isabella~ Sister Bronya has come to see you."
"Sorry~ Bronya didn't tell you in advance, it's just that since you're back for once, we wanted them to see you too."
Bronya shook her head: "I understand, no need to apologize, Rozaliya."
Isabella was a little girl from the Orphanage and also Bronya's friend.
She remembered that person didn't like eating borscht, didn't like taking naps, and always wore very clean dresses to dance for the Orphanage children when the sun was warm.
Although it was a dance she choreographed herself, Isabella's gentle dancing in the sunlight still influenced many people.
This included the Vodka Girls.
Seeing this, Rozaliya smiled slightly, her originally playful and lively tone changing, with a faint sorrow in her words.
"The Great Collapse made a mess of the world and took away many children. Schicksal was chasing us, and we were always running, never able to find a proper place for them to sleep."
"This place is different from the snowfields and different from the Orphanage. It's the outside world, a place that makes people feel happy just by looking at it."
"They couldn't see this kind of scenery before, but now they can live here forever."
The children sat on their knees, three small figures huddled in front of the stone pile covered with conch shells.
At some point, these children, who had not yet fully understood what life was, had already become accustomed to death.
The sound of the sea flowed, and Bronya quietly gazed at the tombstone.
Many things appeared before her eyes.
The snow on the Orphanage eaves, the old broom that was about to break, the not-so-tasty borscht... and, the blue-haired girl who had always been by her side.
So many things had happened.
She suddenly realized that the place that was once as warm as home had gradually drifted away from her life.
Those familiar pasts, like illusions and bubbles, slipped from her clenched hands, turning into nothingness bit by bit.
She thought time could fade the scars.
But when she came here, that unnameable pain gripped her throat again.
Burning chips flashed before her eyes, and Gray Serpent's mockery echoed in her ears.
Cold Remembrance, like chains, dragged her into the bottomless abyss.
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