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Imperial Path: Chapter 3

Imperial Path: Chapter 3

Freyja of the 99 Iron Valkyries: Sofreya Armbruster

"He who bowed to save, He who punished the living and the dead, Thou shalt come"

Does it matter if one's life is about to end?

"Thou shalt come to the glory of God's retribution"

Does it matter if anyone would die just for you to stay alive?

"Let the light be part of your journey, as the world seeks its grave"

Does it matter if the world would fall apart under one's hand?

...

A frigid light, a frigid darkness. an unexplainable contrast of the same situation.

An unknown being charges

Either live through your lifespan or die under a being you never known.

Sofreya jumped towards the unknown being's black spiky back

For some reason, I thought I would die from a cascade of emotions, a stampede of depression or "SUICIDE"

She ran towards the head of the unknown being, destroying anything in her path

I have protected many comrades that saved me from the dead end and killed many beings with a stick on an arm. This is something like Vainglory, "Inordinate and uncontrollable rage" said by my family's generation. Calmness is not acceptable if death is on the line, "Nothing is absolute", being purged into nothingness for me means the absolute truth about the world's corruption, without some sort of passion towards nothingness can leave you a remark of the past.

As she gets close to its neck. She fired a bolted flaming arrow with an arrowhead capable of piercing anything to the back its head. Blood was everywhere. As she charges through the geyser of blood, She fired more arrows directly through its brain. After that, she let the being fall and was safe after the fall.

"Live through this world, Don't let anything get in your way", said by someone I missed and someone I truly love. The 99 Iron Valkyries, a section of the military and the association in Sweden where the candidates are selected from either Sweden, Germany, and Japan. My surname, "Armbruster" has its definite meaning through the military. My family provided the first generation of "99 Iron Valkyries" a specialized weapon to kill these beings, Some sort of crossbow that encompasses its mechanism with strong materials, enough to pierce any armor with its arrowhead and full power. However, due to the recent event, The "Stronghold of Ploresia", That killed many Valkyries that leaves us with the amount of 53. My loved one died, a part of the Einherjar died and most importantly, one of those who saved me from my depression almost died. Being eaten by a huge monster is definitely the worst possible death you'll ever encounter, being eaten by a huge monster has to call upon its servants to split your body into pieces, organs, and mostly your internal mana. The servants will eat your mana until you can't move, the huge monster will then eat your internal organs using its mouth. But! If you manage to survive its eating process, you'll be infected. Somehow the worst cases I've ever seen was the one who saved me from my depression. She was bitten into her stomach leaving her organs out, luckily she survived as the reinforcements arrived. Today, her stomach is now healed but it left a coma. If she wakes up, the Infection will start to spread out and will make her a half-monster. Come to think of it, I'm a half-monster myself. My right arm was bitten by a kid-sized monster when I was a baby, but then I was experimented on until I was 10 years old. Their experiment turned out to be a success, they call the experiment. "Right Hand of Freyja". They call me Freyja due to which I have the power to control any monsters, I have the blood of a monster. Oh wait, I forgot the scientific name of the monsters. I think they're called... Um... Xeveltas? or Tresoltra?. I don't know anymore. Somehow I think its related to the Hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.

     I need Edenia's Records

A man's word alone is strong enough to force one enemy or anything that illustrates force positivity.

"I've been looking for you" someone called me, a woman with blonde silk hair, blazing arms, smooth legs, and her beauty was unexplainable, wearing a breastplate of copper, gauntlets of gold, Heels of Gold and Leg guards of Tin while holding a mask of engraved iron and a Lance of shattered diamonds. 

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"What is it now? Astrid?" responded to her call. To the leaderboards of the 99 Iron Valkyries, I was in the Top 10's and Astrid was in the Top 30's. The leaderboards record all our monster kills. On the other hand, Astrid was a Support-Killer who wields a giant Axe that can do many things for support like smoke, We often need a smokescreen for our escape plan, and of course, The offensive grenades like Incendiary, Frag, or anything useful but for now she is stuck with the lance due to her Axe's technical issues. I went down to the ground as they carved the monster's flesh and bones. I was accompanied by Astrid as we walk through the very fields. The skies are limitless, exposing its further beauty to our very eyes.

"Sofreya, have you heard the news from Japan?" asked me without hesitation. I looked at her eyes telling me that it's important to either know or being told. "I don't know, What is it?" asked her back, She handed me a scroll with a seal on it. I removed the seal and unrolled it, The letters were written to the point that you can't understand it, but here's what I have read so far.

    Due to the "Stronghold of Ploresia". The Association would like to call the following Valkyries  including those who have lost their loved one and those who have lost their will, the following Valkyries are Astrid, Astrea, Avalta, Balsa, Carmelita, Cerla, Dastry, Doratila, Eri, Fatima, Hestia, Ichigo, Katarina, Katherin, Laura, and Sofreya. They will be assigned to a certain partner to train them and learn the basics except for Astrid, Carmelita, and Sofreya. These 3 would be assigned to a "Prophet Commander" to train them and learn their differences. They will be dispatched tomorrow 1/18

"Better prepare, We will be dispatched tomorrow," said Astrid as she leaves. The vast cloud sky lingers as the Fifteenth Moon moves, the reddish blackish moon there is, Seven Moons? Fuck that crap, Edenia's ideal is bullshit anyways. The horns of the apocalypse will be blown in the further future, Edenia's ideal is nothing but a broken psalm. I heard that Edenia's grandson holds the Demon Sword of Imperial, He needs to gather the remaining Moons to fulfill Edenia's Ideal, "Integrity of Power and Firmament Solace", Integrity of Power means the one who holds the power of the future and Firmament Solace means the one who will separate the waters and the land, the one who will call salvation to others. Edenia's Ideal means that there is someone who holds the power of the distant future and nothing much as the one who will separate the living and the dead. I think I need to prepare for tomorrow, I should get some rest when we arrive at HQ. "We carved the monster and grab the necessary parts, we're done here" someone shouted, As they get aboard the cargo, I immediately rushed to the cargo and went back to the HQ. 

Some time had passed. They were at a secured location where they will be transported by a dragon cargo.

Here I am, standing with my luggage, The commander said that we will stay there but if something came up in this place, we will be dispatched back here immediately and return to Japan after one night. How necessary is this? Is there some possible solution to this? I can't just stay here waiting for the dragon cargo to arrive, I should be eating breakfast or something. "Hey, SOFREYA!" someone called me, It was Carmelita, wearing formal clothes while dragging her luggage. "What's with the Formal clothes?" I asked her. She giggled and grabbed me by the shoulder, "Sofreya, I have to look good when meeting the assigned commander, They said that they were new due to the fact that they change every 25 years." Answered my question. I guess she had a point, wait... What point? Well, put that aside, I just laughed sarcastically and just let it slide. I forgot that we will meet our assigned students or something here. Maybe that's the reason why the Dragon Cargo is late, It should be past 10 in the morning, and It's 1 o clock. The Cargo is late. There are some stories that kinda reminded me of the current situation, I think it's called, "The Shield of the Tyrant and The Sword of the Demon." It's a story where there's a woman who was forced to be the wielder of the shield of the tyrant that can protect anything. She met this guy named, "Arseo" who was the wielder of The Sword of the Demon that was passed to him by family tradition, I forgot the whole story but the plot is interesting when It comes to astral projection and fate.

The Dragon cargo arrived

The Dragon was about thrice the size of a Boeing 747, on its sides were the transportation cabins where they stay till they arrived at the designated location. Before the door opened, the General stood next to the door to announce something.

"The students of the land of the rising sun has come, Please be on hold until they step on this very floor and form their attentive circle."

The door opened, students with graceful discipline and good posture, ladies trained with good will, gentlemen trained with respect. They all went to the side and we all stood respectfully. "As I call your name, go in front to meet your partner. If the partner is not here then you shall go to Japan by yourself alongside with your batch.", I can say that it's not respectful to say that I don't want to meet my partner but I guess it supposed to go that way.

After some time had passed

The remaining valkyries are Astrid, Carmelita and Me. There are only 2 students left, One girl and One boy. The girl has this cold treatment towards me, Here looks is the same as Astrid when she was just in middle school. 

"Meguri Aino!" The General called the Girl, "Yes!"

Her response was a salute and her being straight-forward,

"Astrid Chlorontine!", The General called out Astrid, She stood straight and raised her arm up to her brow, "Yes!".

"Your partner is Meguri Aino, Teach her anything that you've experienced throughout the whole entire war!", She lowered her hand and said,"Affirmative!".

They went inside the transport cabin and proceeded to Carmelita's partner, I didn't expect that my partner would be absent but I guess that's how it ends. As the General said, I will go to Japan and meet my partner there, I supposed that's a good idea because I don't want to meet my partner anyways. I went inside the transport cabin and waited until the time is right to leave.

The door was closed and was forcibly locked

"Before the dragon cargo leaves, please take your seats and put a seatbelt on. The estimated time of arrival would be 15 minutes. That's all, thank you" 

I guess the improvements done in the dragon cargos are good, Speakers connecting to the main cabin, automatic doors, and etc. I respect the one who thought of that idea. 

Well, Think of Edenia's Ideal all away around, It should be something like

"The Integrity over the Firmament and the Solace's Power and Wrath"

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