The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 133

Chapter 133

"Raven, wait-Iron Queen... it's just a nickname," Peter stammered. "A term of endearment, really!"

This wasn't surrender. No, no.

This was a strategic withdrawal.

And besides, hadn't he just taken the first bold step toward rebellion? That had to count for something.

He was already halfway to shaking off the chains and singing his freedom song.

Ben, seeing Peter fold, jumped right in. "Yeah, Raven! To us, you're like... the brightest beacon in the dark!"

But before he could even finish the flattery, Raven cut in coldly.

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"You two. Assign the next two hours of training for your squads. And then-one hundred laps each. If you don't finish..." She smiled faintly. "I'll show you the real meaning of Iron Queen."

The remaining seven instructors looked like they'd just won the lottery. Smirks, barely concealed, crept onto their faces. Privately, they all thought the same thing. Thank god she didn't call on me!

As for Peter and Ben?

Good luck, boys.

But the smugness didn't last long.

Raven's voice returned, colder than before. "The rest of you-fifty laps each. Timer starts in one minute."

The grins vanished. Instantly.

instructors bolted like hellhounds were at their heels, sprintin toward

barked out orders with suspicious speed. And oddly... each ordered their cadets

was guilt. Maybe they were trying to soften

the wide- eyed gaze of

blinked

and supervise? Why are they running? Could it be... they were running alongside them out

of the cadets

that feeling of being seen... turned into

training field became a sea of determined footsteps and

the radio back to Jonah like nothing had happened. Nearby, Class Six had just begun to recover from their collective agony. Raven scanned them

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said, her voice calm

cadets-still reeling from pain-gritted their

over them, then

trembling, barely steady, after Raven had forced two gray pills down

from

onto him. His lips

He didn't dare.

in his heart, he'd already made

the president's office. I'll file' my withdrawal. And I'll demand that Kurt expel this filthy lowborn

of Regalhold's first-tier noble clans. He was destined for the Hundred-Man Unit, destined to rule over Vyrdenia with pride and

some

would never-ever-allow someone like her to stand above

Raven only needed one glance to see

lips curved slightly. But her

yourselves," she said, voice low and deadly steady. "Until this training ends, no one

Her gaze darkened.

And as for that

hundred