Valkyries of the Frontier

"The world sees weapons. I see souls. They see a wasteland. I see an Empire." In the continent of Aethelgard, war is the only language spoken, and Awakeners—rare women gifted with the shards of ancient gods—are the ultimate currency of power. To own an Awakener is to own the battlefield. To lose one is to see your lineage erased. Caelum von Heist was the "shame" of a Great Noble House. An adopted son with no mana and no future, he was cast out to the Falling Star Border—a desolate, cursed land crawling with the twisted spawn of the Evil Gods. He was sent there to die quietly. But Caelum has a secret: The Eye of Providence. While the Great Lords spend fortunes on ancient rituals to detect Awakened potential, Caelum can see the "Divine Hue" in the common and the forgotten. The mute slave girl about to be executed? She carries the Silver Light of Judgment. The shivering beggar in the mud? She is the future Goddess of the Harvest. The broken mercenary? The Herald of the Void. As the shadows of the Evil Gods deepen and the Empire falls into chaos, the "Useless Lord" of the border begins to build something the world has never seen. One by one, the girls the world spat upon are gathered under his banner. When the silver light of his first Valkyrie shatters the darkness of the abyss, the Great Houses will finally realize: They didn't exile a failure. They unleashed a God-King.