Anna Schariac's Transformation

Beneath the ruins not far away, a girl's weak voice reached Anna's ears, and she immediately stopped in her tracks.

"Survivors?!"

"...Save me... Someone... save me..."

A black-haired girl lay miserably on the ground, pinned beneath several chunks of rubble. A pink Houmei plush had fallen beside her, its surface torn open, the stuffing inside scattered across the ground like white blood.

"!!!"

Anna's eyes widened. She realized that if she did not save the girl, her blood would soon dye that stuffing bright red.

However, just as she was about to approach—

"Roarrrr—!!"

"P-Parvati!"

Perhaps even intangible fate itself was stopping Anna from saving her. A massive Honkai Beast appeared between her and the girl, with a pair of white tusks and blue patterns running across its black shell.

As a model student, Anna recognized it at once.

This was an Emperor-Class Honkai Beast! Parvati!

She instinctively tightened her grip on her lance.

(No, I can't! I can't act rashly!)

With the strength of an A-Rank Valkyrie and a Pseudo-God Key, she could indeed kill Parvati. But fighting now was by no means a wise choice. It could even be called suicidal.

Anna had no way to defeat an Emperor-Class Honkai Beast in a short time. Once the commotion became too great, it would inevitably draw the surrounding Honkai Beasts over as well.

When that happened, forget saving anyone—Anna herself might not survive.

And, cold and cruel as it was to say...

Human lives were not truly equal in value.

At the very least, the life of a dying girl could not compare to that of an A-Rank Valkyrie like Anna, who even had a trace of Saint blood within her.

*(This is terrifying, terrifying... I have to get to the rendezvous point. I can't fight Honkai Beasts now,