Watching the people who had captured her happily discuss how to divide the money, Helene's heart sank to rock bottom.
She had not hoped to escape. Or rather, if she could have escaped, she would have done so long ago.
These people's abilities were simply too bizarre. Even as a descendant of the Solen Family, she could not tell what Sequences they belonged to.
The burly one could make the air viscous. Not only would speed be greatly reduced, but breathing would become difficult, and even fireballs thrown out would quickly extinguish.
The fair-skinned one could make the ground slippery. It sounded like an inconspicuous ability, but it forced her to watch every step carefully. The slightest carelessness would make her fall.
As for this thinner man, he possessed the most terrifying ability Helene had seen since becoming a Beyonder—he could suppress a person's muscular strength. During the time Helene had been captured, her entire body had been left weak and powerless. Even eating left her panting from exhaustion. The weakness in her chest muscles even made it impossible for her to speak coherently. No, forget speaking—if she did not walk around a little to keep her muscles moving, she would even have trouble breathing.
But if these people belonged to different Sequences, that did not seem right either, because they had all used similar spell-like abilities, such as illumination and air armor...
What frightened her most was that these three people, who could easily suppress a Sequence Seven, seemed to be mere low-level members of some organization. And the person before her now appeared to be one of that organization's higher-ups.
Why had they captured her? It definitely was not for Tracy's bounty. Then, was she bait to capture Tracy? Or...
As Helene's thoughts spiraled into increasingly complicated directions,