Waste Not, Want Not

In some unknown space, the unconscious Rita Roosevelt finally began to slowly awaken.

After waking, she did not get up immediately. Instead, she pretended to remain asleep as she checked the condition of her body.

[I was seriously injured while fighting those two monsters... Is that still the case now?]

[Several bones are broken. Although my internal organs were not injured, I am indeed in no condition to fight.]

[They neutralized my combat ability without further endangering my life...]

[I have to admit, these enemies are truly difficult to deal with. Those two strange people may even be a match for Herrschers at normal strength.]

[Then the question is—what exactly do these people want by abducting me?]

After sorting through the information in her mind, Rita sank into deep thought.

Though she was one of Schicksal's three S-rank Valkyries, she was inferior to Durandal in combat power and to Kiana Schariac in bloodline.

To the outside world, she was Otto's loyal hound. If this group bore a grudge against Otto, they had more than enough reason to abduct her.

But that did not make sense either. If they were Otto's enemies, why had neither of their two ambushes reached Otto himself?

That deduction was clearly wrong as well.

After racking her brains, Rita realized she could not reach an answer at all.

After all, before this group of strange people seized the Herrscher of Death's core, the Gem of Serenity, they had left behind no trace whatsoever.

Even a massive organization like Schicksal had failed to detect them. If these strange people had been around long enough, the power they had secretly amassed might be terrifying.

Naturally, Rita did not believe that these three strange people represented the overall strength of their race. But since they possessed the strength to