"Wait, you're not thinking of drinking it, are you? Haven't you already mastered the power of ice? It won't be of much use to you, will it? Besides... this thing is extremely dangerous!"
The moment he saw Rita's actions, the Minister felt as though he had been slapped in the face. It seemed... she really was interested in it.
She clearly already possessed the same power, so why take such a risk?
This Imperial Arm was unlike the others. With most Imperial Arms, incompatibility would not necessarily mean death. But this thing... if it did not suit you, you would either die or go insane.
In the Minister's eyes, Rita was simply courting death—and doing so for absolutely no reason.
"No! It is precisely because I have mastered the power of ice that I need it even more. The stacking of similar powers... will only make my strength even greater."
Rita herself possessed talents for freezing and concealment. These were not merely powers granted to her by the Godslayer Armor, but abilities inherent to the Stigmata genes within her body.
However, a Valkyrie's true strength did not lie in her own body's power—especially not for Rita...
She was not Durandal. Durandal needed no armor; she herself possessed the body of a holy sword, and a bubble universe was supported within her.
Nor was she Fu Hua, a super-soldier who had lived for tens of thousands of years and defended Shenzhou barehanded.
Rita was indeed very powerful, and she was one of Schicksal's three S-rank Valkyries.
But... but once everything external was cast aside, once the Godslayer Armor: Moon Soul was excluded, and she relied entirely on no external items, she lagged far behind the other Valkyries.
Not to mention Valkyries of the same S-rank—even Mei, Kiana, Seele... these people appeared