Some complicated and useless things were being discarded. After countless years of iteration, the evolutionary information humanity had retained was altered.
In other words, this badge was like a road to the heavens specifically laid out for her. Rita would not need to pay any trial-and-error cost to directly evolve toward the next level of higher life.
She simply did not have the "bottleneck" that might prevent an entire civilization from evolving successfully even after spending hundreds of millions of years and pooling all its strength.
A tidal surge of power continuously welled up from the girl's body.
Behind her, the flower-bud-shaped Stigma suddenly stirred.
Ripple.
Brilliant petals bloomed one after another.
In the end, a crimson rose pattern emerged, vividly engraved upon the smooth, delicate skin of Rita's upper back.
If Rita had originally spent her entire life only to reach the level of an A-rank Valkyrie in her thirties, with limited potential—
Then now, she possessed a far better foundation. After training for a while, Rita could become Schicksal's new trump card, one of the legendary S-rank Valkyries.
And all of this had been given to her by that "Lord Ren Yu."
At that moment, the girl's heart stirred slightly. In her previously empty left hand, a silver sphere similar to the brilliant golden badge appeared.
Rita lowered her head curiously. "Hound... so this badge is called the Hound of the Baskervilles? And it seems that this badge still carries Lord Ren Yu's aura. This..."
The Hound of the Baskervilles was precisely the badge Ren Yu used most often to boost physical attributes.
Earlier, Yae Rin had failed to copy that dog badge, and he had found it somewhat regrettable.
But who would have thought that, in the blink of an eye, Rita would actually copy it?
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