After saying that, Ryan didn't give Valkyrie a chance to make a choice. With a flick of his wrist, he threw a sharp blade toward her!
As the saying goes, courtesy demands reciprocity!
Valkyrie helped him make a choice, so he would help her make one in return!
Clang—
As a former Valkyrie, her reactions were naturally not slow. The moment the blade shot toward her, she drew the dragon tooth sword sword hanging at her waist and parried the incoming blade away!
However, looking at the dragon tooth sword sword in her hand, which was still vibrating from the impact, Valkyrie's eyes were filled with surprise. She hadn't expected this guy's strength to be so immense; she had almost failed to catch a casual strike from him!
But instead of making her feel fear, it made her feel a long-lost excitement and seriousness. An excited smile spread across her face as she kicked off the ground, rushing toward Ryan like an arrow!
Clang—
Another metallic clash rang out. Ryan's right hand had transformed into a silver-gray blade, casually blocking Valkyrie's flying strike. He said indifferently:
"Unable to grasp the gap in strength... I think I finally know how your Valkyrie Corps was wiped out back then!"
Ryan's words were like adding fuel to the fire, instantly stirring up the painful memories Valkyrie least wanted to recall. Her eyes turned bloodshot:
"You bastard, you know nothing! You have no idea what we faced back then, and you're even less qualified to judge the Valkyrie Corps!"
Following Valkyrie's words, her strength surged with her anger, much like the Hulk's!
But while Valkyrie was an elite among Asgardians, she was not the Hulk, nor was she Asgardian royalty. So even if anger allowed her to temporarily explode her 'Cosmo,' the power of that explosion was quite limited.
At most, it doubled her strength, perhaps allowing her to arm-wrestle with a normal-state Hulk.
But compared to the current Ryan, the gap was truly not just a little bit large.
Valkyrie's face turned red from the effort, but Ryan's figure remained motionless, his expression not even changing. Only his tone became impatient:
"Enough, I don't have time to listen to your retarded stories about the Valkyries. I think I'll just find the answers from you myself..."
"This blade of mine generally doesn't slay women or children, but I just happen to have a small knife!"
As the words fell... Puchi... Valkyrie's body stiffened. She felt the strength in her body draining rapidly and realized she was being lifted into the air.
She looked down and saw that her abdomen had been pierced through by a blade, and her entire body was being held aloft by it.
A trace of blood leaked from the corner of Valkyrie's mouth. She pointed at Ryan: "You bastard, you actually used a sneak attack..."
Clatter—
As the dragon tooth sword sword fell to the ground, Valkyrie's vision went black, and she lost consciousness.
Ryan simply walked toward her spaceship, skewering Valkyrie's body with the blade while using the Symbiote to read her memories.
An hour later, when Valkyrie opened her eyes again, she was met with a vast expanse of white.
Valkyrie instinctively reached for her abdomen where she had been pierced, but she couldn't feel any wound. She couldn't help but mutter: "Have I returned to Valhalla..."
With such a serious injury, even as an Asgardian, it was impossible to recover so quickly. Thus, the only answer was that she was currently dead and her soul had arrived in Valhalla.
Facing her own death, Valkyrie accepted it faster than anyone else, even revealing a smile of relief: "I've come to find you, my sisters..."
But just as Valkyrie was coming to terms with her death, the white mist above her vanished, replaced by transparent glass and a person standing on top of it.
The hateful guy who had sneak-attacked and stabbed her when she last had her eyes open!
Ryan stood with his arms crossed, looking down at Valkyrie. He smiled and said: "No, you're in the cargo hold of your own ship, my Cargo No. 142."
Hearing this, Valkyrie looked around and realized she was indeed in the cargo hold her ship usually used to house 'cargo,' not in Valhalla!
"You despicable guy, why didn't you just kill me? How did you unlock and control my ship? And where are you taking me?"
Faced with Valkyrie's triple questioning, Ryan crouched down and said slowly: "I originally planned to kill you, but I read some of your memories and found that you seem to be of some use to me..."
"As for how I unlocked your ship, I have to say, using the Valkyrie Corps emblem as your ship's unlock pattern is really quite stupid..."
"Finally, as for where I'm taking you, naturally, I'm taking you to do what you've always been doing—selling you to the Grandmaster for money."
Valkyrie's eyes were full of disbelief. She, who was once an expert in the 'human trafficking' business of Sakaar, was now actually going to be sold by someone else?
"Go to hell, you bastard! When I get out, I swear I'll shove your head up your ass!"
Valkyrie naturally wouldn't let things go as Ryan wished and be sold to the Grandmaster. She coiled her legs, preparing to break through the glass and give him what for!
But just as she jumped, she saw Ryan holding a controller that looked like a lighter and pressing it.
Wasn't that her controller?
Valkyrie's pupils suddenly constricted. She immediately reached for her neck and sure enough, felt a familiar little gadget!
Oh no!!!
Zizizi—
As electric current and biological toxins were released from the disk on Valkyrie's neck, her body, which had jumped into mid-air, instantly fell back down, twitching incessantly on the floor!
Ryan waved the controller at Valkyrie and smiled slightly: "I forgot to tell you, I also found the instructions for this thing in your memory. I have to say, this little thing is indeed useful. I'm planning to take a batch back with me when I leave."
This little thing could even control Thor, and even with Thor's strength, it couldn't be removed by himself. If he took some back, whoever didn't listen to him in the future would get one of these on their neck. He could shock them whenever he felt like it. Hehe~
After Valkyrie behaved herself under the electric shocks, the ship's autopilot issued a notification that they had reached their destination.
That is, the only city on Planet Sakaar, Sakaar City.
As the ship flew deeper into Sakaar City, Ryan's gaze was drawn to the tallest and most unique building.
It was a building embedded with several giant stone head sculptures. Those stone heads were none other than the past champions of the Sakaar Arena!
The most eye-catching of these champion statues were the two at the very top: the statues of Beta Ray Bill and Ares, the God of War!
In this current timeline, neither the Hulk nor Thor had arrived on Sakaar yet. Did that mean the current champion was likely either Beta Ray Bill or Ares, and he would very likely have a clash with one of them?