Hearing Maya’s words, Raven held her head with both hands, seemingly in pain. 

However, her expression slowly turned from dull into sad and worried. ‘I have promised that I’ll never let her down, I can’t do that, not now, not ever… I have to find a way to stop this b*stard. Kay, you’re up. Think of something. I need to help her, please…’

‘Do not worry Rave, I got you. I’m already preparing something to help out,’ Kayla said almost instantly. ‘Maya’s biggest obstacle now is her injuries, so we’ll have to deal with them first.

‘However, before applying your healing skills, I need to help her with my Cyber Particles in order to cover the external wounds and prevent bleeding, so give me a few moments.’

‘Uhm,’ Raven simply nodded internally.

.

Of course, Maya didn’t hear a single part of their conversation, however, she could tell that Raven was back to normal.

“Once we get out of here, Rave, I’ll allow you to punish me with everything you got,” she said, trying to make her feel at ease. “You can have your way with me, hehe…”

And, just like she wanted, her words seemed to be successful at pulling Raven away from the dark side of her mind.

A faint blush painted her face as a small smile spread across her face. However, it quickly disappeared as her expression turned serious after hearing Kayla’s signal.

Without any delays, she quickly approached Maya, surprising both her and Michael, and got extremely close to her.

Moving inside Maya’s aura wasn’t extremely hard, but it wasn’t comfortable either. After all, although they seemed to be static inside as they were tightly protected, they were moving at speeds that she didn’t even dare to calculate.

“Don’t resist!” Raven said as soon as Maya was within reach.

“Oh, I wouldn’t, believe me. Not even when you tell me to, hehe,” Maya grinned. 

Seeing her grin, Raven started shaking her head as a sincere smile painted her face. Soon after though, her smile got a little bit stiff while avoiding Maya’s direct gaze. 

“You’ll change your mind soon enough.” Saying that, she quickly reorientated herself so that she was on top of Maya’s back, between her surprisingly large and fluffy wings.

Taking a deep breath, her fingers wrapped around the Feather Essence that struck the base of one of Maya’s wings.

“Maya!” She yelled.

“Yes?! Ah-uh!” Maya didn’t have time to even moan in pain before Raven had pulled the Feather Essence out with her right hand.

Extending her left to cover the wound that has already started releasing Maya’s white blood, Raven -with Kayla’s help- started creating and pumping Cyber Particles into her wound. Quickly after, she started applying her skill: Saint of Life. 

While doing so, she signalled for Kayla to store away the Feather Essence in her right hand. 

“Ah, you know this wasn’t even that bad. Um, and this thing you’re doing now… hehe, this feels kinda nice…” Maya said in a rather relaxed tone, for someone who was still being chased. “Ah, soft and cool…”

While this was happening, Michael was watching with a strange expression. It was not that he didn’t want to interrupt, it’s just that he had run out of ways to do so.

Currently, he only has two wings, which means that his speed and power has gone down a few notches, in comparison to his old self.

Previously, he had meant to slow Raphael down and get an opportunity to finish her. As it stands right now, he can kill her if they fight. However, this didn’t go his way because of Raven who ended up helping her.

With that being said, it will only take a short period of time to regain the power that he has lost, so he wasn’t really in a hurry. Between his enhanced abilities and Raven’s healing speed, he had more faith in his enhanced abilities.

Additionally, the opportunity he is still waiting for may come up any moment now that Raven was distracting her…

‘Only a small opening…’ he muttered to himself while eyeing his prey.

*Sigh*

Raven, who didn’t bother caring about Michael for now, let out a soft sigh as her heart ached after hearing Maya’s painful moan. Having removed the first feather, she quickly moved onto the second one. 

“Maya,” she called out while swallowing gently. “Tell me that you love me, loudly! Uhm, and focus on flying really well, don’t you dare slow down!”

Hearing her, Maya grinned. For some reason, she thought that Raven was going to give her a kiss before moving onto the second Feather Essence, and hence her order. However, that was far from the truth…

“Rave, I obviously love- ahugh ahhh!!!” 

Without giving her a chance to finish, Raven had already pulled the large Feather Essence that had penetrated her chest through her back, turning her amused grin into a pain-filled grimace. 

To Raven’s surprise, Maya’s abilities to conceal her pain so far had been perfect since she hadn’t even yelled that loud when this Feather Essence cut through her.

Now however that Raven had removed it, even with her acting abilities, Maya could no longer conceal the pain. Involuntarily, her eyes welled up in tears of pain as her vision blurred and her consciousness wavered.

Both Raven and Kayla were taken by surprise as they hadn’t expected such a result.

Gritting her teeth, Raven threw the Feather Essence away as she hugged Maya’s shivering body. 

With both hands on either side of her injuries, chest and back, Raven went all out to support Kayla into creating more Cyber Particles to block the bleeding.

As that was happening, a pair of vengeful eyes sparkled with a dangerous glint. 

Michael’s opportunity has arrived!

Without giving them a chance, he instantly increased his speed. And within a few seconds, he had already caught up to them.

Not a single word was uttered as both of hands extended forward as they radiated with power. 

In fact, the immense power of the attack was enough to burn Maya’s Mana Field, any other type of medium around it for that matter. 

This meant that this attack, although grand, was completely silent as it traversed the void.

From a distance, his attack looked like a normal mana blast. But up close, it was as though hell had broken loose…

Raven who was helping Maya didn’t even realize until it was too late. 

Watching the deadly blast illuminating the empty void while coming her way at terrifying speed, countless thoughts filled her mind, but none of them included a single ounce of concern for herself…

Time seemed to extend infinitely before her golden eye that slowly dulled. Suddenly, she felt a strange type of power igniting within her body- no, within her soul.

However, before she got a chance to even guess what that power was, the blast had already reached a hair’s breadth away from her.

Within a blink of an eye, however, a figure suddenly appeared in front of her, blocking the terrifying strike.

The figure looked surprisingly small and very young. Long hair that seemed to be colourless against the brightness of the attack…

Without being given a chance to observe any longer, the figure and the attack collided together, resulting in a massive shockwave that would have erased an entire planet had it been close to it.

Raven who was facing such a shockwave didn’t dare push her luck. Quickly, she activated her skill: Apprentice of the Primordial Light, turning her mana into Brilliant Primordial Radiance.

With a thought, she infused every hair of her silky crimson-purple locks with Brilliant Primordial Radiance, causing them to radiate in a similar white hue as they extended outwards to cover her own and Maya’s bodies like a protective shield.

Although it looked weird, she didn’t exactly care about it at the moment. All she cared about was how to save Maya. After all, she simply could not let her down!

On top of that, Kayla, who had a clone outside, was already by her side, turning the clone into a Cyber Shield to save her.

However, even with these layers of protection, Raven was sent flying deep into the void as the heat of the explosion almost boiled her alive.

Only now did she realize just how powerful a Seraph really is! This attack was simply the embodiment of an entire sun, or at least, she felt that way!

Not to mention that this was simply the shockwave of the main attack!!

…

Moments passed before Raven regained her ability to even move her eye. However, from that point onwards, it didn’t take long for her to quickly regain the feeling of her body.

To her surprise, she heard fighting noise as attacks collided in the distance. However, that didn’t really didn’t matter much for her at the moment.

Right now, all that mattered was Maya’s condition!

Focusing on her, as she was still in between her arms, Maya appeared rather peaceful… which scared the living hell out of Raven. Not to mention that she wasn’t actually breathing!