"Fuck, fuck, fuck! It hurts so fucking bad!… Uh, it's been so long since I injured my wing… I forgot how fucking bad it is!"
Sera flew further west, far away from the cliff and Abomination. Her left white-feathered wing had a serious injury where the monster slashed it.
Each movement felt worse than anything imaginable. Even her years of near daily torture weren't as bad as a serious wing injury!
Sweat ran down her beautiful face, gently dropping into the great forest below. The sun already set, plunging the sky into shades of red and purple.
She still carried Faith in her arm. Her body became limp a few seconds after their escape, because she passed out.
Through the gore, Sera managed to spot multiple injuries, like broken bones, deep lacerations and a few stab wounds. However, none of them seemed too bad, but for some reason they weren't healing!
"Dammit, Faith, don't you dare die on me! You promised me food with salts and spices! Don't you dare become a liar!"
With one hand she held onto Faith's disheveled clothes, with the other she teared her own shirt and jacket up. Sera tried to apply first aid, but it was near impossible while flying.
She went about ten kilometers to the west, when she finally decided to land on a wide branch two hundred meters above the ground.
The teared up clothes quickly absorbed all the blood, and with applied pressure, the bleeding eventually stopped.
Faith looked even paler than usual, while her breathing was uneven and wet. Sera quickly turned her on the side, causing blood and some other liquid to leak from her mouth.
"Fuck me, this is bad! I have no fucking idea what's wrong… Okay, where is your watch… I need Vicky to get help!"
Frantically, the angelic woman searched through her Shadow's arms and clothes, but her watch was nowhere to be found!
Sera destroyed her own watch back in New Athens, so they had no way to communicate with Vicky or anyone else… They were on their own!
"Okay, don't panic… The bleeding stopped for now, but her lungs and other organs might've taken damage… I could try healing her, like I did with Damien… No, I don't have the strength, since I was near Stellar Rank back then…"
She took a few deep breaths, trying to calm her turbulent mind, but even then she couldn't find any viable ideas. Desperately, Sera tried running her essence through Faith's body, but it got rejected.
Whatever was wrong with Faith, she didn't have access, not just her own, but anyone else's essence. As if her body wasn't Evolved anymore, or something like that.
Out of options, Sera fell to her knees near her friend's dying body. Tears ran down her face as she held Faith's cold hand.
"I'm sorry… I don't know what to do… I can't save you… I'm so sorry, Faith… I failed you as a Goddess…"
While Sera sobbed in sadness, suddenly she heard a sound not too far away. A sound that shook the Angel's very core. An impossible sound… A human screaming for help!
The Angel wasted no time. Immediately after hearing the scream, she lifted her dying friend and jumped down from the great tree branch.
The screams echoed through the forest, however locating them wasn't difficult. It sounded like a boy barely in adulthood, or maybe even younger!
Sure enough, a few wingbeats later, Sera spotted the boy. He was a bit taller and more muscular than the average human, but he most definitely wasn't an Evolved.
He must've been around sixteen years of age with short, dark brown hair and terrified hazel eyes.
The boy held a stick with a sharp stone attached to its end, a makeshift spear. Blood ran down his arm, where a claw cut through his clothing.
Behind him laid an unconscious girl, about the same age, but with dark blonde hair and with a long, bleeding wound along her back. Near her body, a broken makeshift spear laid.
"SOMEONE! WE'RE HERE! HELP!"
The boy's shouts echoed through the woods, grabbing the attention of every monster in the vicinity.
Atop the branch, Sera lightly shook her head in disappointment. The boy and girl would soon die without help… Luckily for them, Sera arrived just in time.
A giant, squirrel-looking monster jumped between trees, aiming straight for the shouting boy. The regular human couldn't even react as the squirrel flew towards him.
Desperately, terror etched on his face, he turned towards the monster with his wooden spear. However, he wasn't nearly fast enough.
The beast's claws nearly reached his face when the squirrel suddenly stopped moving. A loud, painful screech escaped its salivating mouth before it died.
The boy needed a few seconds to process what had just happened. He glanced down at the squirrel's corpse, which floated before him.
However, he soon realized why it hadn't fallen to the ground. A large silvery metal spike impaled the beast, killing it instantly.
Blood, guts and gore painted the silvery spike red, and filled the air with the smell of death. The boy bent down, heaving for air, then after a moment he began puking up everything in his stomach.
Wingbeats echoed in the air, pushing the teenager out of the depths of his despair.
He lifted his spear towards the sky, but when his eyes landed on the creature descended, his spear suddenly became heavy. It fell from his hand, rolling away on the muddy ground.
The boy stared with his mouth open. He never seen such a divine creature before, and even though his mind couldn't name the species, his soul instinctively knew…
"Are… Are you an angel?… Did you come to save us?"
The heavenly woman landed on the ground, all six wings folding behind her back. Only a black bra covered her upper body, while she wore some strange black pants, with dozens of holes in it…
Luckily, the boy was oblivious to everything, his eyes only focused on her beautiful face. The angelic woman seemed perfect, except for the long scar running from her eyebrows to her left jawline.
The Angel smiled with satisfaction, seeing the awe in his hazel eyes. However, she wasn't anything like he expected.
"Maybe, do you know any doctors who could help save my friend? She's close to dying, you know!"
Suddenly, she unfolded one of her pristine white wings, showing another unnatural beauty's face. Her hair seemed to be weaved from shadows, while her face looked extremely pale and covered in gore!
"Y-yes… My mother… She's a doctor! Help me save Tadita, and I'm sure she'll help your friend!" Said the boy, while pointing at the unconscious girl named Tadita.
A few branches broke around them as monsters tried sneaking upon the trees. Even the boy heard them, as his hands began trembling once more.
The Angel glanced around, spotting about a dozen monsters in their proximity. Her calm words reached the boy's ears not long afterward…
"I would like to help you both, however I can't. Please, take my friend here while I kill every monster nearby!"
She gently placed the dark-haired woman on the muddy ground, then grinned wickedly at the creatures nearby.
The monsters screeched as one, and jumped towards the angelic woman, ready to devour her.
As the dozen monsters flew, more silver spikes grew from the ground, impaling each and every one. Their guts spilled on the ground, and the boy fell to his knees in horror.
"T-those… Those were monsters… More than ten monsters… And you killed them without lifting a finger… Why can't you help me and Tadita…" Searᴄh the NovelZone.fun website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.
Suddenly, the Angel's golden-green eyes snapped towards the boy, silencing his whining. At the edges of her eyes, a bit of redness tried crawling in, but she didn't succumb to it!
"Because I can barely hold myself back! Now take them both and run, or I might kill you too!"
Sera didn't need to order twice. The boy's muscles, which felt immovable moments ago, now became well-oiled and fast.
He grabbed his friend and pulled her over one shoulder, then grabbed the dark-haired woman, pulling her over the other.
The boy instantly began spirting through the forest, away from the Angel. Adrenaline gave him inhumane strength, and his will carried him faster than ever!
Back at the massacre site, Sera laughed loudly, as more redness crept into her eyes. She smelt it in the air, after killing that squirrel… She felt the bloodlust once more!
More monster, hundreds of them came running in her direction. Her laughter turned insane as a pair of silver gauntlets with sharp claws appeared on her hands.
She didn't summon any armor as her eyes became red. The armor would slow her movements, preventing her from killing more!
The first monster appeared in her sight, just as her bloodlust took over…
"Oh, man… You really all fucked up… You should've stayed in whatever hole you crawled out of!"
A booming, vicious laughter exploded from the Angel as she spread her wings and jumped towards the first monster.
Like a bullet, she flew through the beast, leaving nothing but gore behind. With one wingbeat, she arrived next to another, and teared off its head. Sera then tossed the head with such speed, it exploded through two more monsters!
The Angel continued her murder spree, killing everything without thinking. She killed a dozen monsters in one second, then two dozen more in the next.
The giant forest soon filled with two distinct sounds, the scream of monster… And Sera's mad laughter!