Infinity: Rising of the Soul Weavers

* NEFFEX - Closer to Heaven *

Seeing that her mom, and possibly Axane, were about to leave the battlefield and possibly survive, Maya smiled.

However, what she didn't notice was the cruel smile the girl in the dark dress has now adopted. "Do you think that you can run away now?" She muttered and looked towards Maria's direction. "I believe that you wanted to die first… well there you go!" And with that, she swung her sword.

BOOOOOMMM-SSSSSS!!

It all happened so fast. Just as she swung her sword, a massive shockwave shook the ground, sending many skyscrapers down. 

Many cracks and fissures were suddenly created in a flash. Then, deafening silence followed.

Smiling coldly and with such cruelty that was not simply imaginable, the girl found herself staring at the bodies of her prey, or rather, what was left of them.

In front of her were the bodies of three girls and one baby. "Huh, one of you is still alive?" She snarled as this should not have been possible.

At the instant she swung the sword, she watched that the girl with the pure white wings had teleported in front of the others.

Stacking her two wings on top of each other and using them like a shield, she stupidly took the swing head on. 

She was able to observe in slow motion as the after effect of the swing had crashed against her wings, cutting them apart like butter and reaching her heart that instantly exploded before her torso was cut apart from the bottom of her chest and all the way up to the side of her neck.

"Stupid…" the girl muttered while looking at Maya's dead body, blood covering most of her features.

What was surprising, however, was that although she had died, she did indeed manage to delay the others' deaths, or at least one of them.

Looking at Maria, the girl smiled sadistically. Approaching her and kicking Maya's lifeless body out of her way, she raised Maria up in the air by the throat.

"To think that you wanted to die first… only to stay alive in the end," she mused. "The irony isn't even funny. But since we're at this point, why don't we have some fun together?" She smiled while emitting another wave of her deadly aura. 

"At this point I'm starting to wonder whether the culprit even knows you or not…" she muttered, "the fact that they have killed Liam is unacceptable, don't worry my dear, even if they don't come to see you being tortured, I'll make sure they suffer more than you lot did." She smiled while looking at Maria.

Opening her barely functional eye weakly in response, Maria could not feel anything but unbearable pain. 

Seeing the girl smile made her instantly give up hope. Glancing down, she was able to see Maya's unmoving body.

Tears ran down her cheek, washing the blood away. She couldn't move a muscle nor was she able to breath properly, but the pain from seeing Maya's body like that was the worst pain she has ever experienced.

However, after focusing on her for a moment, Maria could see a faint silver aura swirl around Maya's body. Seeing that, she almost had her hopes up.

Gritting her teeth, the girl in the dress was furious. "Die, you cockroach!" She yelled since she just realized that Maya was trying to heal herself.

Stabbing the dark sword directly in her chest, where the massive wound was, she released her aura through it.

Without a sound, Maya's body tried to fend off against the corrosion but alas she was too weak in comparison. 

Fading into light particles, Maya's body finally disappeared, leaving behind only a faint carving on the ground of where her wings once rested.

Maria felt everything fade away with it.

Just a few moments ago, she was having fun and laughing with Maya, Axane, and baby Rituxi. 

Just a few moments, they were all alive… but now, everything was gone.

'Raven… your sister-' she muttered to herself, but seeing that she was in a trance, the girl sent chains of dark around her limbs and neck and held her up in the air.

Slowly, the already dim azure aura around Maria was getting dimmer with each passing second.

Suddenly, light flashed as two fists were sent at the girl with her sadistic smile, yet, none hit.

"Now, what?" The girl said, feeling her temper reaching new heights. Looking around her, she saw two aliens nodding at each other before mana erupted out of them.

Flickering in space, the two tried to attack her from all directions at the same time, yet to no avail. The barriers around the girl seemed unbreakable.

Looking at Jakol who was furious, Axth shook his head. "We need to retreat, she is beyond what we can handle, we must wait for backup…"

Any sane person would have thought so as the damage done to the city just now was almost enough to kill them. Instead of a city, Torinto now looked like a barren land, if anything.

However, Jakol didn't respond. Instead, he was staring at the wings' mark on the ground, his eyes watery.

Unable to hold back his emotions and grief his aura flared violently as two wings were generated behind him. "How dare you Kill our queen?!!!" He yelled.

He had thought that finally finding their long lost queen was the way to bring peace back to planet Akish. But now all hope was no more.

Flickering in front of her, he tried to punch her using a special glove that instantly materialised around his fist.

Blocking the punch with her dark barrier, the girl clenched her fists. 

Suddenly, dark tentacles materialised midair and instantly lashed at Jakol and Axth.

While Axth had his guard up, his power as an S ranker was simply not enough to defend against the girl's strength. 

Needless to say, for Jakol who wasn't thinking properly, even his S ranked power wasn't enough. So evading the attack was nigh impossible.

Both Jakol and Axth ended up being flung away with serious injuries. Axth barely survived his head being chopped off, but instead had to suffer a major shoulder injury.

Jakol, on the other hand, suffered a lot more than just that. Major wounds were suddenly inflected on his body with such power that he was sent crashing against the ground and could not get back up.

"What a f*cking waste of time!" The girl said with a disgusted expression. So far, she has been interrupted countless times by weaker creatures that could do nothing right.

'These three girls first, then these two alien idiots. What's next?'

However, just as she was thinking that, intolerable pressure was suddenly applied on her body as she was almost forced to her knees.

The pressure was simply too much that her feet were starting to sink into the ground. But just as she was about to look up at the source, a fist came crashing down her skull.

The power of the punch scattered the dark matter forming her head in the wind.

Recovering quickly, she created countless dark spheres that were shot towards the source of the attack. 

The spheres were mainly a distraction so that she could make out what was happening and weren't meant to hit their mark.

However, she was expecting at least an explosion or something. Yet, nothing happened.

Only after forming some barriers around her was she confident enough to look at the attacker that took her by surprise.

The man in the white suit instantly appeared near his mistress with a serious expression in his face as five swords of black were floating in the air around him. 

This time, the girl in the dark dress didn't seem so furious about his presence.

Looking at her attacker, she found herself staring at a young girl with hollow eyes that were looking at her the same way a lion would look at a small fowl. 

Long crimson-purple hair fluttered behind her. 

…

Freeing Maria from the weird chains wasn't easy, but was still done rather quickly. Applying her Special Skill: Angelic Touch, Raven quickly healed Maria fully.

The latter, unable to hold her tears, wrapped her arms around her and squeezed her hard.

Moments passed before Maria realised that something was wrong with her daughter. 

Looking at her face, she saw her hollow eyes glowing with a faint white radiance instead of their normal gold.

In a way, the colour seemed to reflect the confusion in her mind.

"Mom?" Raven asked, in a hushed voice, as tears slowly ran down her cheeks. "What happened? Where is Maya? Why is baby Rituxi not moving? 

"Why is Axane staying still? Doesn't she realise her daughter needs her? Mom… please tell-"

Interrupting her with another hug, Maria didn't know what to say. She was aware that Raven knew exactly the state of everyone here, but she just couldn't face the truth.

"Mom? Please answer me…" she begged, her voice shaking. "Is it because I left you? Is it because I didn't take you with me? 

"Please tell me where Maya is, I promise I'll take her with me! Tell her to stop, I don't like hide-and-seek!

"They're still having the festival there! Everyone is happy, they're all having fun. I promise she'll be so happy there… mom, please...."