Aqua slowly picked up unconscious Sheira before bringing her to a nearby table, her body was bruised from heavy restraints, and many punctures were also visible as points of blood extraction.
The dark haze was thick enough to cut with a knife; Sheira's entire body was practically oozing it.
The sheer thickness dwarfed Fang's own by orders of magnitude, Aqua now knew that this haze was produced by fragments of time.
She couldn't afford to dally she needed to take the fragment before Sheira's mind was fully taken.
With a deep breath, she placed her hands on Sheira's body, Aqua's blazing power surging through the elven princess, searching for a thread to unravel the fragment of time.
And yet she could not find it. The fragment was so entangled in Sheira's mind that she couldn't even begin to search.
With an exhale she looked over at Sheira once again 'I need to make a small cut.'
Aqua placed her hands back onto the princess, her power now channeling more and more destructive power, and yet precise enough to rival a surgical scalpel.
She needed to be careful, one wrong cut and Sheira's mind would be damaged permanently, leaving her a cripple.
Alas, before she could even attempt to make an incision, a haze coalesced, Sheira's body absorbed the miasma fully before she awoke.
With a great kick, she knocked Aqua through the wall, making a large hole in her path, making the fiery angel tumble and roll a large distance.
"It's too late, goddess. Inquisitors know about you. And I am Immortal, there is no escape, you can kill me and yet I will return!" Sheira's voice was tinged with mockery, and her bruised body rapidly healed as power grew within her.
"I know I cannot kill you, but what will you do now? Your friend is no more, do you have it in your heart to kill her." Rolan spoke through Sheira's mouth, his mockery trying to cut into Aqua.
Aqua slowly rose as the dust settled around her, her form not even scratched from her journey through the solid surface of a wall.
"I won't need to do anything... Fool!" Aqua shouted before slowly approaching, her stride slow and steady.
"Have you not noticed another influence in the body of Sheira?" She spoke mockingly, hoping to rile up the body snatcher.
Rolan stopped for a moment, realization hitting him like a truck, Sheira's mind wasn't the only obstacle in his control of the holy vessel.
No there was something more, a primal heat that nested within Sheira's very body and soul.
Something that even Rolan couldn't take over, and yet the heat was growing with each moment.
"The moment you took over her body, she was considered dead. And I have placed a small blessing on the princess you see." Aqua spoke as she approached, Sheira's body was slowly encased within the phoenix egg, yet still moving and breathing.
"In case she died, she would be reborn, and you. You are considered a foreign body."
Step after step Aqua approached now immobile Rolan, Sheira was indeed considered dead to the conditions of her spells, allowing her to not have to even lift a hand to hurt the princess.
"No, You will not eject me." Rolan Howled as he attempted to struggle against the egg, and yet it was unbreakable. In a mere 3 hours, Rolan would be eradicated, leaving resurrected Sheira.
"You are too dangerous, I do not know your techniques. I will make sure you and that fragment are out of Sheira soon!" Aqua spoke as she placed her hands on the newly created phoenix egg.
Rolan was slippery, it was like his mind and soul were never within vessels he controlled. It was almost like he was an idea.
A part of the subconscious that took over the mind, the original soul couldn't fight it and that part of the mind would take over.
Aqua couldn't kill him, no she could kill what remained of the original victim, and yet the part of the mind would learn everything and transmit it to the original, allowing that original body and mind to merely activate the subconscious seed in another vessel.
Aqua knew that this man could take control of any number of slaves or who knows how many entities in this city alone had a fragment of time.
He could take control over them no matter how small, yet why was such a massive fragment needed for Sheira?
Sheira was by all means weaker mentally than Laura, had no physical strength like Golden Fang, and wasn't chained to the divine either.
In all senses, it was a waste to use such a massive fragment on Sheira alone, there must have been another reason than mere body snatching to use it on the elven princess.
That did not matter at the current time, If Aqua wanted to get rid of this nuisance she needed to find Rolan's real body and consume him, otherwise, she would have to keep burning innocent victims.
'I'm on a timer. I will have to get Sheira's egg out of here before I have to burn down the entire city' Aqua muttered to herself as she took a long look over the newly formed phoenix egg, Rolan's will was ejected and removed from Sheira, as she was encased within the primal flame of the phoenix.
It was only a matter of time before Inquisitors caught wind of her, and if they were as strong as Rolan's own power suggested then the city would be destroyed.
And yet she did not care, so what if a city full of the most sinful of humans burned, it wasn't like she spared larger cities in the past.
Aqua placed her hands back on the egg as she channeled her power, she wouldn't let Rolan take over again. And for that purpose, she needed to get the fragment out.
With a gentle touch egg pulsed with power, she would make a precise cut in the threads of Sheira's mind, letting her more easily unravel the fragment.
She was transported into the mindscape, a world so chaotic that she found herself unable to know what was up and down, what was left and right, time flowed backward before fast-forwarding to the current time.
Storms seemed to be forming constantly before dissipating and beginning that cycle anew.
What looked like a city replaced the sky, and Aqua found herself walking on the vast blue landscape that was supposed to be the sky and yet solid as rock.
As a moment passed Aqua regained her senses as she looked around, her confusion evident and yet there was only one place to go, the city that loomed over this reversed world.
Aqua unfurled her wings as she flew at high speeds towards the 'City Sky'.
"I have never seen a mindscape this chaotic, Time seems to be in a loop," Aqua spoke as she flew upwards, resisting the fragment's attempt of trapping her within a loop with her own authority.