Magma sphere after magma sphere. Rayn was visibly getting exhausted. Lucious had a worried look for her husband.
"Darling, we need to teleport. Magma spheres are not even leaving a dent in his armor!" Rayn shouted at Lucious.
"Ok, let us run away and bring reinforcements! I will protect you." Lucious jumped in front of her husband, almost infinite amount of blades shielding her and Rayn.
[Teleport] skill would require quite a long activation time. She had to hope that her husband would be able to hold off the white-winged harpy before them.
And yet the platinum mace just shattered through the wall of blades like it was nothing, severing a wing from Lucious by merely grazing it.
"ARGH!" Lucious screamed in pain as one of her wings fell to the ground.
Rayn looked at his wife with concern in his eyes "Darling please be careful, I need more time!"
Lucious clasped her bleeding wing stump while gritting her teeth.
[Razor Domain],[Blade Shatter]. With the activation of her skills, the room was again covered in blades before they were shattered, and with a swipe of her hand blades rushed towards the Archangel.
Just as the shattered blades reached the Archangel, Lucious activated [Blade Shatter] once again, creating even smaller blades that would mince everything in their path.
And yet. As the flood of steel hit the angel it harmlessly flowed around the holy being. Archangel's [Holy Ward] was too powerful.
As the sea consumed Archangel Lucious let down her guard for a split second, she thought she had the Archangel, and yet from the sea of Shattered blades archangel charged at her.
Lucious attempted to dodge the mace, and yet her arm was caught in its path, tearing it at contact.
"Arghhhhhhh!!"
Lucious fell to the floor while writhing in pain, Bleeding profusely, her eyes shed tears of pain and agony.
"Lucious, NO!" Rayn was about to rush to Lucious, there was no point in escaping if it was not with his beloved wife.
Instead of finishing his [Teleport], he cast his last [Magma Sphere].
As the magma spread over the angel, blinding it for mere moments he rushed ahead and grabbed Lucious, with a flap of his wing the pair flew up.
He needed to heal her as soon as possible. Lucious was missing a wing and an arm and she was bleeding profusely.
Her consciousness was long gone, but Rayn knew that he wouldn't be able to fly fast enough.
The only way to survive was to hide and buy himself enough time to activate [Teleport].
"What the hell, fighting that man felt the same as fighting Gaya..." Rayn was shocked that someone was as powerful as that white-winged harpy and that he did not know about it.
"Perhaps one of Gaya's disciples... I need to report this to lord Iguva as soon as possible." Rayn flew into the sky, his wife's unconscious body in his embrace.
He would not let her die, not now not ever. Using his [Flame Mastery], he produced a stream of fire, cauterizing Lucious' wounds.
Priority was escaping, and then reporting back. Why would a Harpy even attack him? He was not a good man he knew that fully well but he never antagonized other Harpies.
His attempts at seducing Gaya were the most hostility he had ever shown to anyone from the Harpy race.
Despite Gaya's cruel nature, she wouldn't have sent an assassin squad against him, If anything she would have ended him herself.
"It can't be her, then someone else. Some unknown party. I had never seen a White-winged harpy before, perhaps an experiment gone wrong."
As Rayn talked to himself he nearly noticed Archangel right above him, he swung his mace at Rayn.
In panic, he nearly was able to dodge it, and yet the displaced air produced by the strike made him lose his balance, making him fall back to the ground.
He wrapped his arms around Lucious as he braced for impact.
CRASH-
He was buried. His unconscious wife in his embrace.
He almost let himself go before he was roughly pulled by his wing, Archangel showed a feat of strength not many could display. He pulled both fallen before throwing them into the wall.
Lucious had long since been accounted for and yet Great Arcanist was holding onto his consciousness, for nothing but his wife's sake.
"Why? I and my Wife have done nothing to other Harpies." Rayn gasped for air as Archangel approached, Mace in hand.
"You are demonic filth, to cleanse impurity is [Prime Directive]" The Archangel showed no empathy, no emotion, no hesitation.
"How could you..." Rayn pushed his wife's head onto his chest, this was the end of the road for them.
Archangel approached, his merciless gaze threatening to crush the two weakened fallen angels.
"Please stop!" Aurelia rushed after the Archangel, gripping his hand with all her strength, and yet her strength was insignificant.
"Directive is Clear, Purify the Impure." The Archangel gave the same monotone response as it always did with no shred of empathy or emotion.
"Maybe these two can be useful!" Aurelia tried to appeal to Archangel's more objective nature.
"[Creator] was clear, end the demonic threat," Archangel spoke again.
Rayn looked with astonishment, the woman he had just moments ago threatened to sell into slavery was pleading for his and his wife's life.
Never in his life would he expect what looked like a resident of the slums to take pity on him.
If her pleading was successful he would have made sure that her punishment was as light as possible, after all, she was with a man who nearly killed his beloved wife even if she didn't participate in injuring his beloved.
'Once Iguva learns of this traitor, there will be hell to pay for both you and your family!' He shouted in his mind. After all his life was in mortal danger. He needed to protect his wife.
Archangel fell silent, its form flickering.
"[Creator] has heard your request, two fallen shall be captured and brought before [Creator]. [Creator] wants to know more about, Entity: Iguva. Fallen will be executed after [Creator] extracts information." Archangel's mace disappeared as Archangel approached two fallen.
"Wha..." Rayn's vision was shrouded in darkness as he was knocked out by Archangel.