"If I kill her, the pact dies. The connection is severed. You will not have to share your soul with a weak rat anymore. You will belong only to me again."
"Val, no!" Maya screamed in pure terror. She tried to crawl backward on the glass-covered floor, but her back hit the wall. She was trapped.
Valeria crouched, her golden aura flaring like a dying sun. She lunged forward, pulling her metal fist back to completely crush the little healer into dust.
She moved so fast that Maya could not even blink.
But suddenly, someone stepped directly into her path.
Zen.
He did not summon his dark sword, or put up a magic shield. He simply stepped right in front of Maya, using his own body as a physical wall between the healer and the Goddess of War.
Valeria saw him at the very last second.
Her eyes widened in a heart-stopping terror. She was moving too fast. She was using too much power. If her fist hit him, it would blow his head completely off his shoulders.
