Way of the Knights

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Raven didn't even get the chance to say anything before Henry disappeared from his vision, followed by the disappearance of the light screen. 

The tool that Raven created just now will only capture the real time image of the other party within a certain distance, once they moved out of the range, it will turn ineffective. 

Hearing the orders of Henry and the anxiety of his voice caused Raven to inhale sharply. 

Raven wasted no time and immediately sat up, yelling: "Guys! Wake up! We have to leave as soon as possible. Get your things quickly and board the shuttle! We'll leave as soon as I take this formation down! Move!"

His roars jolted everyone awake. Sensing the solemnness on his voice, the rest didn't say anything and immediately went into action. Even the poor Jason, who literally was just about to lay down, shot up to his feet and started moving much to his dismay. 

Thankfully, the team moved relatively quick. By the time Raven was on the last stage of deactivating the formation, all of them were already boarding the shuttle and were just waiting for Raven. 

After a few seconds, the formation dimmed down and Raven retrieved the disk. As soon as he arrived at the shuttle, Jason was already controlling it to leave this place.  action

"What happened? Why the sudden need to retreat?" Franklin asked. 

Like him, most of the team members were still pretty shaken about the event earlier. Although they saved themselves from witnessing the Centaur Devil personally, it still managed to instill fear at the depths of their heart. It's not like they didn't agree with the retreat orders, in fact they were secretly relieved that it happened, still they too felt that it's such a shame to abandon the mission without even trying. 

"I've contacted Senior Brother and consulted him about the creature we saw earlier." Raven replied, his tone was a little heavy. "He didn't tell me much but he directly ordered us to retreat and abandon the mission. I don't know if this is going to be marked as a fail but we have to follow his orders. He said that he's coming to get us but I don't know how long it's going to take him to arrive here."

Hearing his statements caused the team to feel nervous. Even though they wanted to ask Raven how he managed to contact Henry, now is not the time for that. They have to leave. They're dumb. If their Senior Brother was alarmed by the creature that Raven and Jason saw, that means that the creature was a huge threat. 

This place will most likely turn into a battlefield and if they're slow, they'll become casualties. Raven's haste in doing things was fortunate. For now, they could only hope for the best. 

"Not good!" Raven's head sharply turned and looked behind them. He then roared, "Jason! Make a sharp turn to the left! Now!"

Jason had no time to ask questions and instead listened to Raven's words, just as soon as he made the turn, something happened. 

*BOOOM!*

An earth-shaking impact caused everyone inside to momentarily lose their balance and fall onto their butts. Large chunks of rocks and sharp shards threatened to fall onto them. Raven wasted to no time and said:

"Stay here and brace for more impact! Jason, stabilize yourself quick and regain control of the shuttle. I'll when I tell you move to a direction, you move! Understand."

"Leave it to me!" Jason yelled as he immediately got up and grasped the control of the shuttle. 

Raven disappeared from their sight, a second later and he could be found standing on top of the shuttle. His face hardened as he glared at the falling debris. Using a single thought, a large golden wheel depicting a thousand arms, manifested behind him. Joining his palms in to a prayer, a large golden hand manifested om top of him, shielding him and shuttle from the debris. 

His eyes never stopped as he looked for the source of that gigantic rock that nearly destroyed their shuttle. Squinting slightly, his eyes locked on to the same figure that gave them a good fright earlier. 

It was the Centaur Devil. 

Raven's eyes narrow dangerously. He didn't know how the in the world this Centaur managed to sense them from that far. Still, he's too far away to launch a counter-attack, therefore he could passively defend himself. 

The Centaur Devil was glaring at their moving shuttle as if it was its fated enemy. Groaning, it crouched down, plunged its muscular arms on the ground and lifted an enormous boulder, aiming it to the flying shuttle. 

"Oh, you son of a bitch!" Raven spat as he saw the creature wounding up for another attack to throw at them. Compared to the one it sent earlier, the boulder on its hand was several times bigger. 

The Centaur cocked back it's arm and swung it using all of its strength, it shot the boulder with such strength that it broke the sound barrier. 

"Make a sharp turn right! Now!!" Raven roared at the top of his lungs afraid that Jason might not hear him. 

Thankfully, he did and the shuttle sharp turn, narrowly dodging the boulder once again. They couldn't dodge the impact at all but at least they weren't hit by the boulder directly. The impact would only cause them to feel disoriented by a direct blow will certainly kill them. 

Raven was once again on the look-out for the debris which were about to hit them. The golden hand he manifested earlier was still around and is still effective on protecting them. 

As he maximized the effiency of the protective golden hand, Raven caught sight of something. 

He saw a slab of rock which radiated with a deep maroon glow. It gave off a thick stench and rich blood energy. 

Raven immediately took a wild guess and didn't hesitate to pick the slab of rock, making sure to keep it as intact as he possibly could. As the golden hand protected them from the debris, he used that time to properly wrap the slab of rock within a special container and placed it inside his spatial ring. 

'Hopefully, I got the right thing.' Raven inwardly wished, 'And hopefully, that son of a bitch stop throwing rocks at us already.'

*OoooooOoooooo!*

There is it again. That same, deep bellow accompanied by a repulsive and incredibly evil intent. The fleeing team felt their hairs stood up on their ends as they heard that bellow. Needless to say, they needed to get out of this place as soon as possible. 

*Shwing!*

'Shit!'

Raven didn't even had the time to warn anyone. He himself only saw a sharp line heading straight towards them like a shooting star. 

He summoned all of his strength and poured his vast amounts of energy to the wheel behind him, summoning the largest and strongest arm he could possibly create at the very moment to block that attack. 

In a blink of an eye, a seemingly transparent hand manifested in front of him. This hand seemed to contain the vastness of the Outer Space. It contained multitude of stars within and exuded a benevolent and unparalleled aura. 

A huge array containing all sorts of runic seals manifested on the palms, acting like a wall that forbids anything from passing. Raven pushed both of his arms forward to support this technique and just as soon as he did so, an earth-shattering impact occurred. 

The strength behind that projectile was incredibly monstrous, it even caused Raven's feet to sink deeper onto the shuttle. Thankfully, the shuttle was created with heavenly materials, allowing it to withstand that impact. 

The confrontation sent the shuttle tumbling backwards, still Raven managed to hold on and retain control over his technique, allowing his teammates to remain safe. 

For the first time since coming here, Raven got an injury. 

Blood seeped on his lips and his were trembling, a testament of how strong that blow was. Raven took the full burnt of the attack and kept most of the impact on his body while dispersing the rest, which is why he was injured. 

From the moment he saw the attack, he could already tell that its meant to kill them, and if he's not smart enough to handle this, they will all die. Raven wasn't having that. 

With a fearsome growl, Raven push his hands a bit further and his technique managed to neutralize the attack. Raven managed to retain consciousness despite that and saw the real appearance of that projectile. 

It was the lance that the Centaur Devil dragged behind itself. 

Raven almost couldn't believe it but the lance slowly disappeared, and not even a few seconds after that his instincts warned him of an incredible danger that's going to happen.

'Shit! I don't have enough time to block another one of that!' Raven cursed inwardly as he gritted his teeth. 

Sensing that he's out of options, he decided to activated his Spacetime Domain but before he could do so, he saw a blur manifesting in front of him, holding the same lance as before. The figure looked at him and said:

"You did good.. Go inside the shuttle, we'll handle it from here."