It had been nearly ten days since that incident.
Yet whenever Mai Raven recalled it, lingering fear still gripped his heart.
The Church had spent a century's worth of accumulated resources to conduct a sacrificial summoning, bringing forth a powerful divine projection.
To that end, they had even used the bones of the Progenitor Frost Dragon excavated from the Ice Cave Ruins.
Just excavating those bones had cost the Calamity Raven Church over ten thousand warriors from the Apostle Group.
Many of the passages that existed today had been dug at that time.
The divine projection summoned under such circumstances had indeed been terrifyingly powerful.
Mai knew very well that, based on the strength the divine projection had displayed at the time, most Great City guardians would have been no match for it in a one-on-one fight.
And under those circumstances, Zong Shen had emerged out of nowhere.
After only several exchanges, he had cleaved that terrifying divine projection in two.
Mai Raven would likely never forget that sight for the rest of his life.
So when Zong Shen said he would protect him, Mai Raven had basically set his mind at ease.
Besides, he had personally witnessed Zong Shen's spatial displacement methods.
That move alone had been enough to save one's life.
He had received the enhancement bestowed by the old bishop's sacrifice before his death, giving him legendary combat strength.
Even Mai Raven's senses had failed to detect Zong Shen's arrival, which was enough to show that his spatial displacement ability was absolutely of an extremely high level.
Of course, the reason he had failed to notice earlier was partly because he had been too engrossed in pleasing the girl.
But Zong Shen's Blink had indeed evaded his senses.
Therefore, even if Jonathan summoned more than one guardian-class