Valentia lifted her eyelids, which felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and weakly searched for a way out. This was already the third time she had broken through the demons' encirclement. Unfortunately, even she herself did not know whether she could break out a fourth time!
Valentia was an angel. Strictly speaking, she was a Planetar.
(Here, angels referred to special lifeforms formed from the Astral essence of good deities. They were born with divinity and differed from ordinary creatures of the Upper Planes. As agents of the heavens, angels were dispatched by good gods to the various planes to convey divine blessings and calamities. Their awe-inspiring majesty and sublime beauty were enough to make onlookers bow in reverence. Angels were also destroyers; the likelihood that they heralded disaster and misfortune was nearly equal to the likelihood that they brought good news and hope.)
Angels were generally divided into three ranks: Astral Devas, Planetars, and the highest-ranking Solars. Of them, Planetars were the backbone among all angels who served gods. The status of higher-ranking Solars was in fact comparable to that of gods, and their power even surpassed that of quite a few deities. Only a very small number of Solars chose to serve gods because of their ideals. For example, Tyr, the God of Justice, had a Solar under his command. But this was the only known case.
A Planetar was the weapon of the god it served, the embodied manifestation of divine authority. A Planetar could bring rain to ease a drought, or summon a plague of insects to devour farmland. With its celestial ears, a Planetar could discern every lie, and with its radiant eyes, make every deception impossible to hide.
(In a wizard's terms, a Planetar was a large extraplanar creature that could cast Control