The four from Vought instantly scattered to break through, spreading out into combat positions in unison.
Raven stomped hard enough to shatter the reef beneath her feet and shot forward, becoming a blur almost impossible to discern with the naked eye.
By now, she had long since undergone a complete transformation.
Not only had she copied Quicksilver's Super Speed and Darwin's Adaptive Evolution, but she had also touched and absorbed the superpowers of numerous Vought mutants beforehand. Her overall strength was nothing like it had once been.
Switching powers with a thought, Raven unleashed her full Super Speed and lunged straight at Riptide. Her fingers stiffened into claws, precisely targeting his shoulder, intending to copy his ability through skin contact and counter the raging wind field at its source.
But just as her fingertips were about to touch Riptide's body, a cold glint flashed through his eyes.
A gale suddenly rose beneath his feet, and a small, tightly compressed cushion of swirling wind instantly supported him. Riding the violent wind pressure, he abruptly soared upward and lightly retreated, dodging Raven's deadly close-range surprise attack by the narrowest margin.
He kept controlling the wind to carry himself upward, flying higher and higher until he hovered steadily a hundred meters in the air, completely beyond Raven's melee range.
Raven stood helpless on the ground. However powerful her Super Speed was, its bursts were limited to the ground. She simply could not reach Riptide high above.
In that split second, Raven's thoughts raced, and the X-Gene within her quietly shifted.
A strand of pure psychic energy spread from her body, shot through the air, and reached precisely toward Riptide overhead.
This sudden psychic assault made the White Queen, who had been keeping the battlefield in check throughout, abruptly turn her head. Her stunning