Shadow Slave

Sunny looked at the wounded demon, a grim look of resolve on his face.

At this point, there was no reason to argue. They had no other choice but to face the guardian of the island themselves. Sunny's bag of tricks was all empty anyway — in the end, their fates were still going to be decided by sharp blades.

Someone was going to get killed, and someone was going to be the killer.

"How are we going to deal with his armor?"

Nephis weighed the sword in her hand and glanced down.

"I will break through the armor. Can you create an opening?"

Sunny nodded, not wasting time on unnecessary questions. If Changing Star was certain of her ability to cut through the demon's carapace, he had no reason to doubt it.

Creating an opening… that was not going to be easy. Even though the monster had suffered terrible injuries, he was still a force to be reckoned with. His size alone was going to pose difficulties. They would have to bring the behemoth down to his knees before even thinking of carrying out any sort of an effective attack.

And he was not just going to stand still under their assault, either.

But what else was there to do?

While Nephis was tying the golden rope to the branch, Sunny walked over to Cassie and lightly squeezed her shoulder.

She tried to force a smile.

"I take it that the Carapace Demon is still alive?"

Despite the heavy, cold, dark feeling gripping his heart, Sunny tried to make his voice sound relaxed and carefree.

"Yeah, but just barely. Don't worry too much. This whole thing will be over in no time."

'One way or another,' he added inwardly.

Cassie's smile weakened. She was clearly not convinced by his clumsy attempt to reassure her.

Sunny hesitated.

"Hey. Have you ever eaten demon meat?"

was clearly surprised by his

"What? No."

Sunny grinned.

cook, I'll have you know. Uh… I think. Neph had sort of monopolized the preparation of food, so I had

as well as meats of all sorts of Nightmare Creatures, in preparation for his journey into the Dream Realm. Here, hunger was as much of an

a steak. It'll be the most delicious demon steak you had

a real smile appeared on Cassie's face.

a

with the rope. She threw it

"Are you ready?"

eyes for a second, feeling

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

a hole in his chest. Glancing up, he saw the crippled Carapace Demon staring right at him, a dark glint shining in his one remaining

one was gone, leaving only a

carapace was fractured in several places and covered in cracks, each seeping with azure blood... sadly, none of the cracks were near the vital organs. His horns were shattered, as was one of his front legs — in addition to several rear ones that

severed arms were pressed tight against his torso to stem the

before. Because, despite the

Nephis — the

beams of the rising sun shone on the spikes covering the

Blade and glanced at

He's lightning

the only one who had seen the terrible creature in action. As such, only he knew how

nodded, not taking her eyes off

toward the waiting Carapace Demon. Sunny was slightly ahead and aiming to circle the behemoth from

behind him, aiming to circle the creature from the left — the side where his pincer arm was slowly rising into

was right. Through the tacit understanding that they had developed through surviving dozens of life or death situations, the two of them were able to cooperate without speaking a single word, fighting almost

was their main

Sunny felt a slight shift in the demon's posture. Instantly, he

warned Nephis about the speed of their enemy, but he also had to deal with it himself. Sunny knew that he was much slower than the giant creature,

seemed. Speed wasn't everything in a fight. Take, for example, Changing Star's training fight against the proud scion of the Han Li clan. Caster possessed an Aspect Ability that made him ten times faster than the silver-haired

have helped her. Instead, she was able to predict and

in control of

now, they had to repeat that feat against the ancient demon of the Forgotten Shore. Luckily, his speed advantage was