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?"

blind girl was clearly surprised

"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 no chance to put all the knowledge

had indeed spent a lot of time teaching him how to cook all kinds of seemingly inedible things, as well as meats of all sorts of Nightmare Creatures, in preparation for his journey into the

meat, I'll make you a steak.

appeared on Cassie's face. She gave

That's a promise

was done with the rope. She threw it down

"Are you ready?"

eyes for a second, feeling the strength of

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

the ground, Sunny felt a heavy gaze burning a hole in his chest. Glancing up, he saw the crippled Carapace Demon staring right at him, a dark glint shining in his

was gone, leaving only a bleeding

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 were either broken or torn

his torso to stem the heavy bleeding. The other

Because, despite the horrible wounds, his

and Nephis — the

covering the demon's once lustrous carapace, painting

the Azure Blade and glanced at

careful. He's lightning

terrible creature in action. As such, only he knew how dangerous the demon really

taking her eyes off the

the behemoth from the right — the side where the demon had both his last remaining scythe and

step or two behind him, aiming to circle the creature from the left — the side where

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 as

their main

the

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

proud scion of the Han Li clan. Caster possessed an Aspect Ability that made him ten times faster than the silver-haired girl — at least. However,

no amount of reaction could have helped her. Instead, she was able to predict and manipulate the opponent's attacks,

was in control

had to repeat that feat against the ancient demon of the Forgotten Shore. Luckily, his speed advantage was not nearly