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?"

girl was clearly surprised

"What? No."

Sunny grinned.

monopolized the preparation of food, so I had no chance to put all the knowledge from the Wilderness Survival course

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

soon as we get our hands on some demon meat, I'll make you a steak. It'll be the most delicious demon

appeared on Cassie's

a

rope. She threw it down without hesitation and

"Are you ready?"

eyes for a second, feeling the

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

a heavy gaze burning a hole in his chest. Glancing up, he saw

leaving

seemed even more debilitating. Its 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.

the heavy bleeding. The other two were hanging

before. Because, despite the horrible wounds, his gaze was still firm and full of evil intelligence. It was still radiating

and Nephis — the architects of his

first beams of the rising sun shone on the spikes covering

Blade

careful. He's lightning

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

not taking her eyes off the enemy, and stepped

ahead and aiming to circle the behemoth from the right — the side where the demon had both his last remaining

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

this battle, Sunny's role was to take the brunt of the enemy's attacks, letting his partner deal the lethal blow when the time was right. Through the tacit understanding that they had developed through surviving dozens of life or death situations, the two of them were able

was their

in the demon's posture. Instantly, he knew that

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

the Han Li clan. Caster possessed an Aspect Ability that made him ten times faster than the silver-haired girl — at least. However, in the end, he only won by a

catch Caster unaware not because of her fast reaction — with that big of a difference between their speeds, no amount of reaction could have helped her. Instead, she was able to predict

control of the

ancient demon of the Forgotten Shore. Luckily, his speed advantage was not nearly as