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?"

clearly surprised by his

"What? No."

Sunny grinned.

monopolized the preparation

cook all kinds of seemingly inedible things, as well as meats of all sorts of Nightmare Creatures, in preparation for his journey into the Dream

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

real smile appeared on Cassie's face. She gave

a promise

She threw it down without

"Are you ready?"

a second, feeling the strength of his body being enhanced

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

feet touched 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

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

stumps of his two severed arms were pressed tight against his torso to stem the heavy bleeding. The other two were hanging to

looked broken and tired. However, it was still terrifying, perhaps even more so than before. Because, despite the

was now concentrated on Sunny and Nephis

beams of the rising sun shone on the spikes covering the demon's once lustrous carapace, painting them in

Blade and glanced

careful. He's lightning

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

her eyes

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

creature from the left — the side where his pincer

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

their

shift in the demon's posture. Instantly, he knew that hell was about to

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

training fight against the proud scion of the Han Li clan. Caster possessed an Aspect Ability that made him

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 and manipulate the opponent's attacks, starting the strike even before Caster himself knew that he was going

control of

of the Forgotten Shore.