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 by his

"What? No."

Sunny grinned.

sort of monopolized the preparation of food, so I had no chance to put all the

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

meat, I'll make you a

real smile appeared on Cassie's face. She gave him a

a promise

threw it down without hesitation and glanced

"Are you ready?"

eyes for a second, feeling the

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

their 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

one was gone, leaving only

blood... sadly, none of the cracks were near the vital organs. His horns were shattered, as was one

stem the

despite the horrible wounds, his gaze was still firm and full of evil

on Sunny and Nephis —

first beams of the rising sun shone on the spikes covering the demon's

the Azure Blade and

He's lightning

was the only one who had seen the terrible creature in

her eyes off the enemy,

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

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

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 main

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

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

Ability that made him ten times faster than

— 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

was in control of

repeat that feat against the ancient demon of the Forgotten Shore. Luckily, his speed advantage