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.

think. Neph had sort of monopolized the preparation of food, so I had no chance to put all the knowledge

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

demon meat, I'll make you a steak. It'll be the most delicious demon steak you had

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

a promise

the rope. She threw it down without hesitation and glanced

"Are you ready?"

a second, feeling the strength of his body

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

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

gone, leaving only a bleeding

each seeping with azure blood... sadly, none of the cracks were near the vital organs. His

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

it was still terrifying, perhaps even more so than before. Because, despite the horrible wounds, his gaze was still firm and full of evil intelligence. It was still radiating

concentrated on Sunny and Nephis — the architects of his sorry

of the rising sun shone on the spikes covering the demon's once lustrous carapace,

Azure Blade and glanced

careful. He's

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

eyes

walked toward the waiting Carapace Demon. Sunny was slightly ahead and aiming to circle the behemoth from the right — the side where the demon had both his last

to circle the creature from the left — the side where his pincer arm was slowly

right. Through the tacit understanding that

their

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

knew that he was much slower than the giant creature, but he still had to find a way to dodge the massive, terrifying

as it 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 girl — at least. However, in the end, he only won by a hair's breadth. Nephis had almost smashed his face

been able to 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 and manipulate the opponent's attacks,

control of the

to repeat that feat against the ancient demon of the Forgotten