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

"What? No."

Sunny grinned.

have you know. Uh… I think. Neph had sort of monopolized the preparation of food, so I had no

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 Dream Realm. Here, hunger was

some demon meat, I'll make you a

smile appeared on Cassie's face. She gave him

a

with the rope. She threw it down without hesitation and

"Are you ready?"

close his eyes for a second, feeling the

"Yes. Let's do this."

***

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

was gone, leaving only a bleeding black

Its carapace was fractured in several places and covered in cracks, each seeping with azure blood... sadly, none of the cracks were

were pressed tight against his torso to stem the heavy bleeding. The other two were hanging to the ground, almost brushing against

it was still terrifying, perhaps even more so than before. Because, despite the

Nephis

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

summoned the Azure Blade and

careful. He's lightning

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

her eyes off the enemy, and stepped

the waiting Carapace Demon. Sunny was slightly ahead and aiming to circle the behemoth from the right — the side where

behind him, aiming to circle the creature from the left

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 to

was their

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

Sunny knew that he was much slower than the

the Han Li clan. Caster possessed an Aspect Ability that made him ten times faster than the silver-haired girl —

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 to end

in control of

of the Forgotten Shore. Luckily, his speed advantage