Shadow Slave

Chapter 185

The Shadow attacked with the vicious strength of a true monster. Knowing perfectly well that his strength was not enough to block her sword, Sunny desperately moved the Midnight Shard to deflect the strike to the side.

The countless hours of practice and hundreds of thousands of times he had repeated his katas had not been in vain: his body moved with lightning speed, placing the blade in the path of the Stone Saint's weapon at just the right angle. Feeling the impact reverberate in his bones, Sunny gasped from the pain and stood his ground.

Guided by the Midnight Shard, the Shadow's sword glided to the side and missed his body by a wide margin. However, before Sunny had time to congratulate himself, the Saint simply continued moving forward and slammed into him.

Being hit by her shield felt like crashing into a stone wall at high speed.

Flying back, Sunny impacted against an actual wall and rolled to the floor. A small yelp escaped from his lips.

Getting distracted from her food for a moment, Effie glanced at him and called:

"Sunny? You're alive?"

He weakly raised a hand and brought his thumb and index finger together in the shape of a circle.

"...Yeah."

The huntress smiled.

"Good! Don't die yet, alright? It's going to be really inconvenient for me to get out of here without your help."

Sunny gritted his teeth.

'...Is that all you care about?'

"I'll try."

feet, he staggered and had to lean

her spot and stood there

Sunny walked back to stand in front

"Again."

***

if he had really gone

consisted of only three things: spending time with Effie, practicing with the Stone

time he was spending in the deadly maze of the Dark City was by far the least dreadful. He even found

teeming with abominable creatures as a comforting

that he was on

sessions with the menacing Shadow had turned out to be even more advantageous than he imagined. Every bruise, every cut, every drop of blood that

of stagnation, his technique was finally improving again. And it was doing so with noticable

had not even scratched the surface of the immense didactic potential of the [Battle

was a

observed the Shadow in the fight against a carapace

offense. Each action was efficient and perfectly calculated, with

used based on her current weapons and opponents. Back when

these two techniques were vastly different. It seemed as though she

for a better sparring

— or rather, the kernel of one that had been given him by Nephis — was flowing and unpredictable. It focused on adaptability and making it impossible for the enemy to anticipate your next move. The more Sunny fought against the Stone Saint, the more he realized how extraordinary

style couldn't be improved. In fact, Sunny suspected that it was actually designed with the intention of being able to incorporate various

of this made him wonder where this strange style had come from, and if Changing Star had taught him its

he was determined to make sense of it, improve his mastery of the things he had already learned, and begin to incorporate elements of Stone Saint's stark

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