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."

he staggered and had to

Saint returned to her spot and stood there indifferently, not paying any attention to his

Sunny walked back to stand in

"Again."

***

of the next few days, Sunny often wondered if he had really gone mad. Otherwise, why would he

spending time with Effie, practicing with the Stone Saint, and exploring the cursed

of the three, the time he was spending in the deadly maze of the Dark City was by far the least dreadful. He even found himself enjoying it a

thinking about a cursed ancient ruin teeming with abominable creatures as a comforting place, you

knew that he was on the right

even more advantageous than he imagined.

of stagnation, his technique was finally improving

of the [Battle Master] Attribute. For someone like him, who had never received a formal education

a

he had observed the Shadow in the fight against a

the firmness of stone, combining flawless defense with devastating offense. Each action was efficient and

and opponents. Back when her original

similarities between them, these two techniques were vastly different. It seemed as though she was able to switch between

couldn't wish for a better sparring

own style — 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

be improved. In fact, Sunny suspected that it was actually designed with the intention of being able to incorporate various elements from other sources. If so, it was

where this strange style had come from, and if

was determined to make sense of it, improve his mastery of the things he had already learned, and

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