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."

staggered and had to lean on the

and stood there indifferently, not paying

stand in front of

"Again."

***

days, Sunny often wondered if he had really gone mad.

time with Effie, practicing with the Stone Saint, and

the Dark City was by far the least dreadful. He even found himself

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

that he was on the right

even more advantageous than he imagined. Every bruise, every cut, every drop of blood that he spilled

finally improving again. And

not even scratched the surface of the immense didactic potential of the [Battle Master] Attribute. For someone like him, who had never received a formal education in combat, it was simply

was a hidden

fight against a carapace centurion, he had noted her

devastating offense. Each action was efficient and perfectly calculated, with blocks, dodges and deflections leading into

her current weapons and opponents. Back when her original fought against two harrowing Fallen Beasts, her style was reckless and brutal, disregarding any form of defense in favor of

similarities between them, these two techniques were vastly different. It seemed as

for a better sparring

that had been given him by Nephis — was flowing and unpredictable. It focused on adaptability and making it impossible for

it didn't mean that this style couldn't 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 a perfect foundational style to

strange style had come from, and if Changing Star had taught him

make sense of it, improve his mastery of the things he had already learned, and begin to incorporate elements

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