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."

to his feet, he staggered and had

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

in front of her,

"Again."

***

if he had really gone

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

in the deadly maze of the Dark City was by

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

he was on the

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

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

about it was that he had not even scratched the surface of the immense didactic potential of the [Battle Master] Attribute. For someone like him,

was a

he had observed the Shadow in the fight against a carapace centurion, he had noted her distinct battle

action was efficient and perfectly calculated, with blocks, dodges and deflections leading into deadly ripostes. It was solid, indomitable,

not the only battle style that the Stone Saint was perfectly proficient in. Rather, it was something that she used based on her current weapons and opponents. Back when her original fought against two harrowing

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

wish for

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 it

fact, Sunny suspected that it was actually designed with the intention of being able to incorporate various

come from, and if

it, improve his mastery of the things he had

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