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."

and had to lean on the wall for

to her spot and stood there indifferently, not paying any

sigh, Sunny walked back to stand in front of her, raised the

"Again."

***

wondered if he had really gone mad. Otherwise, why would

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

of the three, the time he was spending in the deadly maze of the Dark City was by far the least dreadful.

a cursed ancient ruin teeming with abominable creatures as a comforting

that he was

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

long period of stagnation, his technique was finally improving again. And

immense didactic potential of the [Battle Master] Attribute. For someone like him, who had never received a formal education in combat, it was simply a

was a

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

with devastating offense. Each action was efficient

her current weapons and opponents. Back when her original fought against two harrowing Fallen Beasts, her style was reckless and brutal, disregarding

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

wish for a better sparring

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 it actually

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.

had come from, and if Changing Star had taught him its basics for a

improve his mastery of the things he had already learned, and begin to incorporate elements of Stone Saint's stark technique

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