Shadow Slave

After that, things became hectic.

Sunny had to push himself to the limit to fight against multiple opponents while maintaining the pace with the rest of the group. Knowing that slowing down meant death, he slashed, dodged, blocked and moved back without allowing himself even a moment of respite. Slowly but surely, countless wounds began accumulating on his body.

But even then, it wasn't enough.

So he pushed himself past his limit.

After all, this was the exact situation he had been preparing himself for by enduring the ruthless onslaught of the Stone Saint day after day. The inevitability of having to fight against an overwhelming force.

Dark, vehement fury ignited in his chest, washing away pain and fear.

"Come, come and get me! I'm right here!"

Who did they think they were trying to kill?

Noticing four new abominations answer his call, Sunny couldn't help but laugh.

'Good… good…'

Their assault came fast and without mercy, not leaving him any room to breathe. But Sunny welcomed it.

Dodging one of the skeletons, he dashed forward and positioned himself behind another one, so that its body blocked the path of the third.

He couldn't do anything about the fourth one for the moment, but its attack was accounted for… it was going to hurt like hell, but not to the point of killing him. Blood Weave was going to take care of the rest.

The Midnight Shard cut through the air and severed the undead creature's knee, causing it to clumsily fall to the ground. At the same time, cold fingers tore into Sunny's side. He had already shifted his body to make sure that they were not going to damage any vital organs.

of the damage, Sunny only ended up receiving five deep

'Ah! Crap! That hurts!'

was the fact that, with the shadow wrapped around the Midnight Shard, he couldn't observe its

of insight he could have gleaned from

fill his muscles. In the same fluid movement, Sunny took a step toward the monster that had just wounded him and delivered a

quick step, Sunny circled around the disoriented creature, hooked his hand around its damaged skull,

By the time the undead abominations regained their balance, Sunny was already upon them. The Midnight Shard flashed three times, turning the

— the one whose leg he had chopped off at the start of the skirmish. Sunny glanced at the creature that was madly crawling toward him and finished it off

Then, he groaned.

crap… I think

and covered in blood. What's worse, he was exhausted. This moving battle was too intense and had lasted for too long. Even with his endurance enhanced by the

would die. Because the damn

this thought appeared in Sunny's mind, a new wave of skeletons lunged at him from

his sword, he

'Time for plan B…'

***

white light. Glancing over his shoulder, Sunny noticed that Nephis had finally summoned her flames, channeling them into the blade of her sword — just like on the day they had fought against the Carapace

radiance of the incandescent blade, the skeletons

'Perfect timing!'

dashed back and commanded the Stone Saint to switch places with him. As they passed each other, he sent the shadow from

Saint's eyes blazed with menacing carmine fire. Her skin shone with dark radiance, and wisps of ghostly grey fog appeared from beneath her stonelike armor like dancing flames. The impenetrable darkness of the catacombs suddenly seemed to become

have some tricks up my sleeve

crashed into the undead creatures, sending splinters of bones and severed limbs flying through the air.

His battered body

to catch their

chances were that the rest of the party, preoccupied as they were with their own share of the undead monsters, would either fail to notice the sudden alteration happening to the Stone Saint or