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.

damage, Sunny only ended up receiving five deep scratches, which

'Ah! Crap! That hurts!'

didn't regret it. The only thing he regretted was the fact that, with the shadow wrapped around the Midnight Shard, he couldn't observe

of insight he could have

Sunny commanded the shadow to move onto his body. Almost instantly, he felt a rush of power fill his muscles. In the same fluid movement, Sunny took a step toward the monster that had just wounded him and

skeleton's jaw flew away in a rain of broken teeth. Taking another quick step, Sunny circled around the disoriented creature, hooked his hand around its damaged skull, and tore it clean

regained their balance, Sunny was already upon them. The Midnight Shard flashed

chopped off at

Then, he groaned.

I think I

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

that happened, he would die. Because the damn undead creatures were not only

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

his sword, he gritted his

'Time for plan B…'

***

pure white light. Glancing over his shoulder, Sunny noticed that Nephis had finally summoned her flames, channeling them into the blade of

the blinding radiance of the incandescent blade, the skeletons almost seemed

'Perfect timing!'

him. As they passed each other, he sent the shadow from his own body onto that

the Shadow 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

some tricks up my

bones and severed limbs flying through the air. She

a few seconds. His battered body was screaming with

cards almost simultaneously, the cohort got a chance to catch their breaths for a

could continue this mad dash for much longer. Plus, chances were that the rest of the party, preoccupied as