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.

the damage, Sunny only ended up receiving five deep scratches, which then instantly welled with

'Ah! Crap! That hurts!'

the shadow wrapped around

could

fill his muscles. In the same fluid movement,

in a rain of broken teeth. Taking another quick step, Sunny circled around the disoriented creature,

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

narrowly avoided the claws of the last remaining skeleton — 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 with one powerful

Then, he groaned.

crap… I think I

intense and had lasted for too long. Even with his endurance enhanced by the Blood Weave, he was nearing the point

the damn

thought appeared in Sunny's mind, a new wave of skeletons

sword, he gritted

'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

radiance of the incandescent

'Perfect timing!'

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

of ghostly grey fog appeared from beneath her stonelike armor like dancing flames. The impenetrable darkness of the catacombs suddenly seemed

tricks up

second later, the Shadow crashed into the undead creatures, sending splinters of bones and severed limbs flying through the air. She proceeded to

place near Kai and Cassie, Sunny was finally able to rest for a few seconds. His battered body was

chance to catch

all his cards yet, but the situation left him little choice. He doubted he could continue this mad dash for much longer. Plus, 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 assume