Shadow Slave

The eel tried to catch him, but was a second too late.

"Crap!"

Falling toward the dark waves, Sunny threw the kunai in the direction of the stone giant's hand.

Instead of a weapon, the colossus was holding a tool that resembled a mason's hammer. The kunai curved in the air and wrapped the invisible string around its shaft.

'This is going to hurt!'

Sunny plunged into the darkness. A moment later, the string drew taut, and he found himself swinging through the air at a terrible speed. Flying underneath the colossal stone fist, he almost touched the black water with his feet, but then the inertia pulled him up and away.

After a few seconds of weightlessness, Sunny landed on the hammer's head and let out a shaky breath. Without wasting any time, he dislodged the Prowling Thorn and pulled it into his hand, then wedged the dagger in a narrow crack on the surface of the giant hammer.

Landing on it was one thing. Staying here, though… that was something else entirely.

The colossus was swinging his arms as he walked, so Sunny basically found himself on top of a giant pendulum. Not only was the hammer swaying back and forth, but the angle of the surface he was standing on also constantly changed, making it hard not to fly off or slid into the raging sea.

Almost kneeling, Sunny held onto the kunai and tried to keep himself from falling. Then, his face pale and grim, he looked up and glanced at the eel.

"I'm right here, you slimy worm!"

The abomination lingered for a few moments, considering whether it should continue to climb up or follow the sound made by the prey. Finally, it twisted its long, repulsive body and slid over the shoulder of the giant, crawling down his arm.

Toward Sunny.

'Come on, come on!'

will have the same effect on the giant eel as it had on the Corpse Eater. Both were, presumably, Fallen creatures. If one was poisoned to death by Blood Weave, why couldn't the

had not cut himself with the Prowling Thorn for the

The monster continued to

that leech from inside because the stupid thing swallowed a whole lot, and the Weave embued my blood with the odd quality of always being attracted back to the larger mass of it. The Corpse Eater's innards were in the

were crushed. Now, Sunny was stuck on the swinging hammer, with his

"Damn it all!"

enhanced by the shadow, the blade of the tachi failed to cut the flesh of the Fallen creature, and instead

'Not good, not good…'

had two types of tentacles. Some were thick, powerful, and few in number. These ones were used to push its massive body forward and

long, and numerous. These were the ones that Sunny

closer the eel got, the more tentacles assaulted Sunny from all sides. Dodging and deflecting them while maintaining his balance on the chaotically swinging hammer

steadiness and indomitability were translated through grounded footwork, which allowed him to plant

but think that Nephis was right. The best fighters weren't those who were

style he had learned from her had served him well on the streets of the Dark City. But if he had continued to follow it narrowly and neglected to add flexibility to his technique by incorporating the Stone Saint's

situation, for example… what kind of a person

to find himself in such a situation. Only a complete lunatic

was the most important trait

live were numbered. The onslaught of the slender tentacles was already too much

'Twenty-eight.'

sigh, Sunny allowed the shadow to slide off his body and rush toward the approaching eel. Instantly weakened,

of the Midnight Shard with tremendous force, sending it flying from his hand into the darkness of the

the hammer. Catching himself at

nowhere

But it was fine.

'Twenty-nine.'

platform, Effie strained her muscles and hurled the thing entrusted to her