Shadow Slave

As the members of the cohort killed several giant locusts, their repulsive black bodies fell to the ground, raining blood on the walking colossus and the crimson coral of the Labyrinth.

As soon as their corpses hit the ground, it suddenly moved. Dark figures appeared from beneath the mud, rushing at the dead locusts to devour them. Hundreds of monsters were suddenly competing for the few scraps of meat. After several bloody fights broke out and the winners were decided, those who had not gotten to satiate their hunger turned their heads and followed the smell of blood.

…Right back to the moving stone giant.

Looking down with dark resentment, Sunny saw numerous creatures jumping at the legs of the walking statue from the mounds of coral and quickly climbing up. They were headed right to where the cohort was being besieged by the swarm of winged abominations.

He couldn't see the shape of them clearly, but there was no doubt that these monsters were bad news.

'Damnation…'

[...slain an awakened beast, Flesh Reaver.]

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

Turning around, Sunny summoned the Prowling Thorn and hurled it upward. A moment later, using the invisible string as support, he was flying through the air. Grabbing onto the edge of the circular platform, he hoisted himself up and once again faced the carnage.

The kunai flashed, cutting the wing of one of the locusts clean off. Suddenly crippled, the creature toppled and plummeted down, no doubt to be devoured by the horde of Nightmare Creatures approaching from below.

breathing room by making it hard for the locusts

Blood Arrow, choosing instead to rely on his mundane ones. In the chaotic mess of this sudden battle, it was too easy to miss. Plus, he didn't need a

incredible speed. Still, the abominable reavers

a glancing blow from one of the creatures, another one landed on the platform. Two

…Not for long, though.

Neph's sword flashed through the air, slicing it in half.

kill them! Break their

understanding in his eyes,

that made sense. The members of the cohort didn't need to slay the locusts. They just needed to make it so the flying scourges weren't

meanwhile, did not need this advice. Everything she hit simply exploded into a disgusting puddle of bloody

powerful range weapon she could use. Her beautiful spear was not really suited to

However, if it was too far away from them, the essence was simply wasted — unless the Memory had

would slowly accumulate inside the soul core until the peak capacity was reached once again. But this process took time, so one

she resorted to using makeshift darts fashioned out of plates of spider iron. There wasn't much of them left, however. Once the

Nephis, he noticed the Shadow lowering her shoulder and raising her shield. In the next moment, one of the repulsive creatures crashed into it at full speed… and simply crumbled, black blood

[You have slain…]

It was also much harder to rip and slice apart. Once Effie was forced to

curse

Sunny kicked a disgusting piece of a killed creature off the platform and