Shadow Slave

The Stone Saint walked toward the Black Knight with stalwart indifference. Her body shone with dark radiance, and there were wisps of ghostly grey fog dancing on her elegant armor. The ruby eyes of the taciturn monster burned with menacing crimson flames.

The darkness that served the devil had been vanquished by Changing Star's incandescent light, but the shadows populating the ancient temple only grew deeper because of it. Now, they were shifting, as if reaching toward the Saint to fall upon her shoulders like a mantle.

Without slowing down, the Shadow raised her shield and hit its rim twice with the edge of her sword, as though challenging the Black Knight to a battle.

With the two creatures finally facing each other, it became even more apparent that there was a mysterious connection between the two of them. Despite the fact that the Black Knight towered above the graceful living statue, their general appearance and the design of their armaments were eerily similar.

It was just that in front of the intricate stonelike armor of the Shadow, the devil's own formidable full plate, which had been masterfully forged from indestructible black steel, seemed almost… crude.

Facing the original masterpiece, he looked like a clumsy imposter.

Sunny knew that his intuition was right when he caught a hint of the same dim, nascent emotion that the Shadow had shown toward the walking colossus.

Despite the fact that the Fallen Devil was vastly more powerful than her and both outclassed and outranked her, witnessing him, the Stone Saint felt nothing but disdain.

Contempt, even.

these observations had not taken Sunny more than half a second. In the next

The battle had begun!

shadow fragments Sunny had collected from hundreds of Nightmare Creatures — and

she was enhanced by the shadow even more than he would be himself. The Shadow

had been at the cost of her life. What would she be

a deadly bastard of

the two of them was just too vast. Even with the help of the shadow, the Stone Saint was clearly not a

she was not

into a whirlwind of steel, the humans joined

at the giant black sword with his elegant jian. The ghostly green blade slid off the surface of the greatsword without any result, but the impact of his strike managed to slow the Black Knight

fiend in order to turn his size and reach superiority against him, she struck upward at the pommel of the greatsword with her shield.

the impact was so fierce that several fractures appeared on the surface of her stonelike pauldron. As the dull metal sound rang across the grand

defense of the

white flame and the miraculous enchantment of the Dawn Shard, the sword hit against the breastplate of the Black

deep into the body

of the Fallen Devil. Just a moment before,

took a

swiped his sword down, forcing both Nephis and the Stone Saint to stagger back. The black blade