Shadow Slave

Sunny had never been that happy to see anyone in his entire life. Master Jet arrived just in the nick of time, saving him from having to regret the decision to send Saint to aid Rain.

…Not to mention that she was really pleasant to look at.

More importantly — taking off a Fallen Tyrant's arm with one strike! Even for an Ascended, this was an incredible feat. Tyrants were not creatures one usually dared to challenge alone. Instead, they were dreaded horrors that were capable of decimating whole cohorts of experienced, battle-hardened fighters.

Masters rarely worked together, simply for the fact that there were too few of them and too much for each one to do. But facing a tyrant was one of the things that pushed them to band together. And even then, not everyone was guaranteed to return from the fight.

Truly, Teacher Julius had not been exaggerating when he said that even Saints were wary of Soul Reaper Jet.

And yet… although her entrance was spectacular, would she be able to battle the tyrant and survive? Even though the chieftain was seriously wounded, that wound came from a surprise attack. Now that she lost the advantage, things could change really fast.

As if answering his thoughts, Master Jet glanced at him.

Despite the fact that they were surrounded by piles of corpses, the terrifying giant looming above them like an omen of doom, an unexpected smile suddenly appeared on her cold face.

"...Cool mask."

With that, Soul Reaper sprung forward, turning into a blue blur. Her movements were so fast that Sunny had only been able to perceive them because he was an Awakened, his senses vastly superior to that of a mundane human.

Several things happened at the same time.

The somber glaive flew away as it spun fast enough to appear as a blurry circle. It cut a bloody swath in the mass of abominations, eviscerating dozen in a matter of a second as it moved in a wide arc.

At the same time, Master Jet streaked across the bloodied, broken asphalt and appeared behind the tyrant, then caught the glaive and immediately lunged forward in a devastating thrust.

The chieftain was much faster, though.

His spear seemed to almost teleport into the path of the glaive, positioned for an indomitable block.

Something weird happened then.

to the spear, then effortlessly pierced…

where one of the soul cores

'What the…'

she had planned, though. Sunny got that suspicion because of a slight frown that appeared on Jet's face, and the fact that the tyrant did not

raised his spear, which suddenly ignited with blinding light and flooded the area directly

Sunny sighed.

that's my cue to get the hell

— even if she ended up as no match for the Barrow Chieftain, she

just be erased from existence by the destructive fallout their

doing fine in the gymnasium of the school, protecting both the children and the

left

more shadow fragments and, hopefully, an additional Memory or two while

exemplary employee! I am starting to understand why Master Jet

the ground and used Shadow Step to appear near the six Awakened, who were on the verge

that

again, Sunny cut down a hunter who had been aiming at the familiar young woman with a bow, and gave her

Master Jet was fighting the tyrant, painting

What should we

Wasn't that obvious?

'Run, you idiots!'

full of

"Stand and fight."

a sudden expression of shame clearly written

course… that is

his aching muscled and raised the

not see that

***

was

from the skies in the howling of

the weaker abominations and herd the more powerful ones away