Shadow Slave

Chapter 584

Welthe froze… but only for a moment. Then, she threw Cassie aside and dashed toward the door, disappearing in a blur. Sunny was pushed away, rolling on the floor and almost crashing against one of the empty mirror frames. By the time he regained his balance, she was already gone.

Pierce growled, then threw a murderous look at him and screamed:

"Kill them!"

With that, he dashed out of the chamber, too, dismissing most of the Echoes to take them with him.

…The fools still hoped that they could save their men.

Or avenge them, at least.

Sunny also couldn't really be mad at Pierce for ordering their death… he would have done the same. Now that their plan to bind Mordret had failed, the next best option was to make sure that there were no more vessels for him to possess. The sentinels were already as good as dead. That left only Sunny…

However, Sunny was not one to let go of the grudge.

'Curse you, you bastard…'

There were only two Echoes remaining in the mirror chamber. One was moving toward Cassie, already thrusting its sword forward. The other was towering over Sunny, its heavy battle axe raised.

Sunny glared at the Echo, not amused.

In the next moment, a stygian serpent appeared from the shadows behind the creature, wrapping its long and powerful body around the macabre effigy. Then, its head shot forward, the maw opening to a terrible width. Sharp fangs closed on both sides of the Echoe's face, easily piercing through the skull and crushing it with a grisly crunch.

At the same time, Cassie rose to one knee and deflected her enemy's sword with a long dagger. A slender rapier flashed from behind her, piercing the creature's neck and emerging from its other side in a shower of blood.

Both Echoes fell to the floor, disintegrating into a rain of sparks. From start to finish, they had not made a sound.

Sunny rushed to Cassie and bent down, trying to ascertain the severity of her wound. His voice sounded tense and worried:

"Are you okay?"

delicate neck, but the cut seemed shallow and

The blind girl nodded.

fine! Go! There won't

rose without saying a word, and

equal threats —

make sure

destroy the mirror fiend, so leaving Mordret without a vessel was going

he appeared out of it, turning into a shadow

'...Fast.'

alive to keep the lanterns aflame. Rushing through it, he followed the

crashed through the door, pulverizing

What met them inside…

Was a bloodbath.

***

it had been clean and orderly, somewhat somber, but looking like a well-inhabited

could

hall was one vast, morbid pool of the

sight of it

the center of this vile slaughterhouse, a lone

beautiful female sentinel looked

— her bearing, her gaze, her presence — had changed. It was relaxed and friendly, almost polite. She looked… exactly how Mordret had sounded, back when he and Sunny spoke in the lightless

her pleasant demeanor and the gruesome bloodbath

inside the hall, eight Echoes weaving themselves from sparks of light around

knife cut out of a single piece of a pristine white stone into the air, then caught

Lady Welthe. You have

at Sunny, who was hiding in

finally meet you face to face. Well… I guess we've already met a few days ago. Still, what an occasion. I've waited

and frightening, as though there was a dark ocean of unfathomable depth hiding

as long as I've waited to meet

taking a step

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