Shadow Slave

Chapter 671

Sunny stared at the little girl, trying not to lose his composure.

'...What is wrong with these people?'

He had two horns, a mouth full of sharp fangs, long claws, and four damned arms… and yet, the first thing that both Effie and Kai had reacted to was his height. Was he not allowed to be tall, for once?!

Continuing to pretend to fight the monstrous child in earnest, he pointed to his chest instead of an answer. Effie, too, slowed down her relentless assault a bit — just enough to give him some breathing room without making her changed attitude obvious.

A few moments later, when they were close to each other, she hissed quietly:

"Let me guess, you saw the message I left that said to not come to the Temple of Chalice… and, naturally, decided to do the exact opposite."

Sunny spun, avoiding her fist, and raised two fingers.

The girl frowned.

"Two… someone else is with you? Cassie? Kai? Ah, it's Kai… so, both of you decided to ignore my warning!"

She deflected his dagger to the side, grimaced when it slid over a barely healed laceration on her forearm, and then squeaked in her childish voice:

"Well… good! I, uh… I might have been too full of myself, thinking that I would be able to actually escape this damned place. So... I am really, really glad that you came…"

Sunny thrust his greatsword forward, narrowly missing the girl's head, and then let out a low growl.

Effie gritted her teeth.

"But, Sunny… we have two problems. One is that these lunatics never let their disciples leave the sect alive. The second… the second is that if one of us doesn't kill the other in this duel, my teachers are going to kill us both… so…"

She caught his sword with one hand, then brought her fist on its blade, shattering it and making Sunny stumble.

have a plan! No,

cheerful. Knowing that Effie was confident in his ability to get them

not have a plan. In fact, he didn't have

Yet.

his head, making Effie pale and

see any chance of escaping the Temple of the Chalice without a bloody battle against the War Maidens, as well as any way for the three

She would not have been able to fight her way out of the sect as

didn't

physical might was lesser than that of the huntress, overall, he was a much,

least. Effie would have to handle the third one… which would leave Kai alone against dozens of Awakened warriors gathered in the hall. That wouldn't work. No matter how Sunny moved the elements of the theoretical battle, nothing gave

had been defeated in the future, after all,

a moment, and then glanced at the massive stone chalice towering in the center of the hall, full of furious white flame. Unlike in

His face grew dim.

this idea… no, I don't like it

appeared in his mind. Not only because it would be extremely dangerous and hard to pull off, but also because going

anything else to do. If moving the elements did not work, the only

he concentrated for a few moments, and then gestured Effie

the same time,

white sparks. She took a small step to the side to shield Kai

a swarm of scarlet sparks, one in a black fog, and the other two in a swirling mass of dancing

undergo a strange transmutation.

reluctant to intrude

into the shadows. Sunny

black bow with a scarlet string and a strange arrow that seemed to be made

of Thunder]... and [Mantle

same time, knowing that he might

one last Memory

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