Shadow Slave

[You have slain a Fallen Devil, Defiled Witness.]

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

[You have received a Memory…]

A swarm of fearsome Nightmare Creatures flowed up the slope of the small mountain valley, rushing toward the crest of the road, where a handful of Awakened warriors were preparing to make their stand. The eyeless abominations were moving with ferocious determination, covering many meters with each stride as viscous saliva streamed from their terrifying maws.

To their right was the slope of the mountain, while to their left was a canyon that grew deeper and deeper as the road climbed up.

Standing at the top of the hill, Quentin, Belle, Dorn, and Luster studied the approaching avalanche of monsters with grim apprehension. Lowering the enchanted sledgehammer off his shoulder, the striker of the melee vanguard glanced at his comrades and spoke in a reserved tone:

"What do you think?"

Belle readied his sword and smiled.

"This… is going to be fun. If we survive, I won't have to be embarrassed about sleeping through the last one anymore!"

Quentin silently shook his head, while Luster, who stood behind the three, closed his eyes for a moment.

"Crazy bastard…"

The swordsman simply laughed.

loud crack of a highly compressed sonic boom. A moment later, the head of a hulking abomination that towered above the rest of the swarm exploded into bloody chunks. The massive carcass toppled over like a marionette that had its strings cut, instantly turning into a lifeless

the Rhino, Sunny drew his bow and let an

foreheads, Samara. Take down as many Fallen as you can before the enemy reaches the two hundred meters mark, then switch to

between large rocks higher up the slope, the deadly sharpshooter recharged her coilgun as she poured a steady flow

"Understood."

arrow pierced the head of an especially frightening creature.

unbending warbow once more, Sunny

'Too slow…'

had barely two dozen seconds left before the swarm reached the melee vanguard. That was not nearly enough to kill all the remaining Fallen abominations, and then there were the two hundred and forty Awakened

just had to

glow slightly in the dim twilight. Each had been charged by Samara prior

from the sky, reaping one life after another. Head after head exploded, turning the cracked asphalt on the mountain

rabid eyeless beasts. Her eyes shone with ethereal light as

through the front row of the rushing swarm. A dozen abominations were instantly ripped apart. Chunks of mangled

corpses fell to the ground, the sound of another thunderous explosion rolled over the mountains, and then another. Two more bloody rifts appeared in the mass of the frenzied abominations. Now that Samara didn't have to aim, her

so did her consumption of soul