Shadow Slave

Chapter 866: White Stone

A huge cloud of snow and stone debris rose into the air. Hitting the ground with a muffled yelp, Sunny rolled and tried to maintain the shape of his odachi. Luckily, his training had not been in vain - even after being startled by the earth-splitting fall of the Tyrant and jolted by the sudden collision with the slope of the mountain, he did not allow the shadow sword to unravel.

'Argh... damn...'

Slightly disoriented, Sunny sat up and looked around, expecting to see monstrous insects rushing to finish him off. To his relief, the soldiers of the stone hive were in a similar position as him - despite possessing six legs and a center of gravity that was much lower to the ground relative to their height, they were all sprawled on the cold rocks, trying to get up.

Actually, there were surprisingly few of them around him. Those that were alive, at least... crushed corpses littered this particular stretch of the slope, flattened so thoroughly that it was hard to recognize the shape of the chitin-clad abominations.

Sunny strained to regain his wits and frowned.

'...Did I do that?'

The damage seemed too exaggerated to be done by Sunny or his shadow tentacles. He couldn't see very far, either, because a wall of white stone was blocking his view.

'Where... where did this crag come from?'

If he remembered correctly, there were no large boulders or tall outcroppings near where he had fought. Had he rolled that far down the slope?

As Sunny was trying to understand why a wall of rock suddenly appeared in front of him, a stream of inky black liquid flowed down its smooth white surface.

wall of

...His eyes widened.

'Oh... crap...'

get a better look at the thing that he had assumed

Tide's vicious attack. The creature seemed battered, with its milky-white chitin cracked

looked up at it, the jade beetle's expressionless black eye shifted and peered directly at him. Its

'Oh, crap!'

one of Tyrant's legs came down, shattering the mountain slope and sending another tremor running through it He was only

through the air and struck the white chitin, only to bounce off of it without dealing any damage. The jade beetle stared at him with its unfathomable black eyes and moved, slowly rising. It opened its maw,

him, something very

a split second, he was

Cruel Sight calmed Sunny down. The somber spear finally finished manifesting itself into reality, and he

does it

of essence into the Cruel Sight to imbue it with an elemental property, he threw the spear again, only a moment after being

mind to put some thought into what type of elemental damage to choose, though. Neither divine flame nor

that might work...

without a trace. A moment later, the Tyrant suddenly shuddered and let out

as much speed as he could muster. The cloud of ash shot to chase him, but quickly dissipated due to the fact that

Sunny had chosen was not the most destructive, but it

of wicked corrosion that the [Dark Mirror]

much damage to the Tyrant. However, it had hurt like hell to deal with it, so Sunny hoped that the damned monstrosity would be distracted for a