Shadow Slave

Nightmare landed on the surface of the highway less than a hundred meters away from the rushing swarm and galloped forward without ever slowing down. The wind howled in Sunny's ears as the dark stallion's adamantine hooves rang sonorously on the cold concrete.

A vicious grin somehow found its way to Sunny's face.

'I must have lost my mind...'

Diving headlong into a tide of hundreds of Nightmare Creatures was no cause for a smile, but for some reason, he felt exhilarated. Perhaps it was the sinister whispers of the cursed jade sword that were subtly influencing him...

Perhaps, Nightmare was simply not the only one who longed to go on a murderous rampage. Ever since LO49, nothing had gone right for Sunny. The bitter pressure of it all fueled him with frustration and anger, and the anger wished for a way out.

Now, he was going to unleash it on these damned abominations.

"Die!"

Driven into a mad frenzy by the call of the Dying Wish, the first of the Nightmare Creatures leaped into the air, its fangs glinting in the moonlight. Sunny leaned forward to cut it apart, but before he could, Nightmare's jaw snapped and tore the beast's throat open. With a violent twist of his neck, the black stallion sent the convulsing body flying into the mass of abominations.

...In the next moment, they plunged into the swarm.

The Sin of Solace sang, slicing a creature after creature apart. Wrapped in shadows, Sunny fought with stunning speed and precision, obliterating any abominations that tried to get close. It was as though he was surrounded by a whirlwind of rending jade. The flesh of Nightmare Creatures parted before the white blade of the beautiful jian like water.

less deadly. The dark steed galloped forward, slaughtering creatures with his fangs, his horns, and his hooves. Some were torn apart, some were thrown to the ground and trampled to death, some were simply

with the black steed's long slumber, or maybe it was just a powerful combination of

and currently, both his own [Mantle of Fearl Ability and the I Omen of Dread 1 enchantment of the Sin of Solace were poisoning the rabid minds of

[Nightmare! Ability made the black steed more powerful the more nightmares he had subjugated, and by

meant that the large swarm of abominations blocking the

was

of them to slaughter them all. For now, Nightmare and he had been

stopped, the swarm could potentially overwhelm them by burying both under a mountain of bodies. Sunny and Nightmare could escape such a trap by

it would take too much time. Not only would more Nightmare Creatures inevitably join the

wretches that had dared to stand in his way... his goal was to clear a path for the column of battered

'Curses...'

affected by the pull of the Dying Wish. All of them had nothing on their mind but one all-consuming desire - to rip Sunny

stallion pivoted and changed the direction of his murderous charge, but was soon met by an impenetrable wall of claws, fangs, suckers, and hideous appendages of all kinds. Even with Sunny dismantling one abomination after another with

jump. His hooves landed on the sea of

at the stallion's belly, the two of them landed just outside the swarm, on the narrow stretch of empty land between the highway and the

ocean, and then closer still, almost into the shallows, to the point where fountains of cold water started to fly from the

steed and its slaughtering rider. The mass of abominations spilled from the highway both behind and in front of them, aiming to surround the enemy

...Just as planned.