Shadow Slave

1031 The Fall of Falcon Scott (49)

Goliath walked forward, the world quaking under the weight of his steps. The sea of Nightmare Creatures was flowing past his titanic feet, and all around them the furious blizzard was slowly retreating, the winds dying down as pale starlight washed over the vast killing field.

On the tall, broken wall of the city, thousands of turrets were roaring as they sent rivers of bullets into the attacking horde. The moonless night was torn apart by the glow of overheated barrels, the shine of swift tracer rounds, and the flashes of railgun rounds striking their targets in a conflagration of force, heat, and blinding light.

A few of those heavy tungsten rounds had hit Goliath, only to disintegrate fruitlessly without leaving even a scratch on the stone hide of the menacing titan.

The soldiers of the First Army trembled as they joined the barrage — the mundane soldiers, the Awakened, the towering war platforms, the few Masters that were still alive after two weeks of the dreadful siege. On the ground near the breached sections of the wall, others were shivering as they craned their necks to stare at the approaching titan.

…However, Sunny remained still.

'Closer… get closer…'

He was perhaps the only human in Falcon Scott who wanted the colossal giant to walk faster. The Siege Souvenir could only be used once, so he had only one shot to shatter Goliath's stone carapace.

Standing indifferently by his side, Saint raised the long javelin and placed it on her shoulder. The four shadows moved, fusing with her onyx armor. It shone with black radiance, and the feeling of great power emanating from the graceful figure of the taciturn stone knight instantly became much vaster, much deeper, and much more terrifying.

At the same, darkness flowed from Saint's gauntlet, slowly spreading across the length of the white javelin. Its whiteness was consumed, replaced by a lightless blackness. While the Transcendent Devil herself was augmented by the shadows, her weapon was now enhanced by the [Blade of Darkness].

There was the [Mantle of Darkness], as well, which made Saint stronger when surrounded by darkness and shadows. Sunny summoned the Shadow Lantern, allowing it to consume all surrounding light.

Soon, the three of them — Sunny, Saint, and Jet — were hidden from sight within a circle of deep shadow.

'Almost there…'

Creatures — those that had survived the barrage, meaning the strongest and most vile of them — were already moments away from reaching the wall, separating into four wide rivers

hateful giant and prepared

that moment, however,

turned slightly, and his sole eye

Sunny shivered.

humans on the wall, and all of them must have looked like mere ants to

of that gaze was almost physical. No… it was much

teeth, feeling a very bad premonition grasp his

'What…'

eye

eye was revealed. Unlike the first one, which was white and had neither an iris nor a pupil, that one was of

unbearable heat. He felt water streaming down on him, and looked up to see the snow clouds melting in the skies above. Bizarrely, it was raining in the middle of

the city suddenly moved and groaned. Glancing over the parapet, Sunny saw with horror that the impregnable alloy…

into puddles of liquid metal, the pilots screaming as they burned alive. The barrels of the powerful turrets disappeared into streams of incandescent drops, and the mighty railguns grew silent. A few meters

great defensive barrier bent and deformed, moments away from collapsing entirely. Countless people plummeted to their

of it happened in an

'Gods…'

time to waste, Sunny shuddered as he changed his command slightly and

onyx knight instantly

she raised the javelin behind her. For a moment, Saint's entire body turned into a graceful arch — from the tip of her foot, to her

hand whipped forward, and the battlement under her shattered from immense

the last moment, the four shadows slid from her

a deafening boom of sound barriers being pierced, and

Memory streaked across the black sky like a line of pure darkness, creating a whirlpool