Shadow Slave

1032 The Fall of Falcon Scott (50)

The colossal, headless body of Goliath tilted forward, and then started to fall. Because of its enormous size, it seemed as though the giant's corpse slowly floated through the air instead of crashing down in an obliterating avalanche of stone.

However, hundreds of Nightmare Creatures below were already panicking as they tried to flee and escape being crushed to death.

Sunny froze, momentarily stunned.

'...What just happened?'

He… he had killed the damned bastard? How? That was not what was supposed to happen!

Sunny had poured countless hours into creating the Siege Souvenir and making sure that Saint would Transcend in time. However, he had never expected to slay the Fallen Titan with one strike. A titan was a titan! They were not supposed to die so easily.

The plan was for the javelin to shatter the stone carapace on the chest of the giant, creating a path toward his heart. Master Jet was supposed to enter the breach and destroy Goliath's soul cores from within, while Sunny and Saint would attack from the outside. Together, they were meant to slowly bring the giant down… and maybe even survive the process.

When the titan had revealed his incandescent eye and started melting the city wall, Sunny was forced to switch targets and command Saint to aim for the eye instead. He had never thought that Goliath would be killed by that single strike.

…Was that eye the titan's Achilles heel?

Kim had not noticed a pronounced vulnerability after they encountered the giant on the coastal highway, though. Maybe her powers were not enough to see it? Or was the vulnerability only exposed when Goliath revealed his inner, hidden eye?

In any case, the titan… the titan was undoubtedly dead.

Sunny had killed him.

For a moment, a dark glee ignited in his heart.

Erebus Field, you foul bastard… and for me, too. That

glee disappeared. By all accounts, Sunny should have felt exhilarated — he had killed a titan, after all! But instead of

but destroyed, and the wall itself was damaged and deformed. A few sections had collapsed

heavy losses, especially among the pilots burned to death with their MWPs. Many soldiers had lost their rifles, and the outer layers of their powered armor suits were severely damaged. However, there were still enough of them alive to

their steel Memories, saving them from being destroyed, and were now summoning them

mesmerized by

was wrong, though. Very,

have died

had been hanging outside the wall, ready to push herself forward to follow the plan and attack the titan, climbed back and looked at him, a rare expression of bewilderment written on her

what the

staring past her at the falling

killed him.

body fell, wide cracks appeared all across it. Chunks of stone were splintering off and falling down. From the distance,

some of them, instead of solid stone, there was nothing but darkness. As if parts of the titan's

the massive corpse crashed into the

'Curse it!'

dirt, and debris rose into the air, and countless Nightmare Creatures were crushed under the

more section of the

Sunny was looking at. His gaze was locked on the

hit the ground, large portions of it cracked

still clung

'The Heart of Darkness…'

days ago, and almost at the

himself, and mighty beyond belief as well. Someone

so clear… in hindsight. Sunny himself had been too blinded by the threat of the titan to consider such a possibility. His preconceived notions of what constituted power, and his personal animosity against the stone giant, resulted in