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.

and for me, too.

then, his glee disappeared. By all accounts, Sunny should have felt exhilarated — he had killed a titan, after all! But instead of joy, he felt chills running down his

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

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

Awakened had managed to dismiss their steel Memories, saving

in utter shock, mesmerized by the sight of

though.

died that easily, or

had been hanging outside the wall, ready to push herself forward to follow the plan and attack the titan, climbed

what the

did not answer, staring past her

killed him.

Chunks of stone were splintering off and falling down. From the distance, it almost looked as if the giant… was been diseased, his skin covered by sores

of them, instead of solid stone, there was nothing but darkness. As if parts of the titan's body had been hollowed out

massive corpse crashed into the ground, Sunny's

'Curse it!'

the next second, the colossal mass of stone collided against the earth, making the whole world shake. Enormous clouds of snow, dirt, and debris rose into the air, and countless Nightmare Creatures were crushed under the obliterating weight. A thunderous roar rolled over the killing field, and shards

more section of the wall

was not what Sunny was looking at. His gaze was locked on the

body hit the ground, large portions of it cracked like the

that still clung to life and stretching toward the broken

'The Heart of Darkness…'

beetles had mysteriously disappeared some days ago,

mighty beyond belief as well. Someone

titan to consider such a possibility. His preconceived notions of what constituted power, and his personal animosity against the stone giant, resulted in a ruinous