Shadow Slave

1043 The Fall of Falcon Scott (61)

On the doomed streets of a snow-covered city, surrounded by ruins of collapsed buildings and remnants of devastating battles, a young man with alabaster skin and onyx hair was fighting a wraith made of darkness and hatred. One wore a simple tunic of beautiful black silk, the other was clad in menacing black armor. Both moved through the ruins like a pair of swift shadows.

'Damn it… break!'

Sunny shuddered as he deflected a vicious strike of the mysterious black tusk, felt the impact send a painful jolt through his entire body, and guided the enemy's blade to the side. At the same time, he took a step forward and slammed his elbow into the Scavenger's chest.

The creature was pushed back, releasing the Sin of Solace from the bind. The cursed sword instantly flashed forward, slashing across the abomination's side… the defense, counterattack, and follow-up had been executed flawlessly, flowing into each other like the nimble steps of a graceful dance. Despite being light and swift, they also carried tremendous power and annihilating intent.

And yet, the white jade slid fruitlessly off the black bone armor, barely leaving a scratch on it.

'What the hell are you made of, bastard?!'

The Scavenger… was just too damn overbearing.

At times, fighting him was fighting like water — when the Sin of Solace lashed out at the cracks in the bone armor, the Scavenger would turn into a shadow, allowing the jade blade to harmlessly pass through. Other times, fighting him was like fighting against an indestructible mountain — the plates of black bone seemed utterly impervious, and the creature's blows carried with them crushing weight.

Even compared to the Corrupted creatures Sunny had faced, the Scavenger was abnormally powerful. He was so strong that it did not even make sense… the Sin of Solace had come from the Remnant of the Jade Queen, an astonishingly dreadful Corrupted Tyrant, and had an enchantment that bestowed it with unparalleled sharpness as well. What kind of indestructible creature had the vengeful goblin devoured to be able to resist its edge?!

It seemed as though there were peerless geniuses even among the Nightmare Creatures… and the pathetic, tiny imp Sunny had failed to kill many months ago just so happened to be one of those.

'Just my luck...'

Sunny braced himself and received another blow of the black tusk. Another bloodless wound appeared on his body — none

he was

for Sunny to kill the hateful fiend. For example, if the sharpness of the Sin of Solace itself was not enough, he could augment the power of the jade blade manifold with his shadows. He could manifest

prevented from doing

the Scavenger was faster and stronger. He could not wantonly use Shadow Manifestation, because his reserves of essence were nearly empty. The same went for Shadow Step, or any

himself when Sunny was at his weakest, and now, Sunny was forced to defend himself against a Nightmare Creature of a superior Rank while being robbed of most of his powers. Even those that remained were countered, because the

blame the abomination for setting such a wicked trap, though, because

I'll still kill you… you're going

would

the form of a shortsword. The silver sword's [Ghost Blade] enchantment allowed it to strike

advantage Sunny had, it was his skill and experience. The Scavenger was tremendously powerful, cunning, and possessed a truly vicious, murderous will… he had devoured a great number of mighty creatures, and grown with explosive speed. The bastard was supremely devious and surprisingly intelligent, enough to survive and

still an abomination, and a young one at that. His attacks were smart and powerful, but also clumsy and crude — just like the makeshift saber he was using, which had obviously been fashioned from

for spite and viciousness,

'Die!'

the jade sword and then struck with the silver one, aiming at the elbow of the abomination's right arm — no matter how tough an armor was, it had to be weaker at the joints to allow for enough flexibility.

Sight could cut even the weaker

not to risk it. The shadow powers he possessed were, strangely, both superior and inferior to Sunny's — as of yet, the abomination had only

allowing the creature to not only teleport and turn incorporeal, but even selectively turn only parts of himself into