Shadow Slave

1044 The Fall of Falcon Scott (62)

'Die, die, die…'

Sunny kept trying to strangle the Scavenger in a strange reversal of their previous encounter. His face was contorted into a bestial snarl, and his eyes were burning with indescribable bloodlust.

The Scavenger, however, was not easily killed. At first, he seemed to have panicked and tried to throw Sunny off himself, but after realizing that getting rid of the small human was all but impossible, the abomination calmed down, stared at him with seething hatred, and tried to stab him in the back with the black tusk.

The tip of the crude saber bit into the silk of the Graceless Dusk, and failed to pierce it.

Sunny laughed with savage joy.

"Try harder, bastard!"

The Scavenger obliged.

Dropping the tusk, he grabbed Sunny by the collar… and, instead of trying to push him away, instead pulled him down. The two of them were suddenly face-to-face.

'Crap…'

The jagged line splitting the abomination's helmet opened, and countless sharp fangs instantly sank into Sunny's cheek.

"Aaaaaargh!"

Realizing that he was moments from having his face bitten off, Sunny let go of the fiend's neck and delivered a vicious punch into his solar plexus. Then, he grabbed the creature's jaws, pushed them open by a few millimeters, and staggered back.

The Scavenger once again let out a hoarse, hateful laugh, his teeth painted by Sunny's blood.

grabbed his cheek. The right side of his face was all torn, but at least he did not lose an

'You horrid wretch!'

to strike down the fiend before he stood up. However, the creature simply turned into a shadow instead, trying to flee and then launch a surprise

"Not so fast!"

slowing down, Sunny dove into the shadows,

that was the Scavenger was swiftly flying away, and the shapeless form that Sunny pursued. All of

as a shadow creature of the Corrupted Rank, here, he was vast and dreadful, much

yet, Sunny held

had fought as a shadow before, a couple of times, and was all but helpless each time. But Sunny had been a mere Child of Shadows

of insight into shaping shadows thanks to Shadow Control, Shadow Manifestation… and especially

since he was

Scavenger, Sunny willed his shapeless body to change. Instantly, it came to possess four

a shadow for long, Sunny did not waste any time and tore into

the fact that Sunny was able to hurt him in this realm, which he must have considered absolutely safe before. Frightened, he tried to fight back,

had sustained some damage, too… but not nearly as much as the damned goblin. Partially because the creature's blows were rudimentary and crude, and partially because his soul was

were not having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly escaped the shadows and emerged into

the ruins, exchanging a series of blows. Sunny received several more wounds, but the

to do for you to

body as a ram. Of course, that was not going to be

of charred rubble. They fell

and the creature had lost its black saber. The two of them stared at each other for a moment, both full of

the Scavenger's

Sunny's face changed, too.

tremor spreading

'Hell…'

sharp intelligence, was really too naive. The explosion was not

know that. He had only gained full sentience a In front of him, the battered fiend suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows once again — this time, he was going to