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.

landed awkwardly on his backside and grabbed his cheek. The right side of his face was all torn, but at least he did not

'You horrid wretch!'

stood up. However, the creature simply turned into

"Not so fast!"

ever slowing down, Sunny dove into

form that was the Scavenger was swiftly flying away, and the shapeless form that

the Corrupted Rank, here, he was

Sunny held an absolute

couple of times, and was all but helpless each time. But Sunny had been a mere Child of Shadows then. Now, he was their

insight into shaping shadows thanks to Shadow Control, Shadow Manifestation… and especially his recent breakthrough, which he decided to name Shadow

was currently a

Scavenger, Sunny willed his shapeless body to change. Instantly, it came to possess four long, powerful arms. Then, sharp claws grew out of

be able to remain a shadow for long, Sunny did not waste any time and tore into the formless abomination. Instantly, it was as though a

Scavenger seemed both surprised and aggrieved by 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, launching powerful but awkward attacks of

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 protected by the Marble

that his struggles were not having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly

Sunny received several more wounds, but the

to do for you to finally die, damn

of a building, using the creature's body as a ram. Of course, that was not going to be of any use… a

was a slope of charred rubble. They fell down,

some point, Sunny had lost his swords, and the creature had lost its black saber. The two of

however, the Scavenger's

Sunny's face changed, too.

slight tremor spreading through the ground beneath

'Hell…'

sharp intelligence, was really too naive. The explosion was

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