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.

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

'You horrid wretch!'

he stood up. However, the creature simply turned into a shadow instead, trying to flee and then launch a surprise attack from a

"Not so fast!"

Sunny dove into the

that Sunny pursued. All of the abandoned area was shrouded in darkness, so they could

Corrupted Rank, here, he was vast and

held an

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 then. Now,

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

he was currently a shadow,

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

he didn't have a lot of essence left, and thus wouldn't be able to remain a shadow for long, Sunny did not waste any time and tore into the formless abomination. Instantly, it

which he must have considered absolutely safe before. Frightened,

sickening pain of having his soul damaged permeated Sunny's senses. He had sustained some damage, too… but not nearly as much as the damned goblin. Partially

having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly escaped the shadows and emerged into the world

a series of blows. Sunny received several more wounds, but the hateful fiend… his armor

do I have to do for you to finally

using the creature's body as a ram. Of course, that was not going to be of any use… a Corrupted Devil could crash through a mountain, and still walk

rubble. They fell down, ending up

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

however, the Scavenger's

Sunny's face changed, too.

tremor spreading through the ground beneath

'Hell…'

intelligence, was really too naive. The explosion

front of him, the battered fiend suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows