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.

side of his face was all torn, but at

'You horrid wretch!'

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

"Not so fast!"

slowing down, Sunny

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

the Corrupted Rank, here, he was vast and dreadful, much more so than

Sunny held an

helpless each time. But Sunny

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

he was currently a shadow,

change. Instantly, it came to possess four

long, Sunny did not waste any time and tore into the formless abomination. Instantly, it was as though a soundless wail of pain spread through the dark

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

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

not having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly

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

to do

and smashed through the wall of a building, using the creature's body as a ram. Of course, that was not going

there was a slope of charred rubble. They fell

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

the Scavenger's gaze changed

Sunny's face changed, too.

because he felt a slight tremor spreading through the ground beneath

'Hell…'

really too naive.

the battered fiend suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows once again —