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.

torn, but at least he did not lose an eye. Sadly, he already knew that

'You horrid wretch!'

the fiend before he stood up. However, the creature

"Not so fast!"

slowing down, Sunny

the dark realm of shadows, the shapeless form that was the Scavenger was swiftly flying away, and the shapeless form that Sunny pursued. All of the abandoned area was shrouded in darkness, so they could travel as far as they

the Corrupted Rank, here, he was

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 then. Now, he

had gained plenty of insight into shaping shadows thanks to Shadow Control, Shadow Manifestation… and especially his recent breakthrough, which he

since he was

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

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

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

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 because the creature's blows were rudimentary and crude, and partially because

Scavenger realized that his struggles were not having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's

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

you! What do I have to do for

was not going to be of

there was a slope of charred rubble. They

saber. The two

Scavenger's

Sunny's face changed, too.

he felt a slight tremor spreading through

'Hell…'

was really too naive. The explosion

suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows once again — this time, he was going to simply blink away instead of traveling through