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

'You horrid wretch!'

forward to strike down the fiend before he stood up. However, the creature simply turned

"Not so fast!"

ever slowing down, Sunny dove

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

the Corrupted Rank, here, he was vast and dreadful,

Sunny held an absolute

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 was

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

he was

on the fleeing Scavenger, Sunny willed his shapeless body to change. Instantly, it came to possess four long, powerful arms. Then, sharp claws

long, Sunny did not waste any time and tore

this realm, which he must have considered absolutely safe before. Frightened, he

some damage, too… but not nearly as much as the damned

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

several more wounds, but the hateful

to do for you to finally die,

a ram. Of course, that was not going to be of any use… a Corrupted Devil could crash through a mountain,

wall, there was a slope of charred rubble. They fell down, ending

Sunny had lost his swords, and 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.

felt a slight tremor spreading through the

'Hell…'

was really too naive. The explosion was not going

suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows once again — this time, he