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.

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!'

However, the creature simply turned into a shadow instead, trying to flee and then launch a

"Not so fast!"

down, Sunny dove

the dark realm of shadows, the shapeless form that was the Scavenger was swiftly flying away, and the shapeless form that Sunny pursued.

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

yet, Sunny held an

of times, and was all but helpless each time. But Sunny had

Control, Shadow Manifestation… and especially his recent breakthrough,

was

body to change. Instantly, it came to possess four long, powerful arms.

Sunny did not waste any time and

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

as much as the damned goblin. Partially because the creature's blows were rudimentary and crude, and partially because his soul was protected

any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly escaped the

through the ruins, exchanging a series of blows. Sunny received several more wounds, but the hateful fiend… his armor was still as impenetrable as

I have to do for you to

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

rubble. They fell down, ending up

point, 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 of murderous

the Scavenger's gaze

Sunny's face changed, too.

was because he felt a slight tremor spreading through the ground beneath them. His

'Hell…'

Scavenger, despite all his sharp intelligence, was really too naive. The

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