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 least he

'You horrid wretch!'

the Sin of Solace, Sunny lunged forward to strike down the fiend before he stood up. However, the creature simply turned into a shadow instead, trying to flee and then

"Not so fast!"

ever slowing down, Sunny dove into the shadows,

was the Scavenger was swiftly flying away, and the shapeless form that Sunny

here, he was vast and dreadful, much more so than

yet, Sunny held

each time. But Sunny had been a mere Child of Shadows then. Now,

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

was currently a

shapeless body to change. Instantly, it

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 was as though a soundless wail of pain spread

seemed both surprised and aggrieved by the fact that Sunny was able to hurt him in this realm, which he must have considered absolutely safe before. Frightened,

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 because the creature's blows were rudimentary and crude,

that his struggles were not having any effect, too. Escaping Sunny's cruel claws, he instantly escaped the

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

do for you

the towering ogre and smashed through the wall of a building, using the creature's body as a ram. Of course, that was not going to be of any use… a Corrupted Devil

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

and the creature had lost its black saber. The two of them stared at each other

the Scavenger's gaze

Sunny's face changed, too.

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

'Hell…'

intelligence, was really too naive. The explosion was not going

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