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.

and grabbed his cheek. The right side of his face was all torn, but

'You horrid wretch!'

strike down the fiend before he stood up. However, the creature simply turned into a

"Not so fast!"

ever slowing down, Sunny

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

shadow creature of the Corrupted Rank, here, he was vast

yet, Sunny held

each time. But Sunny had been a mere Child of

to Shadow Control, Shadow Manifestation… and

was currently a

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

he didn't have a 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

him in this realm, which he must have considered absolutely safe

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

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

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

to do for you to finally

not going to be of any use… a Corrupted Devil could crash through a mountain, and still walk away without

of charred rubble.

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

Scavenger's gaze

Sunny's face changed, too.

felt a slight tremor spreading through the ground beneath

'Hell…'

his sharp intelligence, was really too

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