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

'You horrid wretch!'

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

"Not so fast!"

slowing 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. All of

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

yet, Sunny held an absolute

of times, and was all but helpless each time. But Sunny had been a mere Child of Shadows then. Now, he was their

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

he was

Instantly, it came

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

in this realm, which he must have considered

as the damned goblin. Partially because the creature's blows were rudimentary and crude, and partially because

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

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

do I have to do for you to finally

the creature's body as a ram. Of course, that was not going to be of any use… a Corrupted Devil could crash through a mountain, and still

of charred rubble. They

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

however, the Scavenger's

Sunny's face changed, too.

slight tremor spreading through

'Hell…'

intelligence, was really too naive.

a In front of him, the battered fiend suddenly recoiled, trying to escape into the shadows once again — this time, he was going to simply