Shadow Slave

1046 The Fall of Falcon Scott (64)

At some point, Sunny had to admit that he was not going to break the Scavenger‘s armor, but he still continued to deliver a barrage of vicious blows to the hateful creature — he refused to believe that the fiend was as tough on the inside. No matter how hard the shell was, enough force was bound to turn everything protected by it into bloody mush. He suffered from the same weakness himself, after all…

But no matter how much he struck the damned ogre, the Scavenger did not seem too bothered by it.

‘Goddammit!!'

Desperate and enraged, Sunny grabbed the creature's jaw with one hand, and used the other to constrict the abomination's arm. Then, he opened his mouth...

And bit into the Scavenger's flesh himself.

Maybe Sunny was lucky, or maybe the bone armor in that spot had actually been weakened by his previous strikes... regardless, he finally felt something give, and then tasted a despicably foul taste on his tongue. It was the Scavenger's blood.

...Sunny had never tasted anything sweeter in his entire life.

Feeling the creature shudder and frantically try to push him away, he pressed his teeth deeper with wicked glee, and then tore a chunk of flesh away. Sunny spat it out and grinned, then instantly regretted it when a massive fist flashed forward and hit him in the face with horrid strength.

'Ah...‘

Sunny was thrown back.

And at the same time, the black sphere finally broke.

All three layers of protective shadows had been thoroughly damaged, and now reached their limit. A net of cracks spread through the egg, and then it collapsed into numerous shards, exposing both Sunny and the Scavenger to terrible heat and blinding light.

'Crap...‘

The world shuddered one last time.

The world...

Was hot.

it

staring into a

pretty, and smelled

think I'm on

and noticed flames licking his legs. Luckily, his elemental resistance was high enough to resist them. The Graceless Dusk, too, was not affected by them at all. The black silk was pleasantly

'Right...'

by a sea of flames. Sunny was laying on the ground, surrounded by rubble and debris. Some of it was incandescent, and there

all over, and breathing was strangely hard... but he

up with a stagger. He did not feel well. lie was dreadfully exhausted, and heavily wounded. and poisoned on top of that. As for the

and grilled his

that the

his shadow sense to spread

away, he circled a pile of burning debris and stopped near the edge of

the Scavenger was trapped under a giant piece of broken alloy. The creature seemed to be slightly dazed, but otherwise unscathed. In fact, the abomination was already trying to lift the alloy, which was groaning

illuminated by the flames and the glowing fog. There was no shadow large enough for

the creature

fight. Even when he had been able to, all his efforts failed to break through the Scavenger's impregnable armor. All he

a

to free himself and flee... or maybe even attack Sunny, who was barely able to

was in a real

stared at the struggling Scavenger for a few long moments,

but the Scavenger was dazed and tired, too. On top of

though, when he noticed that the Memory his enemy summoned was not a sword

sighed, then

"...Here, bastard. Eat this."

opened the lid of the Covetous Coffer and kicked it,