Shadow Slave

'Well... that's new...'

Sunny had lived through many unthinkable disasters, managing to survive in the most dire and seemingly inescapable situations. The improbable tales of his close brushes with death could probably fill a book.

However, he had definitely never had a titan fall on his head.

'What the hell is this?!'

The great scaled beast was plummeting to the ground, its body riddled with terrible wounds. One of its three long necks was severed, the other hung lifelessly, held by only a few threads of flesh. Of its wings, only one remained. A cloud of vile miasma trailed behind it like a harrowing cloak.

The creature was maybe two dozen seconds away from crashing into the ground.

Sunny froze for a moment, stunned by the frightening visage of the titan that had been cast down from the skies. He wasn't the only one - Nephis was looking up, too, and so were the soldiers. Even the Nightmare Creatures halted, raising their bestial heads to witness the fall of one of their lords.

'Not good.'

Neph was the first to react. Her voice rolled across the battlefield, pulling the Awakened out of their shocked inaction.

"Pull back! Fighting Retreat! Move if you want to live!"

same time, she sent Sunny a

to stall the horde to cover

of her words was clear. What

Help me.

their bond, she couldn't. Because

Sunny hesitated.

Awakened turned around and dashed back. Those who remained doubled their efforts to resist the flood of

the soldiers who fell back ran for a few seconds, they turned around and assembled into a loose line. Then, it was the turn of those who had stayed behind to retreat. Like that, alternating

such a maneuver was perilous and had the potential to result in many casualties. Every time you turned your back on the enemy in a battle, you were risking your life, after all. But with the

forward. The ring of flame that raged around her changed, growing narrower. A few moments later, the fire seemed

Sunny sighed.

as I

was

forth all the shadows that were stored inside,

of shadows suddenly rose from the ground, blocking off a

tightly around her armor and compressed into a furious mass of incinerating white radiance was suddenly devoid of

out, and a crudely directed wave of white flame rolled from her staggering figure in a wide fan. It swallowed many ranks of

managed to build a temporary dam that blocked the path of the abominations - half of the dam was the

their remaining essence to produce this wide-scale effect. The wall was already