Shadow Slave

It was sort of ingenious, actually. By controlling the wind to blow the cloud away from the human formation, Saint Tyris was pushing it into the horde of abominations. It did not matter that the titan had been on their side - the Nightmare Creatures plunged into the miasma were doomed to be destroyed, just like humans would.

The devastation was so thorough that, in this section of the battlefield, the pressure on the defensive line of Awakened had drastically lessened. Nothing would be able to pass through the breach now.

So, that problem was solved.

The problem that remained was that Sunny and Nephis had found themselves within the cloud of miasma. Changing Star could probably burn the poison away with her flames, but he was having a very unpleasant time.

'Argh, damn it. Escape... I need to escape back to where the Fire Keepers had retreated.'

But Sunny was all turned around because of the earthquake from the titan's fall.

Where to go?

He gritted his teeth, then ordered two of the shadows to slip off his body and dash away in two different directions. With some luck, one of them would leave the noxious cloud and show him the way.

Before that happened, however...

'Ah, crap.'

Sunny felt a massive shadow lunging at him from somewhere unseen. He blindly slashed with the Sin of Solace, feeling the jade blade bite into something extremely tough, then sink into something soft. Then, something hard crashed into him, and he was sent flying for a second time in the last minute.

This time, Sunny fell on a pile of abomination corpses. He felt sharp spikes and scales scrape against the silk of the Graceless Dusk and rolled down, tracking the movements of the massive shadow. What the hell was it? It didn't seem to have legs, or arms, simply floating above the ground.

One thing was certain, though... the thing, whatever it was, was not feeling swell. Its movements were chaotic and resembled convulsions. Even without the deathly miasma and the strike delivered by Sunny, the creature was in a sorry state.

still refused to open his eyes,

above the ground. It was held up by a long neck that arched up and disappeared into the haze of the miasma. The head was covered by tough scales, and had the hilt of the Sin of Solace protruding from a crack

swallow Sunny. But before it could, the long neck convulsed one last time, and the demented light slowly disappeared from the frenzied eyes of

slammed into the ground a few meters away from

As for Sunny...

voice of the Spell whisper into

The Spell said:

Titan, Defiled Seeker of Truth.][Your shadow grows stronger.][...You have received a

He froze.

'Wha...'

spat out

'What just happened?!'

did he kill a titan? He did

about the

he understood the sequence of what had transpired. The scaled beast had fallen somewhere ahead, inside the horde of abominations. The tremor produced by the impact must have thrown Sunny

last head. That was the massive shadow that had suddenly lunged at him... and he struck it with the

have laughed if not for the need to keep his mouth shut. He shook

is... a bit awkward, isn't

to deliver Sunny powerful Nightmare Creatures to

she doesn't need to know that it was me... there's a sea of abominations here. Any of them could have delivered that last

second titan Sunny had killed. If not for the fact that both of the kills were somewhat murky, he would be

the Brilliant Emporium would definitely skyrocket

up. First, he