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.

to

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

head swayed madly, opening its maw, and shot forward in a frenzied desire to swallow Sunny. But before it could, the long neck convulsed one last time, and the demented light slowly disappeared

the ground a few meters away from him and grew

As for Sunny...

the voice of the Spell whisper into

The Spell said:

Seeker of Truth.][Your shadow grows stronger.][...You have received

He froze.

'Wha...'

spat out the

'What just happened?!'

a titan? He

was so great that he even forgot about the cloud of miasma

scaled beast had fallen somewhere ahead, inside the horde of abominations. The tremor produced by the impact must

already been on the verge of death when he accidentally stumbled on its last head. That was the massive shadow that had suddenly lunged at him... and he struck it with the Sin of

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

a bit awkward, isn't

fate, to deliver Sunny

I'm sure that Sky Tide is above being petty about such stuff. Plus, 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 strike. Nightmare

Sunny had killed. If not for the fact that both of the

Brilliant Emporium would definitely skyrocket if its proprietor had such an illustrious

stood up. First,