Shadow Slave

"Before the battle, Morgan had said that she would have been certain of Valor's victory if not for Mordret's Reflections. Now that her final Echo had revealed itself, Sunny finally understood what she meant.

The arrival of the worm titan instantly changed the situation on the battlefield, but even such a creature was not enough to spell certain defeat for the forces of Clan Song.

...A mere Corrupted Titan would not have been able to doom the monstrous beings gathered on the desolate Antarctic plain today, and an Echo of one was tremendously powerful, but not nearly as dreadful as the real thing would have been.

So, even though the situation had changed, the outcome of the battle still hung in fragile balance.

The dead were rising to assist the outnumbered warriors of Valor. The main body of the Echo itself had to be dealt with, as well.

Instead of quelling the furious bloodshed, the arrival of the abominable worm only seemed to drive the chaos to a new, inconceivable level.

One thing it did manage to achieve instantly, though, was force Beastmaster to finally reveal herself.

Sunny felt her presence before he saw her.

It was as though an invisible hammer fell from the sky, pressing every soldier of Clan Valot into the ground. The Awakened, who had been fighting with indomitable resolve up until now, suddenly staggered and swayed. Their movements grew sluggish and strained.

'Aargh...'

Sunny gritted his teeth as he shook off the effects of the mental assault. Even his incredible resistance against mind attacks had been insufficient to fully deflect Beastmaster's diabolical power... the poor warriors of Clan Valor stood no chance against it.

Their only saving grace was that the enchantress was forced to spread herself thin to influence a thousand powerful Awakened at the same time. Their concentration was broken, and their strength was severely diminished, but at least they survived - if the task in front of the daughter of Ki Song had been less enormous, she would have probably managed to either subjugate them or outright shatter their minds.

The most frightening thing about it, though, was that the ordinary warriors were not even her main target.

Sunny saw it from the corner of his eye... but once he did, he couldn't look away.

it where Whispering Blade had been fighting against the Reflections. Sunny did not know if she had used

But now,

looking at her was

though Sunny's soul

'Damn it...'

demoness took a step forward, the four Reflections that had been fighting Whispering Blade dashed

of dust. Something moved

entertained ideas of eliminating the demonic enchantress, but looking at her bizarre clash with Madoc - one using ethereal mental attacks, the other invisible

'Later.'

he still had an unfinished

assault had restored the lethal equilibrium between the two fighting forces. The titanic Echo was clashing with the four

Saint Tyris was still

one of the Masters who had attacked him before -

the same time, the cursed sword laughed at him

both, Sunny fought his way through the ring of enemies surrounding

middle of a pile of corpses, her armor battered and broken. Her sword was covered in a net of cracks, and her golden hair was sticking

full of pain and exhaustion,

couldn't have been alright after bearing the

with a Corrupted thrall that was bringing down its stinger on Sky Tide's cracked sword. The two of them

retaliation from the Nightmare Creature, because Saint Tyris had

recovering, she pulled her sword out of the thrall's corpse and braced it to block an Aspect Ability attack made by one of Song's

ring, and shattered, instantly turning into a rain of radiant sparks. She was tossed back

'You bastards...'

already back on his feet,

suppressed his desire to slaughter everyone in sight. Cutting down the minions of Clan Song would have been enjoyable, but there were too many of them around, and they were too powerful - he could face them, and he could defend Saint Tyirs. But he wasn't sure that