Shadow Slave

Bestmaster's fist was still protruding from the abomination's chest, but in the next moment, she tore it out, almost ripping the entire corpse apart.

She seemed angry... really angry.

"How dare you raise a hand to my sister..."

Before the abomination could assemble itself back together, the beautiful Saint kicked it, sending the mangled corpse flying back. It landed on the sand a dozen meters away, twitched slightly, and then rose, already knitting itself into a single whole again.

The two of them stood opposite each other, looking intently at the enemy. The creature was bloodied and beaten, but eerily calm. There was a smile on its lips.

Beastmaster looked just as battered, her face torn and painted with blood. Her expression was dark and full of cold fury.

She gritted her teeth and spat:

"I won't show you mercy."

The corpse stared at her with a smile.

Then, it suddenly spoke.

Tilting its head, the corpse asked:

"...What is mercy?"

The Saint's expression slightly changed.

'What the hell... why are they talking...'

Sunny tried to stand up and only succeeded by using the Sin of Solace as a crutch. He was struggling to breathe, but it was alright... as the great connoisseur of physical trauma that he was, Sunny judged his condition as not really life-threatening.

For now.

He couldn't really understand why Beastmaster was wasting her time issuing threats to a great abomination instead of attacking it, but that had given him time to assess the situation, at least.

were alive. No one had died yet, from what he could see. That said, all of them were severely injured. Only Morgan and Saint looked like they could still fight... and Effie, too, although there was a pained expression on her face. With how exhausted and beaten they were, though, he doubted that they

be

Neph's condition... was unknown.

finish off the creature

was rendered meaningless. Sunny had also received an answer to why the beautiful demoness was wasting

not been wasting time. She had

the incandescent sky grew a little brighter, a figure made of pure radiance attacked the vessel of the Great Guardian from behind. At the same moment, Beastmaster

'Summer Knight!'

Transcendents of Clan Song and

Sunny's lips. He summoned the runes and glanced at them to make sure that Nephis was

only

a harrowing foe, even for the Saints. However, despite

Beastmaster - he noticed that wounds delivered by her took a lot longer to close. Some even remained open, as

something else,

felt a fourth shadow standing at a distance. It was slender,

'Cassie?'

was Cassie who had led the

some tension drain from his mangled

their edge, and there were drops of blood falling

can actually

did, however, the bonfire of incinerating white flame suddenly grew weak, and then disappeared. Two shadows were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass - one crumpled and motionless, the other standing above it. Then, the source of the second shadow

it without pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them,

that pace

of the shadows grew

the Gate Guardian had been reduced

had not been easy for Beastmaster and Summer Knight, but both of them were

then opened

creature died, Bestamster turned around and walked over to Seishan. Kneeling in front

Seishan. I was on

back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with

to her

meters away. The smile disappeared