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.

looked like they could still fight... and Effie, too, although there was a pained expression on her face. With

be

Neph's condition... was unknown.

off the creature

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

time. She

incandescent sky grew a little brighter, a figure made of pure radiance attacked the vessel

'Summer Knight!'

but two. The two Transcendents of Clan Song and Clan Valor seemed to

to make sure that Nephis was still alive. After doing that, he took a step back and fell

his eyes, Sunny allowed the pain to wash over him. He only kept up with the ensuing fight through shadow sense, tense

of the Gate Guardian... was a harrowing foe, even for the Saints. However, despite all its power and uncanny tenacity, it didn't seem to be a

have been different if it were any other two Transcendents, but Beastmaster and Sir Gilead were both outstanding. Especially Beastmaster -

something

felt a fourth shadow standing at a distance.

'Cassie?'

it was Cassie who had led

felt some tension drain from his

some of their edge, and there were drops of blood falling from its nose. Bestmaster was not only fighting it,

think... they can actually manage

then disappeared. Two shadows were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass - one

remaining vessel was taking longer and longer to heal its wounds. The Saints attacked it without pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them, but felt the shape and position of the shadows

torturously... that pace

then, at some point, one of the shadows grew shallow

of the Gate Guardian had been reduced to a pile of

easy for Beastmaster and Summer Knight, but both of them were

gritted his teeth, then opened

walked over to Seishan. Kneeling in front of the hideous monster, the beautiful demoness gently placed her hand on her shoulder and

I was on

exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin. Her body was beaten and broken, but she was alive, and

words to her sister, then

who was kneeling on the sand a few dozen meters away. The smile disappeared from her lips. The look in the