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.

group... 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

be

Neph's condition... was unknown.

finish off the

however, that question was rendered meaningless. Sunny had also received an answer to

been wasting time. She had

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

'Summer Knight!'

Clan Song and Clan Valor seemed to

sure that Nephis was still alive. After doing that, he took a step back

only kept up with the ensuing fight through shadow sense, tense and

Saints. However, despite all its power and uncanny tenacity, it didn't

it were any other two Transcendents, but Beastmaster and Sir Gilead were both outstanding. Especially Beastmaster - he noticed that wounds delivered by her took a lot longer to close. Some even remained open, as if something was preventing

something

at a distance.

'Cassie?'

was Cassie who had led the Saints to their

felt some tension drain from

become a little muddled. Its attacks lost some of their edge, and there were drops of blood falling from its nose. Bestmaster was not only fighting it,

can

they 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.

pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them,

that pace slowed

at some point, one of the shadows

the Gate Guardian had been reduced

Beastmaster and Summer Knight, but both

then opened his eyes and

over to Seishan. Kneeling in front

here, Seishan. I

slowly grew smaller, turning back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin. Her body was beaten and broken, but she was alive, and

words to

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