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.

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

himself would not be able to

Neph's condition... was unknown.

Beastmaster finish off

question was rendered meaningless. Sunny had also received

been wasting time. She had been stalling for

the sunlight pouring from 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 dashed

'Summer Knight!'

of Clan Song and Clan

summoned the runes and glanced at them to make sure that Nephis was still alive. After doing

allowed the pain to wash over him. He only kept up with the ensuing fight through shadow

even for the Saints. However, despite all its power and uncanny tenacity, it didn't seem to be

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

something else,

at a distance. It

'Cassie?'

was Cassie who had

drain from his mangled

become a little muddled. Its attacks lost some of their edge, and there were drops of blood falling from its nose. Bestmaster was

they can actually

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

their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them, but felt

torturously... that pace

of the shadows grew shallow and

been reduced to a pile of

and Summer Knight,

teeth, then opened

soon as the creature died, Bestamster turned around and walked over to Seishan. Kneeling in front of the hideous monster,

Seishan. I was on

with silken grey skin. Her body was beaten and broken, but she was alive, and even

a few more words to her sister, then rose to

a few dozen meters away. The smile disappeared from her lips. The look in the beautiful Saint's one