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.

the survivor 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 on her face. With how exhausted and beaten they were, though,

be able to do

Neph's condition... was unknown.

Beastmaster finish off the creature

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

time. She had

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

'Summer Knight!'

The two Transcendents of Clan Song and

sigh escaped from Sunny's lips. He summoned the runes and glanced at them to make sure that Nephis was still alive. After doing that, he took a step back

to wash over him. He only kept up with the

for the Saints. However, despite all its

any other two Transcendents, but Beastmaster and Sir Gilead were both outstanding. Especially Beastmaster - he noticed that wounds delivered by

something else,

a fourth shadow standing at a

'Cassie?'

was Cassie who had led the

felt some tension drain from

some of their edge, and there were drops of blood falling from its nose. Bestmaster was not only fighting it, but also battering the creature with powerful

think... they can actually

were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass -

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 change

that pace

one of the shadows grew shallow

vessel of the Gate Guardian had been

Beastmaster and Summer

his teeth, then opened his

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

I was on

exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin. Her

a few more words to her sister, then rose

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