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 how exhausted and beaten they were, though, he doubted that they

be able to do

Neph's condition... was unknown.

off the

next moment, however, that question was rendered meaningless. Sunny had also received an answer to why the beautiful demoness was wasting time

not been wasting time. She

brighter, a figure made of pure radiance attacked the vessel of the

'Summer Knight!'

The two Transcendents of Clan Song and Clan

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

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

was a harrowing foe, even for the Saints. However, despite all its power and uncanny tenacity,

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

something else,

standing at a

'Cassie?'

Cassie who had led the Saints

drain from

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, but also battering

think... they can

were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass

The Saints attacked it without pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them, but

torturously... that

then, at some point, one of the

Gate Guardian had been reduced to

not been easy for Beastmaster and

teeth, then opened his eyes

Seishan. Kneeling in front of the hideous monster, the beautiful demoness gently placed

I was on

the monstrous creature slowly grew smaller, turning back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin. Her

whispered a few more words to her sister, then

gaze slowly 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 Saint's one open