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.

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

be able to

Neph's condition... was unknown.

finish off

received an answer to why the beautiful

been wasting time. She had been stalling for

made of pure radiance attacked the vessel of

'Summer Knight!'

two. The two Transcendents of Clan Song and

make sure that Nephis

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

even for the Saints. However, despite all its power and

have been different if 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

was something else,

standing at a

'Cassie?'

Cassie who had led the Saints to their

tension drain from his mangled

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

think... they can actually manage

shadows were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian

in their relentless assault. Sunny could not

that pace slowed

at some point, one of the shadows grew

Gate Guardian had been reduced to

and Summer Knight, but both of them

opened his eyes

turned around and walked over to Seishan. Kneeling in front of the hideous monster, the beautiful demoness

here, Seishan. I was

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

few more words to her sister, then rose

slowly shifted to Morgan, who was kneeling on the sand a few dozen meters away.