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.

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

not be

Neph's condition... was unknown.

off

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

time. She had

figure made of pure radiance attacked the

'Summer Knight!'

The two Transcendents of Clan Song and Clan Valor seemed to

Sunny's lips. He summoned the runes and glanced at them to make sure that Nephis was still

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

Saints. However, despite all its

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 them

something else,

at a distance. It was

'Cassie?'

Cassie who had led the

tension drain from his

some of their edge, and there were drops

they can

incinerating white flame suddenly grew weak, and then disappeared. Two shadows were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass - one crumpled

its wounds. The Saints attacked it without pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them, but felt the shape and

that pace slowed

some point, one of the

vessel of the Gate Guardian had been reduced to a

for Beastmaster and Summer Knight, but both

gritted his teeth, then opened his eyes and slowly sat

walked over to Seishan. Kneeling in front of the hideous monster, the beautiful

here, Seishan. I was on

back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken

whispered a few more words to her sister, then rose

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