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.

Saint looked like they could still fight... and Effie, too,

himself would not be

Neph's condition... was unknown.

finish off the creature

rendered meaningless. Sunny had also received an

had not been wasting time. She had

a figure made of pure radiance attacked the vessel of the Great Guardian from

'Summer Knight!'

two Transcendents of Clan Song and Clan Valor seemed to have

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 and fell onto the scorching

eyes, Sunny allowed the pain to wash over him. He only kept up

despite all its power and uncanny tenacity, it didn't seem to be a

- he noticed that wounds delivered by her took a lot longer to

something else,

standing at a distance.

'Cassie?'

it was Cassie who had led the

felt some tension drain

and there were drops of blood falling from its nose. Bestmaster

they can actually manage

they did, however, the bonfire of incinerating white flame suddenly grew weak, and then disappeared. Two shadows were revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass - one crumpled and motionless, the other standing above it. Then, the source of the second shadow swayed

was taking longer and longer 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

torturously... that

point, one of the shadows

Gate Guardian had been reduced to a pile of unrecognizable

not been easy for Beastmaster and Summer Knight, but both of them were

gritted his teeth, then opened his eyes and slowly

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

I was on

front of her, the monstrous creature slowly grew smaller, turning back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin. Her body was beaten and broken,

a few more words to her sister, then rose

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