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.

members of 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

himself would not be able to do

Neph's condition... was unknown.

finish off the creature

Sunny had also received an answer to

time. She had been stalling for

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

'Summer Knight!'

was not one Saint, but two. The two Transcendents of Clan Song and Clan Valor seemed to have made a temporary

to make sure that Nephis was still alive. After doing that, he took a step

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

for the Saints. However, despite all its power and uncanny tenacity, it didn't

the situation would 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 them from

something

at a distance. It was slender, delicate...

'Cassie?'

who had led the

some tension drain from his

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

think... they can

revealed amidst molten sand and obsidian glass - one crumpled and motionless, the other

without pause, methodical in their relentless assault. Sunny could not see them, but felt the shape and

torturously... that pace

point, one of

the Gate Guardian had been reduced

and Summer Knight,

gritted his teeth, then opened his eyes and

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

here, Seishan. I was

smaller, turning back into an exquisitely beautiful young woman with silken grey skin.

to her sister, then rose to

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