Shadow Slave

Chapter 1380

In the darkness of the flood temple, a second passed.

Sunny was still falling into the water.

During that second, Cassie had lost count of how many times her slender body was broken and mutilated by the monstrous sybil.

A thought was much faster than a blade, but it had the same effect on the future as an action. Every time she mentally changed her plan of action, the immediate future changed, as well - and currently, Cassie was thinking with stunning speed.

'A step to the right.'

'A step forward, high attack.'

'A step forward, low attack.'

'A half-step...'

She imagined a future and suffered the consequences, again and again. The sybil was too powerful, too sinister, too vile... but not insurmountably so.

Another moment passed, and finally, Cassie imagined the future where she did not die.

'Found it.'

In the approaching moment of time, she managed to evade the fury of harrowing tentacles unscathed and deliver a fatal strike. The Quiet Dancer whistled melodiously as she cut the air and plunged into the sybil's neck.

Cassie prepared to move...

But then, the fragmented future turned vague, disappearing.

Instead, there was more pain, more defeat, and more horror.

'Of course... thought so.'

lose her composure because that was what she had been expecting. Cassie was not the only one oracle

the future

her victory, the Defiled abomination destroyed it, pulling over

motionless, but furious and chillingly

had

'Faster, faster...'

a battlefield, then she had just conquered a small part of it, gaining control of not only that single possibility, but also all possibilities similar to it. While simultaneously denying them to the

conquer the rest, until the sybil had

left, aim for

jumping start, aim

half-step to the right, aim for

ceiling. The horror of the depths was shrieking as its flesh burned, long limbs lashing out madly to crush the hateful radiant. The Drowned were besieging Sunny and his Shadows, some of them dead, but much more still

in front

one she found, finding the next one became slightly easier.

influence it exerted on the future became much more oppressive and suffocating, forcefully drowning harmful

And yet...

slowly usurping small areas of the invisible battlefield, one after

them was crackling with pressure. The darkness boiled, failing to contain the gruesome violence of their clash. It felt as if the stone surface

of course, it did not. Because the countless futures where the battle was taking place never

was conquering

probability to make only those outcomes that benefited her come true, so Cassie had to disarm the creature. She had to surround her enemy with only those outcomes

had to make the

a feint, followed by a sidestep, followed by

the Quiet Dancer, simultaneous thrust and flanking

release the Quiet Dancer, dagger parry turning into

death more gruesome than the previous one. But slowly, more and more fragments of the future she perceived allowed her to live. The sybil was surrounded more and more by the outcomes

cage was

And smaller.

And smaller.

And smaller still...

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