Shadow Slave

The breaking point of the battle happened when the massive body of the depth dweller finally collapsed into the boiling water. Many of the monstrous creature's limbs had been severed, its mantle of rotting seaweed had been devoured by flame, and the slithering mass of eels comprising its gaunt body had been charred, sliced open, and pierced through.

After a long and arduous fight, Nephis had finally killed the abominable giant.

By then, Sunny and his Shadows already sensed that the Drowned were wavering. Once Neph joined the fight against the demons, the scales swung in favor of the cohort drastically, and before too long, the last of the sinister creatures was slain.

Suddenly and without warning, the dark expanse of the flooded hall turned silent. The only thing Sunny could hear was the sound of water streaming through the cracks in the ceiling.

He looked up.

'This place is not going to collapse, is it?'

But then, suddenly, there was another sound. A ghastly, repulsive squelching of flesh being torn...

Spinning around, Sunny raised the Sin of Solace and prepared himself for the worst. But what he saw made his eyes narrow...

Having already climbed on top of the dead depth dweller, Fiend was enthusiastically tearing into the creature's repugnant flesh with his fangs. Feeling Sunny's gaze on him, the ogre looked up in confusion, as if trying to ask:

What?

Pieces of disgusting, fleshy meat were still hanging from his maw.

'T-this... this bastard! He almost gave me a heart attack!'

Not receiving an answer, the steel devil shrugged and continued ravenously devouring the dead abomination. He was practically beaming with delight.

Sunny let out a long sigh.

whatever. The rascal deserves a

- the decision to only feed the gluttonous Shadow enchanted metals

steel blades, with infernal flames enhancing both the former and the latter. The steel ogre did not even need to use weapons, because he was a

'...He's so gluttonous, though.'

how much Fiend was going to have to eat to evolve once again. It was probably going to take veritable mountains of food. On the bright side, they never found themselves lacking terrible Nightmare Creatures to kill, so at

that it's something

Nightmare after a moment of thought. Although his dreadful steed was not wounded seriously, there were some wounds on his sable coat. It was better to let the black stallion heal now that there were not supposed

of sparks - half of them white, half of them scarlet. The sybil seemed fine, but the blade mannequin was seriously damaged. It would be some time before Cassie would be able to summon

underground hall was pleasantly cool on his skin. He enjoyed it

after, the three Masters were reunited on its

she did. Any wound she had received would have been healed by the white flames long ago. In fact, that was

exhausted. The same power that healed her wounds and burned her enemies to ash subjected Nephis to unspeakable agony, which was why she

untouched, too. But although she only delivered a few swift strikes throughout the entire battle, she somehow looked even more fatigued

was as though she would collapse

Sunny was suddenly worried.

"Uh... are you alright?"

a

just that... remember the headache I told you about?

He frowned.

Although it all happened terribly fast, she must have overused her Aspect Ability to be able to kill that

Sunny shook his head.

a Corrupted Tyrant in a single exchange. That was

faced him and suddenly

take it as a compliment? If

in the direction where the sybil