Shadow Slave

Pursued by an army of dead giants, Sunny and Nightmare flew through the mist. The shambling corpses were tearing through the forest like an avalanche, uprooting countless ancient pines and turning them into splinters. The thunderous clamor of it all spread far and wide, making it seem as if the entire island was falling apart.

If that would not attract the attention of the Nightmare Creature hiding in the fog, Sunny did not know what would.

Almost there...

He was not just running blindly. Instead, Sunny was leading his skeletal followers along the southern edge of the island, aiming to pull them to Undying Slaughter's hunting grounds, or even further west. The map of the island was shimmering in his mind, with various Nightmare Creatures moving across it according to where they were supposed to be at the moment.

It would be good to attract as many abominations as possible - the chain reaction of them abandoning the usual routes and habits was going to clear the northern part of the island, where all of the cohort's goals were, to a large degree. But Sunny was going to be happy as long as the harrowing mist wraith got implicated by the appearance of the undead stampede.

These ancient skeletons he had risen were not truly alive, and thus possessed neither souls nor soul essence. They were the worst possible enemy Undying Slaughter could meet, considering that she would not be able to replenish whatever essence she spent to destroy the murderous corpses.

...It was a bit ironic, really.

"Above us!"

His heart skipped a beat.

The dead giants had obliterated a large swath of the misty forest already, which meant that nothing hid them from the merciless gaze of the sky anymore. As Sunny watched, unnerved, long tendrils descended from somewhere high above, stretching toward the rampaging bone golems.

could catch them, however, a vast shadow suddenly passed over the mass of dead giants. A moment later, the corpse of the Hollow Butterfly ascended into the sky, disappearing

Sunny grinned darkly.

"Godspeed!"

as powerful as when they had been alive. The corpse of the monstrous butterfly did not possess the terrifying might

Butterfly would have been - the animated corpse was not alive, after

hope that the Harvester would be defeated, but it definitely would be preoccupied for a

he had to worry about was

And yet, they were gaining on the galloping steed due to their sheer size. Sunny could dive into the shadows and

claw fell on him from above, missing Nightmare's side by a mere meter. The black stallion almost lost his footing when the claw

this is... just

of the Nightmare Desert, but it was all the same for Sunny. It did not matter if the thing that killed him was three times

head, tracked the movements of the dead giants with shadow sense

Sunny managed to survive the dreadful

left. It was just in time - in the next moment, the familiar decaying shape of a giant leopard lunged forward from the fog, missing Sunny and colliding

bullets, and a gurgling roar sent Sunny into a momentary daze.

the furious confrontation was far

was

Creatures arrived, attracted by the deafening noise of the pursuit. Sunny had calculated which

creature envelop the horrid skeleton of a crawling leviathan with its

dead giants into a pile of broken bones. As it was completely obliterated, the rate at