Shadow Slave

1476 Attrition

Sunny felt that they had gotten incredibly lucky.

There was always a chance that Undying Slaughter and Devouring Beast would turn on each other, but he had not dared to rely on that possibility. But now, one of the Plagues was dead.

That said, the situation was not ideal. Sunny would have preferred if it was Undying Slaughter that had perished… the best possible outcome, however, would have been if he had arrived just before their battle ended and stole the kill from the mist wraith.

Then, not only would one of the Defiled Saints have died, but the other would have also been deprived of absorbing her essence. Killing Undying Slaughter then would have been much easier.

But although their luck was good, it was not that good.

As things stood now, Undying Slaughter had just replenished her dwindling essence. Sunny did not know how much of it she had gotten, exactly, but it had to be a substantial amount. Devouring Beast had been a mighty abomination, after all… her corrupted soul had to have been extremely potent.

So, while the mist wraith was not in her peak state, she was also more than powerful enough to eliminate the cohort now.

'That's alright.'

They had planned for such an eventuality, as well.

Sunny had fought with Undying Slaughter many times. He had done so alone, supported by his Shadows, and even with the help of the other members of the cohort… he had died in agony each time.

For that reason, their goal today was not to be to overpower and slay the dreadful wraith. She was too powerful for them to prevail against her in a battle… which did not mean that they could not win.

Instead of trying to defeat Undying Slaughter, what they needed to do was tie her down in a prolonged confrontation. It was just how Sunny had imagined killing someone like Jet — the key to doing so was to force her to exhaust her essence while not giving her a chance to replenish it.

of theirs was going to be a battle of

the Sin

way they had come, splinters and bits of soil flying from under his adamantine hooves. Of course, the mist wraith was not going to let a source of essence escape that easily… almost at the same moment, she lunged

there were many creatures of the same Rank faster than his tenebrous steed. However, to his horror, Undying Slaughter was not much slower.

kind of monster is

too disheartened, though. After all, he did not really want to escape from Undying Slaughter.

almost back to the tower. The dreadful enemy was

'It's now or never…'

however, he simply dissolved into the shadows and stepped out of them on the other side of the moat, rolling down the stone steps for

of the entrance to the stone bridge. Or rather, Nephis, Jet, Saint, and Fiend

up the cliff, standing on the stone steps far

spear was

up when the spear hit the slope of the cliff with the force of a tactical missile. The whole cliff shuddered, sending him tumbling down

the air, and slid down into the dark chasm of the moat. With it,

enchantment protecting the bridge was broken at

Creatures that had been frozen before shuddered, released from

as they

from the mist, her glacial blue

of the stone bridge lunged at her, overcome by bloodlust and fury. A Corrupted Tyrant, a Corrupted Terror… a Great

looked across the bridge. The released abominations had already clashed with Undying Slaughter, the whole island shaking from the dreadful

it was simply quaking because the enchantment keeping it in the

He exhaled slowly.

"So far, so good."