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.

this battle of theirs was going to be a

the Sin of

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

Sunny doubted that there were many creatures of the same Rank faster than his tenebrous steed. However, to his horror, Undying Slaughter was not much slower. Even though the dark destrier was augmented by the shadows, the distance between him and the mist wraith was remaining

kind of

escape from Undying Slaughter. Instead, he wanted to lure her into the trap that the cohort had

almost back to the tower. The dreadful enemy was right

'It's now or never…'

he simply dissolved into the shadows and stepped out of them

cohort was currently in front of the entrance to the stone bridge. Or rather, Nephis,

much higher up the cliff, standing on the stone steps far above

spear was

the cliff with the force of a tactical missile. The whole cliff shuddered, sending him tumbling down

down into the dark chasm of the moat. With it, of course, a number of ancient runes that had been carved into the cliff were

the bridge was broken at that

the bridge, the Nightmare Creatures that

just as

mist, her glacial blue eyes burning from dreadful, cold killing

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

to stand up, Sunny leaned on Nephis and looked across the bridge. The released abominations had already clashed with

was simply quaking because the enchantment

He exhaled slowly.

"So far, so good."