Shadow Slave

Chapter 1718

The world quaked, and then, Rain was suddenly enveloped by absolute darkness.

It was as if an Impenetrable wall rose to surround her from all sides. The deafening cacophony of terrible sounds coming from the outside was muffled and dampened by that wall, and nothing but slight tremors reached her.

For the moment, at least, she was safe.

But those sounds…

Feeling a cold dread grasp her heart, she took a shaky breath and tried to comprehend them.

There was the sound of trees snapping. There were the screams of the air being torn. There was the roar of the ground being upturned.

These were the sounds that she could recognize.

But there were other sounds, as well.

Inhuman howls. Chilling groans that sounded like… like the world itself was weeping. Eerie and revoltingly organic rustling, as if a mountain of flesh was ripping as it expanded while consuming itself.

And many more that Rain simply could not describe, and was afraid to fathom.

The ground was shaking violently, and she was struggling to stay standing.

Her fingers turned white on the hilt of her sword.

«Teacher… be safe. Please…!»

But how could anyone stay safe when facing the Skinwalker? Countless people had fallen to its menace and were consumed, becoming vessels of the abomination's corruption. Mundane humans, Awakened, Masters… even Saints.

Not even the Sovereigns could eradicate this living curse.

Shrouded by darkness, Rain realized how painfully weak and helpless she was.

Just a few moments ago, she had been full of pride, praising herself for slaying an Awakened Demon.

But now, she remembered that in the world of the Nightmare Spell, she was nothing but an ant.

An ant who couldn't even do anything when her teacher was fighting to protect her.

«Strong… I want to be strong.»

She had not changed at all. She was still the same girl who had been powerless to protect herself, let alone anyone else, when the tide of Nightmare Creatures descended on her school.

…The world continued to scream and quake for several minutes.

Then, an eerie silence suddenly enveloped it. The tremors stopped, and the terrible sounds ceased.

Rain remained motionless, keeping her eyes closed.

She didn't dare to think about how the battle had ended. The thought of imagining her teacher… her teacher not being there anymore was too appalling. More appalling than what would happen to her if he was truly gone.

Suddenly, the wall surrounding her disappeared. She knew that it had because light suddenly shone through her eyelids, and cold wind scraped against her face.

permeated by the smell

«Please…»

familiar voice

you can open your

at that moment was strong enough to make

opened her eyes and

«N-no way…»

forest… was

flattened and upturned land could be seen. The trees had been

with blood. Buried under them, broken corpses of the unfortunate Nightmare Creatures who had populated the forest lay, their macabre sight mercifully hidden by the

of devastation stretched as

in a matter of minutes, redrawn

dreadful destruction…

breath and finally looked at

was standing a few steps away, as nonchalant as

dark on his check… but other than that, he was the

course, Rain struggled to perceive him in

had known that her teacher was a powerful being, of course… but this was the first time she really witnessed his

the vessels of the

to compose

«The.., the Skinwalker?»

remained silent for a few moments,

on top of each other, each missing the head and with a deep

vessels of a Great Nightmare Creature!… Rain

just killed three Great abominations. Just

shards of a broken mirror

«W-what… how…»

about its consequences… her teacher had revealed himself, and although they were far away from Ravenheart, such a drastic change

meant that they had to get out of here as soon as

an option now. Rain would have to keep the fact that she was anywhere near this place a secret… It was a

lived in her shadow, She would have to return to

Her teacher sighed.

thinking about. But,

tilted her head a

Because you defeated the

shook his head

good thing, sure. But actually, we have a bigger problem. This guy, Master Sean… I recognize

understand what he was trying

«…So?»

sighed and rubbed his temples in

have been

House of Night and

Song Domain seemed to be moving toward having a problem with the Sword Domain, while trying hard to maintain a friendly relationship with the

it was very

the same time, Rain understood the underlying

Promising that I won't tell anyone is not going to work, I guess? So… just how

was a

for Clan Song to erase any witness from existence. Well… not any witness. But a mundane girl with no backing? They won't hesitate to silence you even for a

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