Shadow Slave

The Wolves were pushing the abominations back. A team of specialists already gained access to the reserve control station of the city's automated defense systems, working on bringing them those that had not been destroyed, at least — online. Makeshift barricades were being constructed, and there was even a trickle of civilians being guided to the shelter, already.

Effie had assisted her soldiers as best she could.

She had personally eliminated the most threatening abominations in the vicinity of the Wolf Army and made sure that her soldiers were not overwhelmed by the tide of abominations. But now, to make sure that they were not annihilated, she had to sortie into the city and face the enemy on her own.

Fighting a titan was not a problem. Effie was plenty titanic herself… however, this time, there were two walking calamities approaching her soldiers.

One was a towering giant, not much smaller than she was, his body carved from obsidian stone. The giant had six hands, each holding an archaic weapon. His head had four bestial faces, one on each side, waterfalls of blood spilling from four terrible maws.

The bastard had swallowed countless humans, and was hungering for more.

The other titan was grotesque and disgusting. It was vaguely insect-like in appearance, with a bulging, fleshy hump rising dozens of meters into the sky from its back. The chitinous body was almost invisible under that mountain of flesh, and there was a noxious miasma drifting around the revolting creature like a vile haze.

What troubled Effie the most was that there were two of the gargantuan abominations. Even worse, they were approaching the Wolf Army from different directions.

If she rushed to face one, the other would trample her soldiers, leaving none alive.

«Those fu… those wretched things!»

Usually, she would not have been miserly on the swear words, but ever since becoming a mother, Effie had been trying to clean up her speech.

With varying degrees of success.

Letting out a chilling growl, she threw a burning gaze at the obsidian giant, then turned away decisively and pushed her colossal body into an earth-shattering run.

The crawling horror was closer, and so, she had decided to deal with it first.

She had decided to do something else, as well… it was a bold new strategic solution that would not lose to the glorious genius of her patented slingshot maneuver. Of course, Effie would have to try her damnedest to make sure the thing actually worked…

Leaping over a sprawling park with one tremendous jump, she caused the ponds located on its premises to spill out of their shores with her thunderous landing, and barreled toward the titan.

The creature was enormous, but the top of its bulging hump barely reached her abdomen. Its flesh also seemed strangely porous… of course, Effie already knew why.

As she was closing in on the monstrosity, it crawled forward and straightened its segmented legs.

strange ripple spread over the gargantuan hump of its back. Effie scowled and held her breath —

Nevertheless, it was necessary.

long plumes of the noxious miasma. It shrouded the titan

Effie's face darkened.

had still been

…Not anymore.

«Curse you!»

was

from the holes in the creature's fleshy body. As they shot into the sky, the rods spread translucent wings, and unfolded segmented legs, turning into

course, each creature was at least a meter long, easily capable of ripping an

of the dragonfly swarm swirled around

«Ah, damnation…»

face, turning into a beautiful mask of polished steel that perfectly copied

«Here we go!»

extended both her hands to the sides, lingered for a moment, and then forcefully brought

thunderous clap resounded above the city,

inside the cloud of miasma to explode with dust and crumble. The cloud itself was torn apart and

monstrous dragonflies were dazed, a breach appearing in the defensive wall

breach and enveloped the Crawling Horror's gargantuan body with her

tightly against her torso, smearing disgusting fluid all across the polished breastplate. Struggling against the desire to retch, she dug her

feel the creature's sharp claws

of the titan for a few seconds, especially before it regained its bearings and

are two hostile forces attacking from different directions… the strategic move

her colossal body. She rarely had a chance to push against the limits of her strength,

never done something that crazy before —

the titan would take too long and compromise her soldiers. She felt confident that she could kill the Crawling Horror, but not that she

So…

«Aargh!»

escaped from beneath her

as though her muscles would

into the ground. At the same time,

gargantuan body of the Crawling Horror into the

«S-so heavy…»

stop