Shadow Slave

«The Heart of Kanakht… the Heart of Kanakht…»

Suffering unbearable pain, Jet continued to fight the Great Devil calmly. Her mind was cold and focused, methodically calculating every move and motion of the enemy. She was unable to destroy him, but the abomination could not bring her down, either — as the two of them fought, the harrowing fury of their battle boiling in eerie silence, time continued to flow.

She was drawing the clash as much as she could, callously luring the ancient fiend to his eventual end.

Once Effie and Kai arrived…

«How do we kill him then?»

Kai would be able to weaken the Great Devil with the power of his voice. Effie would be able to deal some damage to the abominable creature with the help of the Starlight Shard… but not enough damage, considering that it was merely an Ascended Memory of the Fifth Tier.

The white cloth could shine beautifully in the darkness, as well as imbue her weapons with a rare type of elemental damage — one that wasn't that useful, apart from being able to cut intangible things.

It was a bit ironic that the only way to fight the terrible wraith had been given to her for slaying the Lord of the Dead… if Jet remembered correctly, that was the name of the Fallen Tyrant Effie had killed on the Forgotten Shore.

Something moved in her mind.

«Still, none of it is enough to kill the Heart of Kanakht.»

The most useful thing Effie would be able to do in this battle was augmenting Jet with her Ascended Ability. However, Jet… was powerless against the Great Devil. Unless she could deliver him ten thousand cuts, the fiend would not go down.

However…

As Jet moved between the raging storm of screaming souls, slashing the whirling hurricane of sand with a blade made of mist, she felt a seed of an idea… or a revelation, maybe… bloom in her mind.

«What was I thinking about?»

The Heart of Kanakht…

The name was quite peculiar.

strange suspicion. That suspicion came from the name of another abomination, a Corrupted Monster Effie had killed soon after entering the city, and something she had read in a history

the modern world, However,

being secretly displeased at not having enough knowledge to sustain a conversation. She couldn't remember who it

Antarctica? Or someone at the Academy, which she often visited to enjoy the

humans had here, in the Western Quadrant, once upon a time. They prepared their dead for burial in quite a peculiar way, removing all the organs

of Kanakht, the

if there were also the Hand of Kahakht, the Lungs of Kanakht, the Horns of

Devil was the remnant of a

that ancient god. And maybe those parts were kept apart,

suddenly

wasn't quite

pursuing her relentlessly. The whirlwind of souls surrounding him was just as plentiful as it had been before, as if she had not depleted it even a little. The Great Devil had slowed down, somewhat, because of the accumulated weight of

of life was tragic, and if Jet had not hunted the creature down in time, it would have become calamitous. But all it could do to

«Tough bastard.»

spilling through the cracks and broken windows before coalescing back into the shape of a gaunt giant. Another flurry of attacks

But wasn't it strange?

body was like mist, but that mist was not mundane — it could not be scattered by the wind or dispelled by flames, for

return to her corporeal form at

and intangible at the same time. The sand comprising his body never phased through the walls like she did, simply penetrating the cracks and

wraith need the shell of

the myriad of them

essence

bit regretful, Jet consumed one of the

had killed in Verge, in front of the gruesome wall of flesh that marked

battle continued, and she endured more excruciating

she was forced to

walls of a government Citadel in the Dream Realm. The battle against the dreadful creature had cost a lot of lives, but the Citadel withstood the

to retreat,

later, she absorbed the third

to a Great Beast she had slain in South America. Jet had had to cash in a favor that Saint Naeve of the House of Night owed her to make it across the ocean in