Shadow Slave

The PTV exploded.

No, really... Sunny was stunned.

‘Who tries to assassinate a Saint with explosives?"

Were these people mentally challenged?

The notion was so silly that, for a moment, his mind refused to register it.

Everything had happened too fast for the government soldiers to react. The vehicle dissolved into a blinding flash, and a furious onslaught of flame was unleashed upon the world.

A devastating shockwave also rolled out, spreading like an invisible ripple of crushing force.

...But, of course, the Saints were faster.

Kai was too far away to do anything, but Sunny, Morgan, and Nephis were not.

Granted, there was not a lot that they could do in such a short amount of time.

Nephis seemed to have controlled the flames to flow around Sid, her driver. The Fire Keeper was spared from being burned, but received the full brunt of the shockwave, staggering back as her dirty-blonde hair fluttered in the wind. Of course, as a Master, she would not be hurt badly, but a pained grimace still appeared on her face.

Morgan, meanwhile, raised one leather-clad hand... and cut the explosion apart.

Sunny was pretty sure that he was not seeing things. As her hand slashed forward, both the flame and the shockwave parted in front of her, as if cut by an unseen blade. The explosion rolled past the Princess of War, leaving her entirely unscathed. Not a single blemish appeared on her stylish black suit.

As for Sunny himself...

He didn't do anything. That short moment was enough for him to determine that the explosion was utterly mundane, so there was no need to act. Sunny simply allowed the flame to swallow him, and for the shockwave to batter him.

A second later, his onyx figure was revealed from the expanding fire, standing exactly where he had stood before. He didn't even flinch under the assault of the violent forces.

But behind him, many of the government soldiers were thrown against the hulls of the armored vehicles, the vehicles themselves swaying heavily or even overturning. Screams and stunned yells filled the air.

There were many wounded. Luckily, the PTV had stood apart from the military vehicles, so no one seemed to have died.

But still.

except for the person it was supposed

time to dissipate, Morgan, Nephis, and Sunny looked at

'It's a diversion.'

to distract them

But what...

so his mind was almost overloaded by the density of information flowing into it. Luckily, he had long

them... but it took some time for his senses to stretch to their absolute

"There!"

had sensed a swift shadow barreling towards them, but there was already no time

any of them could move, a strange arrow that had only become visible a split second before hitting

enormous in size, almost two meters long, and resembled a projectile fit for a slege engine much more than it did an arrow meant to be shot from a bow. If not for the fletching on the back side of the shaft,

in the chest, throwing her back like a rag doll. She flew backward and crashed into

Sunny was already moving.

what it would take to

did it possess? Did it carry

next moment, Sunny's eyes glistened

of the arrow dissipated into

was torn, and so was the white blouse beneath it. What he saw in the tear was

"That Memory!"

from their time in the Tomb

ground, Nephis suddenly leaned her head to the side, and the second arrow flew past it. It pierced the heavy military vehicle, dragging it away with the force of the impact, and exploded from the other side in a

hell is shooting these

was cut apart by Morgan, who severed it with

now that Sunny's shadow sense had extended further,

falling upon them like

Morgan. One was heading toward Sid, but the rest were all aimed at

sense, really, Considering the distance from which the mysterious archer had shot them, most of the arrows must have been in the air long before the first arrow hit, and very likely before the PTV had exploded. So, the sniper must have accounted for everything - how the three Saints would react to the explosion, where

archer a prophet? Or did the arrows possess a mind

had to deal with the strange arrows before there would be a

‘There's not enough time!’

and simply caught one of the great arrows from the air, sliding back a few steps before

a haunting song suddenly resounded above