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.

hurt everyone except for the person

and Sunny looked at each other, all

'It's a diversion.'

to distract them

But what...

of urgency, Sunny sent his shadow sense outward, spreading it across a vast area. There were countless shadows on the crowded streets of NQSC, so his mind was almost overloaded by

be anything dangerous close to them... but it took some time

"There!"

shadow barreling towards them, but

of them could move, a strange arrow that had only become visible a split second before hitting its target revealed itself

much more than it did an arrow meant to be shot from a bow. If not for the fletching on

like a rag doll. She flew backward and crashed into a military

Sunny was already moving.

clan to be honest, he wasn't even entirely sure what it would take to kill her, given her divine ability to heal herself - but his heart still skipped a beat, knowing that she was

arrow was it? What was its Rank and Class? What enchantments did it possess? Did

Sunny's eyes

the arrow dissipated into

What he saw in the tear was not her alabaster skin,

"That Memory!"

their time in the

pierced the heavy military vehicle, dragging it

is shooting these

third arrow was cut apart by Morgan, who severed

Sunny's shadow sense had

them

two more at Morgan. One was

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

archer a prophet? Or did the arrows possess

before there would

‘There's not enough time!’

one of the great arrows from the air, sliding back a few steps before its momentum

had already started to manifest countless shadows when a haunting song suddenly resounded above the silent park, drowning out