Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2346

Chapter 2346: Intricate Control

’Holy... hell...’

The moment the Snow Worm struck, the entire mountain groaned, and the world itself seemed to shudder in agony. Sunny had witnessed truly harrowing power before, but he had never been so close to something so destructive, so devastating. Even if he had not been stripped of his shadows and weakened by the Snow Domain, he would have been utterly obliterated by this one strike...

But of course, only if he was foolish enough to get struck.

Not even trying to dodge the gargantuan maw of the Cursed Beast, Sunny simply pulled his entire titanic Shell into the shadows, stepping through them to bring down his odachi on the pale flesh of the Snow Worm on the other side of the mountain.

The hundred-meter-long blade cut deep, but even its great length was not enough to sever the abomination in two.

In the next moment, the body of the Snow Worm moved, slamming into Sunny with terrifying force and throwing him back.

’Crap.’

The deep wound he had dealt the Cursed Beast was already gone, replaced by more pale flesh. The snow under Sunny’s feet, meanwhile, rippled strangely...

He leaped back, and a split second later, the snow collapsed, falling into the colossal maw that appeared beneath.

The Snow Worm’s head shot from below, and then, it was as if a pale wall rose in front of Sunny, reaching toward the sky.

That was the neck of the gargantuan abomination, who had pierced a tunnel through the mountain and tried to swallow Sunny by appearing right beneath him.

Not wasting any time, Sunny rushed forward and plunged his odachi into the pale flesh, using the creature’s own momentum to deliver it a long, gruesome cut.

Almost at the same time, two more arrows pierced the flesh of the Cursed Beast.

And then, two more.

Its gargantuan body seemed to shrink a little... or did it only seem that way?

’Argh!’

Two walls of pale flesh were rushing at Sunny from higher up the slope and lower down the slope — they were the coils of the Snow Worm, who was twisting its body to crush the enemy.

’Not... so fast...’

Sunny barely managed to step through the shadows in time. His Shell was made from them, but it was too heavy, too massive — it took him far longer to dive into the shadows than when he was in human form, which could do the same almost instantaneously.

Still, he escaped with his life.

As the head of the Snow Worm turned in the frigid air and rushed down once more, the Obsidian Wasps dove from the sky to attack the gargantuan abomination.

Scores of Supreme shades were a deadly threat to almost any creature, but they were too vulnerable in front of a Cursed Beast. After all, shades did not possess the Will, and worse than that, they were weakened by the Snow Domain. So they could be easily crushed and sent back into Sunny’s soul if he used them recklessly.

Luckily, there was one silver lining to how heavily suppressed he was here, in Ariel’s Game.

The Snow Worm was gargantuan, but its size could be used as a weapon against it. For now, no more than a dozen shades had managed to crawl into its wounds... but there were going to be more wounds, and more Obsidian Wasps finding their way into the creature’s body.

The arrows shot by Kai and Slayer, meanwhile, were constricting the Snow Worm’s ability to expand itself more and more.

’It’s working.’

As the Cursed Beast’s head fell from the sky on Sunny, its shadow covered him. Turning his odachi downward, he plunged it into the abomination’s shadow, then collapsed into it to flee the horrifying maw at the last possible second.

His strike dealt some damage to the creature’s vast, corrupted soul — not enough to threaten its life, but enough to be felt.

The Snow Worm’s flesh rippled in agony.

’I think I can kill it.’

The only question was...

Would Sunny be able to kill the damned monstrosity in time?

The sun was setting, and the clock was ticking. If he was not fast enough...

The one being killed would be him.