Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2385

Chapter 2385: Pure Soul

Sunny reasoned that the Rat King could not be merely a swarm of mindless vermin — he had battled hordes of abominations before, and they were not at all like the enemy he faced today. The entity he was facing was indeed a swarm, but one guided by a single Will.

Which hinted that there was a single source of that Will — the origin of the innumerable legion of abominable rats that lusted to devour Slayer in frenzied hunger. Even if there had not been, the Snow Tyrant would have forced it upon the Rat King...

After all, it needed to control the Snow Beast figure somehow, and Sunny doubted that his adversary could freely create an endless number of invisible strings to subjugate each individual rat.

So, he had theorized that there would be a single string, connected to a single rat. That rat was the commander of the Rat Legion, hidden somewhere in the dreadful sea of squirming vermin — the vessel through which the Snow Tyrant controlled the Cursed Beast, as well as its source.

Finding a single rat among myriads seemed like an impossible task... it was much harder than finding a needle in a haystack, to say the least. After all, neither the needle nor the haystack was supposed to move, let alone seethe and writhe in mad bloodlust on the quaking slopes of a crumbling mountain.

But if anyone could accomplish that task, it was Kai.

He had been the first of them to notice the existence of the invisible strings, after all. Sunny himself was not even sure that he was capable of perceiving them — but Kai could.

And although he was not capable of differentiating the original rat from its countless brethren, he could catch a glimpse of the Snow Tyrant’s string again. And then... he could follow it to the target.

That was how Sunny intended to use his enemy’s own power against them.

The problem, of course...

Was that he and Slayer had to survive long enough for Kai to succeed.

And that was not only difficult, but also continued to get harder and harder with each moment.

Slayer was like a dark hurricane, moving across the mountain in a whirlwind of blood and torn flesh. She had already been a force to be reckoned with in the past — a malevolent, sinister force — but now that she was empowered by shadows and ash, wielding enchanted weapons forged by the Sovereign of Death himself, her chilling malice was simply awesome to behold.

The mountain was covered by the swarming rats entirely, so Slayer could only exist in the wake of staggering slaughter. She had to carve a path for herself with her severing blade, and when that was not enough, she had to escape into the small islands of fleeting safety created by Kai’s destructive bombardment. Sunny guided her through the shadows, matching the frenetic cadence of the terrifying battle.

The carnage was unimaginable. The sight of it all — the crimson blaze of the sunset, the dark writhing walls of vermin closing in on them like mudslides, the plumes of fine red haze drifting on the wind — was unbelievable.

The noise, however, was the worst — the ear-piercing, deafening cacophony of sounds produced by the myriad of frenzied rats was hideous, appalling, and utterly indescribable... especially so because Slayer’s hearing was incredibly sharp, capable of catching the sound of a needle dropping many kilometers away.

It was to the point that Sunny thought that he was hallucinating, hearing a hum of demented voices being born from the rustle of countless vermin rushing to tear his Shadow apart. Those voices were not voices, and the words they spoke were not words... and yet, somehow, he could still faintly understand them, at least at times.

"Hungry... hungry... we are hungry... we are... hunger..."

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