Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2386

Chapter 2386: Rat Race

When the end came, it came suddenly.

Slayer was rushing through a gap between two tides of vermin, her sword hissing as it flew at incredible speed, slicing apart individual rats who had managed to jump at her from the writhing mass of their brethren.

The path she had cleaved was about to disappear, and there was nowhere for them to retreat to — Kai was late with his next arrow, so no island of safety had been created by a powerful explosion.

Slayer was already pouring essence into her sword, preparing to activate its enchantment immediately after using it a split second ago, already — it was wasteful and dangerous, but they were short on choices.

It was then that Sunny felt a condensed and oppressive mass of barely contained power rushing at them from behind at terrible speed.

Almost at the same time, he sensed a swift shadow flying across the obsidian bridge... the shadow of an arrow.

In the next moment, the arrow flashed above their heads and struck the mountain close to the peak.

There was no fiery explosion, this time...

But what followed next was several magnitudes more violent.

The mountain shuddered as an incredible amount of concussive force and sound was released in an instant. A myriad of rats were instantly pulverized by the devastating shockwave, turning into a crimson haze. More than that, there was no island of safety created on the slope this time — instead, the impregnable stone simply shattered, and countless tons of it were thrown high into the air.

The fountain of shattered stone extended into the sky, expanding as it rose.

Then came the deafening roar of the impact and the powerful tremors that made several sections of the fractured slope collapse.

The damage near the peak was much worse, though.

In fact, the entire peak was obliterated, crumbling under its own weight and plummeting down. A colossal rockfall turned the western face of the mountain into a scene of chaotic devastation, billowing clouds of dust obscuring the view as countless rats were crushed and buried under the enormous boulders.

Then, the debris that had been sent flying into the sky rained down, pulverizing even more.

...That was the result of Kai using the final enchantment of the Supreme bow Sunny had crafted for him — the tried and tested [Death Dealer], modified to incorporate his latest insights into weaving.

Kai had to have poured most of his essence into this one shot, sending his most deadly arrow flying.

And there was only one reason he would have done that.

Sunny wanted to grin.

The destruction of the peak of the mountain, the numerous rats destroyed by the initial impact and the rockfall that followed... all of it was merely a side effect. Kai’s true target was a single rat — the source of the Rat King.

He must have found the invisible string and traced it to the source rat’s back.

After that, his task was simple... he had to hit that single moving rat among a million identical vermin, from dozens of kilometers away. What could have been simpler than that?

And he did.

Sunny was sure of it, because he could already sense the behavior of the swarm changing.

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