Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2910

Having vanquished the battered shades, the Deathless stayed back as Azarax marched across the desert toward Sunny.

It seemed that even consumed by the curse of Shadow God, the Plague of Steel remained true to his nature. He didn't want to kill Sunny... he wanted to defeat him, trample upon him, and therefore make him a vassal. To add the Lord of Shadows to his ever-growing army.

Sunny took another step back and forced out a smile. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

“You know! There are a myriad of Great abominations barrelling this way right this moment. If you are so tough, why don't you try subjugating them, instead?"

Azarax did not respond — was incapable of responding anymore — and simply continued forward with heavy, confident steps.

Suspended inside the glass carapace, his black skull wore a menacing grin.

Sunny cursed.

"I guess not."

He stopped backing away and remained motionless for a moment, his head lowered, glaring at Azarax with angry scorn.

"I knew this would happen, you know. Well, actually, I didn't know — but I had a feeling that it would. So, I've been wracking my brain thinking how to get rid of you this whole time. Actually, I've been considering how I would destroy you from the very moment Nephis took you off that tree. The sacred tree."

Sunny laughed bitterly.

"But you know what? It is very difficult to get rid of a Supreme. So, I came up empty. There's no sure way to obliterate the great Azarax, the Plague of Steel... so, I guess an unsure way will have to do.’

In the next moment, the ancient tyrant was upon him. Manifesting the Serpent in the form of a black odachi to block a world-shattering blow, Sunny shouted:

"Slayer! What the hell are you waiting for?! Do you need a special invitation?! Go!"

Behind him, Nephis was seconds away from clashing with the first of innumerable Nightmare Butterflies.

Her radiant wings opened as if trying to embrace the night sky, and then the Blessing flashed like a white rift in the dark tapestry of the night sky.

Nephis shot past the enormous butterfly without ever slowing down, and behind her, the smoldering corpse of the Great Monster fell apart, cut cleanly in two.

The dark cloud of the harrowing swarm was almost upon her. Neph's eyes blazed with white radiance, and she cried out the Names, channelling the annihilating inferno of soul flame to devastate her enemies.

A thunderous explosion shattered the sky, and a vast, fierce conflagration of white flame suddenly bloomed in the middle of the boundless swarm of Nightmare Butterflies. Many of them were immediately turned to ash or torn apart, causing a rain of burning flesh to fall to the ground. That was not the end of it, though.

Following the first, another explosion roared almost immediately, and suddenly, the darkness of the night was chased away. The vast cloud of Great Monsters was illuminated from within, as if a star had been born among them. Then, the fire spread, carried by the wind as it jumped from one butterfly to another, incinerating their wings.

It was as if a tidal wave of fire was spreading across the burning heavens.

Finally, Nephis was inside the swarm.

The Blessing moved, its blade turning into a radiant ray of pure light that spanned thousands of meters in length. It sliced apart a dozen ghastly abominations, their fetid blood evaporating as soon as it touched the radiant blade.

This kind of battle...

Was the kind of battle where Nephis could truly shine.

She had sacrificed four of her seven cores to get their expedition this far into the desert. But now that scores of Great abominations were dying to her flame, a tidal wave of soul fragments flowed into her soul. New soul cores were going to be formed from those fragments soon, and when they did, she would be able to destroy them again.

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