Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2911

While Nephis, Slayer, and the Puppeteer engaged the Nightmare Swarm in the vast darkness of the sky, Sunny faced the Deathless Sovereign, Azarax, in the heart of Hell.

The blade of the Soul Serpent endured the devastating blow of the cursed tyrant's fearsome glass axe, but just barely. The world itself seemed to crumble from the harrowing force of that blow, and the dunes around them collapsed, shattered by the violent shockwave.

The hurricane wind raised countless tons of sand into the air, obscuring the sky — just like the vast swarm of the Nightmare Butterflies obscured the cold, distant stars. It was as if a great sand storm had suddenly descended upon Ariel's Hell, veiling the world.

Sunny, who had been caught in the epicenter of the cataclysmic impact, was thrown back by the ferocious blow.

‘D—damn...'

He had made himself as heavy as a mountain, but even so, his body shot through the air like a bullet. The moment he hit the sand, another impact thundered, making the desert quake.

The pauldron of his jade armor cracked, but his tenacious bones endured.

He was still rolling across the sand when Slayer clashed with the terrifying swarm of Great Monsters.

Struggling to stand up, Sunny briefly allowed himself to look up, careful not to let his gaze wander too high, where the Seventh Seed rested atop the great pyramid.

Watching the malevolent obsidian dragon slaughter the Nightmare Butterflies, he felt indignant for a moment.

‘When the hell did she manage to kill a dragon?’

Slayer's Transformation Ability allowed her to assume the forms of all beasts she had killed, which meant that once upon a time, she had hunted down and killed a dragon. Kai had competition now...

Then again, this was Slayer he was talking about. In hindsight, it would have been stranger if she had not killed a dragon or two.

Still...

‘How come I'm the only one who has never slain a dragon? What's up with that? That's not...’

Before Sunny could finish the thought, he felt a cold chill on his neck. He ducked without even thinking about it, and a split second later, the blade of an axe flashed through the space where his neck had been. Azarax was already looming above him, his vague figure towering like a black cliff in the fierce sandstorm. Having failed to behead Sunny, he struck him in the chest with the butt of the great axe in the same motion. The vicious force of that blow made Sunny groan and stagger back, but a split second later, the blade of the axe was already flying at his head.

All he could do was retreat and defend himself, his bones groaning as the impenetrable carapace of the Jade Mantle cracked and slowly crumbled from the terrifying force of the impacts.

'What the... hell.’

There was just no way... no way to defeat Azarax in combat. He was simply too strong, having been turned into a walking calamity by a profane combination of his Aspect and thousands of years spent waging war.

Even augmented by all his shadows, Sunny was weaker than the Deathless Sovereign. Even empowered by all the shades of his Domain, he could not overcome his tyrannical Will. Even while using the Shadow Dance, he could not contend against thousands of years of battle experience that Azarax had accumulated over his long life of unceasing conquest and slaughter.

And if Sunny failed to hold him back, the monstrous demigod would easily split the Chain Breaker in two with one swipe of his terrifying battle axe. No distance would stop him from delivering the blow, and the Nightmare Butterflies would not stop him either.

That was something Sunny knew in his heart without needing any proof.

Luckily... holding the Deathless Sovereign back was all Sunny had to do. Defeating him would doubtlessly feel great, but alas, there was no time or opportunity for that.

“Damn bastard..."

Sunny finally managed to evade a lethal blow swiftly enough to leap back and create a little bit of distance between himself and Azarax. The towering Deathless straightened, turning the eerie gaze of his empty eye sockets to Sunny, and took a step in his direction.

At the same time, his Will attacked the world around them with vicious intensity, mangling the space to prevent Sunny from escaping and help Azarax reach him in one step. Sunny, naturally, used his own Will to prevent that from happening, or at least slow the ancient tyrant down.

He took a step back.

Then, he took another.

Azarax was almost upon him by then, his army of undead warriors following them through the sandstorm.

Sunny gritted his teeth and took a third step.

At the same time, he began to summon one of the few shades that remained in his Soul Sea, unscathed.

As if overcome by a sudden, inescapable fear. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

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