Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3058

It happened faster than Sunny could perceive — which should not have surprised him, considering that his perception was crippled and limited to what Nephis and Saint saw.

What was surprising, however, was that Saint had not sensed the danger either, despite being attuned to elemental darkness.

One moment, she was standing at the border between light and darkness.

The next moment, the darkness moved, pushing the radiance back and enveloping the taciturn Shadow.

And a split second later, something moved in the darkness, lunging at Saint with impossible speed.

It moved faster than the speed of sound... But not faster than Saint's hand.

Before Sunny could even react, Saint had already raised it and manifested her dark sword, coldly skewering whatever it was that had lunged at her on its tenebrous blade.

She tilted her head faintly, looking at the attacker.

Sunny saw it at the same moment, too. There, impaled by the Blade of Darkness, stood another stone knight wearing fearsome black armor... only there was nothing graceful about this one. Instead, his figure was crude and misshapen, assembled from innumerable jagged pieces of rock that did not quite fit with each other.

It was a patchwork monster formed from the remnants of dozens of slain Stone Saints.

Sunny was a little disturbed, though, when he tried to peer into the depths of the creature's being to determine its Class and Rank. There were no radiant soul cores of vile tumors of Corruption inside its soul... in fact, there was no soul at all.

There was only darkness.

‘A Dark One?’

Sunny was momentarily taken aback.

He had encountered the Creatures of Darkness once, in the lightless expanse of the Shadow Realm. There, the eerie entities he called the Dark Drifters had tried to consume the Shadow of Condemnation, showing no fear or trepidation in front of the dead Cursed Tyrant. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

The Dark Drifters were vast and formless, resembling billowing swathes of tattered black cloth. They could take various shapes, each towering hundreds of meters in height, and seemed to be capable of feeding on shadows.

Those immensely powerful beings seemed to exist beyond the familiar definition of Rank and Class, too, as if alien to the fundamental laws of existence established by the gods.

Sunny had allowed the possibility of encountering similar creatures in the Underworld, but he had not expected to see one using the remains of Stone Saints as a shell.

Why would it?

There was no answer... but even if Sunny felt wary of the Creatures of Darkness, he was reasonably confident that Nephis and Saint would not be helpless in a fight against one — especially not when he was augmenting them with his powers. Both possessed means of dealing with true darkness, after all.

Nephis could dispel elemental darkness, while Saint could control it. So...

In the next moment, his confidence was shaken.

That was because the peculiar patchwork monster did not die or crumble when Saint's sword pierced it.

Her sword crumbled instead.

Its dark blade rippled and grew unstable, the darkness it was forged from flowing forward like black tar... being absorbed into the mangled mess of the creature's shattered body.

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