Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3067

Despite having spent more than a decade fighting side by side with Saint, Sunny did not have a reference for how powerful the Children of Nether were. Saint was merely one member of that fallen race, after all — judging all her kin based on her personal prowess would have been akin to evaluating the strength of an ordinary human based on what someone like Sunny could do.

But he suspected that the Children of Nether had been quite formidable. Just a handful of them had been able to withstand all the horrors of the Forgotten Shore for thousands of years before finally being defeated and destroyed by other Nightmare Creatures.

Even then, Sunny personally witnessed Saint slaying two abominations of a higher Rank. That was something of a habit for him and the rest of the cohort, which skewed his perception a bit, but most Awakened were different. So, he had known from the very start that Saint was exceptional.

And she had been a mere Awakened Monster.

The seven towering knights in front of them, though, were all abominations of the Great Rank — six of them were Demons, while the one wielding a greatsword was a Devil.

He did not know whether these fallen Stone Saints had all been Supreme once, or if they had risen in Rank over eons of defending the ruined settlement from the tides of darkness, but one thing was certain.

They were dangerous.

Dangerous enough for the Creature of Darkness that had attacked Sunny and Nephis at the pinnacle of the mountain to avoid disturbing these ancient warriors, at least.

‘Damn it.'

Sunny prepared for a fight. Nephis tensed, as well, regarding the stonelike abominations somberly.

Saint, meanwhile, raised her shield.

This time, too, she struck its rim twice, the solemn ringing echoing across the desolate square.

A few moments later, for the first time, her challenge — or perhaps her call — was answered.

The seven Great Ones remained motionless for a heartbeat, then moved their weapons in unison. Those who wielded shields struck their rims, while others struck their breastplates. Once, twice... the deep ringing sounded like thunder, banishing the silence that enveloped the ruined settlement.

Only the Great Devil remained still, observing Saint with a dull gaze. There was nothing but deep, impenetrable darkness hiding behind the visor of his helmet, slowly igniting with chilling malice.

"Nephis..."

“I know."

Knowing that just a few moments later there would be no time to say anything, Sunny wanted to remind her of the nature of the finely crafted armaments that the Stone Saints wielded. He was not sure if Saint's other traits were shared by her fallen kin, but he was pretty confident that they possessed an immensely high resistance to elemental attacks — including to fire. Saint's resistance to elemental attacks could only be compared to her physical defenses, which were simply unmatched. Additionally, she was immune to mental and soul attacks, and while that might have been her personal trait, these abominations would be at least highly resistant to those kinds of blows.

Stone Saints were resilient beings, and Neph's flames were not going to damage them easily. However, she already knew that — after all, she could and had read Saint's runes.

As for what precisely these abominations could do...

Luckily, they had Cassie, and unlike the Creature of Darkness, the fallen Stone Saints were like an open book to her.

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