Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3070

Sunny had become a towering colossus, his imposing figure encased in a suit of fearsome armor. Blinding radiance shone from beneath the Jade Mantle, illuminating the shattered stones around him.

A moment later, he caught the fallen Stone Saint's war hammer in an iron grip. Actually, Sunny first made a sidestep to avoid the blow, but immediately after, the space around him twisted, placing him square in the path of the enemy's weapon once again. But, having expected that — counted on that, in fact — he managed to catch the war hammer just in time.

That was true mastery of combat, after all. Not only following the cadence of battle, but dictating it.

Sunny knew the Children of Nether well, so he could easily read what his opponent would do from the movements of his shadow. Right now, for example, the abomination was not at all rattled by the failure of his blow. Instead, the fallen Stone Saint immediately pressed the attack, intending to slam the rim of his shield into Sunny's helmet.

'Steady...'

Pulling the war hammer to throw the enemy off balance, Sunny bent to avoid the devastating shield. Now that he had become a source of light, there were shadows on the fractured ground — reaching into them, he pulled a sharp sword out of the darkness.

A moment later, the blade of the black sword swelled with brilliant radiance, pushing the true darkness further away. With that, his luck had run out. The Space Saint had fathomed the unexpected transformation of his prey and changed his stance, leaving Sunny no openings. The Children of Nether were already terribly durable, their armor very tough to breach — and with the addition of a shield, getting past all their defences seemed all but impossible.

‘Will it work, I wonder?'

Instead of trying to bypass the enemy's shield and find a crack in his armor, Sunny pushed forward, sidestepped...

And plunged his shining sword into the abomination's shadow.

As soon as he did, the fallen Stone Saint shuddered, and a fountain of ruby dust exploded from within his helmet.

[You have slain a Great Demon...]

Saint was immune to soul attacks, and her kin were bound to be at least highly resistant to them. However, what Sunny attacked was not the creature's soul, but its shadow — he wasn't sure if the distinction would matter, but it did, and to calamitous result at that.

Very few beings knew how to guard their shadows.

‘Five to go.’

Sunny spun, in a rush to come to Saint's aid. By then, the four Great Demons had reached her, unleashing a storm of devastating attacks.

Ice covered the joints of her armor, slowing her movements down. At the same time, the stones beneath her feet turned into a mire, pulling her down and trying to trap her.

A devastating flood of inky-black water crashed into her, and a moment later, a towering figure whose visor burned with infernal flames broke through it, the tip of his radiant sword a split second away from piercing Saint's armor — or at least attempting to pierce it.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify