Shadow Slave novel Chapter 1032

1032 The Fall of Falcon Scott (50)

The colossal, headless body of Goliath tilted forward, and then started to fall. Because of its enormous size, it seemed as though the giant's corpse slowly floated through the air instead of crashing down in an obliterating avalanche of stone.

However, hundreds of Nightmare Creatures below were already panicking as they tried to flee and escape being crushed to death.

Sunny froze, momentarily stunned.

'...What just happened?'

He... he had killed the damned bastard? How? That was not what was supposed to happen!

Sunny had poured countless hours into creating the Siege Souvenir and making sure that Saint would Transcend in time. However, he had never expected to slay the Fallen Titan with one strike. A titan was a titan! They were not supposed to die so easily.

The plan was for the javelin to shatter the stone carapace on the chest of the giant, creating a path toward his heart. Master Jet was supposed to enter the breach and destroy Goliath's soul cores from within, while Sunny and Saint would attack from the outside. Together, they were meant to slowly bring the giant down... and maybe even survive the process.

When the titan had revealed his incandescent eye and started melting the city wall, Sunny was forced to switch targets and command Saint to aim for the eye instead. He had never thought that Goliath would be killed by that single strike.

...Was that eye the titan's Achilles heel?

Kim had not noticed a pronounced vulnerability after they encountered the giant on the coastal highway, though. Maybe her powers were not enough to see it? Or was the vulnerability only exposed when Goliath revealed his inner, hidden eye?

In any case, the titan... the titan was undoubtedly dead.

Sunny had killed him.

For a moment, a dark glee ignited in his heart.

'That's for Erebus Field, you foul bastard... and for me, too. That is payback for almost killing me...'

But then, his glee disappeared. By all accounts, Sunny should have felt exhilarated — he had killed a titan, after all! But instead of joy, he felt chills running down his spine.

Suddenly tense, Sunny looked around. The armaments of the defensive barrier were all but destroyed, and the wall itself was damaged and deformed. A few sections had collapsed entirely, but most still stood.

The defenders had suffered heavy losses, especially among the pilots burned to death with their MWPs. Many soldiers had lost their rifles, and the outer layers of their powered armor suits were severely damaged. However, there were still enough of them alive to continue the fight... maybe.

Luckily, most Awakened had managed to dismiss their steel Memories, saving them from being destroyed, and were now summoning them back.

Everyone was still in utter shock, mesmerized by the sight of the slowly toppling colossus.

Something was wrong, though. Very, very wrong.

...Goliath should not have died that easily, or that fast.

Master Jet, who had been hanging outside the wall, ready to push herself forward to follow the plan and attack the titan, climbed back and looked at him, a rare expression of bewilderment written on her face.

"Sunny, what the hell... how?"

He did not answer, staring past her at the falling mountain.

'I killed him. I did...'

He glanced at the city defenses once again, realizing that almost everything that could have been used against vast swarms of tiny vermin had been destroyed by Goliath. The First Army had been prepared to face one overwhelming enemy, not myriads of dangerous, but comparatively weak creatures.

He looked at Jet, his lips trembling.

"Bloodwave..."

She frowned.

"What?"

Sunny grabbed the Soul Reaper by the shoulders and barked:

"Bloodwave! Summon Bloodwave here! He's our best hope of stopping the Heart of Darkness!"

She hesitated for a short moment, then looked beyond the wall and hissed an explicit curse. Then, Jet took a step back and started summoning a Memory that was supposed to give the fearsome Saint a signal to abandon his duty of protecting the ships and join the battle.

Sunny, meanwhile, was already moving, calling upon a few Memories of his own.

He had no idea how they would be able to handle both the vast horde of Nightmare Creatures that had come with Goliath and the tide of black beetles with the defensive barrier ruined and barely holding.

The wall was severely damaged, and many of the soldiers had either died or were rendered helpless, their weapons destroyed.

...And yet, they had no other choice but to fight, and claw the victory out of fate's grasp somehow.

There was simply nowhere to retreat.