Shadow Slave

Chapter 51

Monsters did possess some rudimentary intelligence, however, they could not compare to humans. At their core, they were still predators who acted mostly on instinct. Their cunning was beastly in nature and was not that hard to overcome. That gave the three Sleepers a chance to leverage their advantage.

After finalizing the plan, they made some preparations.

While Changing Star was getting ready, Sunny had retrieved the soul shards from the eight dead scavengers. After delivering them to the silver-haired girl, he watched as she brought them to her chest and crushed them in her fist one after another, absorbing the essence of each shard into her soul core. After a few minutes, when the changes caused by the absorption were over, Nephis opened her eyes and slowly inhaled.

To a Sleeper, consuming the shards of eight awakened beasts was equivalent to slaying sixteen dormant creatures. While not tremendous, it was still a significant boost in physical ability. Her body had become stronger, faster, enhanced in every way.

They were going to need every bit of that strength to survive.

Because of how attuned Nephis was to her physicality, getting accustomed to her new limits did not take long. Very soon, she looked at him and asked:

“Are you ready?”

Sunny sighed glanced at his shadow, hoping to get some moral support.

The shadow pretended to not notice and ignored him.

‘Disloyal bastard!’

“As ready as I’ll ever be.”

Nephis nodded and turned to Cassie.

There was nothing really to say. They had already discussed everything there was to discuss, and empty words could not make the blind girl worry any less. Come to think of it, Sunny wouldn’t have wanted to trade places with her, even though out of the three of them she was the only one who didn’t have to risk her life in combat.

Facing the enemy, no matter how terrifying, was better than waiting powerlessly for the outcome, knowing that there’s nothing you can do to change it. From that point of view, he was actually the lucky one.

Cassie tried to put on a brave face. She turned to Nephis and forced a smile:

“Go and kill that thing. Maybe you’ll finally get something decent to wear and stop making me feel so guilty.”

A corner of Changing Star’s lip curled up.

“Okay.”

After that, she turned to Sunny and returned to her usual serious self.

“Let’s go.”

monster. The shadow was wrapped around his body, enhancing Sunny’s physical abilities. Their plan was pretty solid and

ominous feeling that this was not going

‘I don’t like this.’

sigh, Sunny raised his hand and summoned the

the clear melodic ringing

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source of the sudden

of this, because he was already facing the other way. As soon as the bell rang, he turned around and jumped down from the ridge

to disperse the force of the

layers of rocks as though they were paper. Simultaneously, there was a flash of lightning and a thunderclap, drowning the loud rumble of

his body with one of its scythes. Shards of rock were flowing like a

Sunny was already far enough. Without slowing down, he lowered his

speeding train was enough to make any person falter. However, Sunny stood his ground, raising the

he

him, the

rope was strung between two massive boulders at the height of the

speed. If it was a normal rope, it would, without a doubt, immediately

unfortunately, were

damage

lost its balance and crashed into the ground face-first, sliding forward on

two bone scythes pierced the ground, jerking its massive body to a

stand up, their fates would

Sunny’s Echo

about to rise, it jumped on its carapace from behind, pinning the creature down with its weight, and locked its pincers on the creature’s

from the monster’s carapace, it

A second was enough.

its terrifying scythes, she leaned forward

back as its lesser relatives, the scavengers, had. However, there was no reason to assume that there was no gap between its carapace

had to be flexible could

disappeared into the monster’s body, penetrating so deep that its hilt ended up brushing against

yes!’ Sunny

in the next

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