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.”

the rocky ridge, looking down at the deadly monster. The shadow was wrapped

still couldn’t get rid of the ominous feeling that this was not

‘I don’t like this.’

his

shook it, causing the clear melodic ringing to resound amidst

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looking for the source of

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

was still a considerable distance to the ground. Sunny hit the rocks hard and rolled, trying to disperse the force of the impact. As soon as he

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

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

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

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

he was the

a dozen meters away from him, the monster finally

two massive boulders at the height

it at full speed. If it was a normal rope, it

it was tied to, unfortunately, were quite mundane.

the damage

lost its balance and crashed into the ground

a stop. In

allowed to stand up, their

Sunny’s Echo was

it jumped on its

by the spikes growing from the monster’s carapace, it succeeded in immobilizing it, at

A second was enough.

was lying in ambush, appeared in front of the monster. Darting between its terrifying scythes, she leaned forward and delivered a devastating thrust with her longsword,

scavengers, had. However, there was no reason to assume that there was no gap between its carapace and torso

to be flexible could not be too

narrow gap. Then, the sword disappeared into the

Sunny thought,

the next

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