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Chapter 1036: The Fall of Falcon Scott (54)
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LeoLusterPow

LeoLusterPow 26 Aug 2023, 02:24

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I was hoping he would be able to figure out how to use that shadow of the titan to turn into it since he got no other power boost from killing it

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  Adams897 17 Nov 2023, 16:31 ➥ LeoLusterPow
  
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  Yea but he's not familiar with it... He needs to be familiar with it to try and attempt it.
  
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Ludicrous Lich 25 Jul 2023, 13:50

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LETS FUCKING GOOOOO!!!!

LETS FUCKING GOOOO!!!!! HOT DAMN!

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Wheat 20 Jul 2023, 15:05

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Truthfully I thought that was going to be his beastail form when he became a saint

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Guru 19 Jul 2023, 01:50

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As far as I remember this world is similar to ours and also have internet, meaning that all he has to do is open Google or whatever and type shadow manipulation/manifestation abilities wiki and he’ll find endless pool of inspiration.

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  KingFox 19 Jul 2023, 16:14 ➥ Guru
  
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  That's not the problem he can't just copy how something looks he has to have an understanding of how they operate biologically and physically. That knowledge doesn't have to be perfect but he needs some level of it
  
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    Guru 19 Jul 2023, 18:45 ➥ KingFox
    
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    it’s outstanding source of inspiration on what you can do with shadow powers, not everything will be possible but something definitely
    
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Nucleus 18 Jul 2023, 19:13

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Quote: Mahr
Can someone remember me when did he fight the Shadowspawn Devil ?

He was the shadowspawn in the second nightmare. He spent the entire time in the second nightmare as the shadowspawn.

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Turnc4406 18 Jul 2023, 18:16

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I think Sunny has the power to kill a Saint.

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  gondzio9 18 Jul 2023, 19:48 ➥ Turnc4406
  
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  If the conditions are right and he has enough time to prepare then most likely yes but if it's a head on battle I think he would at most be able to stall for time or meaby run away.
  
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JOEMUDA 18 Jul 2023, 16:54

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Oops sorry guilty didn't mean to be late, if u spent money you don't have too. Sorry once again.

In a story do yall prefer 1st person or second person

1037 The Fall of Falcon Scott (55)

Sunny had spent many long months in the body of the nameless shadowspawn. From the bloody floor of the Red Colosseum to the burning streets of the Ivory City, he had fought countless battles with the Awakened creature's four clawed hands.

...However, he had never experienced being the Shadow Devil as an Ascended.

Possessing the power of a Master and augmented by shadows, he exploded with truly terrifying might. At three meters of height, Sunny had suddenly turned into a vicious herald of destruction. He lunged into the mass of dark beetles, eviscerating hundreds of them in a split second.

He was holding a sword in each of his four hands two of them were the Sin of Solace and the Midnight Shard, and two were shaped from shadows. Each moved with staggering speed, weaving a translucent sphere of devastation in the river of darkness. -

Fighting with four swords was, perhaps, not the best idea against most opponents - however, Sunny did not need a lot of control and agility to deal with the beetles. All he needed was speed... more speed, more attacks, no matter how crude. With four swords and longer reach, the rate at which he destroyed the vile creatures increased tremendously.

He cut and crushed them with his four swords, stomped them with his clawed feet... even his tail was swiping through the swarm, obliterating many beetles. For a few moments, the river of darkness seemed to slow its advance.

Sunny used those moments to slaughter even more, alleviating the pressure on his cohort and allowing Samara to renew her bombardment of charged essence.

The strangest thing about it... was how comfortable he felt.

Even while shaping the shadows into the form of the Shadow Devil, Sunny had no idea how easy or hard it would be to control that shell. As it turned out, it felt almost indistinguishable from the real thing... all he needed to do was summon the memories of the Second Nightmare into his mind, and bring them to life with the help of Shadow Dance.

Like shadowing a memory of a creature instead of the creature itself.

Of course, the demands were high... he needed to know the shape of the shadow shell in startling detail. Sunny suspected that he would not have been able to turn himself into many other creatures, if any at all. However, his knowledge of the Shadowspawn was nothing short of instinctual - instead of controlling the construct consciously, he simply allowed himself to become it.

The other demand was essence. Sustaining the shadow shell burned through it with dire speed. His reserves were not exhausted yet... but he knew he wouldn't be able to keep being the Shadowspawn for long. He had to do a lot of other things, as well - like power his Memories and manifest more and more shadows to repair the tall dam.

...The situation had improved, but they were still on a timer. If nothing changed soon, the result would be disastrous.

'Don't think about it right now. Just... kill! Kill as many as you can! The damned beetles have to have a breakpoint, too...'

Everything turned into pure chaos.

Sunny felt as though his physical power was almost uncontrollable now. He pushed and pushed himself, expecting to hit a limit, but that limit never came. His speed, his strength, his force... all of it had vastly increased, to the point where his thoughts were starting to fall behind his movements.

Countless thousands of beetles were destroyed. Faced with the hurricane of swords, claws, horns, and fangs, the river actually recoiled, giving up several meters of frozen soil. At some point, Sunny thrust one of the shadow swords forward and let go of it.

Instead, arcs of electricity appeared on his palm, and then formed into an arrow that seemed to be made of lightning. Sunny stabbed it into the mass of beetles, causing an incinerating chain reaction to destroy numerous creatures. He was hurt by the devastating current of electricity, as well, but due to the elemental resistance of the Marble Shell and the augmentation of the shadows, the damage was superficial and almost tolerable.

There was no time to think, only to fight.

Somehow, miraculously... Sunny was holding the swarm of the black beetles back.

The Dying Wish was pulling them toward him like a magnet, but instead of washing the towering Shadow Devil away like a dark tide, they were being constantly ground to dust, cut to pieces, and incinerated by lightning as soon as they entered within his reach.

Those that flowed past Sunny were dealt with by the members of his cohort. Samara was causing one explosion after another to bloom in the midst of the swarm, while Luster fed her a steady flow of essence. Both were nearing their limit... but they had not reached it yet. The same was true for Belle, Dorn, and Kim.

Sunny couldn't see Saint and Nightmare, but from the glimpses of how little progress the second swarm had made, he knew that they were doing their part, as well.

The third swarm, the one Bloodwave was supposed to deal with, seemed the most damaged. The three Echoes were holding it back, but the fearsome Saint himself was nowhere to be seen. He was probably hidden somewhere within the river of darkness, fighting furiously... since the Echoes had not dissipated, he had to be alive, at least.

The only ones Sunny knew nothing about were Soul Reaper and her cohort, since they were too far away. Still... he believed that Master Jet would not go down easily.

'Keep fighting... keep fighting...'

Sunny could feel his shadow shell slowly coming undone.

After long minutes of rampaging within the dark river of vermin, it had sustained a lot of damage. He tried to repair the wound delivered to the towering Shadow Devil by summoning and manifesting more shadows, but many beetles were already crawling within. Their mandibles scraped against the silk of the Graceless Dusk or his skin from time to time, fruitlessly for now.

His every muscle was burning from strain, and his mind was becoming clouded from fatigue. It took a lot, to keep the shadow shell intact and moving... he had to let the dam crumble a couple of minutes ago, already, because the pressure of it all was just too demanding.

Nevertheless, Sunny kept fighting.

In fact, the more tired and fatigued he became, the fiercer his rampage grew, and the louder the Sin of Solace laughed, whispering ugly truths into his ears.

"You'll never make... give up... leave your soldiers to die and save yourself... come on! It's so easy... just turn into a shadow and slip away... no one will now... no one will tell... everyone will just die..."

...How irritating.

Sunny tossed the Strike of Thunder into the surging mass of beetles once againenduring the piercing pain of being electrocuted by its lightning, and felt one his two shadow hands crumble down.

'Ah... not good...'

He prepared to summon a new shadow to reshape it... but then, something changed.

A strange ripple went through the river of darkness, and it suddenly lost cohesion. The purposeful tide of black beetles grew discordant and shapeless, many of them simply growing still.

Some continued to throw themselves at Sunny, while others scurried away.

Nestled within the battered shadow shell, he blinked.

'What... just happened?'

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1038 The Fall of Falcon Scott (56)

"Tired... so tired..."

Sunny smashed through the nearest beetles and jumped back, sliding a few dozens of meters across the ground as his claws left deep grooves in the frozen soil to slow him down.

In front of him... the river of darkness was falling apart. The dark beetles, who had been acting like a single organism before, were now aimless and sluggish. Some grew lethargic or started burrowing into the ground, while others were wandering away. A few hundred were still pursuing him... with a thought, Sunny deactivated the Dying Wish and watched the small creatures dash away in fear.

The swarm ceased its purposeful advance and instead flowed outward, losing the shape of a giant tentacle of darkness. It was as though a tank of water had been broken, water spilling to the sides.

Utterly, chillingly exhausted, Sunny panted heavily inside the shadow shell. There were several beetles still crawling within it, stubbornly trying to bite through his skin. However, even their vicious bites had grown less determined.

The breaking point... did they reach it?'

His tired mind wanted nothing more than to release the manifested shadows and let the Shadow Devil form crumble into nothingness, but he forced himself to remain vigilant.

Looking left and right, Sunny saw that the two neighboring swarms were in a similar condition. This was good news, but also bad... now that the Heart of Darkness was acting directionless, its deterrence seemed to have lost most of its power. The horde of Nightmare Creatures, which had been scared away by the dark beetles, was already starting to tentatively move closer to the group of humans.

'Crap...'

Sunny closed his eyes for a moment, then turned around and took a few steps toward the members of his cohort, who were similarly spent and battered.

His soldiers, however, recoiled away from him.

He looked down in confusion for a moment.

With that, Sunny finally let the shadows comprising the Shadowspawn return to their natural form and flow back into the intricately engraved lantern hanging on the black silken cord tied around his waist. The towering four-armed devil suddenly crumbled into a cloud of darkness, and a pale young man in a beautiful black tunic stepped out of it with a stagger.

'Argh!'

Sunny fell to his knees, then raised his fist and angrily struck the ground several times, crushing the scurrying beetles.

"C-captain? Is that y-you?"

He glanced at Kim, who was staring at him with wide eyes.

"Of course, it's me. Who else would it be? And it's Major now, damn it..."

He slowly stood up and summoned the Endless Spring, taking several large gulps of cold, refreshing water.

Perhaps dismissing the Shadow Shell outside the city wall was not the wisest decision, but he felt that he would not be able to sustain it much longer. At least that way, he would have a tiny bit of essence left... for whatever it was that would happen next.

The wall...

Sunny looked back, finally witnessing the full scope of the damage done to the defensive barrier. The southern span of the wall was terribly deformed and broken, with many sections laying in giant piles of broken, melted alloy... much more of them than when he had left it. Somewhere beside it, hidden by the sea of abominations, the Awakened of the First Army was still holding the horde back.

He wondered how many of them were still alive.

'What is going on? Why did the Heart of Darkness suddenly... stopped beating? Where the hell are...'

Shaken, he looked to his left, where Saint and Nightmare - and Soul Reaper's cohort had fought. -

'Oh...'

His Shadows were already approaching, both littered with wounds. Neither had perished, but they did sustain a lot of damage. Even Saint, who was Transcendent, and thus much more durable than Sunny, had suffered dreadfully while battling the swarm of black beetles. Maybe because the small creatures were especially proficient at gnawing through stone...

The [Mantle of Darkness] was slow to repair the damage, as well, almost as if Saint's internal source of true darkness was as exhausted as Sunny's reservoir of essence. Her wounds were healing, nevertheless... just not at all as fast as he would have wanted.

There was one more figure making its way toward him, as well. Sunny felt extremely relieved when he recognized Jet.

Soul Reaper... did not look good. Her armor seemed to have been destroyed at some point during the battle, and now, she wore only the uniform bodysuit, its smart fabric wet and heavy with blood. Her face was ashen.

In a few heartbeats, all three arrived.

...In the same span of time, the Nightmare Creatures started to draw closer, madness and hunger burning in their eyes.

Sunny was the first one to speak:

"Master Jet? What happened? Why did the bugs suddenly..."

She staggered, forcing him to support her. Sunny and the members of his cohort looked at the leader of the Irregulars with concern.

Jet took a few raspy breaths, then said in a hoarse voice:

"I'm alright. It was Bloodwave... he fought his way to the center of the swarm, and killed the thing in charge."

Sunny blinked.

"What? How? And what exactly did he kill?"

She shook her head.

"I don't know."

It was only then that Sunny realized that Soul Reaper was alone. He hesitated for a moment, then asked:

Jet gritted her teeth.

"...Dead."

"Your cohort?"

Then, she pushed herself off of him and straightened.

"The Ascended that were supposed to reinforce us... are also dead. They couldn't fight their way through the horde. And speaking of the horde, we need to get the hell out of here, fast. We need to reach the secondary defense line really, really soon... otherwise, Army Command is probably going to blow us all up..."

Sunny froze for a moment.

'The... the Rampart Protocol...'

The First Army, of course, had all kinds of contingencies. There were a few set in place in case the city wall fell, too from relatively tame to really drastic. -

The Rampart Protocol was the most drastic of them all.

There were tunnels dug below the killing field, and under the span of abandoned streets between the city wall and the secondary defense line, as well. All of them were choke-full of powerful explosives, most of them created with the use of spelltech.

All those explosives were set up to go up in flames together, turning everything outside the secondary barrier into a vast, scorching inferno.

That measure was only supposed to be implemented after every soldier had safely retreated into the safety zone... and most of them already had. Army Command would probably wait for Sunny, Jet, and especially Bloodwave to return before pulling the trigger.

But the situation was extremely chaotic, and communications were down. There was just no telling for sure.

'Damnation....'

Sunny glanced to his right and saw a battered Echo - the other two must have been destroyed - and a fearsome figure in sharkskin armor emerge from the mass of dark beetles and dash toward them.

Some distance behind the pair, a mass of abominations was already lunging forward.

He looked back at Jet and grinned.

"Then what the hell are we waiting for? Run!!"
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  markus_railway 18 Jul 2023, 17:08 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  Many thanks) we whant 1038 if you have it, dear friend)
  
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    Chekko 18 Jul 2023, 18:08 ➥ markus_railway
    
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    1038 is also in the spoiler:)
    
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  Fixated 18 Jul 2023, 18:25 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  People like you deserve the highest spot in heaven 🙏😩
  
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  ABADDA016 18 Jul 2023, 19:20 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  if you have 1039 we will be grateful
  
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    PyRo 18 Jul 2023, 21:31 ➥ ABADDA016
    
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    Supremely grateful dear saviour
    
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  Guilty 18 Jul 2023, 22:51 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  Hey it's all good, I found the chapters somewhere and knew I couldn't leave everyone here hanging so I helped out!
  
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    JOEMUDA 18 Jul 2023, 23:15 ➥ Guilty
    
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    thx
    
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      Guilty 19 Jul 2023, 00:35 ➥ JOEMUDA
      
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      too easy
      
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Let's go!!!!!!!!

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Mahr 18 Jul 2023, 15:32

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Can someone remember me when did he fight the Shadowspawn Devil ?

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  Abraxas 18 Jul 2023, 15:37 ➥ Mahr
  
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  He was in this body in second nightmare
  
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