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Chapter 1884: Scarlet Garden
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    Chapter 1885: Fortune Favors the Bold

    The arrow was aimed at Neph's head, but despite how fast it flew, she still managed to dodge it. The arrowhead left a long cut on her cheek, then pierced the chest of a Saint who stood behind her.

    'Shot from elevation.‘

    That was the first thought that crossed Sunny's mind, who had subconsciously traced the arrow's trajectory.

    Then, for a few moments, everything moved too fast for him to think.

    The wounded Saint let out a stifled yelp and started to fall, blood splattering on the wooden floor. His armor should have been robust enough to if not deflect, then at least dissipate the force of the arrow, so that it did not pierce too deeply. However, somehow, the moonlight arrow seemed to ignore the durability of the enchanted metal and the resilience of Transcendent flesh, killing him on the spot.

    Just like that, a Saint died.

    "Ambush!"

    Before anyone else could react, Sunny called upon the shadows and summoned an impenetrable wall in front of them. Almost instantly, two more ethereal arrows struck it, the impacts producing thunderous bangs. That wall of shadows quaked and cracked.

    Nephis was already moving.

    Strangely enough, she wasn't lunging into the darkness to shorten the distance between her and the hidden archer. Instead, she was spinning around, searching for something beyond the gates of the castle.

    The thin cut on her cheek was yet to fill with blood, glowing softly with ethereal, pale light.

    "Shield Wall! "

    Her sword was pointing to the outside.

    A split second after Sunny's wall materialized, Sir Rivalen had already answered her call. The air behind them shimmered, and an invisible force field manifested itself in the gateway of the Citadel. Its faint contours resembled a grid of ghostly, interlocked shields...

    But before the shields closed, two more arrows — these ones made out of wood and steel, not moonlight — slid into the swiftly narrowing gaps, striking two more Saints in the back.

    One struck the thin gap between the edge of a man's breastplate and his helmet, piercing his neck. The other hit the crack between the front half of a cuirass and the back half, slithering its way through the victim's ribs.

    The level of accuracy needed to perform such shots was unimaginable.

    The first Saint was killed instantly, but the second survived despite the heavy injury. Still, he was temporarily rendered powerless — unless a potent healer spent time treating his wound, he would not be participating in the battle. Finally, the two bodies fell to the floor. The moonlight arrow dimmed and dissolved into nothingness, leaving a haunting afterglow in its wake. The cut on Neph's cheek swelled with blood... the conquest team, reduced to twelve members in an instant, was now protected from all sides by the barrier of shadows and Saint Rivalen's invisible aegis.

    For a moment, nothing happened.

    They possessed a devastating amount of power, but surrounded and not knowing where to aim it, the champions of the Sword Domain found themselves in an awkward position.

    Sunny was holding the serpentine odachi, ready to act. Nephis was standing still, a deep scowl on her face... there was something off about her, but he could not immediately tell what.

    Saint IIelie, the stern woman who had chastised Iest of Dagonet for his jokes, had nocked an arrow on the string of her bow. The old man himself had twisted the handle of his cane, revealing it to be a hidden sword. Golden arcs of electricity were dancing around Roan's ironclad figure, illuminating his handsome, somber face.

    Rivalen of Aegis Rose was kneeling near the wounded Saint, protecting the man with his shield.

    '...Why can't I sense anything?‘

    Sunny felt grim apprehension at his failure to detect the enemies in advance. By now, it was clear that what had attacked them was no Nightmare Creature... No. They were humans.

    Transcendent champions of Song.

    His eyes widened slightly, and a crooked smile twisted his lips behind the mask. 'How daring...‘

    Everyone expected the leaders of the Song Army, which had been losing the war at first, to concentrate all their forces on conquering the Citadel on the western edge of the dead god's collarbone — after all, it was quite close to their camp. And they had. However, it seemed that they had gone after the Citadel in the northern reach of the titanic skeleton's breastbone as well, sending a small team to infiltrate it in secret and ambush the Sword Army's conquest force.

    A bold strategy, especially considering how hard it would have been for a handful of Saints to reach this far into the Hollows without the support of an army.

    But...

    Did they really hope to survive a battle against Changing Star of the Immortal Flame clan and the Lord of Shadows?

    Boldness did not always pay off.

    Sunny would have expected Nephis to heal the wounded Saint, but instead, she raised her sword and said evenly:

    "Reveal yourself."

    For a moment, he was stunned by the childishness of her demand. Why would the enemy laying in the ambush reveal their well—hidden position and give up the advantage?

    He would certainly never respond to her call.

    However... perhaps, he did not understand something about the world.

    Because in the next moment, he finally sensed the shadows moving again as something massive flew at them from the darkness of the ancient temple.

    An enormous creature soared above the wooden floor and then plummeted down, crashing into the wall of shadows with a deafening boom. The barrier finally crumbled, and Sunny saw the shape of the dead thing as it sprawled motionlessly on the floor.

    It was a towering, vaguely humanoid abomination wrapped in a billowing dark robe. Elements of intricate silver armor covered its long arms and slender torso, and six pairs of beautiful grey wings extended from its back, laying on the floor in a broken, bloodied mess.

    It must have been great and harrowing once. But now...

    It was dead.

    The winged giant had not leaped at the barrier of shadows. It was simply tossed at it by someone's powerful hand, discarded like a sack of dead flesh.

    Sunny's expression darkened.

    'This... is the guardian of the Citadel.‘

    There were no moonlight arrows flying at them from somewhere above. Instead, there was the sound of steps.

    Then, a slender silhouette walked out of the darkness, piercing the twelve Saints with a cold and arrogant look.

    She was a breathtaking woman with raven—black hair and eyes that seemed to be cut from pure obsidian. Her slender body was encased in a suit of dark leather armor, and she wielded a curved sword akin to a tachi, its pommel mapped in a black silk cord.

    With her alabaster skin, exquisite beauty, and cold expression, she was undeniably stunning... but, more than that, her presence was vast and oppressive, like the lightless expanse of a boundless, dark ocean.

    The woman met N eph's gaze and spoke loudly:

    "I am Revel, the Lightslayer."

    Then, her alluring lips twisted slightly into a semblance of a dark, joyless smile. She pointed her sword forward and said, her voice full of aloof coldness: "...Welcome to the Song Domain."

    And as the words left her mouth, the corpse of the Great Terror suddenly stirred.

    The bodies of the two slain Saints stirred, as well, reaching toward their former comrades with murderous, dead hands.
    .....
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      Ryuk
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      What channel can you add me
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        Максим Довбняк
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        https://t.me/shadow_slave_fastes
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      Chapter 1886: Dark Dancer

      'Damn it.'

      Lightslayer had already taken the Citadel...

      And, therefore, Ki Song's Domain had already descended on Godgrave.

      There were a couple more conclusions Sunny made in the split moment before Revel's words resounded in the darkness of the ancient castle and the corpses came alive, but there was not much time to contemplate.

      Since Revel was here, then the first arrow must have been shot by Moonveil. The two from behind... had to be Silent Stalker.

      Who else was here?

      Three Saints, no matter whether they were the Queen's daughters, were not enough to take on the conquest force of the Sword Army... even with the element of surprise on their side. Unless Ki Song was here personally, he struggled to understand what their plan was.

      And she couldn't be here in person — for the simple reason that only two of the fourteen Saints had died, not all of them.

      The corpses of the two slain champions came alive, lunging at their former comrades. They did not accomplish much, though — as soon as they had stirred, Neph's sword beheaded one, while the other was gruesomely dismembered by Saint Jest's cane sword. It happened in a heartbeat, so swift that Sunny did not even notice the thin blade move.

      The corpse of the Great Terror was blasted back by a blinding bolt of lightning that Roan seemed to have sent flying from his sword. The creature was delayed, but not destroyed.

      The rest of the Sword Saints all exploded with motion, dispersing as they summoned the power of their Aspects or assumed their Transcendent forms. Suddenly, the area in front of the castle gates felt very overcrowded.

      Sunny noticed Saint Rivalen, in his heavily armored rhino form, ramming into the wooden gates of the ancient stronghold and barreling straight through them, on his way to challenge Silent Stalker.

      Saint Helie's Transcendent form was that of a towering, graceful centaur — pushing herself into a leap with four hooves, she simultaneously let an arrow loose.

      He did not waste much time watching, though.

      His target was Revel.

      Before IIelie's arrow could strike, Sunny already stepped through the shadows while lashing out with his odachi. There was a heavy feeling in his chest — if his last conclusion was correct, than this would be his only chance to end the battle easily.

      Sadly, Lightslayer was too swift, and too skilled. Dancing away with an easy step, he deflected his blow with her sharp do despite the sudden and unpredictable nature of his attack. He also dodged Helie's arrow with the same motion.

      "The Lord of Shadows, I presume..."

      Her husky voice remained calm.

      Sunny cursed inwardly.

      In the next moment, a deafening howl seemed to shatter the world, and a bestial silhouette leaped from somewhere above, landing between the Saints of the Sword Domain.

      A light smile twisted Revel's lips.

      "...You're mine."

      With that...

      A tide of pure darkness suddenly drowned everything around them — true, elemental darkness. It suffocated Sunny's shadow sense, turned him blind, and at the same time cut him off from his source element.

      A split second later, he felt space itself become twisted around him, and suddenly, the clangor of battle grew distant. It was as if he was transported somewhere else in the castle, separating him from the rest of the conquest force.

      He didn't know whether that was some Memory Revel used, a power of another Song Saint, or a Component of the lake Citadel. However, he knew that wherever he was, there was someone else there with him.

      'True darkness...'

      True darkness was the natural enemy of shadows. With how unique and varied Aspects were, Sunny knew that he would run into an Awakened with affinity to it sooner or later. He also guessed what was happening after failing to sense the ambush and see Revel until she stepped in front of the Saints of the Sword Domain.

      Why did it have to be one of Ki Song's daughters, of all people? What did darkness even have to do with the lineage of Beast God, which the princesses of Song all seemed to share despite not being related to the Queen by blood? Luckily... he wasn't defenseless against elemental darkness, either.

      Sunny released his odachi and let it fall to the ground. Before it did, Serpent abandoned the Soul Weapon form and turned into a Nightmare Creature that resembled an enormous firefly — one of the Corrupted abominations Sunny had killed a long time ago, in the Burned Forest.

      Darkness might have been the natural enemy of shadows, but it feared light. Serpent's body ignited with brilliant radiance, chasing the darkness away — instantly, Sunny could see that he was standing in the middle of a vast, overgrown hall. Roots and scarlet vines grew through the cracked walls, the bulging floor, and the broken ceiling, making it seem like the thick of the jungle. Lightslayer was standing a few meters away, looking at him with the same aloof expression.

      Her darkness had retreated, but it was not vanquished — instead, it flowed around them like a dark cloud, suffocating the light produced by Serpent. For now, there seemed to be a fragile balance between the two elements, with neither being able to destroy the other.

      Sunny smiled behind his mask as Saint and Fiend rose from his shadows.

      "You didn't really think that would work, did you?"

      Revel studied Saint for a few moments, then nodded.

      "No. I didn't."

      With that, two figures suddenly stepped out from behind her.

      Sunny's heart grew cold.

      Standing on both sides of Revel, the Lightslayer — the first of Ki Song's daughters to reach Transcendence — were...

      Two perfect copies of her.

      They were both beautiful, clad in dark leather armor, with raven-black hair and obsidian eyes... dark, cold, and breathtaking.

      Suddenly, there were three of Revel in front of him... or one Revel and her two incarnations.

      It was as if Sunny was looking at his own reflection.

      His eyes widened slightly.

      'Reflection...‘

      In the next moment, the Reflections unleashed two tides of darkness of their own, and suddenly, the light was overpowered...

      ****

      On the stone steps outside the ancient Citadel, several Saints were battling the elusive Silent Stalker.

      Beyond the gates, the rest of them were entangled in a ferocious fight against three bestial monsters. One of them was Lonesome Howl, another of Ki Song's daughters. The other two were Mordret's Reflections. The corpse of the dead Great Terror was also there — damaged, but unrelenting.

      Deeper in the hall, Saint Jest of Dagonet was facing a towering gargoyle. The creature's noble face, which seemed to be carved from grey stone, bore a distant and somber expression.

      The old man grinned.

      "The Saint of Sorrow, huh?"

      The gargoyle lowered its head slightly.

      Saint Jest shook his head dejectedly.

      "Goodness... that girl Ravensong just had to send the dullest man in the world to fight against me. How mean..."

      And somewhere else, on the highest floor of the majestic castle...

      Nephis was surrounded by three delicate young women. Each of them had enchanting features, white hair, and beautiful eyes that seemed to glimmer with the afterglow of pale moonlight.

      Neph's check was still cut, the left side of her face painted with blood.

      She touched the cut briefly and looked at her fingers, frowning at the sight of blood.

      "...Are you Princess Moonveil?"

      All three of the young women smiled.

      However, only one spoke:

      "Indeed. However..."

      The pale radiance of her eyes slowly dimmed, turning them into two gaping windows into an abyssal, lightless void.

      Suddenly, the hall seemed colder, darker, and full of echoing emptiness.

      "I am also called the Black Moon. That name, I think, suits me better."

      Nephis looked at her fingers again. There was no radiance beneath her skin. The blade of her sword remained dull, devoid of incandescent light. ...Her wound wasn't healing.
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        Ryuk
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        🤯 darkness vs shadows , the sun vs moon what else , i cabt wait FamilyGuy016
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        Zrilla
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        Вооооооу ничего себе жесть пошла, а клан сонг отлично подготовился. Супер засада! Наконец-то пошла жара, будет вообще кошмар если явится владыка, ведь они уже захватили цитадель
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    unclebob
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    Shika noko noke nok- f#ck off
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      Baezhij
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      Shika noko noke noko koshi tan tan
      Shika noko noko noko koshi tan tan

      Shika noko noke noko koshi tan tan
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      Shika noko noke noko koshi tan tan
      Shika noko noko noko koshi tan tan

      blushed blushed blushed blushed blushed blushed blushed
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        Dummybaron
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        Bro seriously 😭
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          Baezhij
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          I cannot let him feel lonely.
          Gotta support Mai buddy!!!
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            Strange404sponge
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            You know what I'm going to tell you to do
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              Baezhij
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              Keep myself safe!
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                Strange404sponge
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                Yes sirrr welldone
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    Ryuk
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    Who uses arrows
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    Nigerian prince
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    Guardian: one down, thirteen more to go hlst
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