Chapter 67 Racing Against Time (1/2)

Chapter 67 Racing Against Time

[Your Echo has been destroyed]

Sunny stuhtly and leaned back a little, trying to help hi froed to catch hiret clouded his er was dead, sliced and torn apart by the giant creature The ease and brutality hich the Carapace Demon had deci if it wasn't so terrifying

It only took hione Not only had Sunny seen its tragic end through the eyes of his shadow, he also felt the subtle connection between theht shi+ the silent surface of the water a little bit darker He had lost his most valuable possession

But the bitterness Sunny felt was not only because of how useful the Echo had been, or how ht hirown to like the , loyal and reliable

It even see personality

And noas dead

ReadNovelFull his teeth, Sunny ran like a madman There would be tiht now, they had bigger problems

"Sunny? What happened?"

Cassie's whisper sounded worried and tense She h his posture and body language

To be co up the hill at top speed, with the blind girl on his back — no ht she was — had been a tall task for hi to breathe, and there was still a considerable distance to the great tree However, Sunny had to answer, his voice hoarse and rugged:

"He killed the Echo"

Then, there was no ti from bad to worse

Down at the botto above theat the from each of his four upper lian to shi+ne with soft light Then, it shi+mmered and dissolved into a river of tiny sparks, which then fell to the ground and disappeared, leaving no trace of the hulking scavenger behind Even its blood on the deone

After all, the Echo was just a ht and was now returned to the state of nothingness

However, the Carapace Deht show Instead, he was staring at one particular spot on the ground

There, a lonely human shadoas frozen in confusion, uncertain what to do With the body of the Echo — and consequently, its spacious shadow — gone, it was instantly revealed and had nowhere else to hide

'crap!'

The de and pierced the shadoith a scythe

Sunny flinched, ready to experience blinding pain…

But nothing happened The shadohich had raised its hands in fright, looked down at thefrom its chest and scratched its head

It was completely fine

Well, of course… it was just a shadow, after all One had to have a body to be susceptible to such attacks

'Right What else did I think would happen?'

Meanwhile, the de scarlet light in his eyes blazed brighter

Sunny was getting closer to the trunk of the tree, teht have fainted from the strain already

'Just… a little…it The shadow just had to distract the giant h luck was not on his side today Down below, the Carapace De the huain, it suddenly turned around and cast a dark look at the top of the Ashen Barrohere the giant tree stood in all its nificent beauty

The bastard was setting about the shadow, the behe back up the tall hill's slope Ita dozen meters with each second

'Get back here!' Sunny screamed to his shadow as he approached the trunk of the tree

Helping Cassie climb down from his back, Sunny picked up the rucksack that Nephis had left behind and handed it to the blind girl

"Be gentle with that"

Cassie nodded, well aware of the contents of the rucksack, and carefully hung it on her shoulder

At that ti Star had already reached the lowest branches of the great tree Not wasting any tiolden rope and threw one of its ends down