Chapter 51: One Personality? How About Two? (Rewritten)
The cadence of battle shifted when Sunny rejoined the fight. Previously, Dan Heng and Veliona were constantly on their toes, avoiding a senseless barrage of attacks from the large robot.
The automaton moved with uncanny dexterity considering it’s large and wide build. Not only that, but it’s steel body must make it weigh much more than a living creature of the same size.
Despite this, it showcased overwhelming agility and power as it moved around like a monkey at a circus. It’s fingers functioned as saw blades; whirling around at tremendous speeds as it attempted to strike the three Awakened.
The ground was littered with small craters and scratch marks. Throughout the battle, they had moved around quite a bit in order to avoid the wide, sweeping attacks the automaton. Not only that, but their attacks did nothing to permanently damage the feral robot.
It was as if they were fighting against an unstoppable force that was also an immovable object.
However, now that Sunny was able to read Dan Heng and Veliona’s style of fighting, things would change.
From what Sunny could tell, Shadow Dance was the ability to observe, dissect, analyze, steal, and enhance the combat techniques of others. For example, he would be able to watch the movements of a combatant, replicate their fighting style, and make it better than it was before.
It was a formless, unpredictable way of fighting. And things that could not be predicted were the most dangerous.
Even though Sunny had been attempting to gain insight on Dan Heng and Veliona’s style of fighting — while using his shadow helpers along with shadow sense to accelerate the process — he was not attempting to use them. After all, Sunny didn’t have a spear or scythe on hand.
While he could have used Serpent to take the form of those weapons, it would have been more beneficial for him to use the Legacy Relic as an efficiency multiplier for his Essence control. This would not only decrease the rate in which he ran out of Essence, but would allow him to gain more power at a lower cost.
So... Sunny only wielded the bat formed from the Destruction. He was focusing completely on brute force, which was quite unusual for him. After all, he had survived up until now using his crafty nature as a weapon.