Chapter 116: Mirror Beast
’Well... one mystery is solved, at least.’
Sunny became painfully aware of how the devil of the Reckoning was able to slaughter so many Awakened, and why no Nightmare Creature could survive on its island.
If the bastard was able to turn into a copy of any enemy while remaining as powerful as a Fallen Devil, then very few things could ever hope to escape from it alive.
And those Awakened who had escaped despite everything mistakenly believed that their companions fell to a creature that could mess with people’s sight... what else would they think after watching a human being killed by what looked like their exact copy?
Well... why had no one thought that it was an actual copy and not a trick on the eye, damn it?!
If there was one thing that landed Sunny in this dire situation, it was that people in the Sanctuary severely lacked imagination!
...All these thoughts flashed through his mind as he used Shadow Step to disappear and fall awkwardly to the ground a dozen meters behind the devil, completely out of the way of the flying blade.
’Great... but now what?’
Just a few moments before, Sunny had been contemplating abandoning the fight and simply running away. Unlike some humans he had met in the past, he wasn’t burdened by useless things like pride or vanity. If the situation called for a cowardly escape, he was ready and willing to do just that.
However, after activating the Preservation... he became much more unwilling to retreat. As arrogance flowed through him, he tried to figure out a way to defeat the bastard.
’Think, think...’