Shadow Slave

Everything having to do with Sleepers was situated in the same building. Sunny followed the instructions sent to his communicator and quickly found the dormitories, which were situated on one of the lowest levels. To his surprise, he actually got a whole room to himself.

It had a bed with a soft mattress, a table, a dresser, and even a separate bathroom! The materials were new and aesthetically pleasing, the air crisp and sterile. It was warm inside, and the outer wall was equipped with a hidden screen that seamlessly imitated a wide window, opening to a picturesque vista of a snowy park.

There were even several sets of clothes with the Academy emblem provided to him for free.

'How extravagant,' Sunny thought, a little stunned.

Rationally, he understood that such an arrangement was not really luxurious. However, to him, who grew up wandering the outskirts, this room was like a palace. He scratched his head.

'Looks like… I've made it?'

Sunny glanced around, then winked at his shadow and smiled.

"I guess we're moving up in the world, huh?"

The shadow didn't respond, apparently not very impressed. Perhaps it didn't care about such things.

'Right, what would a stupid shadow know?'

Sunny changed into new clothes and studied himself in the mirror. Then, remembering something, he summoned the runes.

He finally had time to study the Puppeteer's Shroud.

Memory: [Puppeteer's Shroud].

Memory Rank: Awakened.

Memory Type: Armor.

Memory Description: [A worm of doubt once found its way into a righteous king's heart. With time, the king was devoured from inside and became its puppet. A lifetime later, the Puppeteer Worm escaped from the king's dead body, leaving behind a cacoon of black silk. No one knows where it went; however, once people dared to approach the silent castle, they found the silk among the mountains of gnawed bones and fashioned it into an armor.]

a sour

terrifying. Yeah.

Mountain King was a mature Puppeteer Worm — and already a tyrant… then what the

better not to

and wrapped it into a set of armor.

not restrain his movements at all. It also made no

knew that this armor would be tough to pierce for any Creature below the Awakened rank, which gave him a great advantage in dealing with all

worm of doubt… does it have

was

trophy! He wouldn't expect anything less from the Memory of

on top of a full set of clothes. Quite satisfied, Sunny dismissed

recalling all the rewards he had

true: not only was it freely available to Sleepers, there wasn't even a limit to the amount

steering

empty seat and, for a while, forgot about the world's existence. As

to think, he could have lived like that for

didn't you infect me a few

Satiated and more than a little gorged, Sunny longingly looked back and thought

of regret, he stood up and left the

across from an administrative worker.

Master Jet had warned him, Sunny was offered psychological counseling again. Remembering her advice, he refused,

also knew that he had to tell the worker something. Luckily, the questions were worded in a way to put Sleepers at ease. As such, most of them started with nice and

type of Aspect Ability you received, as in combat,

but

not sure. I haven't had

Are you able to directly deal damage

guess not? Earlier, I wasn't even able to harm a

an impression that his Aspect was weak, harmless and

returned to his room,

be weird, but in fact, it was surprisingly easy. Lying on a soft mattress, with his skin against clean bedsheets and a