Shadow Slave

Sunny stared at the Shadow Saint, dumbfounded.

The storm of emotions that the destruction of the tower shield had produced was still tugging on his heartstrings, but now, an equally powerful feeling was slowly welling up in his chest. Not knowing how to process all of this, he simply blinked a couple of times and said in a flat tone:

"Huh?"

'So, let me get this straight…'

He gave the shield to his pet monster hoping that she would be able to use it. And she did, sort of. It's just that instead of wielding the Memory, she… ate it.

Sunny hesitated for a few moments, wondering if he had finally lost it. But no, the echo of the Spell's voice was still resounding above the dark waters, whispering the same phrase over and over again.

Stone Saint has grown stronger.

With a heavy sigh, Sunny summoned the runes and found the description of the Shadow. Down at the very bottom of it, the runes were slightly changed:

Shadow Fragments: [2/200].

A wild gleam appeared in his eyes. Two fragments… he had received the Memory of the tower shield after slaying a particularly hardy wraith, who, despite its frightening appearance, had turned out to be merely an awakened monster. For killing it, Sunny himself had received four shadow fragments.

But that was because his own Shadow Core was Dormant, and as such, he always got double the reward in battles against creatures of the higher rank — two for each Soul Core that an awakened creature possessed.

the same treatment. The tower shield had come from a monster with two awakened cores, so she received two fragments for consuming

Which meant that…

Sunny hurriedly summoned another Memory. A disgusting eye with a menacing vertical pupil appeared from the dissipating brightness of the descending sphere

basilisk-like creature that Sunny had killed a few weeks ago. To survive the battle, he had to fight it with his own eyes closed, relying solely on the Shadow Sense

with a slash of his swift blade seconds before being

was only capable of producing a harmless beam of red light, which could only be used for creating mood lighting… at least in the case of

held it out for the Stone

it to her chest, and then crushed it in her armored fist. Once again, the Memory disintegrated into countless tiny sparks of ethereal light,

has

grinned, then threw his

it was… the Shadows fed on Memories! They consumed them to receive power, just like he killed Nightmare Creatures to consume

he glanced at the runes again and saw exactly what he had expected

Shadow Fragments: [3/200].

Memory, one fragment.

sphere of light and hovered in the air in front of him. This one he had received after burning the towering nest of monstrous, flesh-devouring

a dangerous endeavor, but he had hoped to receive hundreds of shadow fragments by eviscerating the whole swarm of

the soul shards from the smoldering remains of the hive, scared away by the approach of several Fallen horrors that had been attracted by the bright

now, finally, it

the over two Memories. Once again, the Spell announced that the shadow monster had grown stronger. The runes

Shadow Fragments: [6/200].