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

Which meant that…

fire of excitement burning in his eyes, Sunny hurriedly summoned another Memory. A disgusting eye with a menacing vertical pupil appeared from the dissipating brightness of the descending

had to fight it with his own eyes closed, relying solely

thing with a slash of his swift blade seconds before being ripped apart

actual beast had possessed. It was only capable of producing a harmless beam of red light, which could only be used for creating

held it out for

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

Saint has

threw his head back

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

make sure, he glanced at the runes again and saw exactly what he

Shadow Fragments: [3/200].

Awakened Memory, one

light and hovered in the air in front of him. This one he had received after burning the towering nest

in the absolute darkness of the Forgotten Shore's night was a dangerous endeavor, but he had hoped to receive hundreds of shadow fragments by eviscerating the whole swarm

He even had to retreat without collecting 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 flames. The Memory was of little consolation, since his own Puppeteer's Shroud was superior to it in

it could

had devoured the over two Memories. Once again,

Shadow Fragments: [6/200].