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.

not receive the same treatment. The tower shield had come from

Which meant that…

A disgusting eye with a menacing vertical pupil appeared from the dissipating brightness of

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 to move through the rubble and dodge the attacks of the

end, he had beheaded the vile thing with a slash of his swift blade seconds before being ripped apart by its claws. It was a fine

harmless beam of red light, which could only be used for creating mood lighting… at least in the case of Sunny, who could see in the

he held it out

thing, brought it to her chest, and then crushed it in her armored fist. Once again, the Memory disintegrated

has grown

his head back

to receive power, just like he killed

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

Shadow Fragments: [3/200].

one

anticipation, Sunny summoned the next Memory. A bulky suit of rusty plate armor appeared from the 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

bonfire 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 of these tiny gluttonous creatures. Judging by the amount of bones littering the ground around the nest, they were a

only six fragments. He even had to retreat without collecting the soul shards from the smoldering remains of the hive, scared

it could

just like she had devoured the over two Memories. Once again, the Spell announced that the

Shadow Fragments: [6/200].