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.

Stone Saint was such a creature herself, so it was logical to assume that she would not receive the same treatment. The tower shield had come from a monster with two awakened cores, so she received two fragments

Which meant that…

eye with a menacing vertical pupil appeared from the dissipating brightness of the descending sphere of

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

swift blade seconds before being ripped apart by its claws. It was a fine test for his

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

out for

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

has

grinned, then threw his head

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

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

Shadow Fragments: [3/200].

one fragment. Makes

light and hovered in the air in front of him. This one he

he had hoped to receive hundreds of shadow fragments by eviscerating the whole swarm of these tiny gluttonous

colony had turned out to be a single demonic being, landing him only six fragments. He even had to retreat without collecting the soul shards from the smoldering remains of the hive,

it could

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

Shadow Fragments: [6/200].