Shadow Slave

Sunny woke up from the oppressive feeling that drowned the whole world. The sunset was drawing near, and with it, the abyssal shadow of the Crimson Spire had once again fallen on the cursed city.

The distant spire could be seen from anywhere in these somber ruins, looming over the Forgotten Shore like an eternal dark omen. It was cyclopean and unimaginably high, with its roots growing from the endless sea of crimson coral and its peak lost somewhere beyond the veil of grey clouds.

In these past few months, Sunny had gotten accustomed to its presence and learned to not pay it any attention. Thinking about the Spire was a sure road to madness.

After all, somewhere inside that inconceivable structure lay their only hope of ever returning home.

And hope was a poison.

Yawning, Sunny stood up and stretched his arms. His good mood, which he had momentarily lost for some strange reason, was already returning.

Now that he had some time to put the events of the previous night into perspective, he understood even more clearly how amazing his luck had been recently. The acquisition of the Stone Saint and her following transformation into a Shadow were nothing short of miraculous.

His life was about to change for the better!

However, Sunny had to think things through thoroughly. He was in uncharted waters in regards to how to cultivate his pet monster.

The initial excitement he felt after realizing that the Shadow Saint was capable of consuming Memories to collect shadow fragments was gone. In its place, there now was a series of uncomfortable questions.

Sunny had spent somewhere around six months on the Forgotten Shore. In all this time, he had only been able to collect three Memories that were suitable to be fed to the Shadow, giving her mere six shadow fragments.

to see his labor bear fruit and find out what exactly was going to happen once the Stone Saint had accumulated

the was no one who had survived on the Forgotten Shore for more than ten years. The

added into the equation, but still, it was

fell on the iron chest that stored his painstakingly accumulated fortune of soul shards. Distracted,

incredibly rich man. His fortune could buy him a lot of things in the castle, from comparatively

that could be easily bought in that pit

Powerful Memories with

of fragments from the most useless of Memories, all

would instantly leap by a considerable amount. In the future, he would be able to cultivate the Shadow at double the speed, too — half of the materials coming from the Memories he

a big problem with

daredevils who would try to rob him, while not pleasant, was not a big problem. But if Gunlaug himself were to become interested in his exploits… that

Nephis, whose presence made any sort of planning futile for reasons that only she and Sunny

and deaf to the truth, which was the source of

and turned

to this idea later. But first, I'll have to check if consuming Memories is the only way for a Shadow to grow

absorb shadow

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stone maze of the forsaken city. Able to become one with the shadows, he had a certain advantage over

dwelled here

Ones and seek out weaker monsters to hunt. There weren't a lot

had made into his profession,