Shadow Slave

Sunny stared at the last engraving for a few moments, and then continued walking.

The revelations he had uncovered on the walls of the ancient mine gave him a lot to think about. The truth that he had been piecing together for a very long time was finally more complete than fragmented.

So, something had indeed fallen from the sky and put a start to the eventual destruction of this land. Sunny had suspected that this was the case for a while now, especially after witnessing the colossal impact crater that was situated between the Dark City and the Ashen Barrow.

At times, he had been almost ready to believe that it was really the result of the Vile Thieving Bird dropping the Weaver's eye "on the mortal realm below", as written in the description of the Lineage Memory he had consumed.

The Thieving Bird had gone mad after looking at the reflection of the -unknown- which was apparently forever frozen in the depths of Weaver's pupil. The madness and corruption that reigned over the Forgotten Shore were similar enough for him to draw a parallel.

However, now he knew that it had been an actual being that had fallen from the skies, wreathed in light and flame. A beautiful figure that emanated brilliant radiance and had three eyes on its terrible, perfect face.

Sunny didn't know what led the ancient humans to attack it, but they had killed the creature — perhaps managing such a feat only because it was already weakened by its fall from the heavens and the events that had sent it plummeting down.

But by doing so, they had unleashed the flood of darkness and caused the destruction of their land.

Sunny was under the impression that the annihilation of the ancient civilization had been instantaneous, but as it turned out, humans had continued to fight against the curse for a long time. Generations, even — that's why the founders of the Starlight Legion were described as being born in the all-consuming darkness.

He didn't know whether the monsters that came to feast on the human flesh had been contained within the body of the fallen being along with the ocean of darkness, or whether they were all humans corrupted by the curse — with those present at the moment of the creature's death becoming the most terrifying ones.

What he did know, however, was that the Starlight Legion had managed to push the monsters back and build an impregnable fortress for the humans under their protection. That fortress would later become the Dark City.

achieved something even more inconceivable.

create an artificial

Shore was not real. It

'...Speak about ambition.'

after learning that those seven madmen had actually managed to create a sun. They had made a defiant oath to return light to the cursed

the curse of darkness and brought a

not

the ancient civilization, the corruption

But what?

mystery for another day. Perhaps he would be able to

did note, however, was the difference between the dark reality shown in the engravings and the state the Forgotten Shore was

a world completely devoid of light, but it was different from the hell that Sunny and the other members of the cohort knew. The engravings did

and no sea, there was no cycle of tides that turned the Forgotten Shore into

appeared at the same time as the Labyrinth, then? Or at least as the result of the same event. Sunny was sure that the

didn't know what significance that

members of the party were initially indifferent to the

been walking past the mural depicting the radiant being with three incandescent eyes, Nephis had stopped and looked at it

head away, lingered for a second, and

detail. However, he couldn't

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hall. In the center of it, a dark chasm opened into the depths of the mountains, leading so far down that Sunny couldn't even see