Shadow Slave

Sunny was silent for a while.

An Echo… that weird golden armor was actually a copy of some strange Corrupted Nightmare Creature?

What kind of creature took the shape of an armor?

But then again, the fact that it looked like an armor didn't mean that it was all it could look like. The main trait of the golden armor was that it seemed to be made out of liquid metal. That metal always flowed and moved around, enveloping Gunlaug's body like a second layer of skin.

The only thing that never changed was the mirror-like surface that served him as a face.

It wasn't impossible to imagine that the mass of living metal was, in fact, not a Memory but a bizarre Echo.

Not impossible, but a bit of a stretch.

Glancing at Nephis, Sunny asked:

"How do you even know this?"

She hesitated for a few moments, then said:

"You already know that we have an ally inside the castle. She was the one who told us."

That mysterious spy again… Sunny became even more convinced that this person was of a very high rank among the Bright Lord's servants. Only someone extremely close to him would know such an important secret.

In fact, Sunny expected that the paranoid tyrant would never let anyone learn of it.

Why would one of Gunlaug's most loyal minions help his enemy? Was it all an elaborate trap orchestrated by the Bright Lord himself?

Looking at Changing Star with a deep scowl on his face, he asked:

"Can this ally of yours even be trusted?"

If he was right in his guess about the identity of the spy... well, things would become complicated.

a while, then said

really… never, actually. However, we can trust in the information that was

He raised his eyebrows.

"And why is that?"

shrugged and then answered,

only chance anyone here has of ever getting

'Interesting…'

had been loyal to Gunlaug because there was no better alternative, but then changed sides once the last daughter of the Immortal

of the unfortunate fools in the Dark City or was confident of ending up among the few lucky people who would

just knew something

be confident in the information the spy provided, so he did not see the point of doubting it. She wasn't any more naive or trusting than he

had learned the art

had been listening to their conversation with a fair bit of curiosity, suddenly cleared his

guys. But I just wanted to ask — since we have found the remains of the First Lord and came into possession of this Memory you were discussing… does that mean that the expedition is over? Have we

would seem

However, Sunny knew better.

a friendly smile, he shook his

goal of this expedition has not

charming archer looked at him with

didn't we get the thing that will help us defeat

staring at Sunny too, a subtle smile on

we have

He grinned.

simple, really. Yes, you told us that the reason for this adventure of ours was to find the means of overthrowing the Bright Lord, and it certainly was a reason. But it's not the

slightly to listen to

didn't seem to care one way or

other hand, just

is the whole reason

mouth of

the First Lord had started,

him and Changing Star, unsure of what was going

what do