Shadow Slave

Sunny held his breath, affected by the disturbing scene in front of him.

The corpse was kneeling on the floor of the small cell, its hand chained to the floor. There was a circle carved into the stone around it, with countless symbols that Sunny could not understand surrounding it.

However, the circle was broken. In the thousands of years since the fall of the Dark City, the floor of the dungeon cell had cracked, with several fractures running straight through the intricate engraving.

Whatever it was the circle was meant to contain had either perished or escaped a long time ago.

Now, the only thing that remained was a withered corpse.

Coming closer, Sunny took another look at the person who had been imprisoned and died under the ruined cathedral, in a cell situated exactly beneath the statue of the nameless goddess.

Because of the dark mantle and the black lacquered mask, Sunny couldn't glean a lot of information about the corpse. It seemed to belong to a human, but other than that, everything about it was a mystery.

What terrible sin had this person committed to be condemned to this awful death?

Strangely, Sunny's intuition was silent. It was as though there was nothing in front of him at all. To his sixth sense, the prisoner of the underground cell appeared as an empty space.

'...Weird. This person had clearly been either hated or feared a lot to be locked behind all these barriers. Surely, finding such a creature would affect my fate… why don't I feel anything, then?'

With a tense frown, he took a deep breath and carefully stepped inside the circle.

…It was then that Sunny noticed a chaotic mess of runes drawn on the floor near the prisoner's left hand. The sight of them almost sent him into a seizure.

Staggering away, Sunny fell to his knees and threw up.

'Agh… damn it!'

runes the Spell used to describe the mysterious Unknown. Only here, the intensity of the terrible effect they had on the mind of anyone who saw

'What the hell?'

at the masked

himself off the floor, took a deep

were being torn and twisted. But despite all of it, Sunny persevered and kept staring

didn't know that particular language, and the Spell either was forbidden, incapable, or refused to translate them. But for some reason,

studied the strange runes.

text was written in the script he was familiar with — the usual runic language that the Spell always

time, it did not provide any translation. Luckily, Sunny had studied these runes and

person imprisoned under the cathedral wrote

the stone was a

"Hail Weaver

Demon of Fate

Firstborn

of the -unknown-"

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runes until he was on the verge of losing consciousness. Only then did he

his mind. Only after several minutes passed did it fade a little, allowing him

had inherited was, in fact, associated with fate. Just like Sunny

What were the chances?

Fated for you, I

he translated as "Demon" wasn't the one used to describe Nightmares Creatures of the

gods, but sharing the same nature. However, Sunny wasn't that versed in mystical terminology. All he knew was that the runic

was

about the mysterious Weaver, he had noticed one other important thing

had thought that there was a single entity that the Spell refused to call by its name and simply described as "-unknown-" — leading him