Shadow Slave

[Your Shadow grows stronger.]

Sunny stared at the place where the coin used to be, then blinked.

'What just happened?'

He dropped the coin on the altar, it was illuminated by the moonlight, and disappeared. And then, he received a shadow fragment.

'No way…'

Holding back excitement, Sunny summoned the runes and read:

Shadow Fragments: [198/2000].

The last time he checked, there was only one hundred and ninety-seven. He had definitely, without a doubt, just received a shadow fragment from the strange golden coin.

'So it wasn't an ordinary coin, after all!'

A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.

Not only was the coin special, it was even not cursed. On the contrary, it was blessed!

'Well, that was the easiest shadow fragment I have ever received…'

Suddenly, his eyes widened.

'Wait…'

Weren't there more coins he had left behind on the Iron Hand Island? Three more, at least, had been swallowed by the dead monstrosity.

thought fully formed in his mind, Sunny was already leaving the

things… there are

that other coins could, potentially, turn out the same as the first one and reward him with free fragments. The second one was that

come from a place where a whole treasure trove of miraculous coins was hidden. A whole mountain of them, even. If

much more powerful he

feeling of discovering a huge and tantalizing secret, Sunny left the Sanctuary and headed toward the edge of the island. As the sound of waterfalls grew louder and the first drops of rain fell to the ground, a

was one of

really going to go out in

their initial surprise about seeing someone leave the Citadel at night had more or less disappeared by now. It was still strange for

a

not going far, anyway. Just want to check something on the Iron

hesitated, then

Be careful out there. Night vision or not, this is not the

the man for his concern,

the time for humans? Good thing I

Dark Wing. Sunny was tempted to simply turn into a shadow and rush toward his goal, but

'Patient. Be patient…'

allow him to fly, he glided above the chain for as long as he could, then landed on it and continued forward on foot. By that time, the rain was already falling rather heavily. The iron surface beneath his feet was treacherous and slippery, so Sunny had to be careful and watch his step, lest he plummeted

With no means of real flight, he would just be falling through the darkness, endlessly, until his mind was

the Chained Isles loved to tell horrible stories about unfortunate souls who fell into the Below, and Sunny could easily understand their fear. For that reason, he was very

knowing what waits for them

thought, a gust of wind suddenly crashed into him from the side, and a distant bolt of

'...To hell with this!'

tempt fate, Sunny dove into the

he arrived on

wonder once again what force could have torn it off the creature's body. Judging by the size of that thing, the owner of the arm must have been

had swallowed the mysterious coins