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.

fully formed in his mind,

there are two

the same as the first one and reward him with free fragments. The second one was that where there were three, there could be more…

of miraculous coins was hidden. A whole mountain of them, even. If Sunny was right

knew how much more powerful

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 the

right? Are you really going to go out in that

in the Sanctuary already knew that he was comfortable in the dark, so their initial surprise about seeing someone leave the Citadel at night had more or less disappeared by now. It

a few moments, then

be fine. I'm not going far, anyway. Just want to check something on the Iron Hand

watchman hesitated,

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

man for his concern,

time for humans? Good thing I

summoned the Dark Wing. Sunny was tempted to simply turn into a shadow and rush toward his

'Patient. Be patient…'

the Dark Wing couldn't really 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

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

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

fools fall down, knowing what waits

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

'...To hell with this!'

dove into the shadows and continued his journey as one

he arrived on the

Sunny 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 of monstrous proportions itself. Not really on the same scale as the walking colossus of

that had swallowed