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.

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

there are

was that other coins could, potentially, turn out the same as the first one and reward him with

treasure trove of miraculous coins was hidden. A whole mountain of them, even. If

much more

to suppress the giddy 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 dark silhouette suddenly took a step

one of

Sunny, 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 was still strange

halted for a

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

hesitated, then

or not, this

the man for his concern, then

the time for humans? Good thing I am a monster,

to simply turn into a shadow and rush toward his goal, but he didn't want to show his powers near the Citadel so

'Patient. Be patient…'

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

would just be falling through the darkness, endlessly, until his

on the Chained Isles loved to tell horrible stories about unfortunate souls who fell into the Below, and Sunny could easily understand their fear.

knowing what waits for them

crashed into him from the side, and a distant bolt

'...To hell with this!'

wishing to tempt fate, Sunny dove into the shadows and continued his journey

on the Iron

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

that had swallowed