Shadow Slave

Chapter 414

Sunny stared at the ground, confused.

'What just happened?'

Why did the Spell call that thing and Ascended Reflection? What was a Reflection? And why was it Ascended instead of Fallen?

How could a Nightmare Creature be Ascended?

He frowned.

'...Was it not a Nightmare Creature? How is that possible?'

The apparition was definitely not a human, so what else could it be if not one of the Dream Realm's abominations?

And one more thing…

The Spell did not say that his shadow had grown stronger, did it?

To make sure, Sunny checked the number of his shadow fragments. Just as he had suspected, it didn't change. He even dove into the Soul Sea, and saw that there was no new shadow among the rows of the creatures he had slain.

'This is very, very strange.'

What the hell had he just killed?

With a deep frown on his face, Sunny bent down and cautiously picked up the jagged mirror shard that the apparition had left behind. No matter how he looked at it, the shard resembled a perfectly mundane piece of glass, with a thin layer of silver painted over its reverse side. The only strange thing about it was that no matter how Sunny turned the shard, it refused to reflect anything except for an impenetrable veil of darkness.

There was also an inscription on its reverse.

made with runes… instead, what he saw were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They

one word written on the mirror

"Beastie"

the hell is that

of the Mirror Beast was so strange that for a time, Sunny even forgot about the burning pain in

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

expected that slaying one would not reward him with any shadow fragments, just like what had

simple copy of a dead Nightmare Creature. Not to

was, however, a type

of a tree that had been shattered by

the strange

been incredibly powerful, then. If so, where were they? What had happened to them, and why was their Reflection wandering the Chained Isles in a feral

There were no answers.

just a theory, anyway. Sunny had no proof whatsoever to substantiate

his new Memory would give him some

a sudden pulse of pain reminded him that he was, in fact, still wounded. With a hiss, Sunny clutched at

after the fight with Mirror Beast. The Memory could wait until after he wasn't bleeding

of shadow essence to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky hill in the center of the island.

that led behind the waterfall, Sunny

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nature, there was no better shelter on

Shroud, then opened his pack and

needles with

'I hate this part.'

any mundane human, or even one of his peers, would be able to. However, if he wanted to be able to travel again by tomorrow, he still had to

cut on his side together. The process was not very pleasant, to say the least, so the cave was full of the sounds of heavy breathing and suppressed curses for

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