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.

not made with runes… instead, what he saw were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They were

word written on the

"Beastie"

is that supposed

strange that for a time,

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

expected that slaying one would not reward

too much... individuality to be a simple copy of a dead Nightmare Creature. Not to mention that it had been ruling the Reckoning for the past few years,

was, however, a type of being

at the remains of a tree that had been

the strange

creator must have been incredibly powerful, then. If so, where were they? What had happened to them, and

There were no answers.

was just a theory, anyway. Sunny had no proof whatsoever

new Memory would give

reminded him that he was, in fact, still wounded.

after the fight

a piece of fabric and placing it into his pack, Sunny used some of his last remaining reserve of shadow essence to step through the shadows and

Sunny checked that the cave was empty, and then

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hidden nature, there was no better shelter on the entire island.

then opened his pack and took out a small box containing several thin needles and

the needles with a deadpan

'I hate this part.'

Blood Weave, Sunny could recover from most injuries much faster than any mundane human, or even one of his peers,

of the needles, gritted his teeth, and began suturing the edges of the long 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

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