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.

inscription was not made with runes… instead, what he saw were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They were clumsy and awkward, as if

one word written on the mirror

"Beastie"

the hell is that

for a time, Sunny even forgot about

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

not possess souls, so he expected that slaying one would not reward him with any shadow fragments, just like what had happened after Mirror

to be a simple copy of a dead Nightmare Creature. Not to

a type of being that it

remains of a tree

strange Reflection resembled a

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

There were no answers.

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

would give him

about to summon the runes, but a sudden pulse of pain reminded him that he was, in fact, still wounded. With a hiss, Sunny clutched at his side and

fight with

through the shadows and

led behind the waterfall, Sunny checked that

***

but due to its location and hidden nature, there was no better shelter

pack and took out a small box containing several thin needles and a span

with a

'I hate this part.'

mundane human, or even one of his peers, would be able to. However, if he wanted to

the threaded one 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

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