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.

when he realized that the inscription was not made with runes… instead, what he saw were the familiar letters

only one word written on the mirror

"Beastie"

hell is

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

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

not reward him with any

apparition, however, was obviously not an Echo. It was too independent, sentient, and had 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, with no human master

type

the remains of a tree that had

many ways, the strange Reflection

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

There were no answers.

just a theory, anyway. Sunny had

his new Memory would give

runes, but a sudden pulse of pain reminded him that he was, in

to have to tend to his wounds... and rest after the fight

shadow essence to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky hill in

a narrow stone ledge that led behind the waterfall, Sunny checked that the cave was

***

shelter on the

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

needles with a

'I hate this part.'

than any mundane human, or even one of

together. The process was not very pleasant, to say the least, so the cave

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