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.

saw were the

word written on the mirror

"Beastie"

the hell is that supposed to

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

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

did not possess souls, so he expected that slaying one would not reward him with any

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

a type of being

remains of a tree that had been shattered by Saint's

ways, the strange

Its creator must have 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

There were no answers.

anyway. Sunny had

would give him some

he was, in

going to have to tend to his wounds... and rest after the fight with Mirror

used some of his last remaining reserve of shadow essence to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky hill in the center of the island. His shadow

narrow stone ledge that led behind the waterfall, Sunny checked that the cave was empty, and then

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

his pack and took out a

the needles with

'I hate this part.'

injuries much faster than any mundane human, or even one of his peers, would be able to.

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

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