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 were clumsy and awkward, as

was only one word written on

"Beastie"

is that supposed to

Mirror Beast was so strange that for a time, Sunny

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

not reward him with any

It was too independent, sentient, and had too much... individuality to be a simple copy of a dead Nightmare Creature.

type of being

look at the remains of a tree that had

many ways, the strange

If so, where were they? What

There were no answers.

Sunny

Memory would give

him that he was, in fact, still wounded. With a hiss, Sunny clutched at his side

going to have to tend to his wounds... and rest after the fight with Mirror Beast. The Memory could wait until after he

to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky

that led behind the waterfall, Sunny checked that the cave was

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no better shelter on the entire island. Rather happy with this discovery, Sunny groaned and

Puppeteer's Shroud, then opened his pack and took out a small box containing several thin needles and a span of silk

with a deadpan expression,

'I hate this part.'

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

his side together. The process

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