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.

instead, what he saw were the familiar letters

was only one word written on the

"Beastie"

hell is that supposed to

so strange that for a time, Sunny even forgot about the burning pain in his

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

one would not reward him with any shadow fragments, just like

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

however, a type of being

dark look at the remains of a tree that had been shattered

ways, the strange Reflection resembled

Echo created by someone's Aspect? Its 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

new Memory would give him some

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

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

essence to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky hill in the center of the island. His

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

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

dismissed the Puppeteer's Shroud, then opened his pack and took out a small box containing several

with

'I hate this part.'

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

cut on his side together. The process was not very pleasant,

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