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.

with runes… instead, what he saw were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They were

was only one word

"Beastie"

is that

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

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

he expected that slaying one would not reward him with any shadow fragments, just like what had happened after Mirror Beast's

copy of a dead Nightmare Creature. Not to mention that it

type of being that

look at the remains of a tree that had

ways, the strange

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

There were no answers.

was just a theory, anyway. Sunny

would give him some

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

to his wounds... and rest after the fight

of fabric and placing it into his pack, Sunny used some of his last remaining reserve of shadow essence to step through the shadows and appear near

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

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shelter on the entire island. Rather happy with

pack and took out a small box containing several

needles with a

'I hate this part.'

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

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 of the sounds of heavy breathing and suppressed curses for

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