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.

he saw were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They were clumsy and awkward,

was only one word written on the

"Beastie"

hell is that supposed

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

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

that slaying one would not reward him with any shadow

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 in

a type of

of a tree that had

many ways, the strange

powerful, then. If so,

There were no answers.

just a theory, anyway. Sunny

new Memory would give

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

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

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

ledge that led behind the waterfall, Sunny

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

watch outside, he dismissed the Puppeteer's Shroud, then opened his pack and took out a small

needles with a

'I hate this part.'

could recover from most injuries much faster than any mundane human, or even one of his peers, would be able to. However, if he wanted to be able to travel again by tomorrow, he still had to take

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 cave was full of the sounds

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