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.

were the familiar letters of the human alphabet. They were clumsy and

one word written on

"Beastie"

hell is

of the Mirror Beast was so strange that for a time,

Eventually, he whispered:

"...An Echo?"

not reward him with any shadow fragments, just like what

individuality to be a simple copy of a dead Nightmare Creature.

was, however, a type of being that

remains of a tree that had been shattered

ways, the strange Reflection resembled a

the Mirror Beast a type of Echo created by someone's Aspect? Its creator must have been incredibly powerful, then. If so, where were they? What had happened

There were no answers.

theory, anyway. Sunny had no proof

his new Memory would give him

sudden pulse of pain reminded him that he was, in fact, still wounded. With a hiss,

after the fight

his last remaining reserve of shadow essence to step through the shadows and appear near the rocky hill in

a narrow stone ledge that led behind the waterfall, Sunny checked that

***

and hidden nature, there was no better shelter on the

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

the needles with

'I hate this part.'

of Blood Weave, Sunny 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

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

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