Shadow Slave

A moment later, a deafening roar of massive iron links being torn apart rolled other the entire island, which then lurched up by a few meters and suddenly came to an abrupt stop.

Sunny yelped, feeling the Crushing assault him with even more obliterating force.

'The chain… the chain is failing!'

Why did it happen so soon?

For a few moments, he felt nothing but pure, bestial panic. Then, he forced himself to regain control over his mind and threw a desperate glance toward the not-so-distant edge of the Twisted Rock.

Would he be able to escape in time?

He lingered for a moment, then gritted his teeth and commanded one of the shadows to slide off his body onto the ground.

As soon as it did, a muffled scream escaped from his lips. It felt as though a giant hammer struck his body, making every bone in it shudder and groan. Sunny turned his head to the side and spat a mouthful of blood.

'Curse it all…'

The shadow flew to the edge of the island and slid over its edge, desperately trying to reach the dying chain.

…But it was too late.

As Sunny watched in horror, one of the links of the heavenly tether broke. Only one, the weakest of them all… but that was all it took.

'No!'

links slowly fell toward the Sky Below, the

'No, no, no!'

such fury that he couldn't even scream. He felt himself being slowly broken, and feverishly tried

down and try to glide to the

more than ten kilometers separating these isles from one another, which was far outside the Dark Wing's capabilities. He could try to chase after the piece of the chain still

size. In truth, the torn end of it was flying through the air at tremendous speed, moving both down and

silhouettes of the gluttonous Chain Worms were growing smaller

to rush in pursuit of it, and every moment

fool! You finally

at himself,

though Sunny had made several risky decisions in order to get to the miraculous coins, at the end of it, standing on the edge of the Shipwreck Island, he

came here because his intuition had told him that something on the Twisted Rock was

was it?! There was nothing but stone and bones in this

do? How

He summoned his

his physical ability to resist its lethal pressure. Sunny had a few dozen seconds, at most, before

items inside the Memory maintain their weight, which means that they, too, will be affected by the Crushing. And even if not, what's the point? Even if the chest survives until the Twisted Rock

be destroyed by the Crushing, inevitably and without a doubt. As it rose higher and higher, it was going to start to fall apart. When enough of it was destroyed

what was going to remain

for a few seconds more. Another crack appeared on the corpse of the Mordant Mimic.

not move

cracks on the stone widened and crawled