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!'

as ten kilometers of gargantuan iron links slowly fell toward the Sky Below,

'No, no, no!'

struck at Sunny with such fury that he couldn't even scream. He

the shadows… jump down and try to glide to

isles from one another, which was far outside the Dark Wing's capabilities. He could try

just an illusion caused by its colossal size. In truth, the torn

gluttonous Chain Worms were growing smaller by the

rush in pursuit of it, and every moment

you fool! You finally let your greed kill

fury at

order to get to the miraculous coins, at the end of it, standing on the edge of the Shipwreck Island, he put his avarice aside and made a sober

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

what was it?! There was nothing but stone and

supposed to do?

his shadow back, and briefly regained the ability

his physical ability to resist its lethal pressure. Sunny had a few dozen seconds, at most, before he would be forced to retreat into the

too, will be affected by the Crushing. And even if not, what's the point? Even if the chest survives until the

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 to

was going to remain of

lay motionlessly for a few seconds, then for a few seconds more. Another crack appeared on the corpse of the Mordant Mimic. Then, the stone beneath it

did not move

widened and crawled