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!'

fell toward the Sky Below, the island suddenly shot

'No, no, no!'

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

through the shadows… jump down and try to

could try to chase after the piece of

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

repulsive silhouettes of the gluttonous Chain Worms were growing smaller by the

late to rush in pursuit of it, and every moment that passed made the probability of success

You finally let your

of fury at himself,

get to the miraculous

something on the Twisted Rock

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

supposed to do? How was he supposed to

summoned his shadow back, and briefly

going to be for long, though. The Crushing was already overwhelming his physical ability to resist its lethal pressure. Sunny had a few dozen seconds, at most, before he would

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

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 obliterate the mysterious force that kept the isles afloat, the remaining

what 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

not move

on the stone widened and