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!'

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

'No, no, no!'

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

shadows… jump down and try to glide

There were 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 connected to the Shipwreck Island, but chances of catching up with

size. In truth, the torn end of it

repulsive silhouettes of the gluttonous Chain Worms were growing smaller

was already late to rush in pursuit of it, and every moment that passed

Goddamn great, you fool! You finally let your greed

full of fury at himself, but then suddenly

was not on this island because of greed. Even 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

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

was nothing but stone

supposed to do? How was

summoned his shadow back, and briefly regained

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

Mimic or the Covetous Coffer? No, the 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

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 debris was going to fall down and eventually

going to remain of

crack appeared on the corpse of the Mordant Mimic. Then, the stone beneath it cracked,

did not

cracks on the stone widened and crawled