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!'

of gargantuan iron links slowly fell toward the Sky Below, the island suddenly shot upward. Since it was still in the ascent phase, and now unrestrained by anything, the speed of its rise was

'No, no, no!'

He felt himself being slowly broken, and feverishly tried to

through the shadows… jump down and

outside the Dark Wing's capabilities. He could

colossal size. In truth, the torn end of it was flying through

gluttonous Chain Worms were growing

and every moment that passed made the

Goddamn great, you fool! You finally let your

growled, full of fury at himself,

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

that something on the Twisted

what was it?! There was nothing but stone and

to do? How was

tried to calm down and think. He summoned his shadow

overwhelming 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 shadows or

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 itself is torn

was going to start to fall apart. When enough of it was destroyed to obliterate the mysterious force that kept the isles afloat,

was going to

more. Another crack appeared on the corpse

did not move at

the stone widened