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!'

rest of the Chained Isles snapped in two, and as ten kilometers 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

'No, no, no!'

fury that he couldn't even scream. He felt himself being slowly broken, and feverishly tried to come up with

down and try to glide to

another, which was far outside the Dark Wing's capabilities. He could try to chase after the piece of the chain

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

gluttonous Chain Worms were growing smaller

rush in pursuit of it, and every

Goddamn great, you fool! You finally let your greed

growled, full of fury at

that didn't make any sense. He 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 Island, he put his avarice aside and made a sober

told him that something on the Twisted Rock was very important to his

but stone

he supposed to do? How

calm down and think. He summoned his shadow

its lethal pressure. Sunny had a few dozen seconds, at most, before he would be

inside the dead 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 chest survives until the Twisted Rock itself is torn apart and plunges down into the Sky Below,

was going to start to fall apart. When

was going to

seconds more. Another crack appeared on the

not

cracks on the stone widened and