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

'No, no, no!'

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

and try

He could try to chase after

length of the heavenly tether was falling deceitfully slow, but it was just an illusion caused by its colossal size. In truth, the torn end of it was flying through the air at tremendous speed, moving both down

Chain

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

great, you fool! You finally

at himself,

Even though Sunny had made several risky decisions in order to get to the miraculous coins, at the

came here because his intuition had told him that something on

There was nothing but stone

to do? How

think. He summoned his shadow back, and briefly regained

was already overwhelming his physical ability to resist its lethal pressure. Sunny had a few dozen seconds, at

what's the point? Even if the chest survives until the Twisted Rock itself is torn

a doubt. As it rose higher and higher, it was going to start to fall apart. When enough of it was destroyed to

what was going to remain

seconds more. Another crack appeared on the corpse of the

did not

widened and crawled in