Shadow Slave

Chapter 439

Sunny stared into the darkness with an incredulous expression, then shrugged:

"Sure. Whatever. Nice to make your acquaintance… Your Highness. I am called Sunless, by the way. Sadly, no title."

Silently, though, he thought:

'...The young prince that the Dreamspawn had taken away?'

Oblivious to his suspicions, Mordret hesitated, then asked politely:

"Sunless? What an unusual name."

Sunny grimaced.

"Yes. My mother had a… on second thought, forget that! Are you going to tell me about the divine flame or not?"

The Prince of Nothing was silent for a bit, then said:

"There is not much to tell. The heat of those flames is absolutely deadly. Unless you have some way to fly, you are in big trouble. Which, I assume, you don't… otherwise, you wouldn't be in this predicament, to begin with. Right?"

'Well… you can't argue with sound logic, I guess!'

Sunny sighed.

"...I can control the direction of the fall, but yes, no true flight."

He hesitated, then added reluctantly:

"For what it is worth, my Aspect Ability allows me to turn incorporeal, as well as teleport for short distances."

He didn't really want to share the details of his powers with the mysterious prince, but currently, there was no other choice. Mordret obviously knew more about the Sky Below than Sunny, so his advice was vital.

lost prince thought for a few moments, then

will help against being cooked by the heat, but it won't save you from the divine flame itself. However, not everything is lost. Even though you can't fly, you do have some mobility. With some luck, you

into the darkness with a resentful

out myself. Tell me something that I don't know,

The void chuckled.

But only because you

Then, it disappeared.

Sunny's face twitched.

"Goddammit! He's gone again!"

a second later, Mordret's voice suddenly resounded from

still time. I was

was quiet for a few moments,

actually a path through the divine flame. An empty rift in the tapestry of stars where none of it

his emotions these days, Sunny tried his hardest to suppress the misplaced anger and

tell me sooner? How far am

Mordret sighed.

where you are, exactly. More than that, I had never

was exploring this abyss, too. Why? What's out

head,

never found it, how do you know that

After a while, when Mordret spoke again, his voice sounded distant and

somewhere near

was alone in the darkness again. This time, the mysterious prince was truly

a while, staring into the endless nothingness of

"Near the Tear…"

its center. If the rift in the annihilating field of the divine flames had anything to do

already

returning to the endless routine

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