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.

prince thought for a few moments,

everything is lost. Even though you can't fly, you do have some mobility. With some

glanced into the darkness with a resentful

myself. Tell me something

The void chuckled.

only because you

Then, it disappeared.

Sunny's face twitched.

"Goddammit! He's gone again!"

a second later, Mordret's voice suddenly resounded

is still time. I

a few

the divine flame. An empty rift in the tapestry of stars where none of it remains. If

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

me sooner? How far am I from this

Mordret sighed.

that, I had never

he was exploring this abyss, too. Why?

tilted his head, the asked

how do

for some time. After a while, when Mordret spoke again,

it should be somewhere near

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

sat motionlessly for a while, staring into the endless nothingness of

"Near the Tear…"

To somewhere very near its center. If the rift in the annihilating field of the divine flames had anything to do with the golden thread, then Sunny had a much better chance of finding the path

had already half-found it,

down, Sunny sighed and closed his eyes again, returning to the endless routine of circulating

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