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,

itself. However, not everything is lost. Even though

glanced into the darkness with

Tell me something

The void chuckled.

only because you asked

Then, it disappeared.

Sunny's face twitched.

"Goddammit! He's gone again!"

second later, Mordret's voice suddenly resounded from the

still time.

a few moments, then

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

emotions these days, Sunny tried his hardest to suppress the misplaced anger and calm himself down. When he spoke,

sooner? How far am I from this rift,

Mordret sighed.

exactly. More than that, I had never managed to find the rift myself.

too. Why? What's out there, beyond the fake

head, the asked

it, how do you know that

void remained silent for some time. After a while, when Mordret spoke again, his

Tear… it should be somewhere near

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

while, staring into the endless nothingness of

"Near the Tear…"

had pointed toward 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

had already half-found it,

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

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