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

itself. However, not everything is lost. Even though you can't fly, you do have some mobility. With some luck, you might be able to dodge the

into the darkness with a

myself. Tell me something that I don't

The void chuckled.

But only because

Then, it disappeared.

Sunny's face twitched.

"Goddammit! He's gone again!"

voice suddenly resounded

still time. I was just

for a

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

to control his emotions these days, Sunny tried his hardest to suppress the

me sooner? How

Mordret sighed.

that, I had never managed to find the rift myself. The Sky Below

this abyss, too. Why? What's out there, beyond

head, the asked

you never found it, how do you know

silent for some time. After a while, when Mordret spoke again, his voice sounded distant

it should be somewhere near the Tear.

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

motionlessly for a while, staring into

"Near the Tear…"

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 thread, then Sunny had a much better chance of finding the path

had already half-found it,

to the endless routine of circulating the shadow

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