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.

thought for a few moments, then

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

the darkness with a

figured out myself. Tell me something that I

The void chuckled.

But only because you

Then, it disappeared.

Sunny's face twitched.

"Goddammit! He's gone again!"

later, Mordret's voice suddenly resounded from

no. There is still time.

for a few moments, then

An empty rift in the tapestry of stars where none of it remains. If you find it,

Sunny tried his hardest to suppress the misplaced anger and calm

sooner? How far am

Mordret sighed.

I had

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

tilted his head, the

it, how do you know that it's

while, when Mordret spoke again,

should be somewhere near the

alone in the

motionlessly for a while, staring into the endless nothingness

"Near the Tear…"

too, had pointed toward the Tear. To somewhere very near its center. If the rift in the annihilating field of the divine flames had anything

already half-found it,

closed his eyes again, returning to the endless routine of circulating the

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