Shadow Slave

Chapter 458

Sunny froze, then took a careful step back and stared at the walls of the great hall.

Mordret's timing, this time around, was impeccable.

It was not like Sunny had planned to get too close to the mass of darkness, but he might have underestimated the danger it presented. To be honest, he felt that he wasn't thinking entirely straight... it was not like he had lost control, but the strange pull he felt outside the tower was much stronger here, exerting a subtle effect on his mind.

Sunny tensed and glanced at the pulsating dark rift, then realized that the pull emanated from the shackles that were the source of it.

"...Why? What is that thing?"

The lost prince remained silent for a few moments, then sighed.

"I really can't make sense of you."

Sunny blinked.

That was not the answer he had expected!

"What? What is that supposed to mean?"

Mordret answered with a bit of doubt in his voice.

"Nothing, really. It's just that… some things about you suggest a certain background, but then there are as many contradictions. Don't you know what a Seed of Nightmare looks like?"

Sunny jumped back, then cautiously looked at the mass of shimmering darkness again.

So… that was a Seed of Nightmare. A vile manifestation of the Spell that grew in the Dream Realm and eventually blossomed, opening a Gate to the real world for the Nightmare Creatures to enter. The thing that Awakened were supposed to seek out and destroy by challenging the Nightmare contained within.

No wonder it exerted a pull on him.

He scowled, then said with annoyance:

"How am I supposed to know what a Seed of Nightmare looks like? I only became an Awakened a few months ago!"

Mordret spoke in his usual polite tone:

clan elders not taught

wide, a shocked expression appearing on his

clan?! Do I look

boil with outrage in silence. Eventually, he slowly exhaled and

sure that that's

lingered for a long time, then said

I searched for it for

these words, Sunny

'...What?'

that why you were trying to reach the Ivory Tower? To challenge a

to find a way to make sense

of Nightmare everywhere in the

day, but also not so rare to go to this lengths to reach one. What had

lost prince answered after a short pause,

are not

let out

extra obscure today, or I can't understand you for

thought for a

Seed of Nightmare… is a very, very special

is he going

only thing that differentiated Seeds, in Sunny's mind, was their Category. A Category Two Seed would blossom into a Category Two Gate, and contained a Second Nightmare. If an Awakened challenged it and passed the trial, they would become a Master. If a Master challenged a Category Three Seed

although there only had been three Fourth Nightmares conquered in all of human history, as far as

a Seed be

guessing what he was thinking

dozen Saints, but not all Saints are equal. And similarly,

Sunny scowled.

Is it

The lost prince sighed.

is concerned, the Spell is always fair… in its own perverse way. However, that doesn't mean that the outcome is always

Nightmare Creatures he had thought, the greater the reward was. In

existence of the

appeared

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