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

a shocked expression appearing on his

What clan?! Do I look like a

boil with outrage in silence. Eventually, he slowly

you sure that

for a long time, then

I searched for it for a

words,

'...What?'

you were trying to reach the Ivory

his face in frustration, trying to find a way to

you do that? There's no shortage of Seeds of Nightmare everywhere in the Dream Realm,

that one stumbled on one every day, but also not so rare to go to this lengths to reach one. What had Mordret been

prince answered after a short

not

let out

understand you for some reason. What do Legacies have to do

for a bit, then

is a very,

he

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

Nightmares conquered in all of human history,

could a Seed be

he was thinking about,

Master, but not all Masters are equal. There are a few dozen Saints, but not all Saints are equal. And similarly, there are numerous

Sunny scowled.

it easier? More

The lost prince sighed.

fair… in its own perverse way. However, that doesn't mean that the outcome is always the same. What enemies you vanquish determine what Memories and Echoes you receive. What battles you fight

arsenal of Memories, and had to admit that the more unique Nightmare Creatures he had thought, the greater the reward was. In that sense, challenging a… "unique" Nightmare would certainly

of the Lineage Memories into

frown appeared on

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