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:

your clan elders not taught you

a shocked

Do I look like

letting Sunny boil with outrage in silence. Eventually,

sure that that's

for a long time,

it for a long time,

these words,

'...What?'

to reach the Ivory Tower? To challenge

rubbed his face in frustration, trying to find a way to make sense of

do that? There's no shortage of Seeds of Nightmare everywhere in the Dream Realm, ones that are not hidden behind endless voids and oceans of

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

answered after a short pause, his

not a

let out

can't understand you for some reason. What do Legacies

a

Nightmare… is a

is he

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

same thing went for Sovereigns, although there only had been three Fourth Nightmares conquered in all of human history, as far as Sunny knew… and he knew more

could a

guessing what he

are a lot of Master, but not all Masters are equal. There are a few dozen Saints, but not all Saints are equal. And

Sunny scowled.

so? Is it easier?

The lost prince sighed.

mean that the outcome is always the same. What enemies you vanquish determine what Memories and Echoes you receive. What battles you

admit that the more unique Nightmare Creatures he had thought, the greater the reward was. In that sense,

of the Lineage

frown appeared on his

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