Shadow Slave

Sunny stared at the blind girl with surprise clearly written on his face. Allowing this surprise to seep into his voice, he asked:

"The vine creature? You want to kill that thing?"

Why would she want to attempt to do something that dangerous?

Cassie nodded.

"Yes."

He shook his head.

"That bastard sprawls through the entire island, its vines buried underground. It is Corrupted, which means that our weapons will barely be able to cut it. And, if that was not bad enough, the vines produce clouds of deadly poison. Are you sure that you want to attack it?"

The blind girl lingered for a few moments, then answered calmly:

"It is a Corrupted Monster, indeed. It is terrifying and lethal, yes. But I am sure that we can destroy it, with enough preparation. Everyone has weaknesses, after all. That creature is susceptible to fire, for example. There must be other things we might be able to exploit, too."

Sunny thought for a while, then shrugged.

"Fine. I will help your cohort fight the monstrosity on the Shipwreck Island. I will not promise that we will succeed, though."

Cassie sighed.

"Then we have a deal. My cohort and I will remain in the Desecrated Growth until our business here is done. I expect it to take a month, at least. Maybe more. After, we will return to the Sanctuary, recuperate, and proceed to the Shipwreck Island."

She paused for a moment, and then added:

"And then, I will help you challenge the Second Nightmare."

Sunny smiled.

we don't die before

turned back to the

we don't die before

***

back to the Sanctuary, Sunny

was the fact that he would have to cooperate with Cassie again, which made him feel all sorts of complicated emotions. The manner

benefit. After all, Sunny could

the ancient ship, this time to do battle with the vine monster that ruled over the island. Sunny knew very well how dangerous that thing was, so he had

augmentation of the Cruel Sight, however, was going to come

think about that. However, Sunny was not going to

keep it in his mind, but continue to act as if nothing had changed. At least he thought that this was

mentally exhausted from the long journey to and back from the Desecrated Grove, Sunny approached the Sanctuary of Noctis in the middle of the night.

the familiar sound of water falling over the

about it, for now.

that he was finally going to get his

Chain Worm had brought with it to the Iron Hand Island started this whole ordeal, and now, the coins would

was waiting for him up

in its center. Stopping for a couple of moments to make sure that no one was watching him, he then crossed the stone path leading to the small island in

altar stood in the shade of an ancient tree, and an obsidian

'The moment of truth…'

took out one of the gold coins out of it, and placed it

the moonlight, and

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

big smile appeared on Sunny's

runes,

Shadow Fragments: [224/2000].

'It works!'

or so on the altar each time he had to return to the real world — to minimize

was in his sight, he decided