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.

die before that, you

blind girl turned back to the roots of

If we don't die before

***

way back to the Sanctuary, Sunny had a lot to

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

sake of mutual benefit. After all,

battle with the vine monster that ruled over the island. Sunny knew very well how dangerous that thing was, so he had a lot of preparations to do if he wanted to

divine flame augmentation of the Cruel Sight, however, was going to

what to think about that. However, Sunny was not going to let

mind, but continue to act as if nothing had

back from the Desecrated Grove, Sunny approached the Sanctuary of Noctis in the middle of the night. His shadow essence reserves were almost depleted, and his head buzzed from all the thoughts swarming inside of

water falling over the

about it, for now. First

was high in the sky, which meant that he was finally

dead Chain Worm had brought with it

waiting for

in its center. Stopping for a couple of moments to

white altar stood in the shade of an ancient tree, and an obsidian knife lay on

'The moment of truth…'

gold coins

shimmered, reflecting the moonlight, and then

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

big smile appeared on

the runes, he

Shadow Fragments: [224/2000].

'It works!'

altar each time he had to return to

that the reward was in