Shadow Slave

Sitting on the floor of the cargo hold, with his back against the soft and spongy layer of rotting brown moss, Sunny bent down and spat a mouthful of blood. Breathing hoarsely, he stared at it for a moment, and then tiredly leaned back.

He did not feel too well.

[...Your shadow grows stronger.]

A bitter smile appeared on his face.

'What? Is that all?'

After all that had just happened, Sunny felt that he really deserved more.

This time, his hopes were not for naught.

The Spell remained silent for a bit, as though to torture him, and then added:

[You have received a Memory.]

'...Better.'

After that, he groaned and coughed some more blood.

All around Sunny, the brown moss was rotting, withering, and turning into dust. The same thing was happening to the vile mass of vines, albeit at a slower rate. Now that both the Corrupted Monster and its host were dead, the ancient wreck seemed to be cleansing itself.

He couldn't be bothered to pay attention to these changes, though, and was fully concentrated on his own miserable state.

Even though the whole battle took less than a minute, Sunny had sustained a lot of damage. His body was pierced and torn by the black thorns, and he had too much poison running through his veins. One of his ligaments seemed to be seriously torn, too, which brought him a lot of pain now that the adrenalin was starting to dissipate.

start of it all, but Sunny had to reluctantly admit that with the caliber of enemies

it was that the effects of the poison did not seem to be growing stronger. Blood Weave had the situation under control, and he was

Wormvine had turned out

going to have to clean up the remaining Sailor Dolls should the beasts regain their courage after the Corrupted

the quickly disintegrating corpse of the person who had once been called Solvane for

summoning the runes to take a look at his new Memory. Slowly, his

questions inevitably assaulted

the cargo hold of the ancient ship

thousands of years? Why was Solvane immune to divine flame and couldn't be harmed by the Cruel Sight, but succumbed to one strike of the wooden

And why was it so similar to

all these questions and found no answers, one thought gradually encompassed all

I killed a

was what Saints were really called. Sunny knew it to

a Saint… at least not at his current Rank. Saints were

possessed one more soul core… but there was no comparison. Due to their Aspects and nature, Transcendent humans were much more of a force to be reckoned with than any beast or monster could

Sunny

a Corrupted Monster, with the

had delivered the strike… but it

is definitely something that no

grimaced from pain, and finally summoned the

did was check his fragments. The number was just

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

the way to the Shipwreck Island, and killing a human and a monster two Ranks above him gave twelve more fragments — four from the Saint, and eight from the Wormvine. Sunny sighed, lamenting the unfairness of his Aspect for the thousandth time, and

at the end of the list. He held his breath and

Memory: [Undying Chain.]