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.

had to reluctantly admit that with the caliber of enemies he was facing these days, its protective qualities left a lot to be desired. Sadly, even such a powerful Memory could not keep up with the progress of

the effects of the poison did not seem to

the end, even if killing the Wormvine had turned out to

Keepers… if they were still alive… were going to have to clean up the remaining Sailor Dolls should the beasts regain their courage after

called Solvane for

look at his new Memory. Slowly,

happened, numerous questions inevitably

in the cargo hold of the ancient ship was

years? Why was Solvane

had that knife come from, in the first place? And why was it so similar to the obsidian one that

no answers, one thought gradually encompassed all

Saint… I killed

described Solvane as a Transcendent human, which was what Saints were really called. Sunny knew it to be true, but

to sell himself short, but not even in his wildest dreams had Sunny ever considered being able to kill a Saint… at least not at his current

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

Sunny

had also killed a Corrupted Monster, with the

had delivered the strike… but

no one is going to believe,

chuckled, then grimaced from pain, and

was check his

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

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

at the end of the list. He held his

Memory: [Undying Chain.]