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.

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

that the effects of the poison did not seem to be growing stronger. Blood Weave had the situation under

Wormvine had turned out to be much more complicated than anyone would have thought. Still, somehow, Sunny had

to have to clean up the remaining Sailor Dolls should the beasts regain their courage after the Corrupted Monster's death, but he couldn't muster enough energy to care, at

the person who had once been called Solvane for a bit, then

a while, not even summoning the runes to take a look at his new Memory. Slowly, his exhaustion diminished, and he could think clearly

questions inevitably assaulted his

happened in the cargo hold of the ancient ship was

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

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

questions and found no answers,

I killed

as a Transcendent human, which was what Saints were really called. Sunny

himself short, but not even in his wildest dreams had Sunny ever considered being able to kill a

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 ever hope to be. Only a devil of

Sunny

Corrupted Monster, with the same

delivered the strike… but it didn't

no one is

grimaced from pain,

check his fragments. The number

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

Nightmare Creatures on 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 looked

of the list. He held his breath

Memory: [Undying Chain.]