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

good thing about his condition, though, it was that the effects of the poison did not seem to be growing stronger.

even if killing the Wormvine had turned out to be much more complicated than anyone would have thought.

up the remaining Sailor Dolls should the beasts regain their courage after

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

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

happened, numerous questions inevitably assaulted his

had happened in the cargo hold of

survived for thousands of years? Why was Solvane immune to divine flame and couldn't be harmed by the

so similar

questions and found no

Saint… I

what Saints were really called. Sunny knew it

his wildest dreams had Sunny ever considered being able to kill a Saint… at least not at his current Rank. Saints

more of a force to be reckoned with than any beast or monster could ever hope to be. Only a devil of the same Rank, or maybe a powerful demon, could stand a

Sunny had

had also killed a Corrupted Monster, with the same

had delivered the strike… but it

that is definitely something that no one

pain,

his fragments. The number was just

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

killing a human and a monster two Ranks above him gave twelve more fragments — four from the Saint,

the list. He held his breath

Memory: [Undying Chain.]