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.

accompanied him on his misadventures from almost the very start of it all, but Sunny 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

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

in the end, even if killing the Wormvine had turned out to be much more complicated

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

for

to take a look at his new Memory.

happened, numerous questions inevitably assaulted

of the

of the Wormvine? How had they survived for 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

so similar to the obsidian one that lay on the altar in the

no answers, one

I killed

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

not even in his wildest dreams had Sunny ever considered being able to kill a Saint…

humans were much more of a force to be reckoned with than any

yet, Sunny had

Corrupted Monster, with

technically, it was Saint who had delivered the strike… but it didn't matter. The

that is definitely something that no

pain, and

first thing he did was check his fragments. The number was just

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

above him gave twelve more fragments — four from the Saint, and

appeared at the end of the list. He held

Memory: [Undying Chain.]