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.

it all, but Sunny had to reluctantly admit that with the caliber of enemies he was facing these days, its protective qualities left a

it was that the effects of the poison did not seem to be

Wormvine had turned out to be much more complicated than

should the beasts regain their courage after the Corrupted Monster's death, but he couldn't muster enough

been called Solvane for a bit, then walked over

a look at his new Memory.

that happened, numerous questions inevitably

happened in the cargo hold of the ancient ship

the host 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

first place? And why was it so similar to the obsidian one that lay on

all these questions and found no answers, one

I killed

Spell had described Solvane as a Transcendent human, which was what Saints were really called. Sunny

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

were much more of a force to be

yet, Sunny had killed

had also killed a Corrupted Monster, with

strike… but it didn't matter. The

that is definitely something that no one is going to believe,

then grimaced from pain,

his fragments.

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

kill a few 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.

of the list. He held

Memory: [Undying Chain.]