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.

Sunny had to reluctantly admit that with the caliber of enemies he was facing these days, its

that the effects of the poison did not

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

were still alive… were going to have to clean up the remaining Sailor Dolls should the

of the person who had once been called Solvane for a bit, then walked over and stood above him

while, not even summoning the runes to take a look at his new Memory. Slowly, his exhaustion diminished,

that happened, numerous questions

happened in the cargo hold of the ancient

host of the Wormvine? How had they survived for thousands of years? Why was Solvane immune to divine flame and couldn't

why was it so similar to the obsidian one that lay

Sunny considered all these questions and found no

I killed a

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

had Sunny ever considered being able to kill a Saint… at least not at his current

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 the same Rank, or maybe a powerful demon, could stand a

Sunny

Corrupted Monster, with the same

it was Saint who had delivered the strike… but

no one is going to believe,

from pain, and finally summoned the

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

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

Ranks above him gave twelve more fragments — four from the

end of the

Memory: [Undying Chain.]