Shadow Slave

…The autumn was in full swing. Out in the waking world, the skies were grey and the winds were turning cold. The trees were showering the wet ground with a fragrant carpet of dead leaves.

But under the boundless, lethal expanse of the Sky Above, the world was still warm and bright. On an especially large island, one covered with emerald grass and moss-covered ruins, a frightening Nightmare Creature was stalking its prey.

It had four mighty paws, a lean body covered in black fur, and a wide maw full of sharp fangs. Above it, two furious red eyes burned with hatred and madness.

The abomination noiselessly moved through the tall grass, approaching the source of loud noise. A human's voice was screaming, full of indignation:

"I'm right here! Come and get me, damned bastards! Curse you all!"

The creature snarled and prepared to jump.

…Before it could, however, a slender arrow fell from the sky and hit the abomination right in the eye, instantly killing it.

[You have slain a Fallen Beast, Black Ravager.]

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

Several hundred meters away, safely hidden in the shadows cast by a fragment of an ancient wall, Sunny lowered his bow and frowned.

The happy shadow jumped up and down several times, then turned to him and applauded.

his frown turning

mean, great shot? I was aiming for its leg, you

his head, he threw the bow on

months since the day he had gained — and promptly lost — the lineage of Shadow God, but Sunny's mood was

had spent most of this time training Rain and learning how to use a bow. By now, his aim wasn't terrible, but it was also not nearly

Memory awarded to Mongrel — even if no one except for the terrifying Master knew what exactly that Memory was, people

to wield back when he had been too weak to handle Nightmare Creatures

stared at the bow in question and suppressed the desire to give it a good kick. Dismissing it with a sigh, he retrieved the Cruel Sight

much stronger now. He had a vastly better arsenal of Memories at his disposal, an additional Shadow Core and a third shadow, and his combat mastery

God's blood, three of his Attributes evolved. The [Ember of Divinity] was

much more potent. Sunny was now much harder to break and kill. He probably couldn't bleed to death

something, at

the Ordinary Rock to shut up, he picked it up from the ground, hid it on his belt, and walked over to the carcass of the Black

creepy shadow slowly turned its head and stared at the

'This guy…'

Sunny rolled his eyes.

there, pervert, come here and

Prowling Thorn, which was then used to cut the tough hide of

be it, but today Sunny needed to retrieve something else as well. Grimacing from time to time, he cut several large

"Should be enough… right?"

up the Cruel Sight, and headed toward the southern edge of