Shadow Slave

Chapter 626

Sunny remained motionless for a while, then shifted his gaze, moving it to the very end of the field of shimmering runes. Soon, Neph's description appeared before him. He lingered for a few moments, and then read:

…Soul Fragments: [2478/4000].

The corner of his mouth twitched.

'Of course. She is in a hell of her own, after all…'

The gap between them had diminished, but barely. He was still behind… still lacking…

But she was alive, at least. And fighting with all her strength to return.

If Neph refused to give up, then he would have to persevere, too.

With a sigh, Sunny turned away and looked back to his runes, finding the list of his Memories and Echoes. His eyes suddenly gleamed, but then grew dark and slightly despondent.

'What the hell… how is this even possible…'

Among the names of his Memories, dozens of new ones shimmered in the darkness. It seemed that the Spell continued to reward him even while their connection was obstructed by the sorceries of Hope. It sort of made sense… the fact that Sunny had not been able to communicate with the Spell did not mean that it had not continued to watch his every step.

He was inside one of its Nightmares, after all. Which created a swarm of questions on its own…

consider them, Sunny

were thirty-nine

was not a single Echo he had received after

sense… none at

it came to Echoes had been beyond terrible. He should have received four of five, at

stared into the darkness for a while,

Echo of the Red Priest, though. I would have made him into a Shadow... just to get a chance to kill that

reading their names and descriptions. A few were good, and a couple was splendid. The rest, however, were worse than what he already had in his arsenal. Their only use was

away as sustenance for the taciturn demon. Instead, Sunny hesitated for a long time, and then dismissed the

destroy an actually valuable instrument. He

dropped them into the dark abyss of the Sky Below, and sent one of his shadows to scout out

sun was rolling toward the horizon, and the

that he would

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shelter on the undersides of the floating island during the day. He was still weak because of his injuries and had to

of these days, Sunny made several stunning

first one was rather pleasant and beneficial to him. As it turned out, there were far fewer Nightmare Creatures populating the Kingdom of Hope in this era than there were in the future. That included the

still some monstrosities hiding in the darkness, but not nearly enough to make it too hard to avoid

efforts that the population

of Hope. He was still in the territory of the worshippers of War, which made it all but impossible to appear on the surface of the

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