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

Echo he had received after slaughtering nearly a

any sense… none at all. What is this, a

his luck when it came to Memories had been incredible, while his luck when it came

the darkness for a while, his

that I did not receive an Echo of the Red Priest, though. I would have made him into a Shadow... just to get a chance to

names and descriptions. A few were good, and a couple was splendid. The rest, however, were worse than what

the taciturn demon. Instead, Sunny hesitated for a long time,

damage or destroy an actually valuable instrument. He

the last of synthpaste tubes he had taken out of the Covetous Coffer, indifferently dropped them into the dark abyss of the Sky Below, and sent one of his shadows to

toward the horizon,

meant that he would

***

the night, and finding shelter on the undersides of the floating island during the

days,

populating the Kingdom of Hope in this era than there were in

the isles far easier for him. Of course, there were still some monstrosities hiding in the darkness,

because of them and their efforts that the population of Nightmare Creatures was so low. It was also the reason why it took Solvane and her

also had to do with the human inhabitants of the Kingdom 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 islands during the day, unnoticed. But

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