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…

them, Sunny silently

there were

yet, there was not a single Echo he had received after slaughtering

none at all.

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

for a while, his expression glum. Then, he

Red Priest, though. I would have made him into a Shadow... just to

couple was splendid. The rest, however, were worse than what he already had in his arsenal. Their only use

he did not hurry to give them away as sustenance for the taciturn demon. Instead, Sunny hesitated for a long

able to study and experiment with while not fearing to damage or destroy an actually

decision, Sunny finished the last of synthpaste tubes he had taken out of the Covetous Coffer, indifferently dropped them

toward the horizon, and the night was swiftly

that he would have to move

***

the next few days, Sunny traveled southeast, staying in the darkness of the Sky Below during the night, and finding shelter on the undersides of the floating island

the course of these days, Sunny made

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 harrowing abominations that dwelled on the dark side of the

below the isles far easier for him. Of course, there were still some monstrosities hiding in the darkness, but not nearly enough to make it too hard to

that the population of Nightmare Creatures was so low. It was also the reason why it took Solvane and her zealots a

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 the dark side

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