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…

to consider them, Sunny silently counted

there were thirty-nine

was not a single Echo he had received after slaughtering nearly a thousand

at all. What is this, a

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

a

pity 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

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

as sustenance for the taciturn demon. Instead, Sunny hesitated

that he would be able to study and experiment with while not fearing to damage or destroy an

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

rolling toward the horizon, and the night was

meant that he would

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of the floating island

the course of these days, Sunny made several stunning

was rather pleasant and beneficial to him. As it turned out, there were far fewer Nightmare Creatures populating the Kingdom of Hope

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

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

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

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