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

after slaughtering nearly a thousand Nightmare Creatures. Not even a hint of

any sense… none at all. What

luck when it came to Echoes had been

darkness for a while, his expression

Red Priest, though. I would have made him into

descriptions. A few were good, and a couple was splendid. The rest, however, were worse than what he already had in his

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

to damage or destroy an actually valuable instrument. He would be able to use Weaver's needle now, too, instead of

that decision, Sunny finished the last of synthpaste tubes he had taken out of the Covetous Coffer, indifferently dropped them into the dark abyss of the Sky Below,

sun was rolling toward the horizon, and the

that he would have to move

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the darkness of the Sky Below during the night, and finding shelter on the undersides of the floating island during the day. He was still weak because of

the course of these days, Sunny

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

task of remaining below the isles far easier for him. Of course, there were still

humans living on the levitating islands. It was because of them and their efforts that the population of Nightmare Creatures was so low. It was also the

in the territory of the worshippers of War, which made it all but impossible to appear on the surface of

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