Shadow Slave

The grass covering the surface of the island moved, and strange shapes appeared from beneath it. Some were similar to each other, while some were not, but all shared the same deep emerald color. The shapes levitated upward, slowly coalescing together.

The creepy shadow observed the eerie event from the shade of a large boulder, darkly excited. Sunny only understood what it was so excited about when the boulder suddenly split open and fell apart, making way for another of the shapes… this one easily recognizable.

It was a massive emerald jawbone, similar to a human one in all aspects except for size.

…The creepy guy had always been strangely fascinated by dead things. No wonder he got fixated on a bunch of flying bones.

As Sunny watched, the emerald bones assembled into a towering human skeleton — very similar to the powerful abomination of the same kind Sunny had fought and destroyed in the Red Colosseum, but much larger and way more frightening.

The emerald skeleton stared north for a while, and then slowly headed toward the edge of the island, each of its steps making the ground shake.

At the same time, a loud rattle of the heavenly chain rolled through the two skies. Sunny was so used to hearing them that he didn't pay it any attention at first, but then, a deep frown appeared on his face.

Something… wasn't right. The rattling of the chain sounded different, somehow.

He lingered for a few moments, then silently dove into the shadows and glided to the northern slope of the flying isle.

As soon as Sunny saw the heavenly chain stretching far into the distance, his heart grew cold.

A terrifying abomination with a body that resembled a dirty mass of pitch-black tar was crawling underneath it, its back facing the Sky Below. Each second, a dozen tendrils of liquid darkness shot forward from the mass, sticking to the links of the giant chain and pulling the creature forward.

so heavy that the iron of the

hellish nightmare is

The two

'Corrupted… a Corrupted Monster.'

one of them. Who knew that the horror nesting on the Dark Side of the flying island would turn out to be equal to the harrowing Wormvine, and then decide

ripples across its liquid flesh. The force of the impact was so great that a destructive shockwave spread in all directions, causing the heavenly chain

and stared at the invading horror,

seemingly dealing it no damage. The creature simply continued crawling, its massive body surging forward like

probably need to

convulsed, and in the next second, dozens of sharp stone shards shot out of its flesh, each covered by fetid black liquid. Some rained on the emerald

to dodge one of them, and stared with resentment at the small crater that appeared in place of his hiding place. Sure, he was an incorporeal shadow right now… but

what this horror

that there was a thin layer of black tar spread around the point of impact — and dozens of similar ones nearby. As he watched, the foul liquid started to move, coalescing into small dark blobs. Some

then flowed toward him,

'Crap!'

through the shadows as fast as he could. By the time he reached the bottom of the island,

mass of liquid darkness. It struggled desperately, but to no avail

me, hellspawn... I'm too small and

rushing toward the other heavenly chain that led away