Shadow Slave

Sunny read the runes with curiosity:

Memory: [Shadow Lantern].

Memory Rank: Divine.

…He fell from the bed.

'What?!'

Another… another Divine Memory?

Feeling cold sweat rolling down his face, Sunny wiped it off with a trembling hand and slowly clenched his fists.

'Should... should be interesting…'

He looked back to the runes, trying to calm his wildly beating hearts.

Just what kind of a Relic had he received?

Sunny got ahold of himself and continued to read the description:

Memory Tier: I.

Memory Type: Tool.

'A tool… makes sense. It is a lantern, after all. But what does it do? Lanterns are supposed to produce light and illuminate things. That's not exactly what shadows are known for, is it?'

With a concerned frown, he looked back at the runes.

Memory Description:

["Death is just the shadow of life," said the Goddes of Life. "And peace is just the failure of war. Have you ever been something that had not been stolen, made empty, and vile? Have you ever done something that was not futile and hollow? Can you even exist without being cast by another? Look at how weak you are, how small you are. Am I supposed to be frightened of a small shadow?"

Made pale and feeble by the radiance of day, Shadow laughed and rose from the ground. As he did, his figure swallowed the land, devoured the heavens, and blotted out the light of the sun. Soon, there was nothing left around them but darkness. And from that darkness, a hiss came, making Life tremble:

you cherish, everything you nurture, everything that starts with you will one day be mine, be welcomed by me, swallowed

Sunny shivered.

God always

in high regard, at least from what Sunny knew. His temples had been burned and destroyed, his followers turned into slaves… even his aspects and attributes seemed

Goddess of the Black Skies, the god of storms, depths,

unseen and unheard were often the most dangerous,

like

about the description for a bit, and

are the opposite of each other. No wonder every time I meet someone from the War camp, I end up

sighed, then continued reading the

Enchantments: [Gates

Description: [This lantern devours light and can contain, and then release, an

Sunny blinked.

'Huh?'

for a Divine Relic… that was unless one really thought about the meaning behind

Infinite…

one, like with the Endless Spring. If that was the truth… yes,

did it

frowned, a little

it be a nasty all-destroying sword,

of his palm, and made out of black… something. It didn't feel or look like any material

of the lantern was intricately engraved, making it seem and feel like the scales of a serpent, and its walls were made out of glossy black morion. There was a ring of

impenetrable. Any hint of starlight was devoured, turning

turned the beautiful lantern around and noticed a small door on one of its walls. He hesitated,

later, Sunny felt his hair stand on end, and his hearts stagger in his chest. He was suddenly cold, overwhelmed by unease, and… terrified. Like an animal facing something so much larger than itself that the difference in size could simply

exhaled, the breath escaping his mouth as chilling

that is

command any shadows to escape it. So, instead, he glanced at the

'Wanna come inside?'

at him with fear, then energetically shook its head. Sunny rolled his eyes, then turned to the creepy

'What about you?'

shrugged indifferently… and disappeared into the small

connection, but not in the way that he was used to. He couldn't see, hear, or sense what the shadow was seeing, hearing, and sensing. All he knew was that it still existed, somewhere else, in a terrible vast, dark, and cold