Shadow Slave

Chapter 678

The three of them entered the Sanctuary, crossed the beautiful garden, and entered the sorcerer's residence through a familiar wooden door, Effie still sitting on Sunny's shoulders with a curious expression on her childish face.

The rooms within, however, had changed since the last time Sunny had seen them.

The luxurious furniture was gone, as well as beautiful decorations covering the walls. Instead, all that met them was barren stone, with a few broken Sailor Dolls laying on it, their limbs disassembled and laid out around the bodies like macabre pieces of art.

The floor of the whole central chamber was covered by a circle made out of a myriad of runes, powerful currents of soul essence flowing through it and dissipating into the ancient stones. Noctis was sitting in the center of the circle, his eyes closed. Without the familiar carefree smile, his beautiful face seemed ominous and strangely terrifying.

Hearing their footsteps, the sorcerer slowly exhaled. The crushing flood of essence slowly thinned, and then dissipated, retreating back into his body. He turned his head slightly and opened his eyes, which shone in the darkness for a moment, as though full of pale moonlight.

Then, they slowly turned human again, and Noctis smiled, returning to his usual laidback persona so suddenly that it seemed almost disturbing.

"Ah, Sunless, my friend! You are back! Sit down, have a drink… welcome!"

He stood up and outstretched a hand, as if trying to gesture at a set of comfortable seats. Then, a surprised expression appeared on the Transcendent's face, and he looked around the empty hall with a bit of confusion.

"Oh, right… I've been remodelling…"

Noctis sighed, then clapped his hands together.

"Well, no matter. Dolls! Bring my guests something to drink! They must be parched after their journey!"

His voice echoed around the residence… however, nothing happened.

He hesitated, then glanced at the broken mannequins lying on the floor and awkwardly shifted his feet.

"Ah. How unfortunate."

The sorcerer shook his head, then shrugged and looked at the three of them with a smile:

"Anyway... welcome!"

He tilted his head and stared at Effie, then blinked a couple of times.

"Ah, you have brought a ch—child with you. How curious. It doesn't bite, does it?"

Suny frowned, but before he could speak, Effie blurted with feigned outrage:

"I am not a child! I am twelve! Uh, almost."

stared at her with

"...It speaks. How bizarre."

inhaled, then said

called Effie. She is the friend

remained glued to his face. He stared at Effie some more, then

one of your friends is a cripple you randomly stumbled upon in

Sunny nodded grimly.

his chin, and

own beautiful friendship more, perhaps? If so, let me assure you! I value it a great deal already! There's no need for you to feel insecure just because you are

teeth and

Are you sure that you really want

with a sincere

"Well, of course…"

at him for a few moments, and then

cripple, and a small child. We are humans from a distant future whose souls were sent here by a nearly all-mighty entity known as the Nightmare Spell, after the gods had died and

wide eyes. Then, he sighed,

lies to mock me. If you don't want to tell me, you don't

his lips and turned

a new friend, you must have successfully infiltrated the Temple of the Chalice, found her, retrieved

silent for a couple of

exactly. We did retrieve Effie and the knife,

at

"But what?"

Sunny coughed.

of… destroyed the chalice and killed all the

stared at him

"...You did what?!"

then strained his

to take the Glass Knife away, but they would have never let Effie go. That was a tenet of their sect. So… the

eyes, his face turning deathly

manage to

other with

the last Transcendent of the Red Sect, died like two hundred years ago. There

blinked a couple

So she just went and died? How…

fool... did he really forget that real people had a habit of dying from time to time, unlike

himself. No, that was not right. Noctis was no fool, he just enjoyed playing one. There was no chance

step forward and

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