Shadow Slave

Five Reflections surrounded Sunny, each bearing his own image. The towering shadowkin devils looked nothing short of terrifying. Their gaunt, ironclad figures emanated a feeling of profound threat and malice, and their black eyes peered at him with inhuman intensity. It was deeply disturbing.

'Damn... am I that scary?'

Sunny leaned on the backrest of his chair and said without skipping a pause:

"Lost from Light… kill that wicked old man!"

The Reflections continued to stare at him, unmoving. A few moments passed, but nothing happened.

An awkward silence hung in the air.

Mordret chuckled.

"You didn't really think that this trick would work again, did you?"

He smiled, then glanced at the shadow devils with satisfaction.

"Naturally, I bound them to myself before you arrived."

Sunny glared at the old man for a bit, then looked away and shrugged.

"Well… it was worth a try, anyway."

'Disappointing…'

He studied the Reflections for a second, trying to determine how powerful they were, exactly.

Unlike how Mordret had appeared during their soul battle, now, Sunny could only see one weak core in the frail body of the old man. It was dim and unremarkable, hinting that he was looking at the priest's own soul… or at least its perfect imitation. It seemed that determining which body the Prince of Nothing possessed in that manner was impossible. His own soul was perfectly hidden.

The Reflections, on the other hand, were different… and quite bizarre. Sunny could see shadow cores inside each of the creatures, but despite looking like shadow devils, none of them were.

All of them were Ascended, but two out of five were mere Beasts. Two more were Monsters, and one was a Demon. Sunny had no idea how the Class progression worked when it came to Reflections, but he suspected that they were less powerful than the Mirror Beast, their elder sibling, had been.

life and risen to an Ascended Devil,

him to shreds. Especially considering that each of them was reflecting a

Mordret, hesitated, and

also a bit underwhelming. I guess slaughtering thousands of mundane humans was not very nourishing for your monsters, huh? Now that I

man looked at him with

enough to

Sunny grinned.

are not going to kill

Mordret raised an eyebrow.

makes you

his chair,

can say goodbye to all the wonderful Memories I possess. I would have been a bit scared if you had weeks to torture me into surrendering them…

The old man smiled.

are you

shiver run down his spine and

no. Not really. I am not sure. In any case, you are also

Mordret frowned.

so? Your allies seem to have abandoned you. Your Shadows are wounded and can't

devils with apprehension, Sunny lingered for a few moments, and then

that, it does seem like I can't do much. They are all very powerful, indeed. I am already a bit of a menace, and these things possess all of my

shifted his gaze to the old man, a wicked

than me. More than that, I couldn't help to notice that your Aspect, terrifying as it might be, doesn't offer

grew darker, suffused with

of destroying your body before

were just a few meters separating him

a shaky step back, and

Please, don't! What would I do without

shook his head

of your allies, and wear them instead. Which one should I pick, huh? The child or the cripple? I

Sunny grew quiet.