Shadow Slave

Sunny had planned to catch a couple of hours of sleep, but in the end, he was too mesmerized by the promise of the Marble Shell to close his eyes even for a second. That new Attribute of his was both supremely powerful and complex, which meant that unlocking its full potential would demand a lot of insight and ingenuity.

If he did manage to master it, though...

Laying in the darkness of the sleeping niche, Sunny smiled ominously.

'What a great present. It should not have come as a surprise, though.'

The challenge of the [Prince of the Underworld] had been a steep one. Six thousand defeated opponents... most Awakened - those normal people that did not go out of their way to seek out battle after battle - would never face that many adversaries in their entire lifetime, perhaps.

More than that, Sunny suspected that the enchantment had actually had several stages, while he only completed the last one. After all, the counter of vanquished foes had already been filled to some extent by the time Sunny repaired the Mantle of the Underworld.

An Ascended armor of the sixth Tier, demanding six thousand kills to rise to the seventh.

If the onyx armor had started off as a Memory of the first Tier, demanding a thousand kills to rise to the second, two thousand to rise to the third... then it might have taken no less than twenty- one thousand defeated enemies for it to acquire the [Soulbound Relic] enchantment.

'What a scary number...'

No wonder the Marble Shell was such a potent Attribute... not to mention its connection to one of the daemons.

it had been the First Lord of the Bright Castle or one of his companions that wore the Mantle before, Sunny really owed them some gratitude. Even more of it, to be

the past, though, there was a lot for him to think about when it

- increase his defensive capability and resilience. Yes, the dormant state of the Attribute was a weakened version of its active form, and yes, the [Living Stone] trait only allowed him to mend his skin, as opposed to his entire body. Sure, he did not currently

it did not matter. In a sense, Sunny himself was

the world ruled by it, attack almost always trumped defense. No matter how tough an armor was, a powerful and well-placed strike from a weapon of a similar

would have never been able to kill Awakened Nightmare Creatures as a Sleeper, or continuously challenge

limits, of course, but generally, that was how things

Someone else would have found the Marble Shell a

most important quality of the strange Attribute was that it had become a part of his body, and as such, could be augmented with

Maybe not.

for elemental, mind, and soul attacks as well,

equation, with the [Living

be ready to go around slaying titans just yet, but he was halfway convinced that being

that was

potential to do wonders for his

could be applied to his entire

speed and mobility. Making himself heavier could help Sunny weather powerful blows, as well as increase the impact of his own strikes - force

of