Shadow Slave

Eventually, Sunny climbed out of the sleeping niche and went about the business of managing the caravan. They had made it far into the mountains and were already moving north, toward their true goal.

The blizzard was still raging, reducing visibility to almost zero. The landscape was as grim and foreboding as ever.

Surrounding areas needed to be scouted, maps needed to be updated, reports needed to be received, and a hundred other things demanded his attention.

Before getting down to it, Sunny spared a few moments to stare at the grey fabric and lusterless black leather of the Puppeteer's Shroud.

Who could have thought that he would be reduced to seriously using it again, after all that time?

'It sure is much more comfortable than walking around in a full plate of steel armor. Ah, the old me had it good...'

Actually, not really.

Sunny was ready to climb to the roof of the Rhino when he noticed Beth staring at him with a strange expression. He lingered for a moment.

"What?"

She blinked a couple of times, then pulled her gaze away.

"No, no... nothing..."

Sunny frowned.

"Just say it, will you?"

Beth remained silent for a second, then asked hesitantly:

"Are you... uh... are you wearing makeup?"

it was

No! Why would

young woman gave him a dubious look

look a

Sunny grinned.

have the complexion of a marble statue, no makeup involved. Didn't you

turned away with a sigh and

how is this

appeared on top of the Rhino, sighing as the bone-chilling wind smashed into

not that cold. His passive resistance to the elements was already making itself

Memory of Ice, and wrapped the shadow he kept with himself around his body, simultaneously circulating essence to double the enhancement

a slight chill, but it was in no way bothersome. Additionally, the winds were powerless against him. It was as if Sunny had

Huh.

Warbow, he sat down on

get used to

Antarctic Center was still hard and dangerous, but with Naeve assisting Sunny in defending the caravan, things became a little bit

each other, communicating mostly over the chain of relays in the military vehicles. Sunny was stationed at the head of the column, while

demanded both of them to fight side by side to vanquish it. Going into battle with the Nightwalker

'Ah. Finally, a professional...'

a net woven out of unnaturally durable threads to herd and decimate Nightmare

not entirely comfortable fighting on land, and his Aspect powers seemed to be under severe restriction, though, so the scion of the House of Night mostly supported

more

between the two of them.

and made him think about things that he had never considered

to thank the

and arm those who could and knew how

subtle change, but in the end, the only other person other than Beth who showed any reaction was Kim. At