Shadow Slave

Sunny... come here! I'll... I'll only kill you a little..."

"Get the hell away from me, you demented zombie!"

Sunny took a few steps back, easily avoiding the grasp of the shambling corpse of Master Jet. Fortunately, she was not too fast - in fact, she could barely crawl. Her nails powerlessly scratched against the alloy, and Soul Leaper let out a hoarse, disappointed hiss.

"Damn it..."

Sunny shook his head. Despite Jet's weakened state, avoiding her clutches was a tiresome task - mostly because there was nowhere really for him to run. Currently, the two of them were trapped on an alloy raft that was drifting slowly across the strait between the Antarctic Center and the vast landmass to the east.

When Jet lost control of herself, all Sunny could do was endlessly circle the raft and wait for her to come to her senses.

"Come here, Sunny! I won't bite..."

to the other end of their improvised vessel, and calmly sat down. The length of the raft was no more than ten meters, but for Soul Reaper, that was a vast distance right now.

And technically, she was... but at least

the souls of all Awakened, hers was not able to generate essence on its own. Worse than that, her soul core was

her to survive was to continuously kill living beings and absorb their soul essence. That was actually Jet's Sleeper Ability. Her Awakened Ability allowed her to bypass all

and strengthen her own, both in terms of size and capacity. It also removed the natural limit of essence infusion that the flesh

a Supreme

strengthening her body. She barely had enough to keep it from collapsing entirely, and even that last reserve

had been able to access their Dream Realm anchors, which meant that they

had to do was sail far enough into the ocean to leave the area of influence of the Corrupted Titan, which would allow both to return to the Dream Realm. That would still be dangerous, but not as dangerous as remaining in

and no seaworthy vessels left intact in Falcon Scott.

they were currently drifting on... was not just a random sheet of light alloy. It was

the simulacrum were dependent on Sunny's Shadow Core capacity. By now, he was very close to becoming an Ascended

than the alloy chest the Coffer usually looked like, at

the strongest alloy would have been. If something attacked them from below... which had already happened a few times... the raft was not