Shadow Slave

Chapter 1071

1071 Familiar Role

Nephis stared at Sunny for a couple moments, then briefly glanced at her apron and quietly cleared her throat.

"Right."

She turned around and got back to stirring the rice. A couple seconds later, site added without looking back:

"You'll have to wait for a couple more minutes. And... welcome back, Sunny. Did you make it out of the Antarctic Center alright?"

Sunny wondered how much Changing Star knew about the situation in the Southern Quadrant as he followed Cassie, Effie, and Kai to sit behind a dining table. Settling on a wooden chair... which was far inferior to his own Shadow Chair... he sighed.

"I wouldn't call it "alright". But yes, I made it out. I'm already inside a siege capital in East Antarctica."

Neph's shoulder moved slightly.

"...That's good."

Effie grabbed a few cans of something sugary and refreshing, then pushed one toward Sunny.

"Kai and I spent a whole month in transit, aboard those giant ships. We were in the first batch of the Second Army to arrive, so we've been in East Antarctica for about a week. Gods... I thought the ocean was bad, but Antarctica! I havenever seen that many Nightmare Creatures in my life, not even here in the Dream Realm. It's like the two worlds switched places."

Kai nodded southerly.

"Indeed. Even though there are secure evacuation corridors between the inland siege capitals and the harbor strongholds, we had to fight a couple battles just to reach our designated sector. Luckily, there were no casualties."

The Second Army was twice the size of the First Army, so it was going to take two trips for the naval convoys to bring all of it to the Southern Quadrant. Both Effie and Kai were in the first wave of reinforcements, which was why they had made landfall around the time Sunny himself reached East Antarctica.

them, wondering. East Antarctica was a large place, and it was not a given that their paths would cross until the end of the operation... he really

Effie shook her head.

you? You...

of the Marble Shell. However, Sunny knew that

sip from the cart

after our contingent of the army made it to the Antarctic Center, things were. more or less fine. The field army split into seven divisions, with one remaining in the city of l-'alcon Scott, while six others moved

Sunny paused.

went from bad to worse. The Chain of Nightmares had gone into

the mention of the Winter Beast. The others looked at him intently,

was eventually eviscerated by a powerful Terror. My people and I were the only ones to survive. We were in a bit of a

the start of the calamitous march north. His

had actually already been destroyed. So I had to go to the second nearest one, picking up a few refugees in the process

at Nephis and Cassie. Cassie

message was very original, to say the least. And, tit... very you! Hopefully, the little kernel of insight I gleaned was

Sunny chuckled.

of refugees all the way back to

remained silent for a while. Eventually,

her had been holding back that Comupted Titan I mentioned. Once she was defeated, the titan swept in and killed everyone. The whole field

to say, and neither did Effie and Kal. The latter two were especially grim, because they

and what had happened to Sunny could very easily happen to the two of them,

Eventually, Kai sighed.

You've been through

The heart-wrenching memories of the Antarctic Center clawed at his heart, making him want to surrender to a dark and

With a smile,

after hell. But... it did really feel

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