Shadow Slave

The pilot did not spend a long time bidding farewell to her comrades. By that point in the campaign, everyone had experienced loss and defeat... the soldiers had not grown numb to watching people die, but they did become used to it.

Death had always surrounded those who fought against the Nightmare Spell, and here in Antarctica, it was even more inescapable, both for the Awakened and for the mundanes.

When the young woman returned, however, a confused expression appeared on her face. Sunny raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

The pilot pointed.

"Uh... where did my MWP go?"

He looked back. The wrecked war platform was, indeed, gone. In its place, hidden behind a pile of dirt, sat an ugly little creature. It was hurriedly pushing a piece of bent alloy into its wide, toothy mouth with both hands. Noticing that someone was looking, the creature froze for a moment and feverishly continued to chew on the armored alloy, as if afraid that it would be taken away.

Sunny rolled his eyes.

right there

the scrawny imp had devoured the massive machine, considering that it was dozens of times larger than him... but that was exactly what had happened. Sunny did not know what kind of infernal

had turned the tiny wretch

done it not long after arriving in East Antarctica. Before, Sunny had been planning to become a Tyrant first - but that was because he needed more power, fast, during the siege of Falcon Scott. Now that things had calmed down, the circumstances were not as pressing. He

silence of his Soul Sea, two beams of dark light descended from one of the Shadow Cores. One fell on the Echo of the Scavenger, the other on a motionless shadow that stood with

into its flesh, changing it on a fundamental level. The boundless spellweave that was hidden

any shape or form, after all. Nevertheless, that was how Sunny had acquired his fourth Shadow. What came next, however... that,

were easy to come by, but would

not

shadow creatures were almost impossible to find, Sunny had no choice but to

then stared at him with fright and ran away, hiding behind Saint's leg.

"Get over here, bastard!"

offered the gremlin

killing the vile little creature for the second time. However, it was worth it in the end - the scrawny fiend regained its ability

The Fiend had already possessed a high affinity to shadows thanks to being one, and Sunny himself was even more unique — he was