Shadow Slave

As a scout, Sunny constantly had to traverse great distances across the abomination-infested wilderness of East Antarctica. He would usually ride atop Nightmare or glide through the shadows with incredible speed, but right now, neither of these methods were an option.

His steed was with Saint, and he obviously couldn't leave the stranded MWP pilot behind by turning into a shadow. Theoretically, Sunny could carry the young woman on his back and run, which would be faster than limiting his speed to that of a mundane human. But he was not too desperate to save time. There was an army outpost relatively close to the ruined city, and although normal patrols would be slaughtered if they tried to take the convenient shortcut, nothing that dwelled there could threaten Sunny.

As they followed a small river that snaked between barren hills, Sunny summoned the runes and glanced at the list of his shadows. It read:

Shadows: [Onyx Saint], [Soul Serpent], [Nightmare], [Ravenous Fiend].

Sunny concentrated on the last string of runes, summoning a detailed description of the little bastard.

Shadow: [Ravenous Fiend]

Shadow Rank: Transcendent.

Shadow Class: Devil.

Shadow Description: [A pitiful little creature traveled through a nightmarish land, harboring a bitter grudge in its tiny heart. Driven by resentment and spite, it suffered many trials and conquered untold dangers to become a marvelous devil. But fate was unkind. The ravenous devil met a much more Terrible fiend, and turned into his shadow]

Sunny stared at the runes with a bleak expression The Spell had always liked to tease him... at least he thought that it did... but this one was just unfair.

'How come I'm the fiend? The bastard literally has the word "fiend" in his name!"

his head, he moved past the description and continued to

[Ravenous], [Shadow Sworn], [Lesser

"This Shadow is favored

and absolutely terrible luck. The imp, however, was blessed with only good fortune. It was most likely the small Scavenger's very first, innate Attribute... no wonder the bastard had survived meeting

'Damnation!'

the blatant unfairness, Sunny continued

Attribute Description: "This Shadow is a marvelous learner. It is stunningly keen and supremely adaptable, absorbing

it still didn't help him survive meeting me for the third time. If the wretch was

before, of course, but he still couldn't help

Description: "This Shadow possesses an insatiable hunger, and a frightening potential for growth. The more it eats, the more it

in the last two months. Sunny had fed him literally tons of armored alloy, as well as the corpses of many Nightmare Creatures with steel-like carapaces. He had no idea how much the little fiend had to gobble up to become bigger, but knew that: the

lіghtnоvеlcave.c~оm. There was no counter of shadow fragments. instead, the fiendish

suffering terribly from

ease.

If I had to choose between feeding Memories to Saint and Nightmare or him... well,

and turned his

"This fiend is

was without surprise, and appeared after Sunny had fed the imp with his flesh. It was the same

iron Body] Attribute Description: "This Shadow's flesh possesses qualities

He grinned in satisfaction.

'Finally, progress!