Shadow Slave

Sunny had been really exhausted after the long battle. However, due to the [Blessing of Spirit] and the [Blessing of Flesh] enchantments of the Shroud of Dusk, he only needed a few short hours to recover from the heavy fatigue.

He woke up feeling rested and refreshed... but also strangely forlorn. Sunny had not dreamed in a long while, but tonight, he did. The dream had already disappeared from his memory, but the feeling of sorrow and loss remained, pressing at his heart.

He let out a sigh.

'I actually had a nightmare... wow. As if the waking world is not nightmarish enough, already.'

Sunny was in a subdued and contemplative mood. Before falling asleep, he had been thinking about how to use the enchantment of the Mirror of Truth. Now that he had woken up, however, he found his mind drifting to its description.

No matter how he looked at it, the conversation between Weaver and Ariel was really too strange. Especially the words Weaver had whispered at the end...

'You wanted to be free of the truth, so you didn't deserve it.'

Why would the Demon of Fate, who was known to weave countless lies, admonish Ariel for discarding the truth?

Unexpectedly, Sunny thought of the Sin of Solace. Not its enchantments, and not even its description, but the name of the cursed sword itself.

Why was solace a sin, exactly?

The description of the Shroud of Graceless Dusk spoke about how the sybils found salvation and solace within the Tomb of Ariel. However, in the end, they too were destroyed. Dusk had been the last of them.

The [Hideous Truth] enchantment of the Sin of Solace, meanwhile, was supposed to grant revelations to those who succumbed to madness. Revelations of truth, which Ariel had described as the most hideous thing in the world and the source of cruel torment.

So... wasn't Ariel himself the sinner, then? He had committed a sin by seeking solace in forgetting the truth.

the Demon of Dread, and felt contempt for those who squandered it. Perhaps there was more to

In any case...

in the direction where Kai was sleeping

to carry. What was so terrible about knowing when people lied? However, with that knowledge came the knowledge of truth... Kai, just like Ariel, was cursed to learn

friend also be forced to seek solace in

Sunny raised his eyebrow.

'Oblivion, huh?'

fact, Sunny would have never even known of his... hers... their existence if not for

of Oblivion's existence was not

The eccentric sorcerer had been close to Aidre, the blessed of Heart God, who was the god of memory as well... was that why he could remember

by coincidence, was the

covered his face with a hand and suppressed

'Ah, what a mess.'

was he thinking

thinking of the Demon of

few important memories... but how, exactly, had Ariel retrieved the memories of truth out of his head and hid them in the heart

bit suspicious that he had not

there were actually not two, but three daemons somehow connected to the black pyramid

Maybe it was simply the result

remained motionless for a while, then summoned the Endless Spring and drank some water. After that, he silently sent his

in the camp, so he could not pass up the opportunity to try and glean

shadows prowled the army camp, he thought about the [Searching Reflection]

had not taken a good look at them