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.

knew the value of truth just as well as the Demon of Dread, and felt contempt for those who squandered it. Perhaps there was more to

In any case...

slightly and glanced in the direction where Kai 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

forced to seek solace in

Sunny raised his eyebrow.

'Oblivion, huh?'

that one was hard to remember. Of all of the seven daemons, Oblivion was mentioned the least. In fact, Sunny would have never even known of his... hers... their existence if not for Noctis, who had mentioned the Demon of

remembering the fact of Oblivion's existence was not

memories. The eccentric sorcerer had been close to Aidre, the blessed of

was the god

covered his face with a hand and suppressed a

'Ah, what a mess.'

was he

Oblivion, I was thinking of the

important memories... but how, exactly, had Ariel retrieved the memories of truth out of his head and hid them in the heart of his tomb? Had he received help from someone, as

a bit suspicious that he

that there were actually not two, but three daemons somehow connected to the black pyramid - the Demon of Dread, the Demon of Fate, and the

Maybe it was simply the result of him just dreaming

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

emissaries of both Valor and Song were currently in the camp, so he could not pass up the opportunity

thought about the [Searching Reflection] enchantment one more

had not taken a good look at them in a