Shadow Slave

There had been a time when Sunny studied Changing Star's runes like a man obsessed. His whole life had been built around the desire to overtake her on the path to power.

He might have even done a few careless things in that pursuit.

At some point, however, Sunny had lost the desire to compare himself to Nephis, at least in this way. The first change had happened because of her return from the Dream Realm. The second... sometime in the Antarctic Center, he had lost the habit of summoning her runes every day.

Shadow fragments, soul fragments - those were not a true measure of strength, anyway. Sunny had seen countless mundane soldiers stand and fight against the Nightmare Creatures, never surrendering despite the dire disparity of power between them. If those people were weak, then he did not know whom to call strong.

And so, at some point, he had stopped paying constant attention to Neph's runes without even noticing it.

Now, however, Sunny had the Mirror of Truth. So, he decided that it was worth taking another look.

The familiar symbols shimmered, forming into strings:

Name: Nephis.True Name: Changing Star.Rank: Ascended.Class: Tyrant.Soul Cores: [5/7].

He stared at that number for a few moments.

After years of lagging behind, Sunny had finally caught up to her... wasn't it so very funny that he had only been able to do so after stopping caring about the race?

A light smile appeared on his face.

'Whatever... she still has more fragments than I do. She'll be a Terror sooner than me.'

But did it really matter? In the end, they would both be Titans. That day was not as far away as it had once seemed, now.

Sunny continued to read:

Soul Fragments: [2719/5000].

of clan Valor after being adopted by them. However, she could not reveal the fact that she possessed a Divine Aspect and multiple soul cores -

down many Nightmare Creatures while Sunny had been going from one dire battle to another almost every day in the Antarctic Center, either, so her progress was slow as of late. Now that Changing Star had arrived in Antarctica, though, that was bound

many soul fragments she had received in the recent battle, then turned his

Blade], [Starlight Legion Armor], [Dawn Shard], [Dark

wandering the Dream Realm and challenging the Second Nightmare... in fact, Sunny could learn a few things about what kind of trial she had faced from

her harrowing experience, he held himself back. Perhaps it was stupid, but... he did not want

precious and fragile thing trust was... it had taken a lot for him to extend his own trust toward

studying the Memories that clan Valor had provided to Neph. They were incredible Memories, indeed, no less outstanding than Morgan's Warbow - each

study their

armor? I need it for a couple of

it made him

image, Sunny continued to

of two worlds, belonging to both, but welcomed

were terrible creatures born of an unholy union between the divine and the profane. Nephilim

of Divinity] Attribute Description: "Your soul

Fire] Attribute Description: "You have inherited

years, but Nephis had not. Neither had she unlocked her Aspect Legacy... which was not very surprising. Each Aspect was unique, after all, and possessed unique requirements for

most only accomplished that feat after becoming Saints, with an even smaller number doing so as Masters. Otherwise, there would have been countless Legacy clans in

Sunny who was an

wistfully, thinking of Serpent, and turned back

Divine.Aspect Description: [You are a creature of light that was banished and doomed to exist in the darkness. You bring radiance and

of the soul essence of any Nightmare Creature destroyed by your flames, as well as of

the purest of flames. That flame

had grown slightly

other two Abilities - her Awakened and Ascended ones, respectively - were new. The Awakened Ability was

Manipulation] Ability Description: "You can bend all

have to be her own - although she could produce flames

Ascended Ability, on the other hand... was