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].

However, she could not reveal the fact that she possessed a Divine Aspect and multiple soul cores - requesting

almost every day in the Antarctic Center, either, so her progress was slow as of late. Now that Changing Star had arrived in

had received in the

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

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

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

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

no qualms about studying the Memories that clan Valor had provided to Neph. They were incredible Memories, indeed,

a few to study their weaves. He

it for a couple of weeks... no, no I won't wear

thinking about it made him

the dreadful image, Sunny continued to study the

belonging to both, but welcomed in neither. Your soul exists on the edge between nightmare

an unholy union between the divine and the profane. Nephilim were the most beautiful, and the most

of Divinity] Attribute Description: "Your soul is aflame with

Attribute Description: "You have

had not. Neither had she unlocked her Aspect Legacy... which was not very surprising. Each Aspect was unique, after all,

becoming Saints, with an even smaller number doing so

Sunny who was an

and turned back to the shimmering

exist in

"You can directly absorb a portion of the soul essence

[Longing].[Soul Flame] Ability Description: "Your soul burns with the purest of flames. That flame can both restore and destroy, and

the first of Neph's three Aspect Abilities - it had grown slightly

Awakened and Ascended ones, respectively - were new.

Description: "You can

it into her weapon. That fire did not have to be her own - although she could produce flames if there were none around at

the other hand... was a