Shadow Slave

Heat.

It was hot. Lethally hot… a mundane human would not have lasted in this suffocating heat for long. Even as a Master, Sunny was struggling to breathe. His skin was burning.

Sitting on the sand, hunched, he covered his eyes and looked up at the merciless white sun.

The sun was like a small silver coin that hung high in the cloudless azure sky.

White sand. Azure sky.

This was indeed the desert Nephis had once tried to cross. The one that lay east of the Forgotten Shore, stretching far and wide along the Hollow Mountains.

He couldn't see the dreadful black peaks, though. Either this part of the Nightmare Desert was much further north than the small fragment Nephis had traversed, or much further east, where the Hollow Mountains were no more.

In either case, Sunny was in big trouble. Nephis had told them that the further one went into the desert, the more dangerous it became. Eventually, she could not advance anymore, and chose to take her chances in the mountains instead…

Just how deadly was this desert, for Nephis to decide that venturing into a known Death Zone was a better choice?

There was one more thing, too… if it was the same desert, then he had to find shelter before the night came. Failing to do so meant death.

Death...

Sunny sighed.

He was sitting on the white sand, casting five stark shadows. A few dozen seconds had already passed since his arrival in this cursed land, and very soon, something was bound to find and attack him.

He had to move, but his mind was plagued by too many thoughts.

useless… it's all

of a sense of triumph. He had defeated a Saint. He had won. His desperate plan

shift. Mordret's reflections would have been destroyed… the remaining two enemy Saints would

perished, and plenty of Awakened would have remained alive to continue defending East Antarctica

happened, of course. Everything had

Once again, he had been

always have victory

'Curse it all…'

by the

was the Nightmare Spell. These three Category Four Gates… it wasn't hard to imagine what was going to happen next in the

few government elites, too. All the Awakened of Valor and all the Awakened of Song were as good as dead. The only ones who had a chance to survive

a guarantee that they would

those who had would still have to survive the

the most powerful defenders. And much worse still, there would be swarms of Corrupted and Great abominations

was going

it. Don't think about

Sunny gritted his teeth.

continued thinking about it, he would drown in anger and despair. For now, he couldn't allow himself to lose focus — he had

in a region of the Dream Realm that was much more harrowing than the Forgotten Shore, without any way to get back to the waking world.

had to find them… if they were still alive… and figure out a way

first time escaping hell, was

a will, there was

a bunch

run through the sand

could he

There were four ways.

a path through the Hollow