Shadow Slave

So... this is it, then.

The Tomb of Ariel had been built from the remains of the Stone Titan, while the Great River created from its blood was contained within it, illuminated by the seven suns made from its broken soul cores.

The secret hidden at the Estuary was the truth that Ariel had wished to forget. The Nightmare Desert was the result of the battle between him and the unholy creature.

Looking at the blue sky above them, Sunny couldn't help but wonder...

So the daemons were capable of creating artificial worlds?

Then, a sudden thought made him shiver.

What is the difference between a real world and an artificial one, though?

Was there even a difference? And if there was not... had the rest of the worlds been created by someone, as well? The daemons? The gods? The unknown?

He sighed, then shook his head.

Do I really have time to ponder the cosmic origins of the world?

Right now, they had more practical questions to answer. Many of the mysteries of the Third Nightmare had been revealed to them, but many more remained. At least they now knew where they were, and what their next step had to be.

Travel downstream, find the syblis, and learn how to conquer this Seed.

Well... that is easier said than done, though.

azure serpent's dorsal fin break its surface as the great abomination hungrily circled the corpse

dark expression appeared on

he said: "Neph... do you think

Sunny had expected to hear some kind of a crazy answer,

there is no hope. But then again, we did eventually kill

between a Fallen creature and an Awakened one... while the gap between a Great abomination and

at the serpent intensely, Sunny slowly

bet I can still

unexpected words, Nephis

not particularly confident, but he also did not think that their chances were close to zero. Both of them were strong, and they were even stronger together. There were his

Sunny was full of all kinds of

perilous, but not impossible

we won't need to gamble with our lives. There might

for a

downstream, far into the past, and find those humans who had escaped the war between the gods and the daemons by entering

shelter, meanwhile, was

like a ship that could very well take them all the way to

for the worse at any moment. The future was unclear,

we are moving downstream, wouldn't it be the past that is unclear?

Nephis: "What do we do,

seven suns were already starting to drown in the radiant waters of the Great River, and

Nephis lowered her gaze.

you, but I am thoroughly exhausted. I haven't slept in a long while, and the battle between the turtle and the snake took

Sunny smiled crookedly.

tired, too... he had not done anything in the last couple of days except drift through the sky, but as it turned out, doing nothing was very exhausting. Especially when one was suspended between the surface of a mystical river and the sky, having to keep an eye on both lest some terrible creature swallow them whole in