Shadow Slave

There was a black dot in the sky, far in the distance, slowly moving in the direction of the dark island. At first, Sunny felt a glimmer of hope ignite in his heart as he remembered a similar situation from the past.

That time, it had turned out to be Kai.

But, this time...

This time, his intuition was ringing alarm bells, and a cold feeling of dread crept from somewhere to grip him with icy claws.

Sitting on the Shadow Chair with his legs crossed, Sunny leaned back and sighed.

"...Crap."

With that, he exploded with a flurry of activity.

First, Sunny dismissed his precious chair and dashed toward the middle of the island. At the same time, he sent a mental command to Saint.

Nephis and she were currently engaged in a furious sword fight. Light and darkness were intertwined in a shimmering whirlpool of sharp steel, and the graceful knight's onyx figure was starkly contrasted against the rippling white tunic and alabaster skin of her slender opponent.

Following Sunny's order, Saint froze. The tip of Neph's sword stopped a split second later, hovering millimeters away from the slit of her visor.

Nephis frowned, then retracted her sword and looked around.

There was a shadow on a rock outcropping that protruded from the ground a few meters away. It seemed to belong to a young man, and was currently waving its arms in the air while pointing at the sky.

She swiftly turned around and looked up, then dashed away a moment later.

'That's done...'

scrawny figure of Imp could be seen nearby, laying on the

"Stand up, buddy!"

rise to his

have

weakly struggling

'What... the hell...'

the

strength of an Ascended Tyrant, Sunny was struggling to carry Imp. His veins swelled, and a befuddled expression appeared on his face. Commanding the shadows to wrap themselves around his body, he grunted and

fiend down. Then, he threw one more look at the sky and, noticing that the black dot had already drawn

of the fissure as they desperately tried

as well, hiding within the deep darkness enveloping the bottom of the gorge in his shadow

standing on the ground in front of them, its surface decorated with mesmerizing patterns. It was another

knew if the amphora was going

Sunny's five shadows, one had to volunteer to leave its area of effect and serve as a

"volunteer" was the wrong

gloomy shadow had performed a few dangerous tasks recently, and the happy fool was not someone Sunny would ever entrust an important matter to, the next in seniority had to go. So, the creepy

Sin of Solace was keeping it company

he covered

"I... I see it."

at him intently, then asked in a low

"What is it?"

for a

his expression turned

"It's a... butterfly."

the island. From afar, it seemed like an ethereal and beautiful creature. But as it drew closer, Sunny couldn't help

like orbs of pure darkness. Between them was a disturbingly long, oily-black beak, which was currently bent into a spiral like an elephant's trunk.

the butterfly was at least a