Shadow Slave

Sunny left the old woman alone and returned to where Nephis was resting, full of thought. He had not received all the answers he wanted from Ananke, but at the same time, he learned a lot... maybe even too much.

'Ah, I don't know.'

There was too much information, all of it fragmented, ambiguous, and confusing. Not only that, but he was not even sure that it could be trusted.

In any case, many mysteries he had never hoped to solve were resolved now. Like the destruction of the Forgotten Shore - it had become collateral damage in the war between the daemons and the gods. Or the identity of the nameless prisoner of the ruined cathedral - it was one of the first two apostles chosen by Weaver to tend to and spread the Nightmare Spell... whoever these apostles had been.

Sunny even had more context for why the followers of War God had been destroying the temples of Shadow God in his First Nightmare, and what empire Auro of the Nine was a soldier of.

Still... he had even more questions now.

Like always.

'...My head hurts.'

He was saying these words a lot in this Nightmare.

Sunny sighed, then looked at Nephis.

"What do you think?"

With how obsessed she was with destroying the Spell, the revelations about its origin and presumed purpose had to have shaken her... and maybe even her conviction.

But Nephis simply shrugged.

"Makes sense."

He raised an eyebrow.

"Huh?"

She looked at him and remained silent for a moment.

tied somehow to the destruction of the Dream Realm. However,

back and studied her calm

that doesn't change

at

the cause of indescribable misery... that of countless people, and my own. Salvation? Future? To me, it sounds like the Spell was designed to destroy countless futures for the sake of a future that Weaver envisioned, and fuel it with the lives of those like us, who have never asked to

glanced at the frail figure of Ananke.

Nephis gritted her teeth.

does it really matter if the burglar intends to

Sunny sighed.

could see her

"I guess it depends."

at him

"Depends? On what?"

a few

How separate are they, exactly? Would Corruption have spread to the waking world eventually, even without the Spell, or not? Things like that.

at him for a while, then turned away

winced. His argument was reasonable... but humans weren't. That

entire neighborhood, he would have hated them all

the Great River. Eventually, it

curious about

at her and raised an

"What?"

She frowned slightly.

Tomb of Ariel and lost contact with the outside world? How did the war escalate even further?

eyes glinted

Spell play in the conclusion of the war? How has

chill as he remembered the description

where Weaver went and what they did...

in her eyes, Nephis looked at him

maybe, the Nightmare Spell is not only responsible for the devastation of our world, but also for the destruction of

remained silent for a while, his expression