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.

the Nightmare Spell has a purpose, and that its purpose is tied somehow to the destruction of the Dream Realm. However, that

leaned back and studied her calm face. She seemed as

that doesn't change anything for

looked at the

my own. Salvation? Future? To me, it sounds like the Spell was designed to destroy countless futures for the sake of a future that

frowned, then glanced at the frail figure of Ananke. Luckily, it didn't

Nephis gritted her teeth.

your home, kills your family, and takes everything you have from you... does it really matter if the burglar intends to use the spoils for a noble cause? Would

Sunny sighed.

could see

"I guess it depends."

at

"Depends? On what?"

lingered for a few moments, collecting

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

for a while,

argument was reasonable... but humans weren't.

Rain to save an entire neighborhood,

else, looking somberly at the Great River. Eventually, it was Nephis who broke

about something else,

her and raised

"What?"

She frowned slightly.

the Tomb of Ariel and lost contact with the outside world? How did the war escalate even further? What could have happened to cause both

eyes glinted with white

what role did the Spell play in the conclusion of the war? How has it grown to its current

he

disappeared. No one knew where Weaver went and what they did... until it

her eyes, Nephis looked at him

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

remained silent for a while, his expression