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.

a purpose, and that its purpose is tied somehow to the destruction of the Dream Realm. However, that doesn't

her calm face. She seemed

doesn't change anything

looked at

people, and my own. Salvation? Future? To me, it sounds like the Spell was designed to destroy countless futures for

frail figure of Ananke. Luckily, it

Nephis gritted her teeth.

kills your family, and takes everything you have from you... does it really matter if the burglar intends to

Sunny sighed.

see

"I guess it depends."

looked at

"Depends? On what?"

for a few

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

for a while, then turned away with

but humans weren't. That included him,

an entire neighborhood, he would have

did not say anything else, looking somberly at the Great River. Eventually, it

am curious about something else,

glanced at her and raised an

"What?"

She frowned slightly.

after Ananke's elders entered 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 sides to

eyes glinted with

in the conclusion of the

chill as he remembered the description

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

her eyes, Nephis looked at

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

silent for a while,