Shadow Slave

Standing up, Sunny stretched and walked over to where Cassie was standing. Extending his shadow sense through the cracked wall, he remained silent for a few moments, then smiled.

"Good catch. There is indeed a hidden space there."

To think that he had almost missed it...

The blind girl stared at him for a bit, which gave Sunny a hint to look around.

'Damn... it's still creepy, to know that she's riding my senses. Can't she ask, at least? That Ability of hers is not limited to sight, so... ah, I don't even want to think what kinds of things she can sense me sensing...'

Suddenly feeling hot, Sunny glanced at Cassie and asked in a stifled tone: "What are you looking for?"

The blind girl lingered. "If there's a secret space, there has to be a mechanism to unlock it. Some kind of lever, perhaps. Oh... and give me some credit, alright? I am polite enough to know when not to use my Ability."

He suppressed an impulse to jump back. "What, you can read thoughts now, too?!"

Cassie took a deep breath, then patiently shook her head. "No. It was just written all over your face."

Sunny let out a sigh of relief, then trembled.

'Wait... she's looking through my eyes, so how can she see my face?'

At that moment, Neph's patted him on the shoulder.

"Because she looked through mine. Honestly, Sunny... for someone who claims to have never used his shadow to do perverted things at the Academy dormitory, you sure think of weird stuff often."

He stared at her in disbelief. "What do you mean, "claims to"? I absolutely did not! You know I can't lie!"

Nephis looked at Cassie with a hint of a smile on her lips. "Notice that he said "did not"... instead of "have not". Hmm."

Sunny remained silent, his mouth open.

I see

"will not",

then Nephis said a bit awkwardly from behind him: "...So, whatever mechanism there was to unlock the door, it has to have

punch to the cracked wall. The ancient stone shattered and

face from the cloud of stone dust and

wall was a small circular chamber. There was an altar in its center, with something laying

the shadows shift slightly, and widened his eyes

'That glow...'

dust or dirt. Both its ends were

high Rank. Supreme, perhaps, or even higher. What made Sunny instinctively hold his breath, however,

see because his eyes had been altered by

and lowered her head. Her expression was more perplexed than shocked. She remained

curious. I did not know

and Nephis looked at her with surprise. Throwing another glance at

know what this

nodded. "Yes... I think I do. It fits the description of one of the holy relics that the sybils brought into the Tomb of Ariel

me that this thing...

heart was beating

rumored to have been created by a god. However, it is not a Divine Rank artifact, if that

Memories as something that grants us power, but for the

fit them perfectly. Both Weaver's Mask and the Shadow Lantern allowed

did not make him much more powerful. He had considered this paradoxical situation plenty of times, and the conclusions he made were

left behind served specific purposes - astonishing and wondrous, but not necessarily helpful

wood of the beautiful staff and added: "In any case, this relic is called Guiding Light. It's not even a tool made to be used by a god... just something gifted to a mortal out of affection. The powers it possesses are not that stunning. It had served the sybils well before they came to the Tomb

then asked

shrugged. "It's supposed to guide people? Actually, I don't know that

staff and held it carefully. After a few moments, the soft radiance of the soul shard crowning the

"What did