Shadow Slave

Eventually, they arrived at the bone orchard. The skeletal remains of the dead horrors towered above them, and the subtle sweet smell emanated by the Hollow Butterfly permeated the flowing fog.

The members of the cohort looked around tensely, unnerved by the eerie scene. Sunny, however, had been to this sprawling graveyard many times. He walked nonchalantly between the bones, his steps hurried.

"Follow me. It's right ahead."

Soon, the Great Monster revealed itself from the mist. Even though Sunny had explained that it was not dangerous, his companions still couldn't help but grip their weapons tighter.

"What... the hell... is that?"

Jet's voice sounded hoarse.

Looking back, Sunny gave her a pale smile.

"Nephis and I call these creatures Dark Butterflies. We've seen another one in action, much further upstream... needless to say, it's a blessing that the one in front of us is Hollow."

The four of them stared up at the gargantuan form of the Great Monster in apprehension. After a few moments of silence, Nephis finally asked:

"So, why are we here, exactly?"

Sunny lingered for a few moments.

"Since it's Hollow, we won't earn anything by killing it - no soul shards, no Memories. But its body is perfectly healthy. And it's a body of Supreme quality, so... we are here to butcher it."

ignited

want to craft weapons out of

with

we succeed... the pikes won't have any enchantments, but they'll still be akin to Supreme weapons.

stared at the motionless butterfly silently, then

get to

to repurpose the body parts of the helpless Great Monster was not that deranged, provided that one was capable of rending its impregnable carapace. Sunny was by no means an master artisan, but knew more about

going to take some time. But wasting some time here was

the caverns before both of those

they camped in the middle of the bone orchard for a while. Luckily, this place was one of the safest on Wind Flower -

Jet simply rested and observed, while Sunny, Cassie, Saint, and

five shadows and the augmentation of the Crown of Dawn, as well as a scattering of useful utility Memories, the work progressed

had finally regained enough essence to heal Jet, the lower parts of the Hollow Butterfly's legs were laid out on the ground in front of them. They were still too large to be used as pikes - each at least ten meters in length - so Sunny had to splinter and

her augmenting Ability, everything went much

were six makeshift pikes in front of them, each crafted from chitin of Supreme quality. There was also a

he had crafted from the remains of a Corrupted abomination, then enchanted and used to kill a Fallen Titan. Sadly, there was no time for him to enchant the ones in

Souvenir also reminded him of his battle with the Ravenous Fiend. The vengeful creature

Sunny picked up a slightly curved splinter of the Hollow Butterfly's chitin. Its edge was sharp enough to serve

handed another piece of black chitin, this one flat and roughly circular, to Saint.

think we

would be... at