Shadow Slave

As Sunny stood frozen in the world of darkness, Nephis summoned a Memory lantern and raised it, illuminating the deck of the Chain Breaker. A small island of warm light appeared around them - however, it was not nearly as wide as it should have been, as if the lantern was struggling to push back the unfathomable shadow.

Its light trembled pitifully.

"Sunny... what did you do?"

He lingered with the answer, then said honestly:

"I summoned a fragment of Shadow God's domain. You must have seen it in my runes... it's a Legacy Relic I received."

The Fragment had already swallowed all of Wind Flower. Sunny could feel it... which was strange. As an Ascended Tyrant, he could control his shadows from around twenty kilometers away. However, the range of his shadow sense was much more modest, less even than that of his vision.

How was it that he could vaguely sense the far side of the island?

Sunny hesitated for a few moments, then carefully extended his shadow sense... however, he did not extend it outward. Instead, he extended it into the Fragment.

In the next moment, Sunny yelped, staggered, and fell.

"Ah, hell!"

Before he landed on the hard wood, Nephis caught him.

Suddenly, her concerned face was very close.

"Are you alright?"

stared at her for a

was a salty taste of blood

I just... overdid it a

rose to his

can perceive everywhere on the island, at the same time - well, except for the tower. It seems to be shielded from view, somehow. Needless

was not something he wanted to experience again. Even though it was only like a minuscule fraction of the indescribable

would perceive... there were all kinds of great and terrible creatures on Wind Flower, and witnessing some of them was dangerous in

than one of these beings were capable

that he could be more

reassured Nephis and Cassie was everything was alright,

moment later, his stifled scream traveled through the

limit the scope of his shadow sense to a comparatively narrow area. The boon of this situation was that he could concentrate on any location on the island... meaning that he could

could also feel

Aspect seemed to be enhanced. It was as if the ancient shadow was nourishing it... Sunny was not sure yet what this enhancement meant, but it had to

distance, Sunny concentrated and searched for Jet. Soon, he felt her moving through the forest. Drops of blood fell into the moss, and a murderous wraith was

'How convenient.'

Sunny warned Nephis and Cassie to stay on the Chain Breaker

Fragment affected his companions enough so that their familiar reactions and thoughts

Jet, healed her with the help of the Mirror of Truth, and returned to the Chain

After that, however...

had to make new

to leaving them for dead, there was no other choice but to venture into the mist together... which was a moot point, really, considering that he had already decided to rely on

a time map of Wind Flower had become much easier, as well, due to how far his shadow sense

not manifested from his essence, and did not consume it to exist. On the flipside, it was also not under his

Shadow God's Domain, he had not magically