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?"

her for a few strangely awkward

a salty taste of blood on

overdid it

by her, he rose to his feet and

it definitely enhances the range of my shadow sense. To a degree where I can perceive everywhere on the island, at the same time - well, except for the tower. It seems to be

he had been blasted with was not something he wanted to experience again. Even though it was only like a minuscule fraction of the indescribable horror of using [Where is

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

to mention that more than one of these beings were capable of staring at

was almost certain that he could be

and Cassie was everything

later, his stifled scream traveled

to a comparatively narrow area. The boon of this situation

also feel something

the Fragment, his Aspect seemed to be enhanced. It was as if the ancient shadow was

shadow sense into the dark distance, Sunny concentrated and searched for Jet. Soon,

'How convenient.'

the saddle, Sunny warned Nephis and Cassie to stay

differently from how it usually was. The descent of the Shadow Realm Fragment affected his companions enough so that their familiar reactions and thoughts

and returned to the Chain Breaker. Then, he explained the

After that, however...

to make new

choice but to venture into the mist together... which was a moot point, really, considering that

become much easier, as well,

of Sunny. It was not manifested from his essence, and did not

from being within a piece of Shadow God's Domain, he had not magically become akin