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

salty taste of blood

just... overdid

he rose

at the same time - well, except for the tower. It seems to be shielded from view, somehow. Needless to say, that's not something

sensory overload 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 my eye?], the

of great and terrible creatures

that more than one of these beings were capable of staring at him

Sunny was almost certain that he could be more precise

reassured Nephis and Cassie was everything was

stifled scream traveled

to limit the scope of his shadow sense to a comparatively narrow area. The boon

could also

he remained in the unfathomable depths of the Fragment, his 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 be

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

'How convenient.'

the saddle, Sunny warned Nephis and Cassie to stay on the Chain Breaker and

Shadow Realm Fragment affected his companions enough so that their familiar reactions and thoughts changed... but overall,

the Chain Breaker.

After that, however...

had to make new

Chain Breaker was tantamount 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 teamwork more before

Flower had become much easier, as well, due to how far his

of Shadow's Domain was that it existed independently of Sunny. It was not manifested from his

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