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

taste of blood

I just... overdid it a

rose to

but 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 shielded from view, somehow. Needless to say, that's not something that a human brain, even that of a Master, is wired to

experience again. Even though it was only like a minuscule fraction of the indescribable horror of using [Where is my eye?], the strain was still too much

was not even counting what he would perceive... there were all kinds of great and terrible creatures on Wind Flower, and

that more than one of these beings

could be more precise with spreading his senses through the

and Cassie was everything

his stifled scream traveled through the

sense to a comparatively narrow area. The boon

could also feel something

seemed to be enhanced. It was as if the ancient shadow was nourishing it... Sunny was not

for Jet. Soon, he felt her moving

'How convenient.'

warned Nephis and Cassie to stay on the Chain Breaker and sent his steed into the

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

the Chain Breaker. Then, he explained the nature

After that, however...

had to

leaving his companions on the 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

Flower had become much easier, as well, due to how far his shadow sense could reach

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

piece of Shadow God's Domain, he had