Shadow Slave

The Sepulcher Song was an active enchantment that consumed as much essence as the number and power of the corpses stirred into a murderous rage by its power was. An Ascended could wreak a lot of havoc with its help...

But not nearly as much havoc as Sunny, an Ascended Tyrant whose soul was augmented by Neph's flame, could.

Influenced by the angry melody he was playing, most of the bone orchard was already in motion. Some of the giant skeletal remains were too severely damaged to assemble into the semblance of a whole creature... but there were plenty of dead abominations who could.

Some of them had clearly been aquatic abominations in the past. Nevertheless, they slithered and crawled forward in the throes of bloodlust. Some of them seemed to have been able to walk on land. Those were moving much faster to kill something, as quickly and as cruelly as possible.

Slowly, towering figures rose from the ground in a cacophony of groaning bones. The terrifying bloodlust and murderous rage emanated by them were almost palpable.

'Crap, crap, crap...'

Both of Sunny's hands were busy with the flute, and he obviously could not speak. Aloud, that was.

"[Go now.]"

Sending the mental message with the help of the Shroud of Dusk, Sunny glanced at the dark entrance to the caverns that had been revealed when the dead creature obscuring it moved closer to him.

Sparing him one last glance, his companions rushed away and dove into the welcoming darkness. Nephis lingered on the edge for a few moments, then gritted her teeth and jumped down. Saint and Fiend followed right behind her, leaving Sunny and Nightmare alone with the army of risen abominations.

The towering corpses, meanwhile... were staggering toward them with a clear intent to rip the flute player and his steed apart.

the

been sitting on suddenly flew up. Somehow managing to keep the melody, he regained his balance and

life had already risen, Sunny stopped for a moment and took a

he started to play a

his experiments to play the second movement of the Sepulcher Song a couple of

'Any moment now...'

the shambling bone giants

than them, what are they going to be bathing in?! It's more like I'll be smeared across the phalanx of one

Even worse...

had been motionless before suddenly moved,

not really return the dead to life... it simply turned corpses into murderous bone golems. Or flesh golems - the sinister Memory paid no

Butterfly was coming to a perverse semblance of

it did, the drain

'Curses!'

seemed that he was not going to put this army of dead monstrosities

Sunny had

risen corpses to listen to him - he just needed them to create as much havoc as possible on Aletheia's Island, temporarily

dead giants of the bone orchard had been brought back to life, they would remain so until Sunny's essence ran out, or until they were completely destroyed. There was plenty of time for them to clash with

to reach Effie and travel to the blood lake much faster. Cassie and her team would