Shadow Slave

1490 No Bounds

Truly, a treachery that knew no bounds. Sunny had succumbed to the Defilement and betrayed the cohort, only to betray them once again once they were made into the Six Plagues by him. Killing one of his masters in the process and weaving countless schemes to destroy the other.

He... did not really know how to feel about it. Was he supposed to be proud of or appalled by his former self?

'I might... have to stop resenting the Spell for calling me that.'

In any case, he felt a deep sense of regret.

Because he wouldn't be able to strangle the mad bastard with his own two hands.

Sunny sighed.

Well, there it was. The truth.

Of course, there were still many things that made little sense, or no sense at all. The most obvious of them, of course, was the paradoxical existence of the Six Plagues, who had not only traveled to the distant past of the River Civilization, but also lingered in the Tomb of Ariel despite the start of a new cycle.

'They really broke all the rules.'

Sunny also did not know where the Mad Prince had found the Chain Breaker before arranging for it to be discovered by him and Nephis. He also did not know why the vile madman destroyed Weave, denying them the support of the Followers of Weaver, and many other things.

Some of them, he was probably never going to learn.

But it was alright.

The Tomb of Ariel had never been a place that could be fully understood by a mere mortal. And he already knew the general shape of things.

'So what?'

That knowledge, really… did not change anything at all.

Their goal remained the same. Travel to Twilight, retrieve Kai and Mordret… then gather whatever strength they can and attack Verge to slay the First Seeker. If anything, that goal had only become less impossible to achieve.

Not only were three of the Six Plagues already off the board, but there was no telling what else the Mad Prince had arranged to help the cohort conquer the Nightmare. Were the rest of the Plagues even alive? Perhaps he had already dealt with them, the same way he had dealt with Devouring Beast and Undying Slaughter.

'What is this weird feeling… it is as if I'm being helped by myself, from beyond the grave — and not only that, but that dead version of me is also a truly dreadful Nightmare Creature.'

bizarre sentence ever

aloud. And the Mad Prince was not technically dead… just erased from existence by traveling back in

not sound

deck of the Chain Breaker for quite some time, staring at the distant Great River and spacing out. It

could look around, however, a shadow fell on him. Raising his head, Sunny saw the

like an idiot? Oh, wow. Judging by your stupid expression, that idiot brain of yours finally managed

stared at the sword wraith, then

I know. You rotten bastard. How many times have you poisoned me

why the Mad Prince had managed to preserve a shred of lucidity. Keeping him forever torn

How sinister.

Sunny's eye twitched.

me, you

burning in his eyes. He

Estuary Key

Sunny shared with the splintered piece of his mind from serving as a conduit for subconscious knowledge about the previous cycles of the Great River and the secrets of

enchantment was in

'Amazing.'

sorcerer had he become after countless

Sunny sighed.

did not matter. The cost

It was unbearable.

Estuary was a promise of what he could potentially achieve,

be concerned about me suddenly going

they were petrified by dire revelations of their

Sunny saw the members

of the Great River, her expression distant. She must have realized the same things Sunny had… perhaps even more. Nephis was even more expressionless than usual. She seemed to

and Effie, however, knew less about the Tomb of Ariel. It did not appear that they were interested in the sight of the Great River

carrying the flying ship forward had mostly dissipated. They

Nephis sighed.

what the

at her in

"What?"

pointed at

its shape makes it so that the entirety of the river is one plane, there are actually two sides to it. The tunnel we traveled through is simply a passage that connects