Shadow Slave

1491 Dark Boundary

"Sunny, the sails!"

Before Jet's shout even faded, Cassie and Sunny were already moving. He called upon the shadows to raise the sails of the Chain Breaker, while she rushed to the runic circle. Nephis turned to look into the darkness, her hand resting on the hilt of her sword.

'What kind of disaster have we stumbled into now…'

Grasping the steering oars, Cassie skillfully turned the ship to borrow the force of the wind. At the same time, the runic circle ignited, absorbing strands of her essence — now that the enchantment circuits were repaired, it was not to power the sorcery of the ancient vessel, but simply to control it.

Finally, the Chain Breaker came to a halt, hovering in the boundless darkness of the Tomb of Ariel.

Sunny approached Jet and Effie, tracing their gazes into the distance.

"What is the… matter…"

His voice faltered.

Out there, far away…

The world ended.

It was hard to see, even for Sunny, because the end of the world was perfectly black, barely distinguishable from the darkness that surrounded them. But still… there was a vast, seemingly endless surface in front of them, stretching in all directions as far as the eye could see, like a boundary of the world.

Smooth and lusterless, like polished stone.

It took him a moment to realize what he was looking at.

'It's the… inner wall of the pyramid.'

The endless black boundary was just that… the wall of Ariel's Tomb, seen from the inside. However, it dwarfed anything he had ever seen. The towering walls of the Dark City were like a speck of dust in front of it. The great ramparts of Falcon Scott were like sand.

Looking at the endless black wall, Sunny was stunned by its sheer magnitude. For a moment, he wondered… was the interior of the pyramid truly large enough to encompass an entire realm, or was it him who had been reduced to the size of an ant?

Well, in any case… Jet's warning had come in time. The Chain Breaker was not going to crush into the endless wall of black stone anymore. They had already stopped, and there was plenty of distance between them and the boundary of Ariel's dreadful world.

But then, a slight frown appeared on his face.

Turning to Jet, Sunny remained silent for a moment.

sight was. She, however, did not share his ability to see in the

and Effie

"What is it?"

looking forward with a somber expression. She remained silent

It reeks

head and glanced at

eyes were radiating a chilling

powerful souls,

now, her expression was grave. Seeing

His frown deepened.

just any soul. What kind of

distant black boundary and strained his eyes, trying to discern something… anything… to understand what

Sunny had the best chance of discovering the hidden threat, the rest of

it… I can't see

Sunny could study it in more detail… not that there was a lot to study. It was just a solid

one thing, it was that the wall was not smooth, as he had initially thought. Rather, it was uneven, as if covered in countless ridges and bumps. Those ridges and bumps looked tiny from afar, but they

at the irregularities,

there are caves in the stone? I don't see any

Then, he suddenly froze.

there on the wall of the black pyramid, something had

tiny and at the very periphery of his vision, so if Sunny had not been looking at the wall of

What was it? He still couldn't see any creatures hiding in the

object instead of a distant one, as well as a mental one, like trying

stood on end, and his

petrified, he

'D—damnation!'

Powerful souls…

hiding in the recesses of the endless wall. There were no

surface of the wall was covered by abominations,

were the edges of millions

inner wall of Ariel's Tomb was obscured by a colossal swarm of numerous Dark Butterflies. There were myriads of these eerie Great Monsters resting

to awaken if

took an involuntary

Song

Great Monster was a calamity that only a few people in the waking world could quell. But there were countless Dark Butterflies dwelling inside

waiting to destroy anyone who would try to desecrate