Shadow Slave

1494 The Edge

Standing on the deck of the Chain Breaker as it barreled through the empty darkness, Sunny felt a strange mix of horror and exhilaration. That was because the distance they had to cover could only be called… cosmic.

He did not know how far the Great River was from the walls of the pyramid, exactly, but it had to be an astronomical number of kilometers — perhaps not as immense as the distance between Earth and the Moon, but of a similar proportion.

If so, logically, it would take them years to return… however, space itself was acting strange in the interior of the Tomb of Ariel. Judging by how fast the Great River was drawing closer, they were going to reach it in a matter of days, or weeks at most.

In any case, it didn't stop Sunny from imagining that he was on a spaceship.

'Come to think of it… can the Chain Breaker travel through space?'

It probably could, considering that the force propelling the flying vessel was sorcerous in nature. However, that didn't mean that the helmsman and the passengers would survive space. So, this was probably as close as Sunny would ever get to being a taikonaut… a cosmonaut? Astronaut? Whatever the word was.

Not the least because, according to Jet, Earth's orbit hid dangers that even she wasn't qualified to know about.

With a sigh, he looked away from the Great River and went to sit beneath the branches of the sacred tree. He preferred to spend his time leaning on Ananke's ketch, but the Sin of Solace was less likely to bother him here. Therefore, Sunny reluctantly abandoned his previous spot.

With only a few precious days left before they returned, he wanted to concentrate on weaving. There were five Supreme soul shards inside the Covetous Coffer, and Sunny still remembered his sincere desire to make the cohort as strong as possible.

Sadly, even after studying the soul arsenals of his companions, he didn't find a Memory that could be easily elevated to the Supreme Rank. There were a number of Transcendent Memories between the five of them, but very few that were both suitable and within his ability to modify.

Solace. Sunny felt that he could elevate the Rank of the cursed jian rather

Now, he also had to worry about the relationship between the

Key was a Supreme Memory of the Sixth Tier. Was it really a

would happen if this balance was broken by

becoming infected by the Defilement, Sunny did not wish to take unnecessary risks. The jade jian was

was forced to leave the Supreme soul shards to gather dust in

was still researching a way to turn this unique Memory of his into half of

want to turn the Covetous Coffer

soul. The peculiar Memory was already far greater than the small, toothy box it had been once. If Sunny became a Transcendent Terror, who knew what form the Coffer would be able

after all these years and the countless horrors Sunny had experienced during them, he still remembered the Mordant Mimic as one

wouldn't want to have a Shadow

thoughts, Sunny spent a few days blissfully pouring over his plans to create an artificial Echo — no matter how

and closer to the

the horizon. The seven tiny motes of lights turned into furiously radiant spheres, painting

the Great River completely

particular stretch of it. The winds surrounding them were growing stronger,

more than a week, they

they had arrived because a flood of essence suddenly entered his soul. Of course, in reality, it was not coming from an outside source — rather, it was the innate replenishment rate of his cores that had been enhanced by the Crown of

case, the Crown had recognized dawn,