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.

felt that he could elevate the Rank of

only been concerned about making the sword wraith more powerful. Now, he also had

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

happen if this balance

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

shards to gather dust in the Covetous Coffer, and turned

turn this unique Memory of his into half of an Echo, which would most

to turn the Covetous

what the Coffer could be turned into depended on the potency of Sunny's 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

even after all these years and the countless horrors Sunny had experienced during them, he still remembered the Mordant Mimic as one of the most vile and troublesome creatures he

want to have

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

and closer

ribbon slowly grew larger. Soon, it was already covering half of the horizon. The seven tiny motes

River completely

were not blindly flying forward, but instead aiming for a particular stretch of it. The winds surrounding them were growing stronger, and the

than a week,

a flood of essence suddenly entered his soul. Of course, in reality, it was not coming from an outside

Crown had recognized dawn, and so, its