Shadow Slave

1523 Endlessly Flowing

Soon enough, the wind carried the clouds of ash away. Twilight was once again illuminated by the beautiful light of dawn… what was left of Twilight, at least.

The floating fortress where the Dread Lord had died broke apart and drowned in the still water.

The water itself was starting to move, sparkling in the sunlight. Now that the Serpent King's city and whatever enchantments had held it in place were destroyed, the current was slowly returning.

Soon enough, the current would carry it all — the blackened ruins of Twilight, the corpses of the Defiled that had stormed it, and the broken ships of its fallen defenders — to the Edge, then throw them into the lightless abyss that lay beyond it. Where they would never be found or seen again, unless someone braved the void and reached the very bottom of Ariel's dreadful world.

Erasing all signs that Twilight had ever existed from the endlessly flowing surface of the Great River.

..Until the next cycle came.

Hopefully, Sunny would not be there to witness it.

The cohort had returned aboard the Chain Breaker before the fortress drowned. Now, they were observing the charred carcass of the inconceivable abomination that had served as the foundation of Twilight slowly crumbling and submerging underwater. The brilliant explosion had put a net of cracks into it, and now, the weight of the immense carapace and the water pressure were slowly pulling it apart.

Well.. some of them were observing.

Some were in no condition to pay it much attention, if any at all.

healed by Nephis, but the blind girl was showing no signs of waking up, yet.

herself was sitting at the stern of the flying vessel, staring into the distance with a detached look on her face. She was utterly exhausted, but also…

Sunny felt that this time, that process would take

already realized that the devastating explosion that destroyed the city, and turned every living being on its streets to ash, had been somehow caused by

the Nightmare Creatures that had been fighting against Soul Stealer, and then killing the mirror fiend himself. Neph's [Halfbreed] Innate Ability granted her a portion of the soul fragments of all beings killed by her flames, after

observe the collapse of Twilight, either. Slumped against the trunk of the sacred tree, Sunny was not much different from Nephis.

raging in his heart, but at the same time, he was too numb to deal with that

happy to be alive… happy that all

against all odds —

Mordret, in case the bastard decided to do something malicious. However, the Prince of Nothing did not seem inclined to turn on his

so drained. What was that guy so curious about? He had already seen everything there was to see here, hiding in their eyes on the way to the Second

quite the same. Right… perhaps this Chain Breaker was not the same as the real Chain Breaker they had left in the

case, Mordret was not a problem, for

Effie,

Cassie had apparently saved them from being taken by Soul Stealer with the help of the Black Beast Locket, and then carried the locket out of the

questions, but too polite to ask them all at once. The poor guy must have been utterly

result, the three were standing at the railings, looking at the blackened corpse of Twilight and talking quietly between

much… wait. He was the one who killed the Dread Lord, wasn't he? Damn. If I had a credit for every time Kai killed a dragon… I

face of his friend for a few minutes, considering if he had to apologize for trying to kill him. Kai had blown