Shadow Slave

She studied the waters and put her hand on the hilt of her sword.

The enchanted scabbard was the same, but the blade it sheathed was different. The longsword bestowed upon her by the great clan Valor had been destroyed in Twilight, and replaced by the silver blade, which was currently molded to a similar shape.

That weapon was a reward Nephis received for slaying Soul Stealer — a Defiled Saint who had once been a prince of the same clan. Whether there was some symbolism to one replacing the other, Sunny did not know.

Nephis turned slightly, looking at Cassie, and asked:

"How long before we reach Verge?"

The blind girl was the best at steering the Chain Breaker, the most familiar with the slate map created by the sybils, and the one who had spent the most time among the River People. So, she was their navigator.

Cassie lingered for a moment..

"No more than two days, if we sail at moderate speed. More if we want to be truly careful… less if we want to abandon caution."

Noting the answer, Nephis glanced at Mordret:

"Is there danger close to us?"

The Prince of Nothing had been a bit cagey about the particulars of how his Aspect worked, but by now, they knew many things about it.

For example, the distance at which Sunny could control his shadows as an Ascended Terror was somewhere around twenty-four kilometers. His perception was limited to what the shadows perceived, though. Mordret's Dormant Ability, on the contrary, allowed him to perceive the world through any reflection within a similar range — adjusted for the fact that he was merely a Beast at the moment.

allowed him to travel

giant reflective surface, the Prince of Nothing

eyes and possess their body, wearing it as a costume. That Ability, too, would

remained silent for a few moments, then shook his

the water is a little bit darker than usual. I would suggest avoiding that area completely, as well as any other

ahead,

then, for one day. Then, we will anchor the Chain Breaker and

then added in a steady

alive and alert the others.

were not equal to an order. Still, he felt a bit of a chill while

But she was right.

as well as it

Torment…

Sunny frowned.

Why wasn't anyone here to welcome them to Verge, then? All of them had expected to be ambushed by

And yet, nothing happened.

the Last

raising the ship's sails. They were going to sail on water, for

in the water, suffusing it with beautiful light. The impenetrable darkness devoured the sky — now that Sunny knew about the great swarm of monstrous butterflies hiding somewhere out there, in that darkness, the night seemed far more

monsters hiding in the

was more powerful than the Nightmare Creatures they had usually fought upstream, and far more cunning. 𝐥ìg𝚝𝔫օ𝑣𝓮𝓵w𝓸𝓻𝐥𝓭~𝙘օ𝕞. Thankfully, the might of

Those who tried were chased after and finished off by Kai, who was the fastest of them all. His arrows could strike true from a startling distance, as well

The Chain Breaker avoided the truly inescapable ones thanks to Cassie's intuition, and fought through the