Shadow Slave

Chapter 1566

There was the sound of wind whistling in Sunny's ears. He was falling.

Flying through a sea of darkness, lost and disoriented, unsure of where he was.

'The... Estuary...'

The wind howled louder, and Sunny felt his body plummeting through it at terrible speed.

Belatedly, he remembered the need to summon the Dark Wing and slow down his fall.

Or summon the shadows and turn himself into a monstrous butterfly. Or even a crow...

But it was too late for what.

Dazed, he caught a glimpse of an enormous black edifice swiftly approaching him from the darkness. It was like a rough, irregularly shaped, giant sphere of black stone that hovered in the void, eternal and indestructible. Strange mountains rose from its surface, hollow on the inside...

It looked like a giant stone heart. Perhaps it was.

A moment later, Sunny saw Ananke's ketch collide against the surface of the sphere below him and shatter, fragments of wood flying to all sides.

There was no time to slow down his fall.

Gritting his teeth, Sunny looked at the swiftly approaching surface of the back stone. The moment his body would have been broken against it, he activated Shadow Step and dove into the shadows, instead, submerging deep into their dark embrace.

Hidden there, safe, he remained motionless for a while.

'I... made it?'

his feverish mind and moved up, returning

he stepped on the surface of the weathered stone and instantly fell,

was on

fragments of broken wood. Despite the sharp rocks tearing at his skin, he did not allow himself to cry out in pain. Instead, he gritted his teeth, wrapped the surrounding shadows

black surface, sending sparks flying into the air — however, the friction alone

to a halt at the very edge of an abyssal drop, his feet dangling above an empty black void. The pieces of Ananke's ketch spilled into that void, disappearing

laying for a few moments, catching his breath,

with only the weathered surface of black stone separating him from the abyss. The sound of roaring

above him, too, and from all

his mind, making

grimaced, then cautiously stood up, struggling to keep his balance on the steep slope. Finally, he looked

this is

in a place that existed before time, and therefore before the gods

either the Spell was unable to replicate the true Void, or unwilling to. Perhaps the Estuary was isolated from it, somehow. In any case, all Sunny could see was darkness and the

somber.

— that was

that I need to get to the very heart of the Estuary. This means that I

torn aortae, he continued to ascend the

what seemed like a tall hill,

froze, shaken by what

widened, full of shock and

how can

several immense outcroppings of black stone, was a vast valley. And on the floor of that valley, shrouded

a

it, though, was that each of these ships

all

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