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?'

down his feverish mind and moved up,

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

was on a

slid down that slope, surrounded by the 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 around his hand, and turned it into the clawed hand of a

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

dangling above an empty black void. The

a few moments, catching

by darkness, with only the weathered surface of black stone separating him

him, too,

assaulted his

cautiously stood up, struggling to keep his balance

is

place that existed before time, and therefore before the

isolated from it, somehow. In any case, all Sunny could see was darkness and the surface of the vast sphere of

was somber. 'No time

point —

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

which resembled torn aortae,

top of what seemed like a tall hill, and

by what he

widened, full

how can this

a vast valley. And on the floor of that valley, shrouded by

a vast ship

was that each of

were all the

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