Shadow Slave

Sunny had only caught a glimpse of the runes, but it was enough to send him into a state of utter terror.

Before even having time to think, he shut his eyes tightly and activated the enchantment of the Mirror of Truth, borrowing Neph's [Longing] Ability.

Thus making his soul incorruptible… for a while.

And it was just in time, because simply being close to the runes threatened to make Corruption bloom in his soul.

'Argh…'

He groaned mentally while keeping his mouth shut..

The pain was almost unbearable.

It was a familiar kind of terror, revulsion, and pain, as well.

Because Sunny had recognized the shape of those runes.

There were two types of runes that the Spell refused to translate.

One had to do with the type of beings it simply called the -unknown- — the primordial beings of the eternal, everchanging Void. The other had to do with the singular being that it similarly called the -unknown- — the mysterious progenitor of the seven daemons, which might have been one of the Void Creatures, or might not have been.

The latter runes were hard to look at, causing the head of the person to split with ache, and their mind to become dizzy.

runes, though, that were truly sinister, making the unfortunate person witnessing them feel terror

tunnel, which seemed to stretch infinitely in all directions, were littered with them, with barely any

Sunny gulped for air.

this is the source

that he thought about it, it made

now that Corruption was the influence of the Void, seeping through the walls of existence that caged it. Therefore, knowledge of the Void… was the source of

was what Ariel, that madman, had inscribed on the walls of the Estuary. The stories of the Void, the knowledge about it… and

sure

which was merely knowledge that could be shared and transferred, thus turning this form of

of the Void, and of the True Names of those beings whose names could not be known, let alone

because it wanted to keep its secrets for itself, but simply because being able

of them, as Sunny had done a few times in his

those runes for him, those descriptions would have probably gone

dark abyss, the Creatures of the Void were born. Just like chaos

Or:

at its bounty while still in flight. However, when it saw the reflection of the Void forever frozen in the depths of Weaver's pupil, it went mad and screamed, dropping the eye on the mortal realm below. All that was left in its

those few runes, which merely named the Void and the type of beings born from it, had

the

Void and the Chaos Beings, but also describing them in detail and

the runes, unable to read them, that alone put

in his soul, as well. So, if he remained here at the time

become the

surface of the enchanted mirror, he