Shadow Slave

As it turned out... the daemons had not appeared out of nowhere, nor had they created themselves.

Instead, they were born from the seven pieces of a god whose very existence had been erased from the world, concealed, and forbidden from being mentioned. The seventh god...

The Forgotten God.

Who had been Dream God, once.

So, it was not that the origin of the daemons was unknown. It was just that their very existence was forbidden, and since no one was allowed to remember the Forgotten God, it seemed as if they had appeared from nowhere.

Sunny shivered, and then looked ahead.

There, the last cluster of light was burning under the surface of the dark lake.

He walked forward, his legs numb.

Soon, he reached the light and looked down, seeing runes once again. Taking slow steps, he studied them.

The message left behind by Ariel, the Demon of Dread, read:

[Here is the truth I leave behind

That reveals the lie of the gods

The Forgotten One slumbers

In the Void

Eternal, everchanging

Dreaming of escape

The gods, who were flawless

Learned shame

And were flawless no more

I am a child of their transgression

And thus, their Flaw]

Sunny trembled.

'The gods... were flawless no more...'

Suddenly, he remembered the last thing Noctis had said to him, in the depths of the Second Nightmare, just before Hope broke free of her chains. He remembered the weight of the four words the whimsical sorcerer had whispered:

'Never trust the gods.'

were liars,

the cage they had built to imprison the Void,

that how the universal law of imperfection had been born? Or maybe it had gone the other way around, and it was precisely

making the Forgotten God

making the daemons, who had been born from his soul, living incarnations of that

had meant when she spoke to

had been imprisoned by Sun God, her kingdom destroyed, after

'Wait... no...'

made the gods forbid the knowledge of the

was there something deeper hiding behind that colossal

'The law of imperfection...'

in the world created by the gods was imperfect, including the gods themselves. Therefore... the seal they had placed on the Void had to be imperfect,

meant that it

in a sense, was their Flaw,

Forgotten God, who had been sealed in the void for so

would happen

clicked in Sunny's

what

paled, an expression of utter terror appearing on

'What has happened.'

were seven gods, not

realms, not six, like Wind

waking world was the sixth, most likely belonging to War God... While the Dream

the rest and spreading Corruption to all of existence through the blooming Seeds

result of the Void influencing

happen if one of the gods

a corrupted god? The God of Corruption?

god... had already broken free

was still asleep. And all of existence was in the throes

Forgotten God... has succumbed

the world created by the gods. So, they had to

the world. They had forbidden the daemons from siring offspring, thus

had destroyed Hope's kingdom when people started worshiping her... and, through her, the god from whom she

cruel punishment, considering that daemons had not even been aware of their origin at the time. After all, the description of

his army against the gods. However, he was the first to shed their blood, as well as learn the secrets

of the gods and learn the truth of

gritted his teeth,

'Damnation... damnation...'

history of the Dream Realm was revealed in front of him. Except for the very

had happened during the

had the gods

seal of the Void