Shadow Slave

After calming down a little, Sunny conducted a few simple experiments to figure out what exactly his shadow avatars were capable of.

The results... left him a bit breathless.

The most important thing about his Transformation Ability was that the manifested shadows were, indeed, no different from himself.

They possessed the exact same body and the exact same Attributes. More than that, they were just as powerful as Sunny — meaning, each of the six avatars was as fast, strong, and resilient as a Transcendent Terror.

But that was not all.

Not only did they possess the same power as him, they could also use the same Abilities as him. Meaning that all six avatars could independently use Shadow Control, Shadow Step, and Shadow Manifestation.

They could also summon his Shadows, wield the Memories he possessed, and weave strings of shadow essence. Most frighteningly of all... each of them could form their own Shadow Shells.

Even though maintaining several shells at the same time almost made Sunny pass out, he could theoretically turn each of his avatars into a different kind of terrifying creature.

There were two things Sunny and his shadow avatars shared, though.

The first one was rather obvious — it was his mind. The shadow avatars could act independently, following his commands to the best of their ability. But when he took direct control of their bodies, it was not as though he suddenly had several consciousnesses. Rather, his sole consciousness controlled many bodies, and, therefore, took on the corresponding burden.

A weird quirk of that situation was that the shadows refused to speak unless the body was directly controlled by him, despite being physically able to. Whether it was an external limitation or simply not in their nature, he did not know. In any case, that meant that his Flaw prohibited him from lying even through the mouths of the avatars.

was his soul. That was why they were able to summon his Shadows and his Memories... that was

considerable amount of essence. If all of them went around using powerful enchantments and activating their Abilities simultaneously... the result would

Transformation Ability, he would have been forced to only use it to deliver short bursts of truly devastating damage or

potent essence now, and could passively replenish it with spirit essence when in the embrace of shadows, to boot.

it reinforcing his soul, Sunny could summon the full wrath

essence. The natural rate at which it was expended and replenished now made it so that he did not need

one of those exceedingly rare,

that he did not need to Transform all of his shadows at the same time. He could make some into avatars while keeping the rest in

remained in their natural form, then, could augment either him or the manifested avatars. The proportion could be whatever he desired — he could augment himself with all six shadows, manifest an avatar and

was a supremely flexible and adaptable Ability. Sunny could shift freely between being a single source of

the amount of strategies he could come up

In short...

'It's ridiculous.'

power and flexibility that Sunny now commanded was nothing short of daunting. He was already slightly frightened by his Transcendent might... now that there could be seven of him, that

for Saints, but now that he was a Saint himself — and one of the most powerful Saints in existence, no less — he truly understood why each of them was a

limitations to his newfound power. The burden on his mind and reserves of shadow essence was one

because it was a manifestation of his Attribute. If he summoned a powerful Memory weapon, six copies of it would not magically appear in the hands of the avatars

the moment. Sunny did not even have a Memory weapon right now,

the mighty have

in bitter silence, shocked

it, Sunny had to face some