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.

his Shadows and his Memories... that was also why all seven of them shared the

went around using powerful enchantments and activating

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. just as important

potential of his Transformation Ability. With it reinforcing his soul, Sunny could

of them permanently without losing any essence. The natural rate at which it was expended and replenished now made it so that

of those exceedingly rare, freakish

important piece of information in that latest discovery, too. It was that he did not need to Transform all of his shadows at the same time.

himself with all six shadows, manifest an avatar and augment it with the remaining five shadows, share the augmentation between himself and

it was a supremely flexible and adaptable Ability. Sunny could shift freely between being a single source of overwhelming power or several sources of slightly less

Shadows added into the mix, the amount of strategies he could

In short...

'It's ridiculous.'

of daunting. He was already slightly frightened by his Transcendent might... now that there

respect 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

to his newfound power. The burden on his

was another. They might all be wearing the Onyx Mantle, but that was simply because it was a manifestation of his Attribute. If he summoned a powerful Memory weapon, six copies of it would not magically appear

for the moment. Sunny did not even

mighty

moment in bitter silence, shocked at the

about it, Sunny had