Shadow Slave

The second passage he was keenly interested in was much less poetle, but tantalized Sunny much more. That was because it mentioned the other daemons… most of all, the nebulous Demon of Fate.

The runes read:

[Gods created all living creatures, but not all creatures they created carry a divine lineage. Only those born of the gods do, and those born of their descendants. Why have the gods forbidden us seven to sire offspring? Why are we destined for loneliness?]

[Is it because we are of the Forgotten One, who slumbers in the Void?]

[Where is the Void, and where is its Gate? How did Weaver enter it, and what did Weaver see?]

[Why did Weaver decide to break the will of the gods and create a lineage?]

[Blood, bone, flesh. Soul, spirit, mind. And shadow.]

[The gods shall discover the transgression, but they cannot.]

[That is because, having created a lineage, Weaver does not possess a lineage. It has been lost and will be lost, therefore having never been in Weaver's possession. One cannot be punished for something that has never been.]

[A piece is lost to fantasy, a piece is lost to fear. A piece is lost to respite, a piece is lost to darkness. A piece is lost to sorrow, a piece is lost to rot. And finally, a piece is stolen by a thief.]

[Weaver's defiance is elusive, just like Weaver is. But mine will be different.]

Sunny stared at the runes for a while, his eyes burning with wanderlust.

Nether seemed to have been considering the difference between him, the youngest sibling, and Weaver — the oldest. Both had decided to defy the gods, but in a different way.

«Gods created all living creatures, but only those born of them carry a divine lineage…»

It seemed that Weaver had pursued the latter, while Nether had pursued the former.

But more importantly…

«Weaver's lineage.»

Finally, he knew the remaining parts of the Weave. He had already found Blood Weave, Bone Weave, and Soul Weave. Flesh, Mind, Spirit, and Shadow Weaves remained.

«Shadow Weave!»

Would absorbing it make up for Shadow God's lineage that Blood Weave had so unceremoniously devoured?

And if he managed to collect all seven, would the broken lineage of Weaver restore itself to an unblemished state, granting him its full power?

Sunny finally understood why the Weave had been shattered into many fragments, to begin with. it was because Weaver had hidden its existence from the gods by scattering it across the tapestry of fate.

lost to sorrow was

thief was Blood Weave, which the Nightmare Spell

lost an arm. Therefore, the Demon of Fate had foreseen these events in advance… or maybe even reached into

inventive to avoid the gaze of the

four fragments ended up? Sunny looked back at

fantasy, a piece is lost to fear A piece is lost to respite,

at the map where the

rest, darkness. Imagination, Dread, Repose,

located somewhere in Bastion, Ravenheart,

by the desire to travel to Bastion and

desire quickly

to Bastion, Ravenheart, and the great citadel of the House of Night that drifted on the waves of Stormsea meant diving back

escaped it.

Mountains. His strength might have increased explosively after the Transcendence, but true darkness was the natural enemy of shadows. Out there, below the jagged peaks, was

would be nearly powerless there. Blind, weakened, and without

could imagine himself braving a Death Zone, but not

«Forget it, then.»

passage and tried to never look at

someday In

that interested him, coincidentally, had to do with the Hollow

was

The runes read:

contain the

void, and placed the cage of desire

places where the cage is thin, nothing slips through its seams. The Underworld is one such place,

It is like mist.

However…

exist in the

the Void,

am wary of

bewildered by what he read, and thought that he had messed up the translation at first. But after going

having a

several

he was not someone who

the passage must have had meaning. But what was the

question for a few days, until a tenuous idea

if nothing… was literally

the absence of everything, but the

about that made his head

like something that the gods would be involved in. These beings operated with ideas and concepts, after all, having shaped the very

it. Enveloping the Void in a layer of nothingness, which the Void Beings could not cross, because nothing could stop them. And bringing down the cage of existence on top