Shadow Slave

Chapter 1798 Knowledge of Everything When Sunny woke up, reality was the same. His dreams did not change the cold, ruthless truth.

He had wondered a lot what he would find at the edge of this alien world, but never expected to find the end of his own.

Sunny slowly sat up and stared at the wall with an absent expression.

...Would he still be alone in this frozen wasteland when his world crumbled and become one with the spreading Dream Realm?

Reality was the same, but he was not.

It wasn't unexpected, to change after witnessing something so shocking. He had mused about how small he was in comparison to the colossal stump in the Burned Forest. But only witnessing the white dome of LO49 under the strange sky had really put his entire life in perspective.

Sunny was quite a self-centered person. He wasn't a narcissist or someone who had no empathy for anyone except himself, but he cared about himself more than he did about others. There were a few people out there he would die for - but even then, It was because they were dear to him, and their loss would hurt him terribly.

Only those who had not suffered before were oblivious enough to be truly selfless. People who had experienced anguish and pain knew the value of selfishness, because caring about oneself meant not having to suffer that anguish again.

So, Sunny was a reasonably selfish man. He was also a man who had experienced all kinds of torment, witnessed great tragedies, and endured it all to continue walking forward.

Still, even he could not remain unmoved in the face of the destruction of his world, and the extinction of his kind.

'She was right... knowledge is indeed the heaviest thing in the world.’

The winds were howling beyond the walls of the

empty hut. The sky was cold and dark. Pale starlight bathed the desolate expanse of ice, reflecting from it in a ghostly radiance.

Some distance away, the dome of LO49 stood lonesomely above the snow.

Sunny let out a long sigh.

He did not want to, but had no choice except to reevaluate a lot of things. Very important things, including the very concept of the future and his own place in its frightening reach.

In fact, even though Sunny did not know what to think yet, he felt that he had already made a few decisions.

It was just that he had not realized these decisions yet.

Life.,,, was so messy.

own was lacking. He did not find what he was looking for there,

played their games while countless

make his will known and if not punish the tyrants, then at least prevent their hidden conflict from causing too much collateral damage among the civilian population. He did a few things to realize that goal, but before his

Sunny was thrown into the

the Tomb of Ariel... well. He made a proper mess of everything, and then somehow solved it, as well. But the way he solved it was

those... those were his personal issues. They had nothing to do with the Sovereigns, what he had wanted to do in Antarctica, and the fate of

time he returned, the Sovereigns had already made their move, and the Southern Campaign was over, Those refugees that had not been evacuated across the ocean fled into the Dream Gates, and left the

He was forgotten, expelled, and erased from

So, he left.

Forgotten Shore, and the Burned Forest in solitude. All to

find a piece of that world at the end of the

was he supposed to

he continue to pretend that nothing of what was happening to humanity had anything

continue to hide, keep his own

continue going

was full of excitement at the thought of exploring

care anymore. The thrill

Sunny drank some water, sighed, and then absent-mindedly looked at the

Memory of his had served him well

gift from someone who

His expression turned cold.

course, there was a different choice to be made, and a different destiny to be carved

could turn

He could return.

'And then what?’

Rain... Teacher Julius, Saint Tyris, Beth...

not think or care

But Sunny remembered.

if I go back... I'll have to do a few

to be a mere spectator. Why did he have to simply watch the ruthless players move the figures across the board? Instead, he could exert

The idea of confronting the Sovereigns seemed like pure madness before. It

Sunny exert his will and reshape the