Shadow Slave

Chapter 1899 Mirrored Darkness Sunny knew what was supposed to happen.

In fact, it was very simple — the answer was nothing.

Mordret's Reflections were strange creatures, after all. They were neither dead nor alive, neither divine nor profane. A long time ago, when he killed the Mirror Beast on Reckoning Island, the Spell had announced the kill, but did not whisper anything about his shadow growing stronger.

Sunny was banished from the Nightmare Spell now, but the result would be the same. Killing Reflections did not grant him fragments, and no shadow would appear in the silent stillness of his soul.

Therefore, Saint was unlikely to receive any reward for slaying the Supreme Reflection, either. Even its darkness was merely a reflection of Revel's own — now that the living mirror was gone and there was nothing left to reflect it, the false darkness would most likely disappear, as well.

...Which was a real shame. Sunny really felt that Saint deserved to receive a boon after fighting a battle as dreadful as this one had been — especially considering that she had forged her path to Transcendence by taking the essence of Nightmare Creatures wielding powers over true darkness.

Sunny had never been clear on how exactly Saint was able to increase her Class. He did not know how to help her reach a new Rank without the assistance of the Spell, either. So, he had hoped that defeating a being of true darkness, even if it was a Reflection, would grant her some kind of reward.

But it was not meant to be...

Or so he thought.

Even though Sunny could not see anything, he still felt a sudden shift in the atmosphere of the ancient castle.

If he could see, though, he would have witnessed the dark splendor of what was happening around him and Serpent.

Saint stood motionlessly, her unshaken hand still making a fist. Glass sand slowly poured from between her fingers, and at the same time, the fluid darkness around her stirred.

flames in the surging darkness. The ethereal vortex spun faster and faster, pulling more strands of darkness into its

feet. Sensing something, she threw a sharp

emotion betraying itself on her inhumanly

moment, the torrent of darkness came alive, and poured into her body. The darkness entered her chest like a raging flood and was absorbed into her fiery

that was not

hint of a faintly familiar,

to change in the absence of the slain Reflection. Some

that mist

staring at Revel silently, she remained motionless... and eagerly absorbed the wisps

by the end of it, the sphere of true

though, trapping Sunny in

"...So full of surprises."

feet and looked around in search of her sword, a cold

be shocked

separated himself from Serpent and manifested his avatar into a corporeal form once

suddenly felt deaf and lost. The true darkness enveloped everything around him, making him

it had

it had already received plenty of gruesome wounds, so Sunny silently dismissed the bleeding

meanwhile, was mangled even more terribly. He would have recalled her into the nurturing haven of his lightless soul... however, it was not time yet. Instead, Sunny spent more of his essence to take control of another incarnation —- one of the three shadows

state of unity with his taciturn Shadow. He could see the ruined hall through her eyes... including his own back, which stood

broken her body was. The flowing darkness caressed it softly, helping the terrible wounds heal — but they weren't healing fast enough, and the damage

in no condition to continue