Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2130

Chapter 2130: Inviting a Killer Into Your Soul

Sunny said that he would take the risk — but really, he was quite concerned. He did not know what would happen next.

The first part was not at all surprising…

[Your shadow grows stronger.]

The Handy Bracelet might not have been enchanted to react when Sunny killed a shadow, but a Shadow Creature was different. He had some experience with that.

As soon as the voice spoke into his ear, Sunny fely a torrent of fragments rush into his soul — quite a bit less than what he had received after slaying the shadow of Condemnation, but still an amazing amount.

'Ah…'

He could feel subtle changes happening to his body, making him a little bit stronger. Even though he had already formed all seven cores, there was still one final feat left to perform — it was to saturate them fully once and for all. Before that, the familiar hunt for shadow fragments would still hold some meaning for him, albeit less than before.

Unless he found some other way to use them, of course… Nephis could burn her cores to unleash annihilating flames, for example, while Mordret could tear out pieces of his soul to create Reflections.

It was unknown, and quite doubtful really, that Sunny's Aspect possessed such a facet. If not… one day soon, he would lose an integral reason to hunt down Nightmare Creatures and seek more power.

Sunny found the very idea of having no motive to kill unfamiliar. He had spent so much time being pushed to endlessly seek out battle — against beings who were his equals or possessed greater power than him, at that — that it had become his second nature. How would it even feel, to not have that need?

'Well… I'm sure I'll find some other reason to kill things.'

Or it would find him. When had the world ever allowed him peace and tranquility?

In any case, fully saturating his cores would most likely have to wait until his next visit to the Shadow Realm, wherever that might be.

Receiving a flood of shadow fragments was what he had expected.

The next part was shrouded in doubt.

As the ghostly body of the shadow archer convulsed and dissolved into black smoke under him, soon disappearing entirely, Sunny closed his eyes for a moment.

Two things could happen.

The first one… was that the vicious slayer would join the ranks of the still and silent shadows that populated his Soul Sea.

It was just that Sunny doubted that she would remain still and silent for long.

Eurys was right. This strange shadow had maintained self-awareness and lucidity — a form of them, at least — even after coming to the Shadow Realm after the death of the woman casting it. So, she would most likely remain rebellious in his Soul Sea, as well, either going on a massacre or simply endeavoring to destroy his soul from the inside.

Maybe both.

The second possibility was just as troubling, if not more so.

The slayer of the Shadow Realm was a Shadow Creature, after all… just like Nightmare had been.

And unlike the rest of his Shadows — with the exception of Serpent, who had been handed down to Sunny as a Legacy Relic by the Spell — Nightmare was not created by combining the silent shadow of a slain creature with their Echo.

Instead, as soon as Sunny killed the tenebrous stеed, Nightmare had become his Shadow directly.

The same could happen with the nebulous slayer, which would root her essence in one of his Shadow Cores.

What would happen then?

…Sunny had no idea.

She would definitely not recognize him as a master, though.

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