Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2261

A dark, desolate expanse of black dunes rested under a lightless heaven, their obsidian slopes illuminated only by the distant radiance of transient essence storms. Buried in the dust, a graveyard of serpents lay like an ivory maze, its forlorn walls awash in darkness.

The silence of the dead land was suddenly broken by the sound of light footsteps. A young man with a jade face and onyx eyes was walking across the obsidian dust, his body encased in a suit of intricate black armor.

Wherever he passed, the darkness grew deeper, and the winds turned colder.

He was calm and at ease, as if walking across the pastures of his own domain instead of the desolate reaches of the Realm of Death.

And in a sense, he was.

The young man was Sunless, the Lord of Shadows... the Sovereign of Death.

Reaching the heart of the graveyard, the terrifying demigod stopped and looked down, at the badly damaged human skeleton that lay among the dead serpents, staring at the lightless sky with empty eyes.

After a while, the skeleton spoke:

"My, oh my! Look whom we have here... I see you have survived, boy."

Sunny stared at Eurys some more, then sighed and summoned the Shadow Chair. Placing it near the mangled skeleton, he sat down, leaned back comfortably, and crossed his legs.

"Well, about that... you'd be surprised."

Eurys turned his skull to stare at him.

"I am not sure I can be surprised by anything anymore... no, I take it back! I am surprised right now!"

He grinned.

Of course, being a skeleton, Eurys was stuck with a perpetual grin, so he did not have much choice in the matter.

"Look at you. You really did go and become Supreme. How remarkable!"

He clicked his jaws, showing how impressed he was.

"I hope my humble advice was helpful. So, how did you do it? What was your act of defiance, evil boy? Did you go against your vicious nature and spare someone? Or did you kill some great, powerful being instead?"

Sunny chuckled.

"Oh, I did have to kill someone. Not sure about the great and powerful part, though. You see... I killed myself."

Eurys remained silent for a while.

"My, oh my... that's one way to go about it, I suppose!"

He paused for a few moments, and then added neutrally:

"Breaking the absolute law of death is no simple feat. Few ever managed. So... congratulations!"

Sunny smiled.

"It is odd to be congratulated on managing to commit suicide. But it is even stranger to be alive while being congratulated, I guess."

He laughed.

"To be honest, it wasn't that difficult. A bit painful, at most."

Eurys ground his teeth against each other.

"Now you're just mocking me, boy. Saying such hurtful things... you do remember that I can't die no matter how hard I try, right? Why don't you rub the salt in my wounds and tell me more about how easily it was for you to die, huh?"

Sunny coughed.

"Well, when you put it that way, it does sound hurtful."

Eurys let out a creaky laugh.

"Ah, don't bother. I am already thankful that you remembered your promise and came back to try and kill me. Oh. But it took you long enough..."

Sunny shrugged

"Sorry. I've been pretty busy lately... we saw each other last what, a little over a year ago? So many things have happened in that year."

The Realm War had ended around a year ago, by now. Sunny was currently twenty-seven, a little shy of turning twenty-eight. Rain was already twenty-two.

'Gods. How swift the time flies...'

Actually, that was not true at all. If anything, it felt like for each year that he lived, ten years passed.

The last year in particular was quite eventful.

Sunny contemplated for a bit.

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