Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2393

Chapter 2393 Who Puppeteers the Puppeteers

As darkness shrouded the world, Sunny and Kai sought shelter from the eerie gaze of the Puppeteer on the other side of the mountain. Sunny sat in the ash, his six hands dancing in the air as he wove the complicated enchantment of the Evening Star, one of them was giving him trouble, but he worked through the stiffness and the pangs of pain. His expression was both focused and distant, as if he was in a state of flow, but also rattled to the core.

As the radiant patterns of the sorcerous tapestry took form, he could feel his shades being mended. The Obsidian Wasps were restored first, then the Shadow Wolves and Abundance… the Wolf was going to recover soon, too. Slayer was close to being fully healed as well. The shade of the Rat King, meanwhile, had never been vanquished, so Sunny could summon it at any second as long as he wished to.

'The Puppeteer Moth… really, now?' Sunny was a little shaken.

Locking these feelings in an isolated partition of his mind, he allowed that part of him to take control of his mouth and spoke quietly: "What a splendid coincidence." Meeting an Nightmare Creature that was connected to his First Nightmare here was truly unexpected. Unbelievable, even. What were the chances? It was almost as if someone - a certain nebulous daemon, perhaps - had pulled the strings behind the scenes to make it happen. Not the strands of black silk that the Puppeteer used, though, but an entirely different kind.

The Strings of Fate themselves, maybe. …Who was the real puppeteer here, then?

Suddenly, the giant black moth perching on the peak of a towering mountain did not seem so traumatic anymore. It even seemed a little pitiful. But, naturally, that feeling only lasted for a moment.

Kai, who had been staring at the stars idly, turned to look at Sunny. "But how do you know that horror?" Sunny remained silent for a few seconds, engrossed in weaving, then shrugged. "It was mentioned in the description of a Memory I owned. It was the second Memory I had ever received, actually… and its description was quite memorable. Because of how creepy it was. Who knew I'd meet that creepy Nightmare Creature myself, one day?"

He sighed, then shook his head slowly. "But, actually, it is a good thing. It is a wonderful thing, even."

Sunny glanced at Kai and tried to smile. "Knowledge is the origin of power, after all. Few things are more important than knowing your adversary. I thought we would have to go into battle against the Snow Tyrant blind, but would you look at that? Now, we don't have to. We know quite a lot about it. In fact, we know the things that matter most." He glanced away and contemplated the situation for a while.

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