Shadow Slave

1525 Memory of Light
The breakfast ended up passing in a strange atmosphere.
Which was understandable, considering that they were sharing the table with a
homicidal maniac. Mordret was nothing but amiable and pleasant, but it was
exactly his disarming charm that made everyone feel disturbed and
uncomfortable. After all, they all knew what the Prince of Nothing was capable
of... some better than others.
Mordret was not the only one who made the conversation feel stifled, though.
Nephis was still detached and impassive. Cassie was keeping quiet, as if she
had forgotten how to speak. Sunny was not in the mood to talk, either,
concentrating on his food. Kai was deep in thought, still struggling to come to
terms with what he had learned from Effie and Jet.
After a while, all seven of them were more or less done with the meal. In the
silence that followed, Effie glanced around the table.
"So.
She leaned back and smiled.
"...Is anyone going to explain what the hell happened in that damned city?"
Sunny looked at her somberly. So did Nephis and Mordret — the former without
any emotion, the latter with a hint of amusement. At that moment, Jet stretched
her legs, crossed them comfortably, and nodded.
"Yeah. Actually, I'm dying to know, too."
Sunny remained silent for a few moments, trying to imagine the situation from
their perspective, then sighed.
Taking a sip of tea, he said:
"Well... first of all, our base assumption was wrong. We assumed that Twilight
had been frozen in the middle of a battle between its army and the invading
forces of the Defilement, but in fact, it was a battle between Soul Stealer and the
Dread Lord all along."
He paused, then added in a dark tone:
"They must have breached the walls of the city, which allowed Soul Stealer to
consume the souls of everyone in Twilight. That was when he turned on the
Dread Lord and tried to consume him, as well... and when the Mad Prince made
use of the situation to activate the defensive array and trap them both. So, when I
deactivated the array, both of those fiends were unleashed."
Across the table from him, Cassie suddenly spoke:
"Some of us have a good chance of resisting Prince Mordret's power, but some
don't. That was why you two had to be hidden from Soul Stealer.”
She turned slightly, facing Mordret.
He smiled innocently.
“I don't like it at all..."
Sunny stared at the Prince of Nothing silently for a moment, then looked away.
"Don't worry. You don't have to be wary of him... too much. We are currently
allies, after all, and he knows that if something untoward happens, this Nightmare
will become his grave."
The threat hidden in his words was not very subtle. But Sunny did not really
worry about Mordret — there might have been something really wrong with that
guy, but he was not a fool. The exact opposite, actually. He knew that harming
any member of the cohort inside the Tomb of Ariel would be a fatal mistake.
Especially now, right after Soul Stealer had been destroyed by Nephis, Mordret
would not risk making them all his enemies. At least not until the very last
moments of the Nightmare.
Sunny sighed.
"In any case, pretty much as soon as the array was deactivated, Kai and I faced
the Dread Lord. I had to use an enchantment of the Crown of Twilight to resist his
commands, but at the cost of plunging into an uncontrollable rage. While the two
of us fought against the dragon, Nephis and Cassie found themselves
surrounded by the vessels of Soul Stealer."
He paused.
"I am... actually not too sure what happened next."
Saying that, Sunny hesitated.
He said that he did not know, but in truth, he did know something.
Shimmering runes were glowing in the air in front of him. They read:
Name: Nephis.
True Name: Changing Star.
Rank: Ascended.
Class: Titan.
Soul Cores: [7/7].
Soul Fragments: [7000/7000].
Which was already startling enough. But there was something else near the end
of the field of runes. Several new strings had appeared there.
Those were the runes that truly gave him pause.
Shifting his gaze slightly, Sunny read them once again:
Aspect Legacy: [Memory of Light].
Aspect Legacy Description: [A beautiful tree grew from the ashes of doubt,
bearing fruits of knowledge.]
Knowledge of Fire: [Mastered].
Knowledge of ???: Unearned.
Knowledge of ???: Unearned.
Knowledge of ???: Unearned.
Knowledge of ???: Unearned.
There were seven strings in total, with only one of them revealed and described
as mastered.
So... whatever happened to Nephis in Twilight had not only allowed her to
become a Titan, but also unlocked her Aspect Legacy. And that Aspect Legacy
was more than a little bit strange, seemingly granting some sort of knowledge
instead of Relics.
Sunny would lie if he said that he wasn't interested in learning what had
happened.
He looked at Nephis, hoping that she would explain at least something.
She remained silent for a few moments, then shrugged indifferently.
"I tried to make my way to the palace, but Soul Stealer stood in my way. Facing
defeat, I made a breakthrough and conceived of a new way of using my Aspect...
just like you had conceived of using yours to take shapes of powerful creatures.
So, I used one of my soul cores as fuel and destroyed it to unleash a
conflagration of soul flame."
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Sunny stared at her incredulously. On
paper, what Nephis said made
sense... he had indeed managed to
deepen his he of hig
Asin wh oreste techniques like
Shadow Shell and Shadow
Incarnation, thus becoming more
powerful while remaining of the
same Rank. In a similar fashion,
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But there was a piece of the puzzle missing.
"So... your Aspect allows you to burn your own soul and use it as fuel. But why
was the explosion so immense and destructive?"
She looked at him impassively.
"My soul essence is especially potent, as you know. The explosion would have
been devastating, regardless. But... yes, there was another element, as well. It
was sorcery."
Sunny raised his eyebrow, hiding how perplexed he was.
"...Sorcery?"
Nephis nodded.
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Yes. The sorcery of Names. I used
the Name of Wind to fan the flames
burning across Twilight, and
absorbed them. Then,(Jgnded hy
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sub and Whispered the Name of
Fire. You saw the rest. In the end, all
vessels of Soul Stealer were
destroyed. The remnants of the
Defiled horde were destroyed, as well,
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She paused for a moment.
"With nowhere else to run, Soul Stealer was forced to enter my soul. I burned
him."
Her even tone and motionless face made it seem as though destroying a
Corrupted Titan, millions of his puppets, and thousands of Nightmare Creatures
in one fell swoop was nothing out of the ordinary.
The rest of them stared at Nephis in stunned silence.
In the end, Effie grinned.
"Good job, Princess. Let's be friends, okay?"
Sunny was thinking about something else.
'Knowledge of Fire..."
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He had an inkling of what the
knowledge Nephis had received from
her Aspect Legacy was. It hago
have coppice Name of
Fire ht he minimum... of every kind
of fire there was, perhaps. It must
have also elevated her already
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Nephis, meanwhile, looked at Effie with a hint of confusion in her striking grey
eyes.
"...Aren't we already friends?"
The huntress chuckled and raised her thumb up.