And so they had started their travel east.
A week had already passed since their arrival on the Forgotten Shore, to be fair.
As the Nameless Sun rose high and the Dark Sea receded towards the Crater, his suspicions were proved correct.
They were indeed almost on the border of the other region of the Dream Realm.
It was one hell of a Death Zone, to be honest, and the Nightmare Creatures that inhabited it were mostly of Fallen and Corrupted Rank, with a few even higher.
Their luck was simultaneously terrible and fortunate.
Terrible because they ended up this close to it on their first day in the Dream Realm — and a few monsters from that region were bound to travel here from time to time.
Fortunate, though…
Because if they had been spawned just a dozen kilometers or so to the west, they would be dead for sure.
Not even his trump cards and quick and crazy mind would have helped them there.
That region was the most unique in all of the Divine Realms, at least of those he had visited in his travels.
He had named it the Prison of the Fallen Deity.
And as the name suggested…
It had an absolutely real God trapped there — a Divine being.
And she was alive.
At least, he believed she was at this moment.
And from what he could figure, fairly uncorrupted.
Just a bit crazy — but who was he to judge — and with a very…
unique sense of humor.
He sighed, massaging his brows, amusement mixed with exasperation.
To be fair, he had a beyond-crazy idea for a second — to go and try to reach the place where the Goddess was confined.
The rewards for freeing her last time were very handsome, after all.
But he dismissed it instantly.
Not only was there almost zero chance to reach her, but the Goddess’s warden was also a Great Terror.
Even with the huge stroke of luck he didn’t believe he would get, the craziest tactics he could think of, and pushing [Shapeless Thief] with every ounce of his being, he knew there would be no chance to kill that particular Nightmare Creature.
He wasn’t even sure how he had managed it the last time, being just a Transcended Titan.
Also, clearing their way there would inevitably require him to summon the [Extermination Road], and in this Dormant body he had nowhere near enough strength, speed, or reflexes to control it — which would inevitably kill him before any monster could.
And so the idea lost all point, beyond receiving a separate version of that very same Memory.
As it turned out, the platform where they had taken refuge on the first night wasn’t really a platform at all.
It was the roof of a forsaken temple dedicated to the very same Goddess.
It was a place that he distinguished their location by, to begin with.
And in the temple itself lived a surprisingly chill Fallen Titan.
The insides were protected by runic sorcery, keeping the Dark Sea at bay, and the Titan guarded it peacefully — unless one decided to loot it.
However, Sunny gave quite a scare to the blind seer as he explained their predicament.
They managed to slip away without many problems, though.
And so east they went.
Their road was comparably easy so far — well, Cassie wouldn’t say that, as they encountered at least a few Nightmare Creatures each day, the majority being of Awakened Rank.
Most of them were Monsters, but there were a few Demons here and there.
Her visions helped them immensely, allowing them to slip away from the most dangerous ones.
There was, however, one particularly nasty Fallen Beast the other day he was forced to fight.
It wasn’t an easy battle, to say the least.
Even though he was a very experienced fighter and had Serpent to help here and there, there was still a significant difference in strength and speed between them.
He also had to keep an eye on Cassie, as their fight could potentially have lured other Creatures to feast on the easy prey that she was.
It was not easy, indeed.
But he had managed to slay it anyway.
The Beast left a few annoying bruises and a deep, nasty cut on his left thigh, but he was mostly fine.
Considering that the only piece of armor — if you could even call it that — he wore was his Gloomy-shorts, it was a pretty good achievement in his books.
Yeah…
There was also the problem of his luck with getting new Memories.
As was already evident, he hadn’t been able to acquire new armor for himself…
To be honest, he hadn’t received any Memory at all!
After the initial rewards he had received from the terrific destruction [Heaven’s Promise] caused in the depths of the Dark Sea, he had not received a single Memory since.
There was an interesting development about [Heaven’s Promise] — or the [Shapeless Thief] in general — by the way.
It seemed that the Bird’s Greed had continued to guide the spear through the waters, preying on the Creatures unfortunate enough to meet it for quite a while before he dismissed it.
There were even a few Fallen ones too, if he remembered correctly.
The only good thing was that the Spell had pitied him a bit that day and given him a weapon, after all.
It was an Awakened sword of the Fourth Tier — the reward he got for slaying the Devil leading the pack.
This type of weapon wasn’t his favorite — a longsword made of a silver-like metal with an intricately shaped guard — but beggars can’t be choosers, he guessed.
Its name was [Knight’s Oath], and it had just two enchantments.
The first was [Symbol of Faith] — a passive enchantment — which simply made the blade sharper and his aim truer the stronger his ideals were.
The second he hadn’t been able to see yet, but from what he could figure, it was some kind of active enchantment that mentally crushed his opponent the more wounds it had inflicted.
It almost reminded him of [Sin of Solace] in that regard, but it wasn’t nearly as potent and also wasn’t driving him mad with every passing second — thank you very much, Spell!
— so it wasn’t that bad.
Having been spoiled by the high-ranking Memories he’d possessed before his regression, he found the sword unimpressive.
But it would make do for now, at least until he unlocked his Monster Core and could turn Serpent into his familiar weapon.
He was also slowly progressing with his Shadow Dance and — he was sure — would soon enough unlock its third step.
Going back to his Core and Fragments, though…
It was a bit complicated — in a good way — thing, he mused.
After the fight with the pack was over and having nothing else to do until dawn, Sunny decided to check his rewards — a reasonable thing to do — and then meditate for a bit.
The Memories he had received aside from [Knight’s Oath] were just useless junk not worth focusing on, as he had figured out.
Something else, however, had caught his attention…
Shadow Fragments: [397/1000].
He blinked owlishly the first time he caught a glimpse of it.
Had he really slain that many?
He concentrated for a second and then shook his head.
There were a lot of notifications from the Spell, but not that many.
He tried to recalculate for a bit, but the number wasn’t adding up, no matter how hard he tried.
Before the whole thing he had only 204 Fragments in his core — a fair bit more than the previous time.
After summing every Nightmare Creature [Heaven’s Promise] had initially ruptured and what he remembered from the subsequent notifications, it shouldn’t have left him with more than 270.
Yet, somehow, he had received more than a hundred extra — from seemingly nowhere.
Something had gone wrong — or rather, right — to be fair.
He mused for a few seconds more and then suddenly had a suspicion.
He dove into his Soul Sea and summoned the [Shapeless Thief].
As usual, the Memory was reforming itself every other second, but that wasn’t what interested him now.
He concentrated on its spellweave again, searching for a pattern that could serve this particular purpose.
It was hard to decipher, the weave itself blurry and giving him an especially nasty headache.
But after a while he found what he believed he was looking for.
It took him a fair bit of time before he finally understood how the enchantment functioned and which part of the spellweave was responsible for what.
It was a very high-ranking, powerful, and complex Memory.
Even for his Supreme mind and while possessing his Weaves, it would have been a bit of a challenge to completely crack.
He, however, wasn’t aiming for that.
What he wanted was just a general understanding of what this spiteful [Thief] could do.
He was so engrossed that he may have started to decipher the other enchantments as well, despite the trouble it gave him.
And so he continued to torture himself for a while, until finally the runes of the Memory shifted.
He could see most of the cursed Memory’s enchantments at last — except for one…
Memory Enchantments: [Shapeless], [Covetous Eye], [Pilfered Vitality], [Grave Robber], [—], [Thief’s Instinct].
The [Shapeless] and [Thief’s Instinct] enchantments were exactly as he knew them, so he didn’t focus on them too much.
There were, however, a few more interesting ones.
First was [Covetous Eye].
[Covetous Eye] Enchantment Description: “The Bird always knew where the most precious things lay hidden. Its hunger does not sleep, and neither does its sight.”
It was an interesting enchantment, to say the least.
The key idea was that it allowed the wielder to sense the location and rough value of treasures, powerful artifacts, objects, or simply the shiniest things in their vicinity.
Combined with [Thief’s Instinct]’s curse, after continuous abuse of the Memory, it would probably lead the person in question to become an absolute thieving lunatic — not unlike the Bird herself.
However, there was an upside to it as well.
When not directly wielded, it counted the user’s enemies as valuable possessions too, in a sense.
As was demonstrated with [Heaven’s Promise], given the opportunity, it would hunt anything in its path that the enchantment deemed worthy of its attention.
So, yeah — it would come in handy, when he would finally be able to wield the Memory safely.
Next came [Pilfered Vitality].
[Pilfered Vitality] Enchantment Description: “What bleeds before this weapon does not simply bleed. The wound is not the end of the exchange — it is the beginning of one. The Vile Thieving Bird understood that nothing is ever truly lost; it only changes hands. And the hand that strikes first has the right of first claim.”
It was a very, very useful enchantment, he mused.
Not only did it slowly steal the vitality of wounded enemies, as the name suggested, it also slowly drained their essence — and gave it all to the wielder.
The stronger the enemy, the bigger the gains.
A satisfied smile touched his face.
The previous two, however, paled in comparison to the last one he deciphered, outshone only by the [Shapeless] enchantment itself.
It had a very simple description.
[Grave Robber] Enchantment Description: “Death is merely the last thing worth stealing.”
What it did, though…
He swallowed the greedy feeling that rose in his throat.
Apparently, this was the enchantment responsible for his sudden influx of Shadow Fragments.
It did one simple thing.
After slaying an enemy, it took possession of its Cores — if it had more than one — split them apart as much as it could, and transformed those pieces into Soul Essence and Soul Fragments — Shadow Essence and Shadow Fragments in his case.
He wasn’t sure how many it gave per kill, or whether it was a static percentage at all, but it would be a very, very huge boost to his growth, considering he was just a mere Dormant Beast for now…
Well, it could have been, if not for the [Thief’s Instinct].
And now he had a dilemma…
‘Well, maybe using it for a bit is not that bad of an idea?..’ a greedy part of him whispered.
But no, it was too much of a risk.
He was crazy enough, he mused.
‘But maybe…’ the traitorous part of him murmured, seducing him.
No!
No.
And no, again.
‘But, maybe ju-u-ust a little?’ He slapped himself on the face and shook his head, discarding stupid thoughts — making Cassie shift her unseeing gaze at him, looking at him as if he had gone mad.
Well, he had.
Sunny was a bit crazy, but he wasn’t stupid.
The longer he used the [Shapeless Thief], the more his mind would degrade.
Even though the Hunger retreated slowly after he dismissed the Memory, he could already feel small bits of his personality being affected.
And he would rather die than turn into that Thieving Bitch!
So he was forced to make do with his newfound longsword Memory.
For the past week he had slain quite a few Nightmare Creatures and was now pushing the 500 Fragments threshold.
It was fun to watch Cassie’s face the first few times he returned from battles.
It was hard for the blind seer to believe that the kind, funny, and a little bit crazy boy who had taken care of her in the Academy and became her first friend was such a formidable fighter.
She didn’t pry too much, respecting the privacy of her savior, though she asked about his previous life from time to time.
She had seemingly got the idea that his life in the outskirts was some kind of blockbuster movie…
He didn’t correct her, though — because it was convenient, and it was fun too.
There was one thing that kept bothering him, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.
It felt similar to his gut warning him about upcoming danger, but very different at the same time.
It had a dark and somehow shadowy taste to it — a thing he couldn’t quite name — and sent waves of nostalgia through his heart.
It was dangerous…
and yet it wasn’t.
And it was coming closer from the south-east, directly towards them…
He cursed silently.
Was his life ever easy?
As they made their way, not everything went well.
Not only did this part of the labyrinth contain monsters much stronger than those near the Dark City, but the high grounds here were also few and far between.
So they were forced to start moving as soon as the Dark Sea began to recede and traveled for a whole day without stopping, barely making it to safe haven almost every time.
There was one day when they were forced to turn back, and one close call that required them to turn Gloomy into a boat again.
Life wasn’t easy overall — but they managed.
They were too slow, though.
By the way things were going, it would take them at least half a year to reach the Bright Castle — a very optimistic prediction based on the assumption that none of them would be heavily injured and there wouldn’t be any major setbacks along the road.
Something he knew would never happen if his luck had anything to say about it.
And Sunny had no idea how to increase their speed even a little.
Right now his only thoughts were acquiring his second Shadow Core — something that would take another month or so by his calculations, if he wasn’t forced to pull the [Thief] again — making a somewhat larger boat, and hoping that none of the Corrupted or Great abominations would take an interest in them along the way.
‘How well that worked last time…’ he exhaled, beyond tired.
But right now the only thing he could do was hope for the best — a ridiculous notion — and work harder.
And so their slow journey toward the Bright Castle continued.
After one more week of traveling, something finally changed — they had finally met the last piece of their original trio.
And with her came trouble, as well…
***
It was already evening when they finally made it to the high ground.
Their stop for the night was the body of a stone giant — not unlike Goliath — lying on a tall hill of sand.
In some places the sand had turned to glass from some unimaginable heat.
This whole region was the aftermath of a deadly battle that had taken place countless years ago — the body of the Titan – as he believed it was it’s Class – was already covered with moss and seaweed.
The coral labyrinth though was still wary to approach.
The giant had clearly been on the losing side.
Sunny finally finished pulling the blind seer up by the golden rope; and — as she put both feet on the ground — he dropped onto his back and exhaled heavily, eyes closed.
Droplets of sweat had broken out on his forehead, but he paid them no mind.
It was a hard day, to say the least.
The distance between the shelters hadn’t been that great today — however, this region was filled with Nightmare Creatures.
So all he did today was fight pack after pack of monsters and run from one relatively safe position to the next with Cassie on his back.
This body was still pathetically weak, after all, so he felt reasonably tired.
He opened his eyes and looked at the setting Nameless Sun as Cassie was lighting a fire — something she had taught herself to do in their first week on the Forgotten Shore.
He sat up, stretching a bit.
It was no time to rest yet.
They still had an hour or so before night overtook the world and the Dark Sea returned — a time not to be spent recklessly, as he wasn’t sure when their next opportunity to prepare provisions would arise.
He summoned his storage Memory — a spacious magnificent in its craftsmanship double bed with a hidden compartment — and started pulling out the meat and spices he’d been storing there.
If Sunny didn’t know that Cassie was blind, he would have sworn she was giving him a weird look right now.
It happened every time he summoned this particular Memory…
The first few times he summoned the [Bottomless Desire], he had offered the bed to Cassie to sleep on, taking the floor himself.
She had refused very politely each time, but her face was unusually strained and a faint blush could be seen on her cheeks…
He glanced at the bed, then at the blind girl, and sighed.
Yeah, he could imagine…
the way blind prophet saw this particular bed was put to use…
He wasn’t sure, however — was it in the past…
or the future.
He cut the meat into portions, seasoned it well, and started preparing it carefully.
Technically, he could leave all these tasks to Cassie, as she was slowly learning to cook by relying on her senses of smell and sound.
His cooking was better, though, and today he wanted to prepare a small feast.
Cassie, meanwhile, had finished making another fire and started frying much larger portions of the meat she had — that was solely her responsibility: making as many provisions as possible.
The distance between high grounds from this point on would only be increasing, and there wouldn’t be another opportunity like this for a while.
The Nameless Sun was already reaching the horizon, and the world began to tremble, signaling to the unfortunate souls stuck here that the Dark Sea was coming back.
They were finishing their meal preparations when something triggered his Shadow Sense.
He concentrated and then frowned.
A lone human figure was quickly approaching their resting spot — another Sleeper, apparently.
As it drew nearer, he could finally read the person’s shadow more clearly.
His frown was quickly replaced with a gentle smile.
‘She’s alright after all…’ he exhaled in relief.
It seemed the Changing Star had finally found her way to them.
Fate — that bastard — wouldn’t have it any other way.
It had been weighing on his mind the whole time since their arrival on the Forgotten Shore — countless ‘what ifs’ poisoning his thoughts and filling his dreams with nightmares.
But now he had his answer: she had been spawned in the same region of the labyrinth, after all.
His joy was quickly replaced with worry, however.
She wasn’t approaching alone.
His pulse quickened.
Nephis was being pursued by a whole dozen Nightmare Creatures — two of them of the Fallen Rank.
“We have a guest!” he said suddenly, standing up.
“Another Sleeper, with a pack of abominations on her tail.” Cassie tensed for a second, then looked at him with hesitation written on her face.
“What are we… What are you gonna do?” she asked, unsure.
She had a few problems with her self-esteem — same as last time — but it was not the time nor place to think about that.
Sunny inhaled, thinking quickly.
Nephis was approaching rapidly — but there was little chance she would make it in time.
As he looked at the setting sun, he gritted his teeth.
There was another problem incoming…
“We have to help them, but…”
Sunny approached the edge of the colossus’s skull and looked out toward the distance.
He could see the Changing Star’s small, approaching figure from here — but there was still a lot of ground to cover, and even if the Sea didn’t claim her in time, the monsters surely would.
He clenched his jaw, running possibilities through his mind.
How to help her?
The idiotic part of him wanted to jump and run down the hill to save her like a knight in shining armor — the whole notion making him sick, and Nephis would agree, he was sure.
And it was a rather idiotic thought, indeed, because he wouldn’t make it in time to make a difference anyway — the approaching Sea or the horde of Nightmares would do their deed before he could reach her.
His thoughts turned once again to [Shapeless Thief] and lingered there for a while.
He didn’t like it at all…
To put all of his faith into only one thing.
But he would have summoned it, anyway, if it would have helped Nephis in any meaningful way.
He considered the idea of turning it into a familiar bow — but dismissed the thought almost immediately.
He had no arrows to shoot and nowhere near enough essence for an elemental shot.
He could try to summon [Heaven’s Promise] again…
It was the idea he mused on the longest, to be honest.
But dismissed it nonetheless.
The [Price for Freedom] enchantment the spear had was an interesting one, to say the least.
It didn’t need — or to be more precise, didn’t require — a huge amount of essence to activate; even his meager reserves were enough to cause a fair amount of destruction.
The reason was simple: it worked differently from most other Memories.
Where other enchantments immediately consumed a fair chunk of essence to activate their effect and then continued to drain the user, this one operated entirely differently.
Instead, it used the essence provided as just a spark and then fed itself continuously, cultivating its power in the process.
You could, of course, give it as much essence as you wanted — but there was a high chance of it getting out of control and destroying everything in its path, user included.
Yeah, he had been a bit mad to give such a weapon to his little sister…
However, there was a lesson to learn there.
There was also a way to control it — with Will, of course…
But he digressed.
In his current situation, the chances were that as the spear flew towards the horde of abominations it would consume too much in its path — and, as he had no Will to control it, the subsequent space shift and twist would probably severely injure or kill Changing Star altogether.
So he was in a predicament, indeed…
He had no idea what to do.
He had no way to cross the distance quickly and safely; no essence to support Nephis’s escape from long range; and couldn’t think of a Memory useful enough to transform the [Thief] into.
He lowered his head and bit his lip until it drew blood.
He felt so powerless…
Again!
He inhaled.
‘Well, if it came to that…’
As he was about to make probably the most idiotic decision of his life — jumping into the maw of the Great Titan not included — something finally changed.
He stopped and looked up, eyes narrowing.
The Dark Sea was rapidly approaching and would catch Nephis in no time.
The Nightmare Creatures, however, from the look of things, had completely lost interest in her and turned back, slithering into the walls of the coral labyrinth.
What the hell?
‘Did the Sea scare them off?’ It was the most logical explanation — however, he didn’t believe it for a second.
‘Something isn’t right…’ He hated situations like this, but for now he would gladly take it, if it meant Nephis would see another day.
The dark waters, on the other hand, had already reached the high ground and started to rise higher with every moment.
With their particularly bad luck, a Corrupted abomination would show up any moment to feast on the divine flesh of Changing Star.
But here he could help.
He summoned the golden rope, took a quick look around, found a protruding rock, and tied one end to it.
“Cas, give me your staff for a moment”, he said.
She looked at him with a questioning expression but summoned the Memory the very next moment nonetheless.
“I’m going to meet our guest — the waters are already too high. Put out the fires in the meantime.” Not waiting for an answer, he jumped from the Titan’s head, slowing his fall with the rope a bit.
As he approached the water, Gloomy was already transforming into the familiar boat, and the moment they collided, he summoned a gust of wind and they immediately shot forward.
He could see Nephis from afar, floating on the surface — immediately tensing as she apparently sensed his approach, sword in hand, seemingly ready to fight to the bitter end.
Her concerns were for naught, though.
“Get in, fast — they’re coming!” Sunny shouted as he stopped in front of her.
The expression of indifference on her face almost cracked.
Almost…
‘I forgot how cute this socially inept Neph was,’ he thought, chuckling internally, as he offered her his hand and pulled her onboard and immediately filled the sail with air.
Nephis blinked — surprised, by Changing Star standards — at their vessel turning itself on the spot and shifting its shape slightly.
Then he suddenly remembered how awkward it was to travel on that thing with more than one person onboard.
‘Damn it, when will I get a single piece of clothing!’
At the exact same moment the waters to their side opened, and a small aquatic abomination jumped aboard and tried to take a bite of Nephis’s hand.
However, that very same moment it was split in half by [Knight’s Oath].
Nephis turned to him, blinking, and whispered what he believed was ‘Thanks.’ He simply nodded.
[You have slain an Awakened Beast, Craver for Pity.]
[You have received a Memory: Lightness of Compassion.]
[Your shadow grows stronger.]
He blinked and checked his runes just in case.
It was armor!
‘Thank you, Spell!’ The very next moment, in a flash of sparks, he materialized the white — he hated white, but it was far better than being completely naked!
— dress.
It was a mix of what he imagined priests wore, with a bit of armor on his chest, back, and shoulders.
He sighed in satisfaction.
The woman next to him looked at him strangely for a moment — he could already imagine what she thought.
‘Why do these awkward situations always find me?’ he mused internally.
It didn’t take them long to reach the Titan’s head and meet a worried Cassie sitting there.
As she heard two pairs of feet, an expression of relief took hold of her face.
She stood up and rushed forward to greet them.
“Hey, Cas! Can you believe it, I’ve finally got an armor Memory! Now I don’t have to run like an idiot with my shadow as my shorts! Though, the color of it…” He mumbled something obscene after that.
She started giggling immediately, a delighted smile on her face.
“I’m happy for you, Sunny, really.” Then she turned her face toward where she believed their guest was standing.
“Oh, and I brought a new friend! I believe you’re Nephis, right?” Cassie blinked, surprise evident on her face — she hadn’t expected to see the top of their Academy table here too.
“This is Cassia,” he said, gesturing to the blind girl, as if she could see the gesture in this complete darkness.
“And I’m Sunless, by the way — but you can call me Sunny. That sounds far less somber.” Nephis nodded, with that stoic expression on her face.
“You can call me Neph. Thank you for the help.”
And with that, an uncomfortable silence overtook the space around them.
Damn — he had really forgotten how awkward and socially inept she was.
It was kind of cute, if you knew about it, but on the edge of rudeness and a fair bit irritating.
He sighed.
Those wouldn’t be easy months, he believed…
Then Changing Star’s stomach growled, cutting through the silence.
Her back stiffened considerably, a tint of redness on the tips of her ears.
‘Well, that is cute too…
In a childish kind of way, though.’
“Sorry, we are terrible hosts!” he exclaimed, breaking the atmosphere.
“Come, we’ve prepared enough food for all. And as we eat, we’ll exchange our tales.” Everyone agreed, and soon enough they were already engrossed in conversation.
Cassie started with their story — it was better this way, as he was a bit uncomfortable revealing too many of his cards for now, and he didn’t want to be seen as a show-off.
Nephis listened carefully and sharply, taking in the smallest details and asking short but precise questions about their journey.
Somewhere in the middle, they exchanged overviews of their abilities — almost exactly as the last time, since it would be strange, at least for the girls, to display everything to complete strangers.
And then it was finally Nephis’s turn.
And what a tale it was…
As it turned out, she had been dropped not far from here — to the south of this place.
But being far less experienced and skilled than him, and without scouting abilities or a seer by her side, it had taken her this long to reach them.
‘She is a fair bit disheveled, yeah…’
There was also the problem of the Nightmare Creatures there.
As he had already predicted, it was a large pack — more than two dozens abominations — those that pursued Neph just a small part of it.
Probably half of them of Fallen Rank.
But that wasn’t the worst news yet.
They had no way to prove it, but for such a large horde to hold itself together it needed a strong leader.
At least a Devil.
But most probably…
He was ready to put his terrible luck to good use and wager the [Shapeless Thief] on it.
After all, he was ninety-nine percent sure that very soon they would have to cross paths with a particularly unpleasant Fallen Tyrant…
Hello everyone.
I did it again, somehow.
A few pages in the morning, a few over the lunch, and the rest after-work.
It was a bit of a tight schedule, but I managed.
It’s already past 1 am here, while I’m writing this.<br /> Tomorrow, there probably won’t be any chapters, though, as we’re starting a new sprint and my boss had probably already decided where to put me in a good use.
And I’ll most likely need to rest my mind a bit.
I thought that this one chapter will be action-based, to be honest, but as I wrote it, the chapter grew and the action scenes were slipping further and further away.
But do not worry, next one, or the next after that will definitely be all action, with a few surprises on the way.
Seeing the approaching weave of shipping wars, I had decided to make everyone happy.
And what better pair would be for Sunny other than THE GOAT, Saint herself?
I’m joking, btw.
Maybe?..
Anyways, thank you all for reading this.
Would like to hear your thoughts, as usual.
Have a nice day and see ya soon!