Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2752

It only took Sunny a split second to register every minute detail of his surroundings. The world was drowning in the soft embrace of the night, shrouded by encroaching darkness. The warmth of the dying summer had already surrendered to the cool indifference of the fall. The stars were nearly invisible, having retreated from the stark radiance of electric lights.

A silver moon was climbing the velvet expanse of the dark sky.

The lamps that were supposed to illuminate the desolate street had all been extinguished, but it was bathed in moonlight.

The residences here were small and clinging to each other with no space between - a far cry from the spacious homes in more affluent districts, but still a step above standard family units in residential towers. They were the kind of homes that families of modest standing could sometimes afford if they lived diligently and budgeted their incomes wisely.

One of these cozy homes was a ruin now, revealing its decimated interior through a shattered wall. A red trail led from it to the middle of the road, where Cassie was laying motionlessly, awash in blood. She was still breathing, and her shadow was still that of a living being... but, for some reason, her wounds were not healing, as if Nephis could not reach her with the soothing blessing of her flames.

A middle-aged woman with blonde hair and a lovely kind of beauty that felt familiar enough to draw a connection was kneeling in the puddle of blood near her, a strangely blissful smile playing on her lips.

And behind them...

Sunny let out a quiet hiss.

A towering Dream Gate had just sliced the fabric of the black sky like a razor-sharp blade, biting into the surface of the road and hungrily drinking in the moonlight. Inside it, a darkness far more terrifying than the night hid like a predator.

That hungry abyss felt both boundless and insatiable - enough so that, for a moment, Sunny could not tell if he was looking at a Nightmare Gate instead.

A tall man with tan skin and black hair was standing in front of the Gate. For a moment, he cast a gaze of his glistening golden eyes at Sunny and smiled slightly.

Then, with a small bow, he took a step back and disappeared into the Gate.

It happened so fast that Sunny could not do anything, leaving him to seethe with a dark, murderous fury. His killing intent was so overwhelming that the grass around him withered, and the trees lost their yellowing leaves.

At that moment, he knew that the man with golden eyes was none other than Asterion, the Dreamspawn, in the flesh.

That bastard had escaped the Moon, after all.

Sunny stared at the abyssal Dream Gate for a moment, then slowly tore his gaze away and looked at Cassie.

So many things were happening at the same time, but this one was the most important. Taking one step, he appeared near her unconscious form and kneeled. Reaching forward, Sunny carefully turned her over and assessed her wounds.

His breath caught for a moment.

Cassie's body was bloodied and battered, littered with cuts and lacerations. These wounds alone were not enough to kill a Saint, but... what shocked him was how terribly she was maimed, with one eye missing and the entire left side of her face covered in blood.

A painful mix of fury and powerlessness grasped his heart. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

'There's... no time for that!'

There was no time for sentiment, indeed. Asterion had just revealed himself, and on top of that, he opened a Dream Gate in the middle of NQSC. That alone was enough to inform humanity that there was an unknown Supreme out there somewhere, but Sunny already knew that it was only half of the problem.

The Dreamspawn could have retreated to anywhere in the Dream Realm, making the task of finding him again all but impossible.

And yet, Sunny already knew exactly where he had gone.

"This is not good... not good at all..."

Just a minute before, his incarnation in Bastion was following Nephis as she commanded the Fire Keepers to take the Chain Breaker to Rivergate. The flying ship rose from the placid lake of the Ivory Island and plummeted toward the Castle, where Effie was already donning her armor and retrieving her spear.

"Should one of us go with her?"

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