Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2788

Chapter 2788: Truth Blade

The vague suspicion Sunny felt when Asterion easily guessed the true story of what had happened on the Forgotten Shore — while painting it with an uncharitable brush, of course — became a certainty now.

’That bastard!’

Left alone in the dark corridor, Sunny gritted his teeth.

Asterion lied as easily as he breathed, so they had prepared to match his offense with their own deception. Sunny and Cassie had worked quite hard to come up with the best strategy to keep the Human Domain as resistant to his plague as possible. The web of deceit they had woven was intricate and vast.

However, the Dreamspawn chose a different weapon to make them bleed today. He chose to wield the sharpest blade there was...

He chose the truth.

’Damnation!’

There were plenty of truths that could hurt the cohesion of the Human Domain. Nephis was not at all the icon of virtue and nobility that the masses believed her to be, after all. She had committed plenty of morally questionable acts, and so had her most trusted subordinates. Depending on how much Asterion knew, the results of revealing the truth could be gravely damaging.

That was why he had not seemed bothered when Nephis used Kai to discredit him. Because that had been Asterion’s goal all along — to involve Nightingale in the conversation and thus hone his blade to cut them even deeper.

He had played them well.

There was only one truth Asterion was not going to reveal... the fact that the Lord of Shadows had never died, and was quietly supporting the radiant goddess of humanity from the darkness.

That was because Asterion’s goal was to weaken and compromise the public’s confidence in the Human Domain. Admitting that there was a second Supreme protecting it from the shadows could cause some backlash at first, but eventually, it would just serve to show that the Human Domain was secretly twice as strong as people believed.

Naturally, that went against Asterion’s goal. He did not seem to know that Sunny carried Weaver’s blood in his veins instead of that of Shadow God, yet — but even without that knowledge, revealing Sunny’s existence could only do him harm.

...Every other truth was fair play, though.

Sunny sent Cassie a mental message to share his suspicion. At the same time, he feverishly considered what particular secrets the Dreamspawn could reveal to deal them a painful blow.

In the meantime, Asterion sighed.

"My former comrades are indeed all dead. You killed some of them yourself, didn’t you, Nephis? It must have been difficult."

He looked around the hall, his golden eyes gleaming with a mysterious light.

"It is quite a heartbreaking story, don’t you think? A girl who was orphaned young survives the horrors of the Dream Realm, becomes a Master, and finds a new family as an adopted daughter of her late father’s friend, the king... only to be forced to rebel against the king and destroy her new family with her own hands."

Asterion faced Nephis once again and smiled.

"Of course, there is a different story as well... equally as heartbreaking, but far more sinister. It is the story of an orphan girl who survived the horrors of the Dream Realm out of pure hatred and spite, warmed her way into the royal family, gained the trust of her adopted father, the king — and then conspired to kill him and take his crown as her own."

One of the champions of the Human Realm could not hold back his outrage and raised his voice:

"How dare you?!"

Asterion smiled.

"Ah, there are so many lies obscuring the true shape of the world. Some of you have never even glimpsed the truth. Others..."

He glanced at Wake of Ruin and several other members of the older generations.

"Others know it too well, since they were complicit in burying the truth. Well, let me shine a light on a few things and reveal the truth for everyone to see. Saint Nightingale... you will be my witness, won’t you?"

Kai gritted his teeth, prompting Asterion to chuckle.

"Many of you seem to be under an illusion that Star of Ruin only rebelled against the Great Clans because she could not endure the madness of their war anymore. But, in fact, killing the original Sovereigns and usurping their thrones had always been her goal."

The champions of the Human Domain looked at him with dark, hostile expressions.

"What reason could she have had?!"

Asterion chuckled.

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