Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2881

Rain stared at him in shock.

“You're lying.”

That was the first thing that came to her mind, so she blurted it out. She was the only human to have achieved natural Awakening, after all — the only Awakened who had never carried the Spell.

But deep down, she did not believe that the prisoner of the mirror was trying to deceive her.

She felt... dismayed.

No, actually, she felt... happy?

If there were others like her, then she didn't have to carry the crushing weight of responsibility alone anymore. Someone else — someone older and more experienced, no less — would be able to help her, or perhaps even do it for her.

That was great, wasn't it?

"Yeah."

Rain cleared her throat.

But why did she feel so dismayed, then? Mordret chuckled.

“I wish I were lying, but sadly, I am telling the truth."

He fell silent for a moment, then offered in an apologetic tone:

"That doesn't take away from your accomplishment or your uniqueness, though. To tell you the truth, Rain, I used a backdoor to become a Master, and then to become Transcendent. I... I guess you can say that I cheated."

She frowned, feeling a headache.

"You know, mister... if you want me to stop calling you mister, you'd better stop talking in riddles and start explaining things clearly."

He smiled.

“Sure. No problem... first of all, let me tell you that, unlike you, I am and have been a carrier of the Nightmare Spell. I Awakened the same way other people Awaken — by conquering the First Nightmare and anchoring my soul to the Dream Realm through a Citadel. After that, however, I spent a long time trapped in a different mirror, just like I am trapped in this mirror now."

Mordret sighed, then raised a hand and mimed knocking on the surface of the mirror from inside.

“Actually, I am not literally trapped in this particular mirror. Rather, I am under house arrest at the very heart of my brother's personal Mirror Realm — within his soul. Mirrors like this one are just windows I can use to look at the outside world.”

Rain gave him a concerned look.

"That felt like an unnecessary tangent."

Mordret let out a quiet laugh.

"Oh... sorry. In any case, you need to understand something about me and my other self. We are a shattered being, he and 1 — two parts of the same whole. That is our Flaw. Both of us are independent beings, but at the same time, it is in our nature to be pulled together in an attempt to become whole once more. Do you see what is strange about it?"

Rain frowned.

"Two people can't have the same Flaw. All Flaws are unique, just like all Aspects are."

He nodded.

“Indeed. So, it would not be fair to say that we are different people. Rather, neither of us is a real person — we are just parts of a person, both missing the other half. The Flaw is not the only thing that we share, either. We also share the same Aspect, as well as a kind of connection that even | cannot explain. We are meant to be the same being, and yet, at some point, one of us was Supreme, while the other was merely Awakened. Do you see the problem?"

Rain furrowed her brow. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

“Sounds like an issue of balance. All systems strive for equilibrium, though... that’s the holy law of structural mechanics."

Mordret chuckled.

“Structural mechanics? Well, I suppose you are right. As a result, my existence weakens my other self, while his existence propels me toward greater power. However, a Supreme being possesses much greater... metaphysical mass, so to say. Which means that I was being pulled upward much more than he was being pulled down. So, I had a much easier time achieving natural Ascension and Transcendence than anyone else would — the world itself was on my side."

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