Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2958

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“Lost from Light, I command you to die!" The words that would have filled Sunny with terror once now filled his heart with hope. They thundered from the sky, slamming into the Vile Thieving Bird a split second before it lunged at Sunny in a hurricane of black feathers.

This was the gamble he staked his life on... the fact that even if the Thieving Bird was not a Shadow Slave, it had stolen the fate of one, and was therefore fated to be beholden to the same bond.

If Sunny was wrong, they would die.

If he was correct, however, and fate was a blade that cut both ways, then they would gain a vital advantage in the fight against the Cursed Terror.

He did not know what that advantage would entail — whether the Thieving Bird would truly drop dead or become more susceptible to being killed — but he knew that having stolen his Fated Attribute, it was prone to finding itself in improbable situations. There was a simple reason he was willing to bet his life on the outcome of Nephis calling out his lost True Name.

It was that between the Thieving Bird killing both of them and them killing the Thieving Bird, the latter was infinitely more improbable.

‘Come on!'

As Sunny rushed forward as a river of shadows and the Thieving Bird was preparing to rip him apart — probably to add his blood, bones, flesh, mind, spirit, and soul to its collection of Weaver memorabilia —a cold wind blew across the Estuary Lake.

And then, the Thieving Bird stumbled.

It lost its balance for a moment, shaking its horrid head in apparent confusion. Something was different about it now — something imperceptible, but quite easily felt.

Sunny could feel it, indeed...

Hearing Neph's command, the Vile Thieving Bird did not die, and neither did it offer its neck to be killed. The absolute power of Shadow Bond did not seem to be absolute when it came to the loathsome Cursed Terror.

But it wasn't non-existent, either.

Perhaps the Thieving Bird was simply weakened instead of being killed due to its tenuous connection to the fate of being Lost from Light. Perhaps it fell under the effect of the command to die, but managed to resist it — was actively resisting it — due to the fact that it only possessed his fate, not personified it.

But it was weakened, nonetheless. The insurmountable ocean of its terrifying Will receded, becoming smaller and more shallow — still far greater than his, but not quite as overwhelming.

In his mind, Sunny grinned viciously when his perilous theory had turned out to be true.

That was all he needed...

A chance.

A fighting chance against the creature that even the gods had failed to eradicate.

'Kill!'

That was the only thought that remained in Sunny's mind.

The Thieving Bird was already weakened by the need to resist the fate of being bonded to Changing Star of the Immortal Flame clan. But that was not everything Sunny had in store for it.

In the next moment, before the loathsome Terror had an opportunity to come to terms with its new condition, Sunny unleashed the [Weakening Curse], using all seven links of the Curse to sap its power.