Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2971

Sunny, Nephis, and the Cursed Terror they were trying to kill escaped from the boundless darkness of the Great River, which had been robbed of its suns, into the light again...

Only, this time, that light was different from the clear radiance of the azure sky.

It was different from the eternal blaze of sunset and the gorgeous lilac tapestry that reigned on the edges of the Great River, as well.

This time, the light was piercing, overwhelming... blinding. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Sunny hissed, dismissing the myriad eyes with which he had been beholding the world. But even after they were gone, dissolving into the dark depths of his nebulous body, he still felt as if he could see the incandescent radiance that enveloped the world.

A moment after the light came the heat. Sunny had been spared from burning in the immolating white flames of Neph's true form, but now, he found himself being subjected to an impossible amount of heat. He was scorched, he was singed...

He burned.

The vast expanse of his formless body bubbled and boiled, being destroyed bit by bit, rippling as it was turning to ash. The pain was unimaginable — just like the pain of his very being being torn apart by the talons of the Vile Thieving Bird was, driving him mad.

Sunny burned... and then was healed by Neph's flames, and then burned again.

The Thieving Bird burned, too.

Even Nephis was enduring the torment of being burned alive, like she always did, because of her cruel Flaw.

Sunny screamed with a thousand bloodied maws.

And then, he quenched his suffering with blood, sinking his fangs into the charred body of the loathsome Terror.

He did not care whether darkness or light surrounded them. He did not care whether they were in the future or in the past, or if they would ever be able to find their way back to the present — to Ananke.

He did not care about being burned, and truly, he did not care about being in terrible pain either.

All he cared about was killing the odious Thieving Bird, about bringing death upon his enemy — so, he did not spend much time trying to figure out where the blinding light and the annihilating heat were coming from.

‘Die...'

As Sunny ravaged the Thieving Bird, the world became hotter, brighter... heavier. There were no shadows around him, so he could not sense it, but Sunny still felt it. The three of them were swiftly approaching something so vast that it possessed a pull of its own, making him feel like he was being slowly crushed under an immense pressure — and at the same time drawn closer to the source of the invisible pull.

A sudden thought flashed through his mind.

‘The... sun...'

In the next moment, the Vile Thieving Bird crashed into the surface of one of the seven suns illuminating the terrifying expanse of the Tomb of Ariel — into the soul shard of an Unholy Titan that Ariel had fashioned into a sun.

And then...

Sunny had thought that the heat melting his soul and turning his thoughts to ash was overwhelming. As it turned out, he knew nothing... he had not even known what true heat was, and what being reduced to ash meant.

Because when the colossal celestial orb that had illuminated the dark world of Ariel for thousands of years shattered, and all that was contained within it was set free, all of it — the light, the heat, the pressure — suddenly descended upon them tenfold. And there was the inconceivable kinetic force of the impact, as well...

It was not easy to shatter a sun, after all, artificial or not.

Especially by using yourself as a ram.

Sunny seemed to have lost consciousness for a brief moment.

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