Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3027

In a brightly lit chamber in the main keep of Mirage Castle, Nephis stood alone, surrounded by marble and lavish tapestries. The marble was white; the tapestries were white, as well, embroidered gorgeously with golden thread. The sheer curtains woven out of finest silk chiffon billowed in the wind like the wings of a celestial creature.

Nephis was looking at the floor, her expression placid. She remained motionless for a few seconds, then sighed deeply and glanced up.

Sunny rose from her shadow, walked over to one of the walls, and leaned on it with his arms crossed.

"Nervous?"

Nephis would have looked like the epitome of composure to anyone else, but he could tell that she was uncomfortable — large crows and public speaking were not exactly her element, after all.

The vast crowd gathered outside was waiting to behold the goddess of humanity, enthralled by her lofty image. However, none of them could imagine that their goddess was actually feeling anxious and uncomfortable at the prospect of appearing in front of so many people.

Nephis glanced at Sunny, hesitated for a moment, and then shrugged.

“A little.”

She sighed.

“It's funny, isn't it? I think I'd feel far more at ease facing a horde of powerful abominations as opposed to a crowd of people. I am a Supreme now, and yet, in moments like this, I feel no different from how I felt as a young and inexperienced, ignorant youth."

Sunny smiled.

“I wouldn't say that it is funny. Possibly a little bit amusing."

He shook his head and added in a reassuring tone:

“There's this trick I learned from Effie. When you're out there, in front of all those people, just imagine that all of them are..."

He felt silent for a moment.

The conventional wisdom suggested that one should imagine the audience naked in order to overcome stage fright, but when Sunny thought about it... it was actually awful advice! If he did something like that, he would feel disturbed and flustered instead of calm — not to mention that going around imagining what random people looked like under their clothes was something only perverts did.

Plus, that was Nephis he was talking about. She wouldn't be disturbed or flustered — at best, she would be completely indifferent. At worst, she would start wondering why all these people were naked, and if more resources needed to be allocated to developing a more robust textile industry in the Dream Realm.

Sunny cleared his throat.

"Just imagine that all of them are Nightmare Creatures."

Nephid tilted her head, then nodded. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

“Thank you. Actually, that helped."

Sunny opened his mouth to say something, but at that moment, there was a knock on the door — that was the attendants informing Nephis that her entrance was only a few minutes away.

With a sigh, she walked over to the door and stopped near it.

Then, Nephis glanced to the side, at one of the gorgeous tapestries adorning the wall. Her expression shifted faintly. Eventually, she raised a hand and ran it across the surface of the tapestries.

“When did they change it?"

Sunny raised an eyebrow.

“Change what?"

Nephis gestured vaguely to the surrounding chamber.

“The tapestries, the curtains... everything here used to be vermilion before. The color of Clan Valor."

She studied the delicate embroidery for a while, then turned away.

“Someone had to commission all these and refurbish the decor of the entire main keep... of the entire Castle? And I don't even know who it was, and when it happened.”

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