Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3087

[Nephis... something is wrong with this Titan.]

Sunny did not have to speak aloud, because the two of them were mentally connected by Cassie's Aspect. Cassie herself could hear them too, as well as perceive the world through them.

So, she must have sensed the eerie discrepancy between what the Jade Titan was supposed to be, and what it actually was.

Neph's voice resounded in his mind a moment later, sounding wary.

[I can sense it, too.]

The two of them were already quite close to the ruined amphitheater, moving at breathtaking speed. They would reach the ancient arena in mere seconds, which meant that they did not have a lot of time to understand what was wrong about their terrifying enemy.

[Cassie?]

There was a moment of silence, and then her voice resounded quietly, as if coming from a great distance. Sunny could barely hear her.

[The Titan... elemental darkness... what you see is merely... shell... his consciousness... across the entire city. He controls all the Tainted Saints...]

There was a pause, and then Cassie spoke again, this time clearly:

[But something is controlling the Titan. I cannot see what.]

Sunny frowned.

If even Cassie could not sense what was truly going on, then things were dire. Knowing your enemy meant that you were halfway to achieving victory, after all. Not knowing your enemy? That meant being halfway to defeat.

She did tell them a few important pieces of information, though. The Jade Titan was not merely the towering colossus in front of them — in fact, the stone giant was merely his physical shell. The Nightmare Creature's titanic consciousness, meanwhile, spread across the entire city, controlling all its defenders. That was why their movements were so precise and strategic, resembling that of a disciplined army, not of a horde of frenzied abominations. If the Titan was destroyed, the cohesion of the tainted army would be greatly diminished.

But more importantly...

Sunny's vague suspicion had been proven true. The fallen colossus was indeed being controlled by something.

What kind of creature was capable of subjugating a Great Titan?

Sunny was not sure, but even if he desperately didn't want to find out, he was going to learn the answer shortly.

He cast his shadow sense outward, trying to sense a second presence. But there was nothing — he did not sense any movement around or behind the Jade Titan, and neither did he sense another living shadow hiding in the darkness.

By then, the two of them had already passed the last of the gargantuan stalagmites, escaping into the vast expanse of empty air surrounding the ruins of the great amphitheater. They were seconds away from clashing with the Jade Titan, and Neph's radiance already fell on his dark armor, making it glisten in the darkness.

‘There's nothing...’

Feeling a cold chill run down his spine, Sunny focused his senses on the area immediately behind the towering colossus. Neph's radiance, as well as ambient lights emanating from the magnificent city, were the reason why Sunny could encompass it with his shadow sense. Still, there were countless places here where elemental darkness still pooled, cold and deep like an ocean, blocking his senses. Those places were like blind spots for Sunny, since he could not perceive anything hidden in the darkness. But the shape of those blind spots was telling in and of itself.

He did not need to perceive something to know that it was there. At the moment, the absence of shadows was informative, as well. The negative space created by elemental darkness was what Sunny tried to discern.

And when he concentrated on the absence of shapes...

His breath caught for a moment.

Sunny's eyes widened, and his skin crawled.

'What the... hell... is this?'

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify