Shadow Slave
Growing up in poverty, Sunny never expected anything good from life. However, even he did not anticipate being chosen by the Nightmare Spell and becoming one of the Awakened - an elite group of people gifted with supernatural powers. Transported into a ruined magical world, he found himself facing against terrible monsters - and other Awakened - in a deadly battle of survival. What's worse, the divine power he received happened to possess a small, but potentially fatal side effect... Discord: https://discord.gg/NpDgaxRA6Y
The Fall of Falcon Scott (29)
For a moment or two, Sunny's mind was empty. He crawled back, looking up at the familiar figure towering above him.
Verne… it was Verne. There was no mistake.
…Or something wearing Verne's corpse, at least.
His shadow was much more vast and dreadful than a human's shadow was supposed to be.
The hollow gaze of the dead Master pursued Sunny, his face still and unmoving like a mask. Behind him, the dark waves stirred, and more figures rose from the water. Men, women… dozens of them, hundreds even. They marched forward like an army of the dead, silent and emotionless, their eyes drowning in darkness.
All their shadows were wrong.
The people of LO49 that Sunny had left to die. He recognized all of them, staring at the undulating surface of the ocean in horror.
'The… the Terror…'
Strangely, it was the contemptuous laugh of the cursed sword that shattered his paralysis.
"Look, Lost from Light… your sins have come to haunt you!"
Sunny shuddered, coming to his senses.