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... Character art by @Catphinee Discord: discord.gg/guiltythree Wiki: shadowslave.fandom.com OST: youtube.com/@skeuzmusic Reddit: reddit.com/r/shadowslave
Nephis walked over to the edge of the water, looked at it for a few moments, and then sat on the ground.
Her voice sounded a little raspy, but mostly just as it always did:
"He has regained consciousness and is binding the Gateway now. Revel's imprint is strong, so it will take some time… ten minutes, at least. Maybe half an hour."
She sighed.
"Some of us will have to return to the waking world after that, to bring back the initial reinforcements. You know what happens next."
Sunny did know.
Once the Gateway was bound by a Saint of the Sword Army, Anvil's Domain would manifest in the Hollows. The King of Swords would probably arrive at the ruined Citadel himself, and the war would finally spill beneath the surface of the ancient bones.