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
Fireside Banter
In the end, Kai agreed to his deal. In exchange for the Blood Arrow, he gave Sunny the two weaker arrows he had.
Sunny fed them to the Stone Saint, bringing her amount of shadow fragments to twenty-nine. That was two more than she had in the past, which meant that he received the same amount of fragments that he would have gotten by feeding her the Blood Arrow itself.
He didn't really gain anything, but also didn't lose anything. Kai was the one who really profited from their exchange.
So Sunny didn't lie when he said that it was an incredible deal.
After breakfast, which transpired in somewhat awkward silence, Sunny sprawled on the ground and smiled happily.
"You know, guys. These past few weeks made me realize something. Actually, it was all thanks to Kai, who introduced me... introduced me... uh... to Stev."
Effie stretched, making Sunny stutter and lose the train of thought for a second, then smiled with satisfaction and glanced at him.
"Really? And what is that?"