Chapter 61 Sea Of Ash (1/2)

Chapter 61 Sea Of Ash

In the ri darkevery shadow see He scowled sullenly

'What the hell I'm the Child of Shadows Why do I have to be afraid of ain, darkness and shadoere not the same, even if a lot of people tended to mistake one for another Shadoere born froht In a sense, they were manifestations of emptiness True darkness, on the other hand… true darkness was its own entity

In a sense, shadows shared ht than they did with darkness

'I uess they do Do they?'

Philosophical debates with his internal ue were not the best way to start the day, at least as far as Sunny was concerned His already sour h, he sat up and stretched his ar"

The sound of his voice was al water With the sun rising, the dark sea was in a hurry to retreat Sunny was finally able to relax a little

"Morning"

ReadNovelFull the latter part of the night, so she was already awake As usual, she waswith her eyes closed — in the absolute darkness of the night, "watching over" so for suspicious sounds, so keeping one's eyes open was not that useful

For everyone except Sunny, that is, who had perfect night vision thanks to his Attributes

Hearing hi Star slowly opened her eyes A soft afterglow left behind by the dancing white fla as her sight adjusted to the twilight of dawn She looked at Sunny and offered him a polite smile

In the past teeks, Nephis had also been training, perhaps evento improve her swords to learn how to behave like a norhtly less aard… for theStar's efforts because they were very sio On several occasions, he had caught her intently observing how Cassie talked and behaved around them Sometime later, Neph would randomly try to mimic small details of her friend's behavior The results were… a , to say the least

The first ti, Sunny panicked and almost summoned the Azure Blade However, Nephis was very smart and persistent Today, her polite smile looked al Start decided to work on her social skills, of all things, during their perilous journey through the otten Shore But he didn'tto watch!

…Watching her torture herself every day, enduring terrible pain in hopes of learning to better control her Aspect Ability, on the contrary, was not fun at all They never talked about it, but Sunny knew that every ti herself to the excruciating agony of her Flaw

When he thought about it, his heart ached Sunny wasn't used to feeling such things, but he suspected that this hat other people called "compassion" At least it was similar to hoas described in books and dramas

Not that he knew a lot about that stuff

After they had breakfast, Nephis stood up and looked at the beaiant vertebrae Turning to Sunny, she said:

"Let's study the surroundings"

They needed to get the lay of the land and decide on their next step Usually, that ih enough to stay above the surface of the sea and deciding on which one they would try to reach next

Then ca the caave her a nod

"Alright"

He suuard Cassie while they were away and left the shadow behind to keep an eye out, just in case soap

Boosting her, he watched as Changing Star flew through the air and then see herself off at the lastonto a bone protrusion Relying only on her upper body strength, she then cliolden rope fell down, allowing hiantuan spine and then straightened, turning to take a look west Sunny shook his hands and did the sa to see the usual picture — an endless expanse of the crih points

However, what they saw left them both speechless

Some distance away, the labyrinth seerey and h struck by some unknown disease and drained of all life The stone-like ile, ready to crumble to dust at any moment

The patch of dead coral spread for as far as the eye could see Further away, the walls of the labyrinth seerey sand This ashen wasteland looked so alien and strange after weeks of seeing only the endless crimson pathways that Sunny felt a shi+ver run down his spine

The fact that they didn't notice even a single h the mud beneath made him feel even h point to the west of the a tall hill The hill was probably the largest they had seen, easily capable of becoht Its shape rerey sand left behind by dead coral, the hill reseiant tree

The tree rose into the sky like a tower, its branches wide enough to cover the whole island in their shade The bark of the giant tree was as black as the water of the dark sea, while its leaves were red as blood

Contrasted against the grey sky, the crimson crown of the nificent