Chapter 109 Soulmates
Picking himself up from the floor, Sunny staggered and found his way back to the fire burning under the improvised grill. Glancing at the motionless stone knight, he spat a bit more blood and groaned.
As the appetizing aroma of roasting at filled the air, the Blood Weave got busy repairing his body. By the ti his supper was ready, Sunny was able to breathe without wincing.
Putting the at on his prized possession — the luxurious silver plate — Sunny prepared to eat.
On the Forgotten Shore, simple everyday necessities like plates were rarer than enchanted swords and magical suits of armor. In the whole cursed city, only Gunlaug and his five lieutenants were able to dine with as much decorum as Sunny.
Granted, he had yet to find even a single pair of chopsticks in this whole damn place, let alone sothing more technologically advanced, like a spoon. Of course, Sunny could try and make one himself, but that wasn't the sa thing.
The Shadow Saint was silently looking at him with her burning ruby eyes. Feeling uncomfortable under her mysterious gaze, Sunny glanced at his plate, then at the nacing stone creature.
"Uh… you want so?"
He raised a piece of at and offered it to the taciturn monster. However, the Stone Saint showed no reaction at all.
"Well… suit yourself."
Using the Prowling Thorn as a kitchen utensil, Sunny dug in, devouring the juicy at like a starving animal. With not a single human soul around, he didn't bother with table manners at all.
'Uh… that's the life!'
His perpetually hungry outskirt self would have been really shocked to see this extravagant feast. That was real at! He had hunted and prepared it himself, no less. More than that, he got to enjoy a similar type of luxury food almost every day.
Of course, that real at had co from a revolting horror of a monster, but these were just small details.
Chewing on the last piece with a sense of deep satisfaction, Sunny thoughtfully looked at the Stone Saint. It was ti to continue…
Earlier, he wanted to see if there was a possible synergy between the different powers that his Aspect possessed. Naly, if the enhancent provided by Shadow Control could be applied to Shadows. Sunny knew that his shadow was able to enhance his body, his mories, and, with lesser effect, various inanimate objects.
However, it was unable to enhance other humans and mories that belonged to them, as well as any living creature except for Sunny himself. He had secretly tested it during his travels with Nephis and Cassie to co up with this conclusion.
More importantly, it couldn't affect Echoes.
But what about Shadows?
Giving a ntal command, Sunny sent his shadow in the direction of the Stone Saint and held his breath.
Flowing like water, the shadow silently grasped the statuesque monster in its dark embrace. Then, it seed to disappear, as though absorbed by the stone flesh of the tenebrous knight.
A mont later, Stone Saint's ruby eyes blazed with crimson fire. Her smooth granite skin shined with dark radiance once again, smoky wisps of the ghostly grey fog oozing from beneath her stonelike armor like dancing flas.
Suddenly, it felt as though the temperature in the hidden chamber dropped by a couple of degrees. Shadows around the nacing creature seed to swell, becoming deeper and darker, like a vast mantle sewn from boundless empty blackness.
The elegant Stone Saint had always looked dangerous and deadly, but now, she was downright fearso.
Even without having the Shadow Saint strike him again, Sunny could tell that the experint ended in a resounding success. It was apparent that the two types of his shadows were practically created for each other. Her power was increased twofold, at least.
A bit peeved, he looked down and sighed.
'Why does she look so much cooler than I do when using the shadow? Shouldn't it be the other way around? I'm the true divine shadow here, ! Where's my aura of mysterious coolness?!'
Shaking his head, Sunny lanted his lack of good looks and simultaneously congratulated himself on becoming the master of such a stylish monster. Technically, it didn't matter how his Shadows looked, just as long as they were powerful. However, he was secretly glad that his first Shadow was not only powerful, but also a darkly beautiful sight to behold.
Killing monsters was great, but killing monsters while looking good was even better.
'Wait… if she can use my shadow, what else can she use?'
Suddenly excited, Sunny finally swallowed the half-forgotten piece of at and dismissed the Stone Saint. Then, he shifted his perspective to look at the Soul Sea and summoned her again, this ti inside it.
The Shadow appeared in the whirlwind of black flas and stood motionlessly upon the still waters of the silent sea. Her mysterious ruby eyes stared at him through the narrow visor of her stone helt.
Not wasting any ti, Sunny looked up at the spheres of light circling around the Shadow Core.
'What if I can equip her with actual mories?'
What to choose… she was extrely strong and very proficient with her round shield, so wasn't it logical to assu that a tower shield would suit her even better? Coincidentally, he happened to have one of those!
Sunny summoned the mory that he had gotten in one of the fights on the streets of the cursed city. It was a large, square tower shield that was almost as tall as him. The thing was too heavy and unwieldy to actually use in combat, at least not by Sunny. Plus, he wielded a tachi, which could only perform to its full potential while held in both hands.
Grabbing the cumberso shield, Sunny walked over to the Shadow Saint and handed it to her with a hopeful smile.
"Here. Take this. Uh… please?"
The Shadow stared at him for a few monts, then lowered her head and glanced at the tower shield.
'Co on. Co on, take it!'
His heart skipped a bit when the statuesque creature slowly raised her hands and grasped the mory with her stone gauntlets.
"Yes, that's right! Now, use it!"
The Stone Saint obediently brought the shield to her chest.
And then… shattered it.
Sunny froze, his mouth hanging open.
[Your mory has been destroyed.]
'...What?'
The shards of the broken mory turned into a river of tiny sparks of light, just like the Echo of the carapace scavenger and the Azure Blade had done before disappearing forever.
'My tower shield!'
Sunny felt a sharp dagger of sorrow stab at his heart. Yes, the shield was of no use to him. But it would sell for so much money in the real world! Why, why did this evil thing have to break it? Why? Wasn't his beautiful chair enough?!
He gazed at the tiny sparks, wanting to cry. However, a mont later, his eyes widened.
Because the river of sparks did not disappear. Instead, it circled around the Stone Saint's body and then suddenly flowed through it, separating into two streams. Each stream was then absorbed by one of the dark embers burning in the depths of the living shadow that was hiding inside the monster's body.
Sunny blinked.
[Stone Saint has grown stronger.]
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