Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2574

Sunny regarded the runes for a while, thinking.

No matter how he looked at it... he had done well.

If you don't praise yourself, who will?!

Sunny scoffed and turned away from the glowing anvil, walking outside to enjoy the cool air of the Dark City.

Forging the Curse had been difficult. The true hardship, however, was in imagining what the shadowbound Memory needed to be.

Sunny had always known one thing, at least — that he wanted it to be a charm. The {Underworld Armament] enchantment of the Jade Mantle, which enhanced the effect of any charm slotted into the soulbound armor, had gone unused for too long. That had always gnawed at him a little.

At the same time, Sunny knew that he did not want to rely on external power too much, or better yet at all. That was a path that could offer him great benefits at the moment, but would lead him to a dead end in the long run. His goal was to become a god, after all, and gods did not seek power in potent tools. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

“They were the power.

So, any charm he would forge had to help him use his own Aspect more effectively, as opposed to gifting him new powers.

Ideally, it had to close any blind spots his own Aspect had as well.

But therein lay the problem... in a way, Sunny's greatest power was his versatility. He could do a little bit of everything, and do it well — so, his powers did not have any glaring blind spots.

Which was not to say that there weren't any, of course.

For example, he lacked a truly effective tool to deal with large groups of weaker enemies. Nephis could incinerate a vast swarm of lesser Nightmare Creatures with one annihilating explosion, but Sunny would have to kill them all by hand — in the best case, he would send the Shadow Legion into battle instead.

There were other instances like that, too. So, the set of enchantments he had designed for the Curse was meant to make up for his few minor deficiencies, as well as make his strengths even more pronounced.

“The [Bound] enchantment was self-explanatory — it was the core enchantment of every soulbound or shadowbound Memory, allowing it to grow alongside its Master. Both the Jade Mantle and the Blessing possessed the same one, as well.

Things got more interesting when it came to the other six enchantment, though.

The Curse had two states — a passive one and an active one. It could be summoned independently, but ideally, the Curse would only become active when Sunny summoned the Jade Mantle, and therefore always be augmented by the [Underworld Armament] as a result.

The [Dark Embrace] enchantment was the only one that functioned when the Curse was in its passive state. It was a nurturing enchantment that enhanced the power of the dark flames of his soul by drawing on his spirit essence. As a result, the flames repaired the damaged shades and wounded Shadows faster, allowing them to return to battle sooner. it also gave him the ability to soothe the pain of living beings by touching them. Shadow God was also the god of solace, after all... as well as death. So, Sunny had designed a pattern that he called the [Pain Killer], and wove it into the broader weave of the [Dark Embrace].

If he was honest with himself, though, that part of the enchantment had taken him a great amount of time and effort to complete — more time and effort, perhaps, than what the [Dark Embrace] was mainly supposed to accomplish, even.

His reason was simple to discern, of course. There was a particular person whose pain Sunny wanted to soothe, even if she had never asked for it and would never seek relief from that burden herself.

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