Shadow Slave

Chapter 2693 - 2693: Void Chamber

'Cold…'The vacuous chamber was filled with nothing but stark light, shadows, and unbearable cold. Even Sunny, whose Supreme body was encased in the soulbound carapace of the Jade Mantle, could feel all warmth swiftly draining from his body.

At the same time…

He raised a hand. His palm was drowning in impenetrable darkness, while the back of his hand was shining with resplendent light. It had turned incandescent in the furious torrents of blinding radiance that poured between the shadows, on the verge of turning to ash.

Feeling his skin starting to blister beneath the sublime jade, Sunny grimaced and hid his hand in the shadows.

The vast spherical chamber was drowned in the radiance of a furious silver conflagration that burned in its center, suspended in the vacuum like a miniature star. In fact, maybe it was a star, just like the one imprisoned inside the Lighthouse — if so, this one was even smaller, so much so that Sunny could easily grasp it with his hands.

Of course, he would be incinerated long before reaching its radiant halo.

The vast emptiness of the chamber, the deep shadows, the brilliant flame burning in the center of the dark void like a beating heart…

It was like a miniature model of the Void and the Flame of Desire, almost.

The shadows of the immortals stood silently on the concave walls of the chamber, bathed in starlight… lonesome and lost. Most of them belonged to humans, but some resembled beasts. Some were small, others were vast. Some, Sunny recognized, the rest of them were unfamiliar.

"Ha…"

He wanted to chuckle, but no sound escaped from his lips. After all, there was no air in the chamber, so nothing could carry his voice.

'So the old man was right, after all.'

Back at the Lighthouse, Nightwalker joked that the Demon of Repose drew inspiration from the curse Shadow God had placed upon Kanakht when designing the Eternal City. He turned out to be more right than any of them had imagined.

'This is her sorcery!'o submit individually.

Sunny walked among the orphaned shadows, looking around intently and absorbing them into his soul one after another. He was searching for something, but at the same time, he was thinking furiously about how to escape this place.

Eventually, Sunny stopped and lowered his head for a moment.

Then, he looked up with a dark smile.

'Alright, then.'

It was not a problem.

He figured out how to destroy the sorcery of the Demon of Repose, and the solution was pretty simple.

Since the orphaned shadows could not travel to the Shadow Realm…

He was going to bring the Shadow Realm to them.

As the light of the star burning in the center of the void chamber grew a little dimmer, Sunny raised a hand and summoned a particular Memory — of course, it was the Shadow Lantern.

'Thus spoke Weaver: they will open the gates…'

Grasping the Shadow Lantern in his hand, he opened its gate — the Gate of Shadow — drew his arm back… and then tossed the lantern toward the center of the chamber.

As soon as the Gate of Shadow opened, it was as if an invisible ripple spread through the vast, vacuous expanse. As if a cold wind blew across the space that had no air.

A powerful pull descended upon the spherical chamber like a reverse Crushing. Of course, it only affected the shadows.

All of them turned to the delicate stone lantern simultaneously.

And then, the first of them was suddenly sucked into its open gate.