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Moments 3199
Shadow Dance Description: [Once an elegant dance, now a deadly battle art. This mysterious style was created by the treacherous Lost From Light after witnessing a graceful slave dancing with her shadows. Who else could have taken something so beautiful and turned it into something so vile?]
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"Well, if you have to know. I got it by killing a Fallen Beast. Before you ask... this time, I didn't have to shake my finger or spit. I just looked at it, and it died."
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
From time to time, they would pass the glass bottle to each other.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
It's just that, with his reputation of a pervert, the chances of being asked if he had done something unbecoming were pretty high. So he needed the ability to honestly answer "no".
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
However, he was forced to agree with Awakened Rock. Even though both Hero and Mountain King were way out of his league, they were still just one rank above him.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
[Aspect Ability Name: Shadow Control.]
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
At the highest point of the mountain, a vast expanse of flat rock was covered with snow. In the center of it, illuminated by moonlight, stood a magnificent temple. Its colossal columns and walls were cut from black marble, with exquisite reliefs decorating the stygian pediment and broad frieze. Beautiful and awesome, it looked like a palace of a dark god.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"Why? Are you waiting for me to fall asleep before you kill me? Or will you do it in the morning?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
'Crap! This is… this is too much!'
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"May you rest in peace, my friend."
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
In Sunny's case, that time was only about a month, which was as bad as it gets.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
The same went for Nightmare Creatures, with a deadly caveat that, unlike humans, they could possess multiple cores — a lowly beast had just one, but a tyrant like Mountain King had five. Coincidentally, the only way to improve your Soul Core was to consume Soul Shards scavenged from the corpses of other Dream Realm inhabitants.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"Look! Look how he's glaring at me! I swear to gods, ever since he joined the caravan, nothing had gone right. Maybe the old man was right: the boy is cursed by the Shadow God!"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"Listen, your lordship. The boy is too weak. He is slowing us down! Plus, he's weird. Doesn't he give you the creeps?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
A bit of time later, the four of them were seated around the bonfire, soaking up pleasant heat. Shifty and Scholar were close to each other, maintaining a safe distance from Hero. Sunny sat apart from everyone — not because he had a specific reason to distrust one more than the others, but simply because he didn't like people in general.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
The group Blinked again to safety, but their mana was about to run out. They had gone all out during the previous fight and Blink was a very mana expensive spell.
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
By the end of the lesson, Lith's group had cut all of their crystals. Only Lith and Quylla had lost one.
Supreme Magus
Fantasy · Legion20
Nova_Buster
"...Mongrel!"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree