Shadow Slave | A Slave Once Again

Chapter Two: Bizarre

Third POV:

The first thing Sunny checked was his Soul Sea. Seeing the familiar Black Seven Suns Sunny exhaled a sigh of relief but immediately a doubt took over his
Whole being.

'Am I dreaming? Is this even real?'

A flood of questions engulfed his mind as he tried to make sense of what he was experiencing at the moment.

Summoning his runes Sunny was more perplexed than ever.

Name: Sunless.

True Name: Lost from Light.

Rank: Awakened

Sunny's eyes widened slightly. Soon confusion settled in him.

Class: Titan

Shadow Cores: [7/7].

Sunny's Rank was reduced to a mere Awakened for some reason but his class remained the same.

'Maybe because the Class has something to do with the soul while the Rank has something to do with the body itself And since My Soul was already That of a Titan is that why My Soul is still able to handle my Cores?'

'That's of course under the assumption that I have really returned to the past.'

Sunny thought unable to get rid of the weird sense of doubt, excitement, and longing in his heart.

Thinking about it again weren't the classes of the nightmare creatures measured by how many cores they had?

Sunny pondered on it for a while, Even if the person infected by the spell survived their first nightmare if their soul couldn't handle the process of forming the core they would eventually die since their soul would collapse.

'I witnessed that first-hand in Antarctica after all'

It was a plausible explanation but it somehow made sense. It was as if the output was reduced to the bare minimum so the body could make use of the potent essence of Sunny's Shadow cores.

But then again.

The most important question remained unanswered.

Why?

'Why am I an Awakened in a place where I was supposed to be a dormant sleeper?'

'Was everything that I went through so far simply a nightmare?'

'Had I just woken up from my first nightmare?'

Sunny shivered at the thought.

Every struggle he faced, Every hardship he experienced, every battle he fought, every loss he endured, every nightmare he conquered, every pain he felt, every challenge he went through, and every death he suffered.

'Was it simply for naught?'

Sunny staggered backward.

'No....'

Sunny said looking to his side toward the shadows that resided in his soul sea. They were just as he remembered. There were about thirty thousand in total.

They were the evidence of what he had accomplished.

Sunny wrecked his brain trying to come up with an explanation but to no avail, he soon gave up.

He will find an explanation for everything.

He just needs time.

Looking back at his runes

Aspect: [Shadow Slave].

Aspect Rank: Divine.

Aspect Description: [You are a miraculous shadow left behind by a dead god. As a divine shadow, you possess plenty of strange and wondrous powers. However, your existence is empty and lonesome; you mourn the passing of your former master and long to find a new one.]