Shadow Slave Chapter 2969 Broken Eternity

The cold waters of the Estuary Lake embraced Sunny as he plumted into their depths, clinging tightly to the Thieving Bird's neck.

A mont later, the water wasn't cold anymore.

The loathso Terror was wreathed in an immolating mantle of blindingly white flas that devoured its feathers and scorched its impenetrable hide. The mont the flas ca in contact with the cold depths of ti, an unfathomable amount of water was instantly vaporized, causing a titanic plu of boiling foam to explode into the sky sowhere far above. Here in the depths, however...

Sunny was blinded by the flash.

Sunny was deafened by the indescribable roar of countless tons of water being violently displaced.

Even his shadow sense was temporarily rendered useless, since no shadows existed in the immaculate abyss of pure white light. He barely endured the devastating heat and pressure of the underwater explosion...

The Estuary Lake itself, however, did not. What surrounded them was not re water, after all. It was the material embodint of ti — the heart of the river that the Demon of Dread had created from the blood of an Unholy Titan.

It had endured an eternity of tilessness, the death of the Great River, and the burden of becoming a Cursed Terror's nest. However, when Thieving Bird plumted from the sky and crashed into the cold depths of ti, locked in a ferocious battle against two Supre Titans... ti finally reached its breaking point.

Ti shattered, and space shattered as well.

Sunny, Nephis, and the Thieving Bird were lost among the fragnts, in the dark space between now and before, between here and sowhere far away.

That space was not sothing the human mind could fathom, let alone describe. It was alien and eerie, existing beyond all the preconceived notions of what reality should be — the universal laws of existence were strangely twisted here, and nothing Sunny had known made sense anymore. However...

That did not an that the battle was over. In fact, it ant the opposite. The Thieving Bird seed less confused by the bizarre reality of fragnted ti, so Sunny and Nephis had to keep up — they had to adapt and keep fighting if they wanted to survive. Luckily, adapting to eldritch oddities was a necessary skill all humans living in the Age of the Nightmare Spell had to master. And both Sunny and Nephis excelled at adaptability above all else.

So, even if Sunny could not quite describe what he was doing, he continued to fight. As the loathso Terror plumted through the dark expanse of broken ti, Sunny released his human form and manifested himself as a vast, formless shadow. His nebulous body covered the giant fra of the cursed deity like a fluttering shroud, and myriad maws opened in its dark expanse, sinking sharp fangs into the flesh of the Thieving Bird.

At the sa ti, Nephis abandoned the suffocating limitations of a human body, as well, unleashing her true form — a boundless mass of living fla, its pure white expanse emanating a heat so intense that the fabric of the world itself began to lt around it.

The fire she had unleashed by detonating her soul had been extinguished by the waters of the Estuary Lake, but now, a roaring ocean of it swallowed the Vile Thieving Bird anew, scorching it.

Together, Sunny and Nephis — a formless mass of darkness and a radiant expanse of blinding light — enveloped the Cursed Terror, ravaging its hideous body and slowly destroying the very foundation of its profane life.

The Vile Thieving Bird shrieked.

Its ghastly voice resounded across the expanse of tilessness, sending a devastating wave of vibrations spreading through the broken eternity.

And then, fissures appeared in the darkness that surrounded them.

The world shattered, and enveloped by shadows and fla, the Vile Thieving Bird flew through one of the fissures.

Suddenly, ti flowed normally again.

And they weren't underwater anymore. Sunny felt a different kind of heat then... the nurturing warmth of the sun.

A myriad of onyx eyes opened in the dark vastness of his nebulous shape, and he beheld the world that was both familiar and strange.

All around them was a clear blue sky. Above them, the seven suns moved languidly across its azure expanse. Below them, the Great River flowed endlessly, as if Cronos of Fallen Grace had never dispelled the sorcery that sustained it.

There was a city resting on the currents far below. Sunny recognized it, even if the city did not look like it was ant to...

It was Verge.

However, its streets were not reduced to rubble, and it was not buried under a sea of bones. There was no grotesque expanse of loathso flesh perating it like an endlessly expanding tumor, either.

Instead, the ornate buildings stood among verdant gardens, and people wearing garnts of vibrant hues crowded the thriving streets, their souls untouched by the Defilent.

They were all standing still now, looking up and pointing at the sky...

Where a vast seething mass of burning darkness moved across the sky, leaving a trail of scorched black feathers and devastation in its wake.

‘How...'

It was Verge before the birth of the Defilent... before Aletheia of the Nine had reached the Estuary.

Perhaps she was down there right now, among the people looking up.

Before Sunny could comprehend what he saw, the Vile Thieving Bird's talons tore into him, slicing his material shape, his soul, and his spirit apart. The blinding pain of its vicious attack was both dire and paralyzing...

But instead of being paralyzed, Sunny only grew more consud by the murderous fury, pouring all of that suffering into a dark and vicious desire to maim and destroy the enemy.

He tore into the hide of the loathso Terror with a thousand maws, a thousand claws, a thousand piercing tendrils.

And finally, he sensed it...

The Vile Thieving Bird's ichor flowing into his countless mouths.

A spark of vicious, frenzied glee ignited in the cold darkness of his mind.

A mont later, another fissure opened in the fabric of the azure sky, and they left the visage of untainted Verge behind.

Instead, a different view t them...

It was the sa sky, the sa river, the sa brilliant suns.

Only far away, and thousands of years later. Moving through the different fragnts of broken eternity, Sunny and Nephis continued their desperate fight against the loathso Terror.