Shadow Slave The usually calm river had swelled, the turbulent grey waters climbing high up the desolate shore. The shore itself had become a muddy mess, with its usual liveliness…

Shadow Slave The Nihilist… was the stupid name the journalists had given the unhinged predator who stalked the dark alleys of Mirage City. The killings seemed random, but were too…

Shadow Slave When Sunny left the psychiatric hospital, the world was still being pelted by rain. The sky was discharging a seemingly endless deluge of water, as if wishing to…

Shadow Slave The coffee tasted heavenly. It was strange, really… Sunny had been suffering from insomnia for a while now, surviving on sleeping pills and still having nightmares every time…

Shadow Slave Sunny dreamed a nightmare. In that nightmare, he lived in a dying world where grotesque monsters were real, people possessed supernatural abilities, and humanity was on the verge…

Shadow Slave A little fall was not going to hurt a Saint, and it was especially not going to hurt Effie, whose Awakened Ability made her body as tough as…

Shadow Slave Sunny climbed out of the water and rose to his feet, looking at the desolate, moonlit landscape of True Bastion. The ruins of the great castle he and…

Shadow Slave Sunny smiled. “To be precise, this is a divine relic I recovered in the frozen wastelands. And I mean that literally — it is a Divine Armament left…

Shadow Slave Leaving behind a few cracked cobblestones, Sunny arrived at a particular gate and waited for a while, expecting a giant wolf to come barreling out to engulf him…

Shadow Slave It had indeed been a good birthday. Actually, Sunny had been a little dejected prior to the winter solstice… that was because Nephis had been giving him the…