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Chapter 456: Leaving Nothing Behind
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Dadadai Shukosha

Dadadai Shukosha 16 Jul 2024, 23:26

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I knew! It just took too long lol

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Bunnybounty

Bunnybounty 30 Aug 2023, 16:49

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Yeah i feel like mordred is a sovereign...to the given knowledge there are only 3 sovereigns tho so he's either that guy who resembled sunny and seemed like the weakest person or it's a well hidden sovereign we don't know abt yet

Deities and lesser deities (daemons) all died so he can't be one of them

Also to smart and knowledgable to be a nighmare creature

Ye im sure he's a sovereign or atleast something simular

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  Bloodright
  
  Bloodright 18 Sep 2023, 03:19 ➥ Bunnybounty
  
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  I don’t think one of the three sovereigns that rule over the 3 main clan-owned citadels would be chained up like that. But maybe he is a sovereign in ranking outside of those three. Who knows?
  
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    Bunnybounty 18 Sep 2023, 16:22 ➥ Bloodright
    
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    I meant the sovereigns in like ranks and not the 3 sovereigns specifically tho
    
    Ppl started suspecting if it was a daemon, i had my doubts (since they're alr dead) and rather believed it was a sovereign (if there even is a sovereign outside the 3)
    But i get how you mistook me
    
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Deathseeker

Deathseeker 20 Jul 2023, 05:11

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Prince of underworld maybe
But I was wrong he is:

Prince of valor

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Newly_learner

Newly_learner 18 Jun 2023, 12:34

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Ah so he is chained! Sunny nee ld to save this guy thou, hopefully

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Panda 2 Jan 2023, 19:41

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I think Mordred is the prince of the underworld. Since he introduced himself as the prince *cuts himself off* of nothing. Because didn’t the underworld cease to exist, effectively making him
The prince of nothing.

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  HerrscherandBrambles 6 Jan 2023, 21:41 ➥ Panda
  
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  Would make sense. There is no fkin way someone could know such an insane amount of information and just "disappear"
  
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  Bunnybounty 30 Aug 2023, 16:43 ➥ Panda
  
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  Didn't they all die? It wouldn't make sense with the lore were getting...weaver seemed to have plotted something that caused every deity and lesser to die,
  Weaver was also the last daemen to die...and i don't see the spell lying, it could just have censored those parts if it didn't want to reveal info yet
  
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IzuChukwu

IzuChukwu 25 Dec 2022, 17:05

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Think about all the money he will make when puts this adventure into writing. He will make a killing.

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The Error

The Error 18 Nov 2022, 15:24

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هممممم اتسائل ما هدفه..

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Harris10 29 Sep 2022, 07:14

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Sunny froze, then took a careful step back and stared at the walls of the great hall.

Mordret's timing, this time around, was impeccable.

It was not like Sunny had planned to get too close to the mass of darkness, but he might have underestimated the danger it presented. To be honest, he felt that he wasn't thinking entirely straight... it was not like he had lost control, but the strange pull he felt outside the tower was much stronger here, exerting a subtle effect on his mind.

Sunny tensed and glanced at the pulsating dark rift, then realized that the pull emanated from the shackles that were the source of it.

"...Why? What is that thing?"

The lost prince remained silent for a few moments, then sighed.

"I really can't make sense of you."

Sunny blinked.

That was not the answer he had expected!

"What? What is that supposed to mean?"

Mordret answered with a bit of doubt in his voice.

"Nothing, really. It's just that… some things about you suggest a certain background, but then there are as many contradictions. Don't you know what a Seed of Nightmare looks like?"

Sunny jumped back, then cautiously looked at the mass of shimmering darkness again.

So… that was a Seed of Nightmare. A vile manifestation of the Spell that grew in the Dream Realm and eventually blossomed, opening a Gate to the real world for the Nightmare Creatures to enter. The thing that Awakened were supposed to seek out and destroy by challenging the Nightmare contained within.

No wonder it exerted a pull on him.

He scowled, then said with annoyance:

"How am I supposed to know what a Seed of Nightmare looks like? I only became an Awakened a few months ago!"

Mordret spoke in his usual polite tone:

"Have your clan elders not taught you anything?"

Sunny opened his eyes wide, a shocked expression appearing on his face.

"Clan? What clan?! Do I look like a Legacy to you?!"

The lost prince did not answer, letting Sunny boil with outrage in silence. Eventually, he slowly exhaled and asked dejectedly:

"Anyway… are you sure that that's what it is?"

Mordret lingered for a long time, then said quietly:

"I am. I searched for it for a long time, after all."

Hearing these words, Sunny frowned.

'...What?'

"Wait… is that why you were trying to reach the Ivory Tower? To challenge a Nightmare?"

He rubbed his face in frustration, trying to find a way to make sense of that statement, then shook his head:

"Why the hell would you do that? There's no shortage of Seeds of Nightmare everywhere in the Dream Realm, ones that are not hidden behind endless voids and oceans of divine flame!"

These things were not so numerous that one stumbled on one every day, but also not so rare to go to this lengths to reach one. What had Mordret been thinking?

The lost prince answered after a short pause, his voice slightly amused:

"...You are not a Legacy, indeed."

Sunny let out a heavy sigh.

"Either you are extra obscure today, or I can't understand you for some reason. What do Legacies have to do with any of this?"

Mordred thought for a bit, then said:

"This Seed of Nightmare… is a very, very special one."

'What is he going on about?'

The only thing that differentiated Seeds, in Sunny's mind, was their Category. A Category Two Seed would blossom into a Category Two Gate, and contained a Second Nightmare. If an Awakened challenged it and passed the trial, they would become a Master. If a Master challenged a Category Three Seed and survived the Third Nightmare, they would become a Saint.

The same thing went for Sovereigns, although there only had been three Fourth Nightmares conquered in all of human history, as far as Sunny knew… and he knew more than most people.

How could a Seed be special?

As if guessing what he was thinking about, Mordret spoke:

"There are a lot of Master, but not all Masters are equal. There are a few dozen Saints, but not all Saints are equal. And similarly, there are numerous Nightmares… but not all Nightmares are equal."

Sunny scowled.

"How so? Is it easier? More difficult?"

The lost prince sighed.

"Neither. As far as the difficulty of the trial is concerned, the Spell is always fair… in its own perverse way. However, that doesn't mean that the outcome is always the same. What enemies you vanquish determine what Memories and Echoes you receive. What battles you fight determines what experience you will bring back."

Sunny thought back on his own arsenal of Memories, and had to admit that the more unique Nightmare Creatures he had thought, the greater the reward was. In that sense, challenging a… "unique" Nightmare would certainly pose more risk, but also promise a greater boon.

Add the existence of the Lineage Memories into the equation…

A deep frown appeared on his face.

Mordret, however, was not done talking.

"...But more than that, the nature of the Nightmare you challenge determines what knowledge you will receive, and what secret you will be able to glean. As a researcher, you should know that the lessons humans can learn from the decrepit ruins in the Dream Realm are not that profound. Where do you think most of our knowledge comes from? It comes from the stories people bring back from their Nightmares, of course."

That… made sense. There were actual natives of the Dream Realm out and about in the Nightmares, after all. Like Auro of the Nine.

Even if he was really just an illusion, an illusion created by the Spell was no simple thing.

Most of the knowledge Sunny possessed was built on the foundation of what he had learned from the noble swordsman and Scholar. How much more would he know if he had gone into the Nightmare with the intention to not only survive, but also learn?

Sunny glanced at the dark Seed.

It had grown in the tower that had once belonged to one of the seven daemons. What mysteries would such a Nightmare reveal?

Mordret gave him time to think, then said in an even tone:

"For that reason, Legacy clans — not all of them, but the truly powerful ones — select the Nightmares for their members to challenge very carefully."

Sunny lingered for a bit, then raised an eyebrow:

"...What crazy clan chose that cursed Seed for you to try and find, then?"

The lost prince laughed.

"Oh, no! No one had wished for me to seek it. It was my decision alone. In fact, I suspect that only two people in both the waking world and this one know about its existence. Me… and now you."

He chuckled again, and then added:

"But that is what makes it so special, as well. None of them could have learned of its existence, reached it, and taken its rewards as their own."

After that, Mordret suddenly grew silent. He remained that way for a while, and then added quietly:

"Well… it's not like I managed to do it, too."

He sighed, lingered for a few moments, and then added in a wistful tone:

"Can you imagine what secrets that Seed hides? What one would learn from that Nightmare? A Nightmare... a Nightmare that was created from the chains with which Hope herself had been bound…"

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  YoungLawd 29 Sep 2022, 08:08 ➥ Harris10
  
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  Would be interesting if he conquers it then uses there as his base
  
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masterlol122 28 Sep 2022, 21:36

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Man this novel soo good.

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Harris10 28 Sep 2022, 18:31

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"Saint… come look at this…"

Sunny sat on the soft grass, enjoying the sunlight and the cool wind. He had not even known how much he missed them... missed everything, really. Looking back, it was hard to imagine that he had endured more than a month of utter nothingness without losing his mind. His experiences in the Dark City, it seemed, made him far more resilient.

...The shadow of the Ivory Tower was slowly moving closer as the evening approached, marking the passage of time. It was peaceful and quiet on the green meadow of the heavenly island.

Answering his call, the taciturn demon appeared nearby and stood silently, observing the magnificent white tower. Her ruby eyes, however, did not show any emotion.

He sighed.

"...Well, I think it's lovely."

The soaring island was not very large, so Sunny could more or less see its edge not too far away, surrounded by floating slates of shattered marble. There was a meadow on this side of it, a grove that rustles under the wind, and a graceful gazebo built of the same white material as the Ivory Tower itself. The stone arch inside of it was also white, and empty. The portal was gone.

Some distance away, connected to the gazebo by a stone path, stood the magnificent great pagoda that had once belonged to the Demon of Hope. If its copy in the Sky Below was somber and ominous, the original was the complete opposite. It was beautiful, graceful, and slightly surreal, as if too sublime to exist in the mortal realm.

…In a sense, it did not.

Something about the Ivory Tower made Sunny uneasy, however. He couldn't quite describe the feeling, but it was as though he simultaneously felt pulled toward it and threatened by it. The sensation did not come from his intuition, but more so from the deepest corners of his soul. It was rather strong.

And there was also something strange in the shape of the tower itself.

There was a weird thing that went around the base of it, circling the whole perimeter of the great pagoda and disappearing from view. That thing was almost of the same color, but slightly less pristine, and made out of long and weathered sections.

After looking at it for a while, Sunny finally realized what the thing was.

…Bone. Wrapped around the tower was what remained of the tail of some giant, dead creature. He frowned.

'...Good thing it's dead. I hope it remains this way.'

Sunny sighed, used the Cruel Sight to help himself stand up, and headed toward the edge of the island. Saint followed, putting the blade of the Midnight Shard on her shoulder.

Reaching it, he cautiously looked down and saw the disjointed patchwork of the Chained Isles far below. From this high, they looked like pieces of a beautiful mosaic that someone had laid out on the backdrop of velvety darkness, with a scattering of radiant stars shining in between.

Sunny gazed down for a while, then picked up a rock from the ground and threw it over the edge.

The rock fell for a hundred meters or so without meeting any resistance. Then, however, it suddenly cracked and exploded into shards, which then became dust and were scattered in the wind.

'...Curses.'

It seemed that the Crushing was still there. It's just that the Ivory Tower itself was not affected by it, as well as the island it stood upon and a small area surrounding it.

How was he going to come down?

Sunny stood at the edge for some time with a resentful expression on his face, then turned around and walked deeper into the island, circling the Ivory Tower from the left.

On the other side of the great pagoda was a clear lake, with streams of water flowing out of it and falling over the edge of the island. In the bright sunlight, it seemed as though the entire surface of the lake was shining with pure golden radiance. Sunny looked at his reflection in the water, then at an intricately engraved bench standing near it, cut from white stone.

Finally, he walked further on and reached a vantage point from which the gate of the graceful tower could be seen.

'Oh…'

The gates looked very similar to those he had opened in the depths of the Sky Below, with the main difference being the color and the absence of soot.

…As well as that there were skeletal remains of a giant beast lying in front of them, its serpentine body wrapped around the tower, its massive skull resting right near the tall white doors. Each of the terrifying fangs of the great beast was as long as Sunny was tall, at least. Deep darkness nestled in its empty eyes.

He shivered.

'Is that… a dragon?'

Indeed, it was. Right in front of Sunny were the weathered, snow-white bones of an actual dragon. The image of the mighty creature laying dead in front of the pristine tower was solemn, mysterious, and terrifying.

What could have killed such a being?

Thinking that he didn't wish to know, Sunny lingered for a while, then headed toward the remains of the dragon. He was desperately hoping that the great beast would not stir and come to life. If that happened… well. It was better to not even think about it.

Reaching the white skull of the mighty creature, Sunny hesitated for a bit, then walked between the terrifying fangs and approached the gates.

…They were slightly ajar, so he didn't even need to use essence to unlock them.

Sunny gathered his courage, raised his hand… and pushed the gates open.

Suddenly, he felt a bit sleepy.

'What… what is this?'

Shaking his head to chase the sleepiness away, Sunny walked inside the tower and found himself in a great hall, bright light streaming through its tall windows. The air inside, however, was infused with a strange, shimmering darkness.

And in its center, there were…

Chains.

Seven chains sprawled from the pristine white floor, as if growing out of it, each ending in a broken shackle. The shackles were inscribed with a myriad of runes and marred, their metal torn. They were also the source of the strange shimmering, which rose from their surface in ethereal wisps.

A chaotic, everchanging mass of pure darkness pulsated in the very center of the great hall. No, it was not darkness… rather, it seemed like a rift in the fabric of reality, one that could devour even light itself.

Sunny tensed, then took a tentative step forward, hoping to see what was hidden behind the darkness.

As soon as he did so, however, a familiar voice echoed in the silence of the great hall:

"Stop, Sunless! Turn back if you wish to live."

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  Grey死 28 Sep 2022, 18:59 ➥ Harris10
  
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  Thanks for the chapter 👍
  
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  WarGod_Fade 28 Sep 2022, 19:38 ➥ Harris10
  
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  It’s either Mordred, Blind Bitch, Nephis, or the Master level female that has wings who was the wife of that one guy who I forgot the name of
  
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    YoungLawd 28 Sep 2022, 20:20 ➥ WarGod_Fade
    
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    most likely Mordred
    
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  GridDokja 28 Sep 2022, 23:10 ➥ Harris10
  
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  Dude, you're the real mvp.
  
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  Firewallj760 28 Sep 2022, 23:19 ➥ Harris10
  
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  Dude, thankyou! Love that you are doing this for us, ma !
  
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Chapter 456: Leaving Nothing Behind
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