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Chapter 522: Lnvincible
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Mr.Unbelievable

Mr.Unbelievable 18 Jul 2025, 10:15

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"A steel armor…"

So he is really going to fall into the abyss again

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D4mn

D4mn 1 Jul 2025, 08:02

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Standing in the cargo hold of the ancient ship, clad in his new Transcendent armor, Sunny couldn't help but feel "Title Card "

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Kharxan

Kharxan 16 Jun 2025, 18:54

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Matter of fact, that undying skill is a tool for the author to put Sunny through even shittier situations. He already has that enchantment, just called "Being the MC". Now that he can actually use it as an active ability... Well, that means he'll need it.

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SHADOW SOVEREIGN

SHADOW SOVEREIGN 4 Apr 2025, 01:07

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OPPP

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Gerhman_Sparrow23

Gerhman_Sparrow23 25 Apr 2024, 16:02

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I can't help but imagine this armor looking like dr. Doom

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Mountain Fog

Mountain Fog 22 Oct 2023, 04:19

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[Undying] Enchantment Description: "The wearer can not die."

All MC's have that ability as standard. Unalive, alive, reincarnated, whatever, they never truly die (until it's time). It's called plot armor, the strongest armor of all.

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  Peak Talen 20 Mar 2025, 03:09 ➥ Mountain Fog
  
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  Precisely, my fellow divinity. Spot your divine shit indeed
  
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Da Joker

Da Joker 14 Sep 2023, 10:23

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[Undying] Enchantment Description: "The wearer can not die."

Damn, this ARMOR is crazy

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captainplanet

captainplanet 4 Apr 2023, 15:35

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Suddenly grim, Sunny dismissed his helmet and turned in the direction where the Fire Keepers were supposed to be.
After a few moments, he said quietly:
"I see…"

what does he mean ? that cassie anticipated this and sent him to kill it

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  keyleur 24 Apr 2023, 19:31 ➥ captainplanet
  
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  In earlier chapters cassie said that in the vision she had where both of them are supposed to die he was wearing some armor different from puppeteer's shroud maybe this is the armor she had seen him wearing
  
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Harris10 31 Oct 2022, 19:18

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Sunny slumped on the ground, summoned the Endless Spring, and greedily drank some water. Since his injuries were light... well, at least compared to those received by the Fire Keepers... it was some time before the healer got to them. But, eventually, it was his turn to receive treatment.

The healer — a young man named Shim — was pale and exhausted, his soul essence clearly almost entirely depleted. Still, he managed to repair the ligament Sunny had torn while dodging the vines to a large extent. It hurt like hell, though.

Of course, this healing Ability couldn't compare to Neph's purifying white flames. But then, it was hard for anyone to compare to Neph. Sunny knew it better than anyone.

With a dark expression, he summoned the runes and glanced at the painfully familiar string of them:

Shadow Fragments: [1958/2000].

He was only forty-two fragments away from evolving into a demon. This transformation was not only going to allow him to reinforce his body and reserves of shadow essence even further, but also reward Sunny with a third shadow. Having another invaluable helper would increase his power tremendously, making him capable of stacking three augmentations on top of each other, or spreading them over between his body, his Memories, and Saint.

He was almost to two thousand fragments.

To accumulate so many in only seven months… that was an achievement worth celebrating. Very few Awakened ever fully saturated their cores, and those who did usually spent long years slowly collecting soul shards of the Nightmare Creatures they killed. Decades, even... and that was for only one core. Sunny could be proud of himself.

And yet, he didn't feel happy.

Looking lower, he concentrated on another, much shorter cluster of runes.

Master: Changing Star.

As soon as he did, new runes ignited in the air.

…Rank: Dreamer.

Class: Devil.

Soul Cores: [4/7].

Soul Fragments: [399/4000].

Seven months ago, the gap between them had nearly reached five thousand fragments. Today, it was much smaller… but that was only thanks to the Noctis coins he had sacrificed to the altar. The truth of the matter was that Sunny had been slowly shortening the gap for a long time, but now, it had started growing once more.

Not too long ago, something had happened to Neph in the Dream Realm, and as the result, the speed with which she gained soul fragments began increasing with each day. Sunny didn't know what Changing Star was doing, why she had suddenly become so much stronger, and even how she was still alive… but he knew that he was being slowly left in the dust once again.

Dismissing the runes, he gritted his teeth and looked darkly at the desolate, hellish landscape of the Shipwreck Island.

'I have to get to that Seed… that is the only way…'

Compared to all other Awakened and their rate of growth, Sunny might have been a monster. But Neph… Neph was not even human. She was the devil himself. He didn't know what else to do to surpass her.

To become stronger.

…His heavy thoughts were interrupted by the light sound of approaching steps. Looking up, Sunny saw Cassie walking over to him.

'Great. Just what I need…'

She stopped a couple of steps away and lowered her head slightly.

"Are you alright?"

Sunny grimaced, then looked away.

'What do you care?'

"I'll live."

He scowled, and then added in a slightly acrid tone:

"Your information was wrong, by the way. That thing was not weak to fire."

She tilted her head slightly.

"How did you kill it then?"

Sunny smiled crookedly.

"...With a piece of wood."

Cassie remained silent for a while, prompting him to speak:

"So… now what?"

She sighed and turned toward the distant wreck

"All of us are tired and wounded, and there is a Crushing approaching. We will return to the Sanctuary to rest and regroup, and then come back to establish two camps — one here, and another one on a neighboring island. Then, we will start repairing the ship."

He nodded.

"Good plan, I guess. Do you really think that you can make that thing fly again, though?"

The blind girl hesitated. Eventually, she said without too much emotion:

"We have to try, at least."

Sunny studied the silhouette of the ancient ship, its hull full of breaches, its bow shattered and broken, the tree growing around its mast dead and resembling a black, twisted skeleton. Then, he shook his head.

"How long do you think it will take you?"

Cassie hesitated.

"Two, maybe three months. We will be done before autumn is over, if that is what you want to know."

He chuckled.

"You remember our deal, then. Good."

She frowned.

"Of course, I remember."

Sunny looked at the ground, then asked her coldly:

"When are we leaving for the Night Temple, then?"

Cassie lingered for a few moments, a troubled expression suddenly finding its way onto her face. Finally, she said:

"When do you want to go?"

Sunny thought about it. There were several things he still needed to do…

After a while, he shrugged.

"End of September. Everything should be ready by then. The journey to the northern edge of the Chained Isles and back shouldn't take us longer than a month. We'll be back just in time to see your flying ship rise into the air. And use it to reach the Nightmare Seed."

He lingered for a second, and then asked:

"Why do you look so uneasy, though?"

Cassie slowly shook her head.

"It's nothing. Just, the Night Temple… it's a very strange place."

Sunny frowned.

'What is that supposed to mean?'

"How so?"

She shivered.

"I'll… explain it to you later. Right now, we need to move. This island is about to enter the ascent phase."

Which meant that the Crushing was not too far ahead, as well.

Sunny sighed, then stood up. He didn't have to limp anymore, at least.

As for why Cassie had said that the second human Citadel on the Chained Isles was a weird place… he could wait for the answer. He had no need for this information right now, anyway.

Sunny was a very patient man, at least when he needed to be. Besides, he had something else on his mind.

'Forty-two shadow fragments… it's not that much."

Looking south and slightly to the east, he gripped the shaft of the Cruel Sight and stared toward the horizon with a dark expression.

'...I'll be a demon before we're back to the Sanctuary.'

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  Ovisionik 31 Oct 2022, 23:07 ➥ Harris10
  
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  He will be incapacitated for a few minutes once he hits 2000/2000 right?
  Hope nothing goes wrong (flag intended)
  
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Harris10 31 Oct 2022, 16:45

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Blood Weave was slowly devouring the toxin, but Sunny still felt weak and feverish. Dismissing Saint, he walked around the cargo hold, getting used to the feel of the Undying Chain and looking around to see if there was something interesting laying around.

Like another chest full of Noctis coins, for example.

Sadly, he didn't find anything. Even if the cargo hold had once stored ancient curios and treasures, everything was destroyed by the vines and the brown moss over thousands of years.

However, he was pleasantly surprised to realize that the lusterless steel armor was not constricting his movements at all. It was really like a second layer of skin… perhaps if Sunny wasn't augmented by the shadow, the Undying Chain would have been cumbersome. But he was, and on top of that, there were almost two thousand shadow fragments stored in his two cores.

Even if an Awakened wasn't supposed to be able to wear the Transcendent armor effortlessly, Sunny had no such problem.

'Sweet…'

Finally, he limped over to the pile of dust that remained of Solvane and knelt beside it, then reached inside the ashes and retrieved the wooden knife.

Of course, Sunny had not forgotten about it.

To his disappointment, though, what he was holding in his hand was just the handle. The blade had splintered and broken off, and the wood seemed lifeless and dead.

It was already starting to rot, and even when Sunny looked beneath the surface of the strange knife, he didn't see anything… no spellweave, no brilliant radiance of a sea of soul essence, and no String of Fate folding endlessly on itself in a perfect circle.

The wooden knife was truly and utterly broken.

Almost as if it was created for a singular purpose, and had no reason to exist after fulfilling it.

Sunny looked at the knife with a thoughtful frown.

'Interesting…'

Was the wooden knife created specifically to bring death to the immortal Solvane? If so, were the obsidian knife in the Sanctuary of Noctis and the ivory knife in the Night Temple meant to end the lives of two other immortals?

Suddenly, he shivered.

A single String of Fate, folded on itself and creating a perfect circle…

If he had looked into the wooden knife before it was destroyed, would he have seen the same thing?

A tentative hint of understanding appeared in his mind.

Somehow, Sunny felt that he would. He also suspected that the String of Fate would not have been just a random one.

No… it would have been Solvane's fate.

A String that was somehow torn out of the tapestry of Fate and tied in an endless circle… would something like that make a person immortal?

"And so the shackles were made eternal…"

Who could have done such a terrifying thing?

Well, the answer was rather obvious. The Lord of Light, Sun God, who had destroyed Hope's kingdom and imprisoned her in the Ivory Tower, certainly could. After all, he was not only the deity of flame and light, but also of passion, creation, and destruction.

Looking at the remains of the wooden knife that were rotting and turning to dust in his hand, Sunny couldn't help but shudder.

If he was right, then he was holding a weapon created by a god.

…And he had used that weapon to kill an immortal created by a god.

For the first time since Sunny had learned about the divinities of the Dream Realm, he suddenly felt really glad that they were dead.

***

Some time later, he jumped through the breach created by the Wormvine and climbed onto the ancient ship's hull. Hissing from pain, Sunny staggered a little, then limped toward where the wreck ended.

Since the ship was laying on its side, the wooden surface beneath his feet was inclined down and uneven. Almost inevitably, he lost his balance and rolled the last stretch of the way, landing on the ground in a graceless heap.

"...Ouch."

Sunny remained motionless for a while, then sighed and picked himself off the ground. Standing up, he studied the desolate valley, and then headed to where he had seen the Fire Keepers last.

The landscape of the Shipwreck Island was changed. The ground was overturned and scarred by deep trenches, looking like a battlefield of an ancient war. Some of the trenches were empty, some were filled with massive stems of dead vines that protruded from the soil like rotting serpents. The air was filled with dust, ash, and smoke.

Using the Cruel Sight as a staff to support his weight, Sunny limped forward and soon found the ring of bonfires.

A pale smile appeared on his face.

'Well, what would you know… they actually survived.'

Indeed, the Fire Keepers seemed to be all there. Granted, they looked incredibly exhausted, battered, and injured all over.

All of them were covered in blood, dirt, and soot, their armor torn. Some were sitting with tired expressions on their faces, others lay on the ground, with only the movement of their chests betraying that they were alive. Only the steadfast young man who had wielded a short spear and a heavy shield in battle — the healer of the cohort — was up and about, tending to his companions.

Sunny walked between two of the bonfires and stopped, leaning on the Cruel Sight.

His eyes darted around, lingered on the delicate figure of a young woman with pale blond hair for a moment, and then turned away.

"...Sunny?"

He glanced at Shakti, the Artisan girl, who was resting on the ground a few steps away from him.

The young woman looked more or less like a corpse. Her armor was almost destroyed, revealing deep lacerations on her tanned skin, and her face was dirty and pale from blood loss. What's worse, her right arm was torn away, ending in a bloodied bandage near the elbow... such a wound was not permanent, since it was dealt to her spirit body and not the actual one, but still quite severe.

Nevertheless, there was a wide grin on the Artisan's face.

Looking him over, she whistled and said:

"New armor? Looking good!"

She tried to laugh, but then bent over in a fit of violent coughing. It seemed that all of them were still suffering from the effects of the Wormvine's poison, even if the healer had used his Aspect to make it less lethal.

The others looked in their direction, alerted to his arrival by Shakti's voice. Their eyes brightened.

"Thank the gods! Sunny, you're alive!"

"Good work out there!"

"Crazy bastard… you actually did it?"

Sunny couldn't help but smile.

"Obviously. Why wouldn't I? It was just a Corrupted Monster…"

His smile widened.

"...Actually, I also went and killed an immortal Saint that happened to be nearby. One strike for the both of them, to not waste any time. All it took was a minute."

The Fire Keepers stared at him for a bit, then rolled their eyes.

Shakti shook her head.

"Sure, Sunny. If you say so. But really… I just don't get you. Killing a Corrupted Monster is already an incredible thing, why do you even have to invent some ridiculous story…"

Sunny blinked a couple of times with an innocent look.

"What do you mean, invent a story? It's the truth! I am a very honest person. The most honest person in two worlds, really…"

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  ImaginativeNigerian 31 Oct 2022, 17:26 ➥ Harris10
  
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  Honesty pays you know
  
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  Ovisionik 31 Oct 2022, 20:38 ➥ Harris10
  
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  he suddenly felt really glad that they were dead.
  
  Lol that hardly matters, he got a 'blessing' from a dead god so why can't he be cursed too?
  curse and blessing are two side of the same coin it all depends the circumstance.
  
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Chapter 522: Lnvincible
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