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JOEMUDA 13 Jul 2023, 04:37

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ill upload 3 chapters a day till we reach the latest chapter :P

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  zigzagzarf 13 Jul 2023, 05:52 ➥ JOEMUDA
  
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  I regret refreshing my page…why’d you delete the rest of the chapters you posted?
  
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    JOEMUDA 13 Jul 2023, 09:07 ➥ zigzagzarf
    
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    i didnt I think its to prevent spam
    
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Guru 13 Jul 2023, 04:30

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Essence Pearl?!? - why not name it “underwater pearl” so that people won’t get confused seeing it in the future?

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1014 The Fall of Falcon Scott (32)

Sunny had seen Bloodwave in his bestial form once from afar, but: up close, the Saint of Night was much
more terrifying.

The creature he had transformed into looked somewhat like a killer whale, its hide black and white. the
lines of its body smooth and predatory. However, it was much, much larger than any mundane beast
had any right to be.

There was a patchwork of ugly scars covering its hide, and steel armor encasing its long fins, edges
sharp like blades. Its enormous eyes glowed in the darkness of the ocean with blue light, full of
willpower and intelligence.

Even knowing that the giant killer whale was actually a human, Sunny couldn't help but feel tense in
front of the great predator.

Since the beginning of the siege of Falcon Scott, Bloodwave had rarely shown himself — he mostly
remained underwater, protecting the anchored ships and fighting those Nightmare Creatures that would
try to attack the city from the depths. Army Command did not dare leave the port fortress and the
vulnerable vessels without a defender...

And yet, today, that was exactly what had to happen.

While Sunny stared at the mighty Saint, Naeve glided forward and then hovered in front of the killer
whale‘s snout. keeping himself in place with barely noticeable movements of his arms and legs. The tall
Master looked tiny beside the giant creature.

'Huh...'

Sunny realized that he did not know how to communicate with others underwater. He couldn't really
speak, or even open his mouth — unless he wanted to lose the Essence Pearl and suffocate. There was
probably a system of signs one could learn, but he had not done that in advance.

The world was silent.

Not, not quite... actually. the ocean was full of sounds. They were just strange and muffled,
reverberating through his bones as if he was hearing them with his entire body. The noise of the battle
above was like a low, all—encompassing. distant roar. Sunny knew that sound was supposed to
propagate very far in the water, but had no tools to distinguish and interpret what he heard.
Nevertheless, the Nightwalkers seemed to possess some method of sharing information. A few
moments after Naeve approached Bloodwave, the killer whale shifted slightly, staring into the depths of
the ocean. His pupils narrowed.

Then, a strange thing happened. The eyes of the great predator remained clear and blue, but the water
itself seemed suddenly tinted dark crimson around them. Sunny felt extremely uncomfortable, as if
Blood Weave did not like what: was happening at all.

Then. the sensation passed as swiftly as it had appeared, and the ocean was normal once again.

Naeve turned around and beckoned for him to come closer. Struggling against the instinctual fear of
large predators, Sunny swam toward the monstrous killer whale. Once he got close, there was suddenly
a familiar voice in his ears:

"My uncle agrees. We have to kill the Terror."

Sunny stared at the Nightwalker silently. Naeve tilted his head a little.

"Oh... you can't speak. Well, there‘s nothing to discuss, anyway -— all the available information about
the creature was already given to us by Tyris of White Feather. We can only attack the Terror and do our
best How is your resistance against mind attacks?"

Sunny made a fist and raised his thumb..- be doubted that: any Master had better mental defenses than
him. Plus, he was already inoculated against the Terror's hex.

The Nightwalker nodded.

"Good. Taking our Awakened into the depths would just mean giving the creature more puppets to
control. The three of us will have to hunt alone. Once we discover the Terror, Bloodwave will lead the
charge, while our task will be to support him... maybe we'll even survive, who knows. Are you ready?"

Sunny shrugged, which was an awkward thing to do underwater.

"Then follow me."

Naeve swam even closer to the great beast, gliding parallel to Bloodwave's back. Reaching the dorsal fin
that stood tall like the mast of a ship, he grabbed onto a small depression in the armor encasing it, and
gestured for Sunny to do the same.

'Great... I am going to ride a damned Saint into the depths of a damned ocean...‘

Cursing his fate, Sunny followed the Nightwalker's example and latched himself to the killer whale's fin
like some sort of hitchhiker fish. He could feel a vast, powerful heartbeat somewhere below him, and a
mighty presence that was beyond all mundane senses.

Naeve‘s voice resounded once again in his ears:

"Don't let go. Well... unless you feel like the pressure is too great for you to handle. I don't know how
deep the Terror hides, and how deep you can dive. Sorry, Sunless... you'll have to learn 110w to traverse
the abyss fast, and on your own."

Before Sunny could think of an answer — even though he could not relay it — Bloodwave suddenly
moved. His great body lunged forward with stunning speed, and a powerful current almost threw Sunny
off the fin. He grabbed tighter to the steel armor, feeling how strange it was, to be able to breathe freely
despite the rushing water. Naeve stretched a hand to support him. but then brought it back, seeing that
there was no need.

'This is... this is...‘

Riding a giant killer whale into the dark depths of the ocean was perhaps not the strangest journey
Sunny had made, but it was definitely up there with the weirdest of them, especially considering that

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  The deeper Bloodwave descended into the vast, boundless, dark abyss of the ocean, the more disturbed
  Sunny felt — and he had already been deeply uncomfortable before taking the plunge into the shallows.
  There was nothing but emptiness and oppressive darkness both above and below them, stretching
  endlessly into the unknown.
  
  Even though Sunny could see through the water, unlike how it had been in the impenetrable darkness
  of the cursed sea of the Forgotten Shore, he was still distressed- The depths of the ocean were not a
  place meant for humans... they were its opposite. Coming here voluntarily was nothing but pure
  madness.
  
  'I might have misunderstood the. Nightwalkers. They are all lunatics...‘
  
  He shifted slightly and glanced at Naeve, who was holding tightly to the [in of the monstrous killer
  whale. The currents battered them, and the pressure was slowly growing unbearable. The scion of the
  House of Night was not exactly calm, but his unease was caused by the prospect of fighting a Corrupted
  Terror, not the watery abyss itself.
  
  Strangely, Sunny feelings were reversed. The Terror of L049 was a harrowing foe, indeed, but he had
  faced plenty of those. The ocean, on the other hand, was an alien, unfamiliar, and fundamentally hostile
  space. It was abysmal in the purest sense of the word.
  
  Grimacing, Sunny pulled himself closer to Bloodwave's fin and waited.
  
  He did not know what exact means the Saint was using to track the hidden Terror. There was some
  pattern to his movements, but Sunny wasn‘t sure what it was. Sometimes, it felt as though the great
  predator was choosing the direction at random, but one thing remained constant — they were always
  moving deeper into the darkness.
  
  Naeve had not spoken to him again, but there was also no reason to. Sunny briefly considered
  summoning the Extraordinary Rock to relay his thoughts, but then discarded that idea. He had nothing
  useful to say, and making too much noise could attract unwanted attention.
  
  Who knew what horrors hid in the dark depths, beside the Terror?
  
  At some point, he felt a coughing fit rising from somewhere in his lungs and nearly panicked. The last
  thing Sunny wanted was to drown because of the residual trauma caused by brushing against a
  Nightmare Gate. He gritted his teeth and concentrated on suppressing the cough, forgetting even his
  fear of the ocean in the process.
  
  That was why he almost missed the moment when the Terror finally revealed itself.
  
  ...Hidden in the depths of the lightless abyss, an eerily beautiful creature floated in the vast and silent
  darkness.
  
  Feeling a slight: tremor run through the enormous body of the giant killer whale and hearing its
  booming heartbeat change pace, Sunny looked into the distance. He shivered.
  
  From a distance, the Terror looked akin to a strange, ghostly flower... a lily, perhaps, or a white lotus.
  Its pallid petals flowed and danced slowly in the darkness, some stretching for hundreds of meters into
  the empty abyss, some swirling around the small nebulous shape hidden in their center.
  
  The sight of it was both breathtakingly beautiful and deeply terrifying. The wide ribbons of white looked
  both like the petals of a flower... and like the long tentacles of an ethereal creature, too alien to he
  described with words.
  
  When they got closer, however, Sunny discovered that they were neither petals nor pale flesh... instead,
  he thought that he was looking at long stretches of white, flowing cloth. He did not know if he was
  right, or how it even made sense.
  
  And that was not what Sunny was preoccupied with at the moment, either.
  
  There were other shapes surrounding the ghostly white blossom, hundreds of them. Drowned bodies
  surrounded it like a morbid barrier — humans, Nightmare Creatures, and things he could not name.
  They floated silently around the Terror, unmoving, their empty eyes staring blindly into the darkness.
  Some had cloth petals wrapped around them like a burial shroud.
  
  The eerie scene made him shudder. The otherworldly beauty of it all only made the visage more
  appalling. There was a powerful presence emanating from the mass of billowing white cloth... one of
  utter horror and malice.
  
  Sunny felt that presence overwhelm him, making it impossible to look away from the Terror, but also
  unbearable to witness it. He felt mesmerized, frozen, and paralyzed.
  
  ...That feeling was broken by another presence, though. Suddenly, the darkness around them seemed to
  become tinted red. and he felt a deep fury rising from within him. Sunny recognized that fury as
  something that was not his own, but instead belonged to someone else...
  
  Bloodwave.
  
  The Saint of Night was incensed, and whatever fear they might have felt was washed away by the
  murderous rage of the great predator.
  
  It almost seemed as though the cloth petals trembled slightly.
  
  In the next moment. the hundreds of drowned creatures all came alive, their hollow eyes turning to
  stare at them. Sunny uttered a silent curse and freed the Sin of Solace from its makeshift scabbard with
  his free hand.
  
  'Here we go...'
  
  He felt Bloodwave's body move, and then a furious roar spread through the water like a fearless battle
  cry. The force of it was almost physical in nature, moving through the dark abyss like a devastating
  shockwave.
  
  The monstrous killer whale surged forward, and with him, the ocean itself came alive. Powerful
  currents assaulted the pallid flower, throwing its ghastly defenders away. The crimson hue of the water
  became more apparent, and wherever it spread, Bloodwave seemed to gain even more speed, even more
  might.
  
  At the same time, the cloth petals exploded with motion. unfurling like long limbs, grabbing the thralls,
  and throwing them forward.
  
  By Sunny's side, Naeve glanced at him and outstretched a hand, a bone harpoon appearing in it. The
  Nightwalker smiled, indigo lights dancing in his eyes.
  
  "It's time!"
  
  With that, he pushed himself off the fin and shot forward with incredible speed.
  
  A moment later, Bloodwave crashed into the moving barrier of hollow— eyed thralls.
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    The monstrous killer whale snapped its jaws, savaging several massive Nightmare Creatures at once.
    Clouds of blood and pulverized flesh escaped from his maw like a red tide.
    
    Powerful currents of crimson water swirled around his massive body, ripping even more abominations
    apart. A dozen thralls were destroyed when the great predator rammed through them at dreadful speed.
    Armored fins moved, slicing bodies like giant blades.
    
    A split second later, Bloodwave shot past the barrier of flesh, leaving devastation in his wake. He
    continued forward, heading for the eerie flower of white cloth that was the Terror.
    
    Naeve and Sunny were left behind, though. Their task was to deal with the thralls and prevent them
    from attacking the Saint from behind.
    
    'How the hell... do I do this?‘
    
    Fighting underwater was not at all like fighting on land. At this depth, Sunny felt as though he was
    constantly being pressed down by an immeasurable weight, both from without and from within. His
    Ascended physique and augmented strength were enough to deal with it, but he still felt a strain
    considerable enough to demand adjustment.
    
    It was a lot like fighting while under the effect of the Crushing.
    
    More importantly, though, there was nothing to support him here. Usually, a fighter's might came from
    being grounded — without the ground under Sonny's feet, his blows would lack power. They would also
    push him away with the same force that had been exerted on the enemy, making battle flow and
    positioning a nightmare.
    
    So, he saw two ways to fight effectively — one was to grapple the enemy and use their own body as
    support. bringing combat to an extremely close range. He would be greatly disadvantaged in such a
    scenario due to the length of his blade. The other was to use acceleration and maneuvering to turn each
    of his attacks into a deadly charge.
    
    Sunny had a sinking suspicion that he would have to utilize both approaches today.
    
    Ahead of him, Naeve clashed with one of the thralls — his harpoon shot forward, piercing the creature‘s
    head. The Nightwalker pushed it through all the way, then let go of the shaft, grabbed it again near the
    head a moment later, and tore the spear free.
    
    Then, Sunny had no more time to observe the Nightwalker, forced to concentrate on his own enemy.
    
    A vaguely familiar abomination that resembled a grotesque mannequin of flesh lunged at him, its
    hollow eyes full of darkness. A menacing bone scythe cut down, threatening to split Sunny apart. He
    was somewhat certain that his skin would withstand the edge, but there was no point in taking the risk.
    The Sin of Solace moved to intercept the strike, much slower than he was used to, but still viciously fast.
    The jade blade easily cut through the scythe, breaking it, and then continued forward to sever the flesh
    mannequin from shoulder to thigh.
    
    The Spell whispered into his ear, its voice unaffected by the heavy mass of water:
    
    [You have slain a Fallen Monster...]
    
    [Your shadow...]
    
    With no time to listen to it, Sunny suppressed his revulsion and used the bleeding remains of the
    abomination to launch himself sideways. A moment later, a chitinous body barreled through the spot he
    had been occupying.
    
    Five more were already closing in on him from five different directions.
    
    Sunny took a deep breath.
    
    "l‘his... this is not too bad.'
    
    The situation was dire, but not as hopeless as he had expected. The greatest threat — the Terror itself
    — was currently preoccupied with Bloodwave. The thralls, meanwhile, were numerous and much more
    powerful than they had the right to be. However. there was one factor working against them.
    
    Most of the thralls were no more native to the dark abyss of the ocean than he was.
    
    Their movements were purposeful, but a little bit awkward. Their initial assault was dreadful, but
    mostly because many had been launched forward by the long pieces of white cloth that swirled around
    and trailed behind the Terror, behaving like the tentacles of a giant monster. Now that their momentum
    was spent, the thralls were much slower and less maneuverable than Naeve.
    
    And Sunny, too, thanks to the Nimble Catch. An Awakened would have been torn to pieces in an instant,
    but the two Masters found themselves at a certain advantage.
    
    More than that, Sunny realized that his Aspect was not as useless underwater as he had thought. There
    were no shadows around him to manifest... but that was only because he could not compel living
    shadows to obey him. of those, there were plenty — shadows required a surface to exist, and each
    thrall's body was a surface.
    
    Each of the thralls possessed a shadow, which allowed Sunny to sense their movements even if he did
    not see them. It also allowed Sunny to use Shadow Step, as long as the abomination was large enough.
    As five thralls lunged at him, Sunny swam forward, dodged the claws of an especially large Nightmare
    Creature... and dove into its shadow, appearing on top of the chitinous monstrosity that had missed him
    a few moments earlier.
    
    The Sin of Solace plunged through the thick carapace, instantly killing the abomination.
    
    [You have slain a Fallen Beast...]
    
    [Your shadow...]
    
    Sunny almost grinned.
    
    'So many fragments...‘
    
    He pushed himself off the convulsing carcass, narrowly escaping the cloud of blood, and looked up just
    in time to see Naeve clashing with another thrall.
    
    The bone harpoon once again struck first. beheading the hollow-eyed creature.
    
    However, this time, the Nightwalker was a split second too late to dodge the incoming attack.
    
    Even though the thrall had lost its head, the creature‘s tail still flew forward, carried by momentum and
    inertia. The long. vicious spike at the end of the tail struck Naeve square in the chest, easily piercing the
    nacreous shell armor and plunging deep into his body. Then, it emerged from his back.
    
    Sunny's eyes widened.
    
    'No...'
    
    But then, something strange happened. The scion of the House of Night seemed to ignore the terrible
    wound... and in fact, there was no wound. instead, it was as though Naeve's body had turned into liquid
    — the spike pierced that liquid and then flew out of the Master's side without leaving a trace. A second
    later, Naeve turned solid once again, already attacking the next thrall.
    
    His movements were swift, graceful, and flowing.
    
    Sunny tore his gaze away and lashed out with the Sin of Solace to deflect a blow from a hollow-eyes
    thrall.
    
    '...Neat.'
    
    Behind them, Bloodwave had finally reached the beautiful, harrowing white blossom.
    
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JOEMUDA 13 Jul 2023, 02:51

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yall want the other chapters ?

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  its gonna be a bit scuffed
  
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    thank you bro
    
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SrgtLock 12 Jul 2023, 14:57

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Finally new chapter, and good god that immersion breaking website insert…

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Duraika 12 Jul 2023, 12:19

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I wonder by calling his true name has some sort of purpose, or its meant to remind him of his weakness?

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  Arsen 12 Jul 2023, 15:08 ➥ Duraika
  
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  Ehh, when he was in the second nightmare, in the coliseum, in the shadow demon body he assimilated the monster's fighting style but in doing so he felt like he was becoming one and discovered that when he thinks of his true name he comes to his senses. As fow why the sword is taunting him with it i am not sure maybe all the decisions Sunny has made in Antarctica are weighing down on him
  
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Wheat 12 Jul 2023, 11:05

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Moby Dick?

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