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Chapter 1076: Know Yourself
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YoUrBrUh

YoUrBrUh 23 Aug 2024, 15:12

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I hope he becomes a saint and takes over the pyramid under their noses

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Tanistanthalas

Tanistanthalas 26 Jun 2024, 04:11

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Hoping Sunny manages to sneak to the pyramid and take it over first. Although, then he would be a target to both clans… 🤔🤷‍♂️

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Crowㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ 27 Apr 2024, 08:31

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A cobra vai fumar

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BeanJohnson

BeanJohnson 17 Jan 2024, 18:28

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Tbh I'm very surprised the Military does not have a sovereign of their own

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  Ninjamaster98 19 Mar 2024, 20:18 ➥ BeanJohnson
  
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  Lmao how would they? The only fourth nightmare known to be challenged and won was when Aster, Vale, Ki, Song, and Nephis’s dad fought. Unless there is a cohort of transcendants outside of the sovereigns reaches there is no way there would be another supreme.
  
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  LeanGreenBeanMachine 15 Jan 2025, 20:54 ➥ BeanJohnson
  
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  Not really possible. The government is powerful in the waking world because it's supremely difficult for supremes to leave the dream realm.
  
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Deathseeker

Deathseeker 21 Dec 2023, 16:21

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I'll make them pay... if I go to hell, I'll drag them with me...

~Sunless

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  Rei-absolute 2 Feb 2024, 00:57 ➥ Deathseeker
  
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  . It's up to you if and how much you get involved.
  
  At the beginning she had said that he would be dragged into the mess and then into the big clan regardless of what he wants. but he didn't follow her, and went to Antarctica and now she says it depends on him. I enjoyed that
  
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kollosus_na

kollosus_na 6 Nov 2023, 23:04

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Time to f#ck shit up... I'm not sure if Jet knows just how powerful Sunny is now, but Neph hasn't seen his crazy ass in action for a long while.

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  Alfametadol 4 Apr 2025, 02:20 ➥ kollosus_na
  
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  но тоже верно и про неё, она и сама не сидела без дела
  
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anton_frost 9 Aug 2023, 14:11

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1077 Midnight Sun[i][/i]
Summer had come to Antarctica. The winds still brought with them a piercing chill, but it was warm enough for the snow to thaw under direct sunlight. Gurgling streams of water turned East Antarctica into a land of countless brooks and numerous lakes, which all glistened in the sun or drowned in the shadows of the tall mountains.
The sun itself was distant and cold. but it never disappeared from the blue expanse of the sky. Just like there had been no end to the night, now, there was no end to the day. The twilight of the long dawn had gradually turned into daylight, and now that October was in full swing, the whole continent was suffused with bright radiance... and would be for the next five months.
The situation on the continent, however, was far from light. It was grim and dire, as if Antarctica was had submerged deeper into an endless cycle of dreadful nightmares... the Chain of Nightmares was escalating with each day, and the Evacuation Army was forced to take more and more desperate measures to withstand it.
... The remains of a once-thriving city were buried under thawing snow, with the skeletal remains of tall buildings rising above it like dark cliffs. This settlement had not been chosen to become a siege capital, and so it was abandoned at the start of the campaign. Now. it was nothing but a desolate ruin. From time to time. that ruin would turn into a battleground, sustaining even more damage.
Currently, a furious battle was coming to an end on the streets of the abandoned city. A patrol of soldiers had been chased here by a swarm of Nightmare Creatures and forced to stand their ground. The humans had fought violently and almost defeated the attacking abominations... but sadly, the sounds of the combat awoke a fiend that had been slumbering in the ruins.
The creature had tom a bloody path through the remaining abominations. and then slaughtered the soldiers. Now, only one of them remained alive. Lieutenant Catphine was struggling desperately with the controls of her MWP. but it was of no use - the mighty machine had been damaged too severely and toppled, its vestibular systems going completely offline.
She could have brought it back up relying on nothing but her piloting skills, but most of the limb hydraulics were destroyed, and the frame itself was bent and torn, large sections of the alloy armor already missing. Even the coolant pathways were breached, turning the pilot's cabin into a scorching inferno. The paint she used to decorate its walls with drawings was blistering and melting, anti Catphine herself felt as if she was going to melt, too.
But, of course, she wouldn't.

The abomination that had slaughtered her squad was currently on top of the MWP, clawing at the war machine with its powerful limbs. The armor was parting before the terrifying claws like paper. Each strike sent a concussive shockwave through the frame, tossing Catphine up and down in the tight confines of her safety harness. The creature was going to kill her long before the heat had a chance to. 'Curse it!'
There was just no way for her to fight against a Fallen Demon... and that was what the creature was, most likely. At least the Awakened leader of the patrol had called it that before being killed by the fiend. But even knowing how hopeless the situation was, Catphine stubbornly controlled the only functioning arm of the MWP, bending it at the elbow to press the seven barrels of the kinetic machine gun installed on the forearm of the war platform to the abomination's side. The barrels spun, unleashing a flood of heavy tungsten rounds into the demon's impenetrable hide.
In just a second, the machine gun spat close to two hundred armor-piercing bullets.
However. all of them simply ricocheted off the harrowing creature's skin, not even bruising it. The fiend was pushed slightly to the side, then glanced at the firing weapon with its mad, burning eyes. In the next moment, the abomination's claws struck, ripping through the MWP's arm and severing it entirely. The next blow finally breached the cockpit, destroying the screens and letting Catphine see the fiend with her own two eyes. She gritted her teeth.
'At least there's some cool air now...
She knew that she was about to die.
...But she didn't.
The battle had caused plumes of thick smoke to rise above the ruins, obscuring the sun and submerging the battlefield in deep darkness. At that moment, the darkness suddenly surged anti moved forward. Catphine blinked, thinking that she was seeing things.
Two giant hands suddenly rose from the ground, grabbing the Fallen Demon by the shoulders. The hands had matte, inky-black skin, slender wrists, and long, dexterous fingers that ended with sharp claws. These claws cut through the abomination's indestructible skin with ease.
Then, the dark hands pulled... and ripped the fiend apart.
Half of its monstrous body landed to the left of the fallen MWP, the other half to the right. A river of blood and viscera splashed, falling into the turned-up dirt.
Just like that, the terrifying creature had been slaughtered.
'Wh-what...

Catphine suddenly felt cold. The Fallen Demon was a harrowing monster... so what kind of otherworldly horror would be capable of killing it with such ease?
As she stared, a figure emerged from the darkness, landing softly on the torn frame of the MWP. It was a young man with porcelain skin and black hair, his eyes glistening like dark gemstones. Despite the biting cold and the nightmarish surroundings, he were no armor and wielded no weapons. His slender body was covered only by a light tunic of black silk.
When the young man appeared, the darkness enveloping the destroyed city suddenly seemed to become deeper, darker, and more frightening.
The sight of him was in such stark contrast with the ravaged. war-torn ruin that he seemed more like an apparition than a living being.
Catphine gulped.
The young man lingered for a moment, and then looked at her calmly.
"Are you alright, soldier?"
'Oh gods... he speaks...
It took her a few seconds to digest what the eerie stranger had just said.
"...What?"
He leaned forward and grabbed the jagged edges of the breach in the cockpit's armor, easily pulling the alloy apart to widen the gap.
"I said, are you alright?"
Catphine lingered for a moment.
"Ah... y-yes."
'The stranger nodded.
"Good. I'm Ascended Sunless of the Special Reconnaissance Unit. You can call me Master Sunless or Major Sunless. Let's get you out of this thing..."

Here we go next...
1078 Army Scout
Sunny helped the pilot climb out of the ravaged MWP, then looked around somberly. The ruin of the city was covered by the signs of a fierce battle... sadly, he had been too late to arrive. Most of the soldiers were already dead.
'Damn it...
He. had noticed the commotion in the ruins by chance, while making his way through the wilderness to accomplish a different mission. If not for the habit of sending his shadows in a wide circle around him, Sunny would have never even known that a squad of human soldiers had been trapped here. He used Shadow Step to arrive as swiftly as he could, but ended up saving only one.
With a sigh, Sunny helped the young woman climb down from the wreck of the MWP, summoned the Endless Spring, and handed it to her.
"Here. Drink some water."
The pilot kept staring at him strangely, but he was long used to such stares. He gave her some time, then took the glass bottle back and asked, making sure to keep his voice neutral:
"I am sorry about your comrades... but how did you guys end up in this sector? Did you not receive the message that it was designated as a black zone by Army Command?"
The young woman grimaced.
"We... did, sir. But by then, it was already too late. We were on a routine patrol along the Seventeenth Evacuation Corridor when we came under attack from a swarm of Nightmare Creatures. We beat them back and pursued... sadly, a few minutes later, a Gate opened right behind us. We were quickly surrounded, and had to run for our lives. We ran all the way to this city, and..."
She sighed.
Sunny awkwardly patted the pilot on the shoulder.
"I see. I know a thing or two about bad luck, lieutenant... it can get anyone. You did your best."
Internally, he was shaking his head.
'Corridor Seventeen... that place just attracts trouble, doesn't it?'
Corridor Seventeen connected one of the largest siege capitals in the region to the coastal fortress. Maintaining it was of vital importance to the evacuation effort, but recently, it had become harder and harder to keep the area clean.
Sunny himself was on a mission to scout out a potential threat to that corridor.
After reaching East Antarctica, he had basically received carte blanche to choose any assignment he wanted-out of those suitable for an Ascended, of course. In the end, Sunny refused another command assignment and requested to be sent to the Special Reconnaissance Unit.
The SRU was responsible for prowling the abomination-infested wilderness in search of targets that could pose a serious threat to the siege capitals, keeping tabs on their movements, and even attempting to lure them away from the cities from time to time. Powerful Tyrants, Terrors, and even Titans... those were the creatures that Army Command had them observe and track.
Needless to say, the task was extremely dangerous, and often lethal. The SRU consisted exclusively of powerful Masters, and each of them either had an Aspect uniquely suitable for such work or was an absolute elite.
As for Sunny, he was both. The assignment suited him fine, despite the tremendous danger... partially because it granted him a lot of freedom in his movements and actions, partially because he was reluctant to be put in charge of soldiers again.
Being a leader had never been something Sunny enjoyed. The previous time was enough.
It was too much, really.
He glanced at the MWP pilot and sighed.
"...Catch your breath. We can't stay for long, though this place isn't safe, and I am on a timer." Looking at her, he couldn't help but. remember the Irregulars. Sunny's face darkened.
Most of his people were dead now. Only Beth and Luster remained... and, perhaps. Quentin. There was no news of the gallant healer, so he was most likely gone, as well.
Luster had been shipped back to NQSC long ago. He was now slowly recovering in the hospital complex of the Academy, and doing quite well - Sunny knew of it because Kim remained in close contact with the lucky guy. In fact, he suspected that there was something going on between them.
Their young relationship, however, had to remain a long-distance one for now. Kim herself was still here in East Antarctica, but was kept far away from the battlefield. After returning from the Antarctic Center, she had been transferred to the Strategic Intelligence Department of Army Command. Now, her Aspect was being used to determine the vulnerabilities of various Nightmare Creatures on a wide scale, and disseminate that knowledge to the troops.
There were many such specialists stationed at army headquarters, but Kim was doing especially well for herself.
Beth had been evacuated and reached safety a while back, too. Sunny and she kept in touch, sending each other messages once in a while. However, he had a feeling that the young woman wanted to forget what had happened in the Southern Quadrant, at least for now. Talking to him was perhaps a painful reminder.
So, most of Sunny's communications were with Rain. His sister was doing well in the safety of NQSC. She was training diligently, and not showing any symptoms of being infected by the Spell. The Serpent was protecting her, too. At least in that regard, Sunny felt somewhat assured.
As for himself...
Ever since reaching East Antarctica, Sunny only had three goals. Turn the Ravenous Fiend into a Shadow, become a Tyrant, and prepare for the arrival of the great clans. I
lie had spent fragments on the little imp first, then hunted down numerous abominations in hopes of forming the fifth Shadow Core. Now, he was mere days away from catching up to Neph. As for the third goal... Sunny had made good progress on that front, too.
As he thought about it, his communication device suddenly came alive, and a familiar voice resounded in his eat:
"Where the hell are you, Sunny?"
He smiled slightly.
"Sorry, Jet. I've been delayed a little. Are you still en route?"
Her voice came through the static, sounding a little out of breath:
"Yeah... and I have a nasty swarm of abominations on my tail."
Sunny nodded.
"I'll send Mongrel your way. Lead them to the rendezvous point, and she'll take care of everything. I'll arrive in a few hours."
With that, Sunny glanced at the MWP pilot and sighed.
"Time to go, soldier. Say your goodbyes. Then, I'll bring you to the nearest army outpost."
He turned away, giving the young woman some space, and looked up, at the cold sun hanging motionlessly high above.
A long sigh escaped from Sonny's lips.

How bright. I never thought I would miss the polar night...

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  N3reus 9 Aug 2023, 14:42 ➥ anton_frost
  
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  Thank you very much!!
  
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Turnc4406 9 Aug 2023, 02:37

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I need my shadow fix. 😩

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James005

James005 8 Aug 2023, 11:43

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Sigh....
I miss the good old day of forgotten shore

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DirtyThor1 8 Aug 2023, 10:44

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Soo, they are migrating the readers from Sunny's Chapter Emporium to The Underground, and some of us where never allowed to join or got banned without a good enough reason :( sad times ahead again....

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