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Chapter 1560: Freedom of Choice
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    EVOLT
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    I need those who have hated Cassie for all these 1000 ch to apologize now!!! evil
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      Nucleus
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      She can be forgiven, but I think Sunny should stay far, far away from her manipulative a$$
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        MrOrange
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        he should start wearing his weaver mask from now on as well.
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          BlankDjinn
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          Honestly yeah that’d help a lot
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    zigzagzarf
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    who else thinks Cassie is backstabbing him again in some way?
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      BlankDjinn
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      I’m really hoping not I think Cassie is a master manipulator true but I also want to believe she’s just a scared girl putting on a brace face and trying to do her best. Then again I could be totally wrong :)
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    Nihil.Nemo
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    Надеюсь автор (или проницательный читатель) пояснит, почему Санни не мог дождаться членов когорты и скоординировать с ними свои действия.
    Также, было бы любопытно узнать поведение друзей Санни, когда по возвращению они обнаружили его исчезновение.

    I hope the author (or the astute reader) will explain why Sunny couldn't wait for the members of the cohort and coordinate his actions with them.
    It would also be interesting to know the behavior of Sunny's friends when they discovered his disappearance upon their return.
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      Dummybaron
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      Отвечу вопросом на вопрос. Как ты представляешь разговор команды, Санни и Касси? Независимо считать выбор Санни предательством или нет, но Санни по сути бросает команду сражаться с невероятно опасным и могущественным существом, нет никаких гарантий что кто-то из них не умрёт или не станет осквернён. Таким образом выбор пропадает и остаётся только сразится за Verge. Да и Санни просто не смог бы бросить команду если она была прям перед ним, духу не хватило бы.
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        MefetraN7
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        Так они говорили с санни и поддерживали его) куча разрушенных кораблей тому подтверждение, поэтому кэсси и отослала команду, так как команда 100% поддержит решение санни и бужет помогать ему. И это не предательство
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    1565. Traversing the Mist


    Ananke's ketch was floating through a world of mist. The thick fog surrounded it from all sides, suffused with somber twilight. All sounds seemed both muffled and exaggerated, echoing across the vast expanse of shrouded water. Sunny could not see very far. Even his shadow sense was dulled by the mystical mist.

    It was a familiar sight.

    'Indeed... I've been here already.'

    This was the exact same place where Sunny had found himself at the start of the Nightmare.

    The Source.

    Here, covered by mist, the Great River flowed into itself, and the past turned into the future. He could not feel the current anymore, but it was still there, strangely jumbled and disjointed. The ketch was moving, yet Sunny could not tell in what direction it was being carried.

    If he allowed himself to be pulled by the invisible current and reached the edges of the Source... he would be sent back to the day he had entered the Tomb of Ariel, as well as to the point upstream where the person whose role he took had been at that time.

    'No... I can't allow that to happen.'

    Sunny did not know if he could endure another cycle of the Great River. Much more importantly, the Six Plagues — and the Mad Prince — had broken the rules of time, somehow, and invaded a cycle they were not meant to exist in.

    He did not know if their existence had become a part of the Great River by now, or if their heretical presence would be erased should a new cycle start. If it was the latter, then all the effort the Mad Prince and Torment had put into ensuring that all members of the cohort survived until the end of the Nightmare would be for naught.

    More than that... that end was so close. Nephis would be reaching Verge soon, armed with the means of destroying the First Seeker. Sunny desperately did not want to live through the horrors of the Tomb of Ariel one more time, especially since the result would be hanging in a fragile balance.

    No, he could not allow himself to get lost in the mist and miss his opportunity to enter the Estuary.

    Because there, at the heart of the great pyramid, lay the key to his shackles. His chance to gain freedom.

    Luckily, Cassie had made sure that he would have everything he needed to accomplish that goal.

    He had the Guiding Light to lead him to the entrance of the Estuary. He had the Mirror of Truth to resist the Defilement once he entered it.

    And he had the Sin of Solace, which had made it all possible.

    Speaking of the sword wraith, as soon as the mist surrounded him, the bastard had disappeared somewhere. He must not have been in the mood to talk, or simply unable to manifest within the Source. Either way, Sunny did not miss the company of the loathsome apparition at all.

    'Stay away for as long as you want...'

    Picking up the Guiding Light, Sunny studied the radiant crystal that was supposed to show him the way.

    Its light was behaving... strangely.

    It pointed in a certain direction, but after a few minutes of sailing through the mist, the light would suddenly change, pointing in an entirely different direction. That repeated over and over again, with the radiance of the sacred relic jumping around and shifting chaotically.

    It was as though the entrance to the Estuary was constantly moving. 'No... it's not moving. I am.'

    Sunny knew that it was true. The Estuary was stationary, but space itself was unreliable in the Source. It was Sunny who was being thrown around without any order, moving a few meters to one side only to find himself several kilometers to the other.

    It was no wonder that the Seekers of Truth, despite all their might and knowledge, had failed to discover the Estuary before Aletheia of the Nine showed up.

    The mysterious sorceress had even constructed her island in the image of the Great River, going so far as to create her own time loop, and her own sea of mist. Had it all been in order to learn how to navigate the Source?

    Sunny did not know, but he suspected that she had not succeeded in finding the Estuary by accident.

    How tragic it was, then, that all Aletheia had found there was her own doom... unless that was exactly what she had been searching for, of course.

    Who knew what goals the Nine had pursued?

    In any case, Sunny was not someone capable of raising a flying island in the middle of a mystical whirlpool and taming the time to make it flow endlessly in a circle. Therefore, he would have never been able to find the Estuary without the Guiding Light.

    Was it how he had found it the first time, as well? Or had his versions from the previous cycles come up with their own solutions?

    There was no point in guessing. Using the sacred relic of the sybils to illuminate the way, Sunny allowed the ketch to sail forward, moving the steering oar in accordance with where the radiance was pointing.

    There were no Nightmare Creatures in the Source, no danger... except for the danger that the Source itself presented. So, traveling through the somber mist almost felt peaceful.

    Sunny quickly lost his perception of time, so he did not even know how long he had been traversing the fog. It could have been an hour, a day, or an eternity... well, maybe not an eternity. Nephis would have obliterated the First Seeker long before that.

    Still, he had to be getting closer.

    'I wonder what Aletheia found in the Estuary.'

    He wondered what the Mad Prince had found there, as well.

    What secrets had Ariel hidden in the heart of his pyramid? What was the hideous truth he couldn't bear? Why had he hidden it all the way before time, away from the gazes of the gods?

    One way or another, Sunny was going to find out. And break the chains of fate that bound him tightly in the process.

    Just as he had always wished.

    He was growing tired of the dancing radiance of the Guiding Light. His hand was growing numb as it held the steering oar of Ananke's ketch. Time... was flowing.

    And then, finally, Sunny felt it.

    The same thing he had felt before being expelled from the Source the first time.

    He thought that he saw two tall pillars protruding from the mist far ahead, and then, the invisible current suddenly turned violent and turbulent.

    There was the sound of roaring water, similar to what the waterfalls of the Edge sounded like, and he felt the ketch being pulled forward at incredible speed.

    Then, there was a sense of weightlessness. And then, only darkness remained.
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      1566. The Estuary


      There was the sound of wind whistling in Sunny's ears. He was falling.

      Flying through a sea of darkness, lost and disoriented, unsure of where he was.

      'The... Estuary...'

      The wind howled louder, and Sunny felt his body plummeting through it at terrible speed.

      Belatedly, he remembered the need to summon the Dark Wing and slow down his fall.

      Or summon the shadows and turn himself into a monstrous butterfly. Or even a crow...

      But it was too late for what.

      Dazed, he caught a glimpse of an enormous black edifice swiftly approaching him from the darkness. It was like a rough, irregularly shaped, giant sphere of black stone that hovered in the void, eternal and indestructible. Strange mountains rose from its surface, hollow on the inside...

      It looked like a giant stone heart. Perhaps it was.

      A moment later, Sunny saw Ananke's ketch collide against the surface of the sphere below him and shatter, fragments of wood flying to all sides.

      There was no time to slow down his fall.

      Gritting his teeth, Sunny looked at the swiftly approaching surface of the back stone. The moment his body would have been broken against it, he activated Shadow Step and dove into the shadows, instead, submerging deep into their dark embrace.

      Hidden there, safe, he remained motionless for a while.

      'I... made it?'

      Sunny tried to calm down his feverish mind and moved up, returning to the surface.

      Emerging from the shadows, he stepped on the surface of the weathered stone and instantly fell, feeling gravity pulling him down.

      He was on a steep slope.

      Sunny slid down that slope, surrounded by the fragments of broken wood. Despite the sharp rocks tearing at his skin, he did not allow himself to cry out in pain. Instead, he gritted his teeth, wrapped the surrounding shadows around his hand, and turned it into the clawed hand of a shadowspawn.

      Twisting, Sunny struck the slope with his claws. They failed to penetrate the rugged black surface, sending sparks flying into the air — however, the friction alone slowed him down.

      Eventually, Sunny came to a halt at the very edge of an abyssal drop, his feet dangling above an empty black void. The pieces of Ananke's ketch spilled into that void, disappearing in the darkness.

      He remained laying for a few moments, catching his breath, then tried to access his surroundings.

      There was no light in the world. He was surrounded by darkness, with only the weathered surface of black stone separating him from the abyss. The sound of roaring water came from somewhere far, far below, turning into a barely audible whisper.

      It came from above him, too, and from all sides.

      The whispers assaulted his mind, making him dizzy.

      Sunny grimaced, then cautiously stood up, struggling to keep his balance on the steep slope. Finally, he looked around.

      'So... this is the Estuary.'

      The Estuary was supposed to be located in a place that existed before time, and therefore before the gods had been born. So... that place was supposed to be the Void.

      But either the Spell was unable to replicate the true Void, or unwilling to. Perhaps the Estuary was isolated from it, somehow. In any case, all Sunny could see was darkness and the surface of the vast sphere of black stone under his feet.

      His expression was somber. 'No time to waste.'

      Leaning forward, he arduously climbed back up the slope, eventually reaching its middle point — that was where he had first fallen. Without stopping to rest, Sunny continued to climb.

      'Cassie said... that I need to get to the very heart of the Estuary. This means that I probably need to somehow climb inside the sphere.'

      Remembering the strange hollow mountains, which resembled torn aortae, he continued to ascend the slope.

      Eventually, Sunny crested the top of what seemed like a tall hill, and looked down.

      He froze, shaken by what he saw.

      His eyes widened, full of shock and fear.

      'N—no... how can this be?'

      In front of him, nestled between several immense outcroppings of black stone, was a vast valley. And on the floor of that valley, shrouded by darkness... lay the remains of countless broken ships.

      It was a vast ship graveyard.

      The harrowing thing about it, though, was that each of these ships looked familiar.

      They were all the Chain Breaker.

      There, in front of him, thousands of Chain Breaker lay on the black stone, broken and destroyed. Although each was destroyed in a unique manner, shattered by a terrible impact, most of them were exactly the same. Some were a little different, seemingly modified before turning into a forlorn wreck.

      The shape of their rams was slightly different. The tattered sails were painted in different colors. The trees growing around the central mast of these ships were dead and twisted, devoid of all life.

      Some of the trees, though, looked perfectly healthy and alluring, countless succulent fruits weighing their branches down.

      Shuddering, Sunny decided to keep as far away from those wrecks as possible.

      There were countless broken ships in front of him — thousands of them. And it was just in that one valley.

      They weren't the wrecks of an entire fleet of similar vessels. Instead, they were the same vessel, destroyed countless times.

      Suddenly covered in cold sweat, Sunny felt his sense of reality shaking. 'What... that does it mean?'

      He shuddered, then began to descend into the valley. As he did, he noticed more wood fragments among the shattered ships.

      They were all the remains of Ananke's ketch, piled in tall hills. He just... he did not understand.

      'How is this possible?'

      As Sunny felt unsure of his sanity, a derisive laughter suddenly resounded from behind him.

      Turning swiftly, he looked into the darkness with wide eyes. But it was just the Sin of Solace.

      The sword wraith... looked more substantial, somehow. Walking out of the darkness, he looked at Sunny with contempt and smiled viciously:

      "What? Did you think that you were the first one to make it this far? Did you think that this is the first time you betrayed your cohort and decided to seek freedom in the Estuary, instead?"

      The apparition scoffed and looked at the ship graveyard, his dark eyes burning with strange glee.

      "Fool. There were countless versions of you that had come this far. Betrayal after betrayal, repeated endlessly in countless cycles... truly, your treachery knows no bounds."
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        shaakh
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        So how many years passed in the outside world or no matter how many cycles they spent only the time spent for successful cycle will be applicable for outside world too❔
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          Dummybaron
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          it would be funny if only few seconds passed.
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            BlankDjinn
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            I’m really hoping that’s the case I want them to jump out and face down that monster that was trying to kill them before, come back with a splash but honestly hey’ll probably be spit out at there anchors
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              CLFNavac
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              If you’re talking about their anchor points, that’s the entrance of the rift in Antarctica when they went into that desert. It became their new anchor since they got sucked into the rift.
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    MefetraN7
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    Вот почему кэсси отослала команду чтоб она шла с санни. Но можно же было все обсудить, кэсси например могла сказать я видела 1000 циклов где все вы шли за санни и погибали, так что не идите. И это вообще не продательство, идти в устье реки. Предательство чего? Перестать быть рабом?) Тем более учитывая что обещания нефиса и выеденного яйца не стоят. В опасный момент она может пожертвовать собой не дав выбора санни и отослав санни, а он с этим не будет согласен.
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    ErectileReptile
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    In chapters 1557/58 Cassie talks about her plan to turn Sunny into a weapon to break fate and fix what she did on the Forgotten Shore.

    In the same chapter she also talks about the meaning of her true name: “My True Name, Song of the Fallen... it means that I am destined to witness the fates of others, and carry the memories of them long after they are gone.”

    As we all know True Names have a deep connection with the path fate has in store for them, the biggest example being Nephis- Changing Star.

    But Sunny is an anomaly, his True Name has little to do with him. He is kind of mysterious, manipulates shadows and is a “master of deception” but he’s far from really being Lost from Light; he is a movie character, a highly decorated war hero, his Mongrel persona is blown and most major players in the world know who he is and, to some extent, what he is capable of.

    So my theory is that by the end of the nightmare, when Sunny makes his wish, he will wish for his True Name to be forgotten but he will inadvertently be forgotten by everyone and thus truly become Lost from Light.

    The answer is oblivion.
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      MefetraN7
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      Неплохо) Но все забывают что санни может просто стоять на месте) И тогда нефис победит и закончит кошмар)
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        Dummybaron
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        не, слишком легко да и скучно, тебе самому не интересно чо там в сердце русла реки? Да и вообще как по мне интереснее будет наблюдать за тем что случится дальше с Санни когда он сделал такой выбор, нежели выбор в пользу команды.
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      Dummybaron
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      I have same thoughts but I think it will go further, so much further that nobody and again nobody will remember or know his name, Spell, People, maybe even Sunny himself, his name become... "Unknown" because the only thing that can be strong enogh to destroy fate is the thing that gave birth to it "Weaver the Demon of Fate firstborn of the Unknown" .
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        HeikyZX
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        Yeah, and even fits his Aspect. After all, it makes no sense for a 'shadow', a divine one at that, to have an identity/name different from its 'owner'.
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        Cj.17
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        If I'm not mistaken weaver is only able to bend and weave but not control fate itself. It was made clear that he himself couldn't escape fate. But then again death was created by shadow god and at the end he died so maybe it's similar in that it was too powerful thing they created.

        But so far no where was it mention that weaver created fate but that he was able to control like no other.

        Also the other thing I want to point out is the "unknown title". The name both means literally and figuratively. Also it was hinted that the spell chose not to say the true name of the unknown cus maybe wouldn't that effect everyone cus by default their existence corrupts everything else? It's not that it's not known- for sure all deamons know- but that the gods and mortals didn't know and the spell chose to hide that as well for everyone's sake. But it's still plausible if we are missing something so we will see.

        But for fate idrl so I will go back to when sunny and nephis met Cassie cus it talked about the beginning of everything and how it said gods came into existence cus of hope or something like that but fate had to have had a play in there as well which indicates it predates the deamon of fate.
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      Serial666
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      yeah, but they did that in Spiderman and it was kinda meh so hopefully not.
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      Cj.17
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      Well that is a great theory and a plausible one at that. The only thing is he will have to also wish for the effect to be erased as well cus it won't matter wether nephis remembers his true name or not since he is already under her.
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    Dazed
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    We all know. Seems like this one's a tragedy.
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