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Chapter 2842: The Winner Takes It All
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    Pathway of shadows
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    If nephis and sunny stayed in forgotten shore they could have unlocked more cores and had been able to save more people... they could have even stopped the civil war and just challenged the leaders
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      Shockwave
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      Pretty sure g3 said sunny wouldnt make it but that mightve been just if sunny was there alone. However idk if they make it out of second nm
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        Pathway of shadows
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        I mean Terror sunny or even Titan sunny could have been better than beast sunny... who had a small number of shadows to support him

        Wouldn't make it where... to the the city, out of the three, or in the castle?

        I can see him having a hard time making it to the castle, but when he got there he was doing pretty good for himself, more shadows would have made things even better for him too as he would have gotten stronger over time
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          Shockwave
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          I believe g3 was talking about him swapping places with nephis and him surviving on his own and making it back
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            Pathway of shadows
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            Yeah there was little to eat and drink after draining forgotten shore
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    Starlessdust
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    [My only virtue is perseverance]—nephis

    [Only perseverance remains in my heart]—
    fangyuan 🐦‍🔥

    Any Reverend Insanity fan here?

    He was still expressionless, he continued to move forward relentlessly.

    [I had once screamed, gradually, I lost my voice.

    I had once cried, gradually, I lost my tears.

    I had once grieved, gradually, I became able to withstand everything.

    I had once rejoiced, gradually, I became unmoved by the world.

    And now!

    All I have left is an expressionless face, my gaze is as tough as a monolith, only perseverance remains in my heart.

    This is my own, an insignificant character, Fang Yuan’s — Perseverance!]

    Holy peakk 😭🐦‍🔥
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      Syream
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      Key difference—Neph achieves her goals in a manner which she deems worthy.

      FY achieves his goals by any means necessary.
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        Starlessdust
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        But nephis and fy aren't any different from each other. What I mean to say is…both are true to their nature. It's Just that nephis is a slave to morality and shackled by burden of bonds while fy isn't
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        LastSearchResult
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        The way I see it, the reason for that is because Neph's goal that she seeks to persevere for is of a completely different nature than fang yuan.
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      mischievous schemer
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      I was waiting for someone to comment this lol

      Nephis will be able to refine Perseverance Gu with this mentality
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        Starlessdust
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        This insignificant character greets lord schemer…a fellow member of the great love alliance
        As for perseverance I think nephis will succeed.
        I mean she is one hella woman to exist and she will not go down unless she reign victories over her main goal—destroying the spell
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          mischievous schemer
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          Yes she is one of a kind
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      Astatine
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      Leave it to our fy glazers to keep us reminded of the goat's perseverance 😭🙏
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      gris
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      Asterions nature is more like fy compared to our mcs
      like
      1. Great love immortal venerable

      asterion has heart gods lineage

      2. fy: Eternal life
      asterion: wants to consume everything

      ETERNAL BENEFITS
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    goldenboy777
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    Nahh our Lord Asterion will make you sprawled instead
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      Wait no
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      Courting death evil you dare say something against my neph
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    Damian Wolf
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    She glanced at Sunny and winked.

    “You and me. Who dares to stop us?"

    AHH !! I love that we are just getting them alone. No cohort, no Cassie, just them.
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    Ahmedabad
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    The loser has to fall
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      Wait no
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      It's simple and it's plane!
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    Rei-absolute
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    2843 Where It All Began

    Sunny wanted to host Nephis in his castle, but sadly, they had to steer clear of the Dark City. The thralls of Asterion were still imprisoned in the settlement below its walls, and on top of that, he did not entirely trust the members of the Shadow Clan either. Asterion had already shown his ability to subjugate people without stealing them from the Domain of the Supreme they were loyal to, after all.

    Saint Thane, the Dream Merchant, must have regretted being born as a result. Nephis had been consumed by wrath after Red Hill fell, so when their investigation pointed at the eccentric Saint and his treachery was revealed, she simply turned him into a screaming bonfire.

    He did not scream for long, though, because the immolating white flames stole his voice. Nephis burned the enthralled Saint until there was nothing left of him but a shriveled, blackened stick figure.

    But she did not kill him.

    Instead, she used the same flames to restore him to flawless health, and then burned him again — and again, again, and again... until the name Asterion became synonymous with harrowing pain in his mind.

    In the end, the agony and the horror proved terrifying enough to overpower the Asterion's hex, erasing it.

    And yet, Sunny did not think that the enthralled Saint had been happy to have his mind cleansed and his free will restored. He was not sure, though, because by the time they left, the Dream Merchant had not regained his ability to form coherent sentences yet.

    Needless to say, Neph's method of healing people of the plague was even less scalable than Cassie's.

    So, Sunny could not take her to the Dark City. The Chain Breaker travelled east for some time, and when they drew close enough to the city for the light emanating from the flying ship to be seen from the walls, Nephis released her channelling and let the world drown in darkness once more. Sunny replaced her at the oars. It had been a long while since he last steered the Chain Breaker, but his task was not difficult — they simply had keep heading east.

    Sunny and Nephis left the Dark City behind and crossed the colossal crater that they had traversed more than a decade ago on a boat made from the bones of the Carapace Demon. Beyond it lay the Ashen Barrow and the charred remains of the Soul Devouring Tree — all that was left of the fearsome Terror was an enormous blackened stump, its jagged mass emanating an eerie sense of dread and malevolence.

    The Chain Breaker continued on its way east.

    Soon enough, they flew above the headless statue of the Knight — that was where Sunny had begun his journey once. The small clearing in the labyrinth of crimson coral nearby was where he met Nephis and Cassie...


    Of course, there was no clearing anymore. The coral labyrinth was gone, after all, having turned to ash when the Crimson Spire fell. Nephis did not remember their meeting, either... still, she must have retraced her footsteps and visited these places while traveling to the Nightmare Desert.

    She had remembered him back then. Sunny wondered what Nephis thought about while walking through the darkness alone.

    Nephis seemed to be remembering those times, as well.

    “The hardest part was not the loneliness, not the cold, not the hunger, and not the Nightmare Creatures either. It was water. I was dying from thirst, the second time I traveled through these parts."

    Leaning on the railing. Nephis smiled.

    “Luckily, even though the cycle of day and night was gone by then, the weather still remained. There was a storm once I reached the Knight, and I was able to both quench my thirst and store some water."

    Sunny remained silent for a while, thinking idly about his own wanderings across the Forgotten Shore.

    Eventually, he said:

    "You know, I took Slayer to the statue of the Slayer once. She was not impressed.”

    Nephis laughed quietly.

    "That was where Cassie's rapier came from. The sword grave around that statue... it was a truly lethal affair. We barely made it out alive."

    Sunny sighed.

    “You know, every time I see these statues, I think to myself: now that I rule the Forgotten Shore, nothing is stopping me from bringing their heads back and attaching them to their necks. So, I always wonder... should I?"

    Nephis turned her head at the sound of his voice.

    “Why haven't you?"


    Sunny considered his answer for a few brief moments.

    “l am not entirely sure. The Crimson Terror... the Nameless Sun... took off their heads because she hated them, and wanted them to be forgotten. She was entitled to her hatred, considering what they had done to her, don't you think? So, I don't really want them to be remembered, either. Plus, restoring the statues would feel like erasing history. And I am a big enthusiast of history."

    Eventually, they saw a line of pale lilac far away, on the very edge of the horizon.

    That was where the Forgotten Shore ended, and the Nightmare Desert began.

    Soon enough, they escaped the eternal darkness and dove into blinding sunlight. The cool winds were suddenly satiated by a blazing heat, and Sunny had to cover his eyes with a hand, hissing quietly.

    The switch between darkness and light was so abrupt that it seemed like someone had pressed a button, changing the world to a different channel.

    Sunny had not visited the Nightmare Desert since before his Third Nightmare. Now that he saw the endless expanse of flawlessly white dunes stretching into the distance once again — and the unreachable black triangle of the Tomb of Ariel looming on the horizon, too — he perceived it differently. The first time around, all he could think about was how to survive in this mysterious hell.

    Looking at the Nightmare Desert now, though, Sunny was thinking about something else despite the imminent battle against the armies of the cursed undead that inhabited it.

    He was thinking about the Demon of Dread and the Unholy Titan whom Ariel had destroyed.

    This land had not always been a desert. It had been an ocean once, and that ocean was erased from existence by the ferocious battle between a daemon and the Stone Titan.

    The corpse of the Stone Titan became the walls of the Tomb of Ariel, and his blood became the Great River. The seven shards of his soul became the suns that illuminated it, and if Sunny was not mistaken in his suspicion, the space within the colossal pyramid had been fashioned from the Titan's Soul Sea.

    And a tiny shard of that primordial horror became Goliath, the Fallen Titan who ravaged the Antarctic Centre thousands of years later.

    That was the scale of battles between deities. Entire worlds were destroyed, while some were born instead. The mortal realm where the Stone Titan fell had become a lifeless desert, and even thousands of years later, it was still dead...

    Before, this knowledge was purely theoretical as far as Sunny was concerned. But now, it wasn't anymore, not at all.

    One step. One step on the Path of Ascension — that was all that separated Sunny from battling creatures like the Stone Titan himself.


    Would he be able to do what Ariel had done?

    And how many worlds would be destroyed in the process?

    The Chain Breaker began to descend and soon landed on the very edge of the white sands.

    At that moment, Nephis suddenly turned her head and looked south, at the distant black wall of the Hollow Mountains.

    Or perhaps beyond them.

    Sensing a subtle shift in her presence, Sunny frowned.

    “What is it?"

    Nephis hesitated, then lowered her head and closed her eyes for a moment.

    "There is one less Citadel in my Soul Sea, and all its people vanished from my Domain. Asterion must have taken another Saint."

    Neither of them said anything for a while after that.

    Instead, they simply faced the Nightmare Desert, looking at the distant silhouette of Ariel's Tomb.

    The vast expanse of the white desert shone under the radiant sun.

    Chapter 2844 Sands of Time

    The Longing Domain did not have a lot of time left... and yet, oddly enough, Sunny and Nephis had nothing to do at the moment. They had reached the Nightmare Desert in the early morning, with the radiant sun slowly climbing the vibrant azure expanse of the sky. The Tomb of Ariel loomed on the horizon, but it was impossible to reach it — no matter how long one walked across the white sands, it never drew closer.

    They had never attempted to traverse the Nightmare Desert at night, though, when the two cursed armies turned it into a deadly battlefield.

    Sunny and Nephis both believed that the Tomb of Ariel could only be reached at night, so for now, all they could do was wait.

    This was probably the last day of peace they would know for a while. The Nightmare Desert was vast, and even if their theory proved to be correct, it was going to take a lot of time to reach its heart — days, weeks more likely. Especially so because they would be fighting their way through a vast horde of undying beings who had been cursed by Shadow God to an eternity of endless war.

    Shadow God had been quite a merciless one, it seemed. After all, he had not only cursed the army that fought under the banner of the rebellious daemons... his curse befell the warriors of the Divine Host, as well, making no distinction between friend or foe.

    But what else would Sunny expect from the God of Death?

    He and Nephis remained aboard the Chain Breaker, watching the desert silently. Growing tired of the heat, they retreated into the captain's cabin of the flying ship. Sunny remembered how the two of them had slept here during their journey to Fallen Grace...

    Nephis, of course, did not.

    There was probably something useful they could do until the night fell, like meditating to clear their minds or going over the battle plan a few more times. But neither of them wanted to waste their last day of peace on rote tedium. After all, there was a real chance that they would not return from this expedition alive... or at least that both of them would.

    They were painfully aware of each other's presence, which filled the cabin with a heated pressure.

    Neph's presence ignited Sunny's longing, and her Aspect allowed her to sense the flame of his desire.

    A light touch turned into a kiss, and a kiss turned into something more.


    In the end, they used the remaining time until nightfall to indulge themselves, engaged in passion and engrossed in each other with fervour and intensity that were as deliberate as they were frenetic, putting the sturdiness of the Chain Breaker to the test. Eventually, overcome by a sweet exhaustion, they cuddled on the sweaty sheets to rest and recover.

    Sunny was reminded of what Effie had said to him once... that when one was facing death, they wanted to feel alive more than ever.

    He was looking at the ceiling of the cabin, his thoughts moving slowly.

    His mind drifted to the last time he and Nephis had spent time together in this cabin, and then to the future.

    Soon, they would invade the Nightmare Desert. If they survived that, they would enter the Tomb of Ariel. If they were to survive that, as well, they would face the Vile Thieving Bird in battle.

    And if they survived that, too, Sunny would most likely regain his fate.𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

    That meant regaining his True Name, surrendering to the Shadow Bond once again, becoming a carrier of the Nightmare Spell for the second time, restoring his ability to challenge the Fifth Nightmare... And, most importantly, it meant that Sunny would be remembered.

    That was something he had wanted for the longest time, and at times with desperate intensity. He had spent years unsure and not knowing what to do, only recently deciding that he did not want to be forgotten anymore.

    That he wanted to be remembered by the people he held dear once again.

    But now that the prospect of being remembered ceased to be a merely theoretical possibility and seemed to be within his grasp, Sunny suddenly found himself afraid.

    Yes, people would regain their memories of him. Nephis would know what they had endured on the Forgotten Shore together and why she stayed behind in the collapsing Crimson Spire. She would remember how they slept in this very cabin as the Great River carried the Chain Breaker downstream, into the past.

    She would know that this was not the first time the two of them had come to the Nightmare Desert together.

    However...

    She would also remember how Sunny had abandoned her in Verge to face the First Seeker alone. How he had run away to fulfill his own selfish, misguided desire.


    She would remember his betrayal.

    A heavy sigh escaped from his lips.

    How would Nephis react if she remembered him?

    Would she be happy? Would she be angry? Would she slap him across the face, perhaps, full of scathing accusations?

    Or would she kiss and embrace him instead? Most of all...

    Would their fragile relationship survive that revelation?

    This closeness between them had not come easily. Sunny had worked tirelessly to build it, even if the foundation on which he was building it was missing. He often felt unsatisfied and saddened by the fact that the relationship between him and Nephis, while intimate and harmonious, did not run that deep.

    But now that there was a possibility that their peculiar relationship would end, he found himself treasuring it immensely.

    He didn't want to lose what they had now. He was already happy with what they had now. He was content...

    But he was also greedy, and wanted more. So much more.

    “You're thinking greedy thoughts again."

    Nephis was playing with a stand of his hair, letting the black silk of it run between her fingers.

    She smiled faintly.

    "Your eyes glisten a certain way when you do."

    Sunny turned his head and glanced at her silently.


    She looked into his eyes, no space between them.

    In the end, she turned away and sighed.

    “I know every inch of you by heart. But I also don't know anything about you. It's so vexing."

    He remained silent for a bit, then hugged her from behind and drew her closer.

    What was he supposed to say?

    ‘It won't be for much longer. Soon... you'll know everything about me soon, once again.'

    That was what he wanted to tell her.

    But instead of saying these words aloud, Sunny smiled.

    “I'm not too tall. So, there aren't that many inches of me, to begin with. Still, quite impressive..."

    Nephis laughed quietly.

    Soon, the brilliant sun melted into the dark horizon.

    Their time of peace had run out.
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      mischievous schemer
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      I love you Rei. How many chapters was this?
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        Rei-absolute
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        As you can see, it was these two. I was updating the pages of another site, and when it was released, I thought, 'Should I read it first and then post? Or post and read it together with everyone?' I decided to post and read it together. I thought it would be wrong of me to deprive you of this.
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    Rei-absolute
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    Two new chapters were posted 2 minutes ago.
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    Sunless-The Man that cracked a supreme
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    Hold Hope men we might get a sex chapter of Sunny and Nephis when Sunny regains his Fate
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      Rei-absolute
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      This can vary greatly; she can be happy, angry, sad, disappointed, happy: she remembered Sunny, he came back, and that means that despite there still being an awkwardness (dark bond), Sunny accepted it and the relationship can move forward; angry because he abandoned the group in the 3rd nightmare to seek freedom, of course one of the reasons is that he thought that with the dark bond their relationship wouldn't work; sad because it's a sad situation that happened before; disappointed, I think Nephis didn't expect what he did; angry at Cassie, because the plan obviously had more than one finger in it, it had her whole hand in it.
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        Sunless-The Man that cracked a supreme
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        This level of Gate-Keeping is on a generational level I swear😭😭😭
        I am just itching to read the dialogue between Sunny and Nephis went Sunny regains his fate
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      Jiros
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      I'm afraid G3 can't afford to describe sex scenes due to the limitations of webnowell, I can't say for sure, since I only managed to load a page on it once.
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    Shivansh Tiwari
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    Being good at failure is also a skill


    Aye, Only a true master like me can understand this line...

    And it was good to know about her perspective maybe if g3 gave us more of her povs we would understood her better...
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    Rei-absolute
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    I was thinking about something else, about this whole reminiscing thing. It occurred to me how Sunny's mother influenced him; she read old stories to him. Some from the time before the nightmare spell and others from a little after. Sunny uses several expressions that she learned from this, like the times she makes references to some animal. "Wow, it's as big as an elephant, or well, I've never seen one but I imagine it's big." It's somewhat comical, but you can see that despite the memory being a bit blurry, he cherishes it.
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