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Chapter 3017: Stronghold of Humanity
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    Redist_King
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    Once again found it early on lightnovel world deadass might just move their atp

    Chapter 3018: O children

    Sunny studied Effie for a short while.

    She had long recovered from the dreadful starvation forced upon her by the Dreamspawn, looking as hale and brimming with vitality as ever. Her figure was just as outstanding as it had always been, her skin was dewy and supple, and her eyes were bright and clear. However...

    There was a shadow hiding in their depths, one that had not been there before.

    Sunny hesitated, then manifested a similar kind of club to hers. Walking over to stand over one of the balls, he asked:

    "Shall we compete to see who can hit a ball further?"

    Effie gave him a dubious look.

    "There's no way to see where they fall, though. How are we going to judge the winner?"

    Sunny scratched the back of his head.

    Even the vast reach of his shadow sense was not enough for that purpose. He could potentially send one of his incarnations or Shadows to the shores of the Stormsea, but that felt like too much hassle. "Whatever. Let's just whack some balls, then."

    He remembered how Effie had done it and swung the club. This time, it did not shatter — sadly, the ball still exploded.

    Sunny sighed.

    "Damn."

    Effie laughed and swung hers, then watched her ball streak across the sky with satisfaction.

    Sunny spoke in a neutral tone:

    "Everyone seems inclined to talk about the Fourth Nightmare today. Jet, Kai... now you, too."

    Effie shrugged.

    "Well, today is Remembrance Day. It has been a year since the end of the Plague, and the immediate fires caused by it have been put out. Now, for the first time, we have time to look to the future instead of focusing on how to deal with the fallout of the past. So it's only natural that everyone is thinking about the Nightmare."

    Sunny lingered a bit.

    "You seem to be in a bad mood."

    She shook her head.

    "Not bad. Just... there's a lot to consider, I guess."

    Effie studied the vista of the Bastion.

    "Do you know that people in Bastion almost never have nightmares? Not in the past year, at least. As a result, we are doing much better than all other cities. Crime is down, productivity is up — the same goes for most other parameters. That's how important good sleep is, I guess, especially when the entire species is dealing with a recent trauma."

    She glanced at Sunny and smiled a little.

    "And it's all because of that horse of yours. Ever since it settled in the real Bastion, things like that keep happening. That's the impact one Supreme creature can make. So, how can I not be thinking about the Fourth Nightmare?"

    Sunny remained silent for a long while, considering his words carefully. In the end, he said:

    "No one is forcing you to challenge it, Effie. You don't have to do it if you don't want to."

    She chuckled and looked at him with humorous sparks glistening in her hazel eyes.

    "Sunny... did you ever want to challenge a Nightmare?"

    He could not help but scoff.

    "What? Of course not. It was just that the circumstances forced me to... still forcing me, actually. I would much rather live somewhere comfortably without the need to risk getting killed."

    Effie sent another ball flying with a loud thunderclap.

    "There you go, then. The world is ending, Sunny, and I have a lot to lose. So, I am quite motivated to grow as powerful as I can and prevent it from falling apart completely. It's just... it's deeply ironic, don't you think?"

    As Sunny shrugged, unsure what to say, Effie sighed.

    She stared at the scattered balls for a while, then spoke in a quiet tone:

    ‘Sunny... you were seven when your mother died, weren't you?"

    He was surprised by the question.

    After looking at her silently for a while, Sunny nodded.

    "Yes. Why are you asking?"

    Effie grimaced and rolled another ball closer to herself.

    "Ling is seven. Actually, he's turning eight soon. So... that's why. How long are we going to spend in the Nightmare — a year, maybe? Two years? Nobody knows. And while I have no intention of dying, there's a distinct possibility that I will. So I might miss a huge chunk of his childhood — or even all of it, if worst comes to worst."

    She swung her club, only to see it snap in half. Effie grimaced, tossed the bent handle down, and cursed quietly.

    Sunny studied her for a few moments, then sighed and looked away. He struck a ball, finally managing to send it flying without destroying either it or the club.

    The corner of his lip twisted upward in satisfaction.

    "Little Ling and I are completely different."

    Sunny looked at Effie and smiled.

    "I was all alone, while he is surrounded by a swarm of people who love him and care about him. So, there's no comparison at all."

    Effie exhaled slowly.

    "I know. Don't misunderstand me, Sunny — I am not hesitating. In truth, I have already decided to go into the Nightmare during our odd adventure in Mirage City. You see... missing a part of his childhood feels terrible. But I have to make sure that he even gets to have a childhood first. Unlike the two of us, who barely got to be children." She looked at the city below and raised a hand, as if trying to hold it in her palm.

    "There are countless children in Bastion, Sunny. I want to make sure that none of them has to be in a rush to grow up."

    Effie paused for a moment and then chuckled.

    "Actually, I am not worried about my Dumpling that much. If anything, I worry about his dad more... how is he going to handle a Transcendent rascal alone? You'll have to help him a lot while I'm gone, doofus."

    Sunny smiled.

    He wondered how far his ball had already reached.

    "That's Uncle Doofus, thank you very much. How is that guy doing, by the way?"

    Effie hesitated for a moment.

    "He doesn't remember what happened, so he's fine. Actually, he's not fine... he saw what state I was in back then, and I think that left a mark on him. So, he's completely focused on achieving natural Ascension now. He and Aiko have a competition to see who can become a Master first. Uh... crazy times we live in, right? Natural Ascension, who could have thought?"

    She smiled.

    "Hey, Sunny... do you remember, back on the Forgotten Shore, I once told you that the Dream Realm is a paradise?"

    He nodded.

    "I do. I mean, how could I have forgotten something so nonsensical?" Effie chuckled, then inhaled deeply.

    "Now, I don't think that it's a paradise... it's not a paradise yet."

    She picked up another club and rolled a ball closer.

    "But I think we can make it into one, if we really try. We will probably fail... but we won't know unless we try, will wee"

    Sunny opened his mouth to answer, but at that moment, the Spell suddenly whispered into his ear.

    It said...

    [You have slain a Fallen Monster, Undetectable Forest Maw.]

    He froze for a moment, then glanced at his club.

    ‘Huh.'

    Noticing his expression, Effie raised an eyebrow.

    "What?"

    Sunny remained silent for a moment, then smiled.

    "Oh... I think I won our competition, that's all."
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    Fellow reader
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    Like how Gojo said to watch movies to Itadori to manipulate his curse energy better welldone
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    Pathway of shadows
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    Just occurred to me how insane beastmaster would be as a supreme... And I don't even know what her supreme ability would be
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    Mitch
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    If humanity was really on the brink wouldn’t they have seen what happened to Effie and think why not get two saints in one? Lol. Just have every female master get pregnant before she tries the third nightmare. Saints before the 4th. So on and so on.
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      Least honest man
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      So you want to send half maybe a third of the cohort as literal dead weight when it's already too hard to survive
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        Mr. Soup
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        Honestly it's not impossible.. Even Daeron might've succeeded if he wasn't faced with a literal manifestation of corruption..

        I'm saying it's not impossible because Nephis has her healing flames.. and we have been shown that the effect of a domain still exist within a nightmare for example in the TOA or how Sunny was able to know if Rains cohort were okay.

        They could just send a group of elite awakened with one woman each nightmare and they could easily create awakened, masters or saints.

        It would be easier for lower ranking nigthmares
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          Least honest man
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          You do know a lot of people don't return from nightmares that is why they are scary, that's why you don't have 1000 people enter sam nightmare, also sunny just knows that mark of shadows is not destroyed and nothing else. And some peoples souls can't withstand even one soul core imagine, in 3rd nightmare sunny even contemplated going to the verge just so ling is not born in the nightmare
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      Lavos
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      Man, what the hell.

      Who the hell would send their wife with his soon-to-be born child into a effective deathtrap? Nightmare gates are most of the time 50-50 from what I know. You either surpass yourself and reach the next step of Ascension, Transcendance, Apotheosis, etc. or die. That's what it means to enter a Nightmare gate. Effie's case was a once in a lifetime event, that only happened because Sunny and the rest if the cohort were lucky and strong enough to clear the insanity that was ToA. Also, you have no idea what kind of changes happen to lady who is pregnant, do you? Both mental and Physical. Effie could barely fight while she was pregnant, she was holding on for dear life. I don't exactly remember whether Sunny or Jet found Effie first, probably Sunny, since it's been a while since I read ToA, but she would not have made it if help arrived a little later. If this was ragebait, then step up your game Mitch.
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      Fellow reader
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      Bro did you forget these are normal humans oh…Mable not normal but still humans you think every person is a novel mc with cold calculating heart not at all how could you send your partner and soon to be born child in to a nightmare that not 50%return unscathed whoknows tiho
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      Krayster
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      Dude there are millions of awakened and less than a hundred Saints, it would be crazy to imagine that everyone would be able to survive the nightmare of compared to 3 divine lineages awakened followed by the most outstanding awakened there is, they would just be sending the pregnant women to die most of the time, and remember that Long was born inside the nightmare, so there is no guarantee that being pregnant and the baby being born after the nightmare will have any effect, sounds like getting the death tool higher
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      ZionCrestZero
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      Just when I thought you might be slightly redeeming yourself a bit you go right back to skimwalking
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    Heaven Defying Demon
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    Hell yea it seems hes gonna go to each cohort member or acquaintance one by one
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    RyanHarm
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    The author is really struggling, isn't he? He's trying to complete his quota but he does not realize that these are not the cohort interactions that everyone was asking for.

    Readers wanted the cohort's immediate reaction to Sunny getting his fate back. The author fumbled that because he doesn't know how to write emotional moments. Now he's trying to fool readers by giving us these boring ass chapters when the most important interaction that he needs to write is Sunny and Nephis'.

    Let's see if he even writes that or not. He's most likely going to duck
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      That1Friend
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      Yeah cus G3 wrote 3,000 chapters with his eyes closed and his ears to the ground yo everybody boo him
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        Ohshitimsorry
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        Excuse me, what did you mean with this "eyes closed ears to the ground" bs? No hate, I just never heard this before and struggle to understand what it is
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          That1Friend
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          Boooooooooo
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          Redist_King
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          Its an idiom that means G3 is ignoring his readers
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          ZionCrestZero
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          Eyes closed and ears to the ground is when you listen to the train tracks for noise but don't see the bullet train coming because it doesn't make any sound.
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      BetaMaker
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      Boooo
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      Slumbering storm
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      Boooooooo
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      Redist_King
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      Boooo
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      JR3
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      Booooooooooooo negative
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    DaFastest Snooper
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    G3 giving motivation to every cohort membrr to challenge the 4th Nightmare. After they are gone, the hits just going to be the Trio again for a long time. And Mordret I guess, Cassie has him on a leash.
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    Damian Wolf
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    People were whining about G3 skipping the groups interaction with Sunny, and now that he is actually giving it to you, you're complaining?

    And it is not filler conversations either. He's been giving us meaningful conversations into the cohorts drive to challenge the 4th NM and good look into their character. He did Jet, then Kai, and now it's Effie's turn.

    I guess Nephis' speech will be about her challenging the 5th NM, after that I would like a scene between Sunny and Neph.
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      Mitch
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      Honestly these chapters seem like an author that heard some bitching and deciding to chuck a few chapters together. None of these “meetings” have had anything meaningful in them.
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        Least honest man
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        It doesn't progress the plot but it shows us the others perspective
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    Lrb
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    G3 lança 10 capítulos como abertura do novo volume, sendo eles capítulos felizes.
    Haters: Pior volume do mundo
    Homens Sábios: Melhores 10 capítulos da novel

    Galera esquece que o mundo não gira somente em Sunny e o volume não acaba em 30 capítulos
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    Marcondes
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    Oh my god, can we stop with these boring as f#ck chapters already please? Worst start of an Arc in Shadow Slave by far. What's next? Sunny goes to visit Mordred for a picnic and we get 4 more chapters of nothing?
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      Shockwave
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      People ask for sunny with fate back interactions with the cohort and now people complain about sunny interactions with the cohort building up to their 4th nm
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      Tom_Jerry
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      calm before the storm for sure...
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      fergusc
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      You do not represent the interests of the fandom whatsoever. This novel was never meant for you if you find these chapters boring. I suggest you stack 100-250 chapters so your attention span can wait till the next battle.
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      Darkseid452005
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      Broooooo stfu and go count grass or something. Literally no one cares about your opinion here because we know it’s trash. If you don’t like the current chapters then stack. Some of us check the comments to see if people feel the same excitement as us after each chapter
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