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Chapter 2955: Avian Horror
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Pierced by the talons of the Vile Thieving Bird and yet saved from annihilation by the Curse, Sunny plunged his sword into the Cursed Terror's neck.

A wound like that was not going to kill a being that had outlived the gods... but then again, Serpent possessed the [Slaying Blade] Ability.

[Slaying Blade] Ability Description:

"When in its Soul Weapon form, Soul Serpent embodies the Death aspect of Shadow God. As such, it ignores the will of greater beings."

In other words, it breached the gap between the potency of Sunny's Will and that of the Vile Thieving Bird. So, even if he was of a lesser Rank than his adversary, they were close to being equals — when murder was concerned, at least.

Sunny still did not expect the Thieving Bird to die from being stabbed in the neck. Even he could easily survive such a wound, so what was there to say about a Cursed Terror?

The deep wound, the sharp blade of Serpent... even its [Slaying Blade] Ability — those were merely tools. They were instruments with which Sunny expressed his killing intent.

It was Sunny himself who had to become a weapon that would slay the loathsome Thieving Bird.

So, using the blade of his sword as a conduit, Sunny steeled his mind and poured all of the Death Will he possessed through it. He willed death and destruction upon the Thieving Bird with more determination, fatal resolve, and uncompromising malice than he had even been able to embody before.

It wasn't that hard, really... after all, there was hardly a being in the world who had harmed Sunny more than this odious creature. All the anguish he had endured, all the things he had missed, all the time he had lost — it was all because of the Vile Thieving Bird. So, Sunny wanted to kill it more than anyone in the world, as well. Perhaps more than he had ever wanted to kill anyone.

And if there was someone who could kill a Cursed Terror out of sheer spite, it was Sunny. He never forgot a grudge, and his grudge against the Thieving Bird was nothing short of singular.

So, it was easy to channel his Death Will into the damn bird. It was almost pouring out of his spiteful heart all on its own. Sunny just hoped that it would be enough to kill the Thieving Bird...

He was almost praying that it would. He had sacrificed his mind, body, and soul to make this attack possible, after all, using himself as bait to create an opportunity to deal the Cursed Terror a grievous wound.

‘Die, die!’

But the Vile Thieving Bird did not die.

Even as Sunny was pouring all of his Will into the awful wound, he could feel that it was like trying to drain an ocean with a teaspoon. And despite the [Slaying Blade] quality of his sword, the spirit of the loathsome thing was simply too vast and elemental to be rendered powerless in the face of his murderous resolve.

‘It's... not nearly enough.'

The thought made his blood run cold.

In the next moment, the Thieving Bird's beak fell down like the blade of a blood-soaked guillotine, destroying his face and pulverizing his skull.

Blood, bone fragments, and brain matter splattered in all directions.

Sunny activated [The Chain] once more.

His shattered skull was restored, his liquified brain matter was returned to where it belonged, and his mutilated face became whole once more.

He twisted Serpent in Thieving Bird's neck, continuing to pour his Death Will into the abominable Terror.

A sobering thought surfaced in the sea of his murderous fury.

‘This won't last.'

The [Chain] enchantment of the Curse could save him from being destroyed, but it was not a panacea — mostly because it had never been designed for enduring the fury of a being as ancient and powerful as the Vile Thieving Bird.

Restoring Sunny's broken body and soul was not even its true purpose. It had been primarily designed for keeping him from losing himself in the formlessness of shadows — to anchor his sense of self in the present and prevent it from dissolving in the harrowing expanse of the future.

Such an implementation was ambitious, but would not drain Sunny's reserves of essence. That was because there would be no opposing Will acting against the [Chain] — or rather, it would only have to overcome his own Will, not that of a superior adversary. Things were entirely different now, though. Now, the [Chain] was not simply restoring his mind, body, and soul — it was repairing what the Vile Thieving Bird had destroyed. And so, it was fighting against the consequences of a Cursed Terror reshaping the world according to its Will, which consumed a truly terrifying amount of Sunny's essence.

He had rarely been forced to think about running out of essence after becoming a Supreme, but he could not ignore the expenditure now. Using the [Chain] twice already cost him an ocean of essence, and the situation was only aggravated by the fact that he had already lost a vast amount of it to the despicable thievery of the Vile Spawn.

The Shadow Legion had lost a great number of shades, as well, which meant that there was less spirit essence flowing into his soul now.

In short...

The [Chain] gave Sunny a fighting chance against the Thieving Bird, but it was not going to win this battle.

"Nephis!"

Great tendrils of shadows appeared behind Sunny and wrapped themselves around his limbs, pulling him off the talons of the enormous, monstrous avian horror and dragging him away.

For a moment, he beheld the Vile Thieving Bird in all its profane glory...

Even hunched, it was as tall as a hill, hideous and terrifying, with a disheveled mantle of messy black feathers and a pair of round, dark eyes that boiled with an unspeakable madness.

Its fearsome talons looked deadly enough to rend Titans apart, and its long beak looked sharp enough to piece the heavens.

Most of all...

Looking at the Thieving Bird, Sunny suddenly realized that when a bird of prey reached that size, it looked very similar to a dragon. In fact, the Thieving Bird looked far more terrifying than any dragon he had seen, tainted by the Corruption or not. There was something about the form of its body and the messy mantle of its feathers that made it more frightening than any reptilian Nightmare Creature. And then there were its eyes, as well — the eyes of a creature who witnessed a reflection of the Forgotten God... the God of Corruption.

Which had been forever frozen in the depths of Weaver's gorgeous eye.

Sunny was pulled back by the shadow tendrils he had manifested, and a split second later, a torrent of fierce white flames swallowed the towering figure of the Vile Thieving Bird, obscuring it from sight. He landed on the cracked surface of obsidian he had covered the lake with, grasping his mutilated chest. The stonelike metal of the Jade Mantle was slowly repairing itself, and beneath it, the wounds left in his flesh by the talons of the Cursed Terror were beginning to heal, as well.

But it was still gruesomely painful.

In front of him, a colossal pyre burned ferociously in the space where the Thieving Bird had been.

‘Burn. Burn, you hateful bird!’

He did not know if he was cursing it or praying for it to burn.

Very few things could withstand the immolating heat of Neph's flames...

And yet, Sunny suddenly shivered, feeling a dreadful gaze land on him from the depths of flame.

Then, two enormous wings rose and fell, raising a hurricane. The white flames were suffocated and extinguished, revealing the giant figure of the Thieving Bird — entirely unscathed, as if it was impervious to fire. The Thieving Bird jumped back, landing with a thunderclap above the place where its vile spawn was laying sprawled on the ground. The Vile Spawn threw an angry glare at Sunny, then made a tearful face and dissolved into the Cursed Terror's shadow, finding safety beneath its wing.

The shades it had stolen from Sunny faced the shades that were still loyal to him.

And the Vile Thieving Bird faced the three Supremes who had come to kill it — the Lord of Shadows, Changing Star, and Ananke of Weave.

"What do we do? Do we attack at the same time?"

Ananke's melodious voice was low and concerned.

Sunny hesitated for a moment,

‘What to do, what to do... indeed...’

Then, he shook his head.

“No... we need to get back, right now. Quickly!"

Nephis and Ananke followed his urgent call immediately, leaving all questions for later. And as the three of them dashed back, creating distance between them and the Vile Thieving Bird, who seemed ready to lunge at them...

Something moved in the shadows in front of it.

Then, a giant skeletal hand rose from the darkness, its black bones encased in bands of polished gold.

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    AINZOOALGON
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    Archeon, I choose you pokemon
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    Parashu
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    Archon? pokemon
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    av3ddi
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    Holy Fu#k...
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    Unholy_Titan
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    VTB about to cook the shit out of all 3 of them 😭
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      BigBeeMan
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      As it should. Honestly, I feel its ridiculous that they think they stand even a sliver of chance - but since its the True MC, Sunless and Ananke against it, I bet G3 will make them pull trough in some way
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    Atlas
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    when this gets drawn in like thirty years its gonna be so fire

    MINOR SPOILER FROM COMMENTER REI-ABSOLUTE BELOW PROCEED WITH CAUTION
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      Dissy
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      Gracias hermano, lo leí por la maldita curiosidad, pero gracias.
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    ytiedemerpusetaf
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    I'm ngl, ever since that one person pointed out the size I can't immerse as well, if the bird is the size of the hill, how the hell is it grabbing sunny with its talons? It's like if an eagle tried to grab a really, really small worm with its talons, which makes no sense. It is too big.
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      Charlatans_Requiem
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      Most of those problems are solved through will. Remember, will alters the very fabric of the world. Especially when considering spirits. It's the beginning of omnipotent levels of power
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    Rei-absolute
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    “Lost from Light, I command you to die.!”

    I felt so strange reading this, I was nervous, hopeful, and expectant.
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    Chapter 2956

    2956 Battle of Deities

    The Vile Thieving Bird tilted its head and then pecked at the skeletal hand. When its beak collided with the black bone, a deafening thunderclap resounded above the Estuary Lake, and Sunny was thrown to the ground by the shockwave.

    “Argh...”

    There was blood on his tongue, filling his mouth with the taste of iron.

    Facing a Cursed Terror in battle was not something one could hope to escape unscathed — in fact, simply surviving was already a tall task, even for a Supreme Titan like him.

    So, Sunny had called on a different fallen deity to help him even the odds.

    Out there in front of them, the Wandering Archon was rising from the shadows in all his eldritch glory, the golden bands encasing his skeletal form glistening in the sun. His gigantic form was being woven out of torrents of darkness, a sea of essence draining from Sunny’s soul to give him form.

    Having carried the Memory of the Deathless Spirit within himself for a long time, Sunny was finally summoning him back into existence. Of course, the Archon was not going to become their ally — he was just as likely to attack the three Supremes as he was bound to clash with the Vile Thieving Bird.

    So, it was quite possible that Sunny was simply adding an undying Sacred to an already harrowing list of enemies he had to defeat.

    But desperate times called for desperate measures. The enemy of his enemy... was still his enemy, but at least there was a possibility that his enemies would begin fighting each other, allowing him to attack one or both of them while they were distracted.

    ‘Damn it all’

    Gritting his teeth, Sunny pushed himself off the ground.

    Out there in front of him, the Vile Thieving Bird did not seem to have liked the result of pecking at the black bone. It hopped back, observing the rise of the Wandering Archon with a predatory madness burning in its harrowing eyes.

    The Archon, meanwhile, had fully manifested on the surface of the Estuary Lake. He towered above it like a mountain of black bones, his tattered ivory mantle fluttering in the wind like a burial shroud. The spikes of his crown shone with a blinding golden radiance in the light of the six stolen suns, resembling radiant beacons.

    The Thieving Bird seemed mesmerized. There was a moment of dead silence and ominous stillness...

    Then, the Archon glanced down, his empty eye sockets peering at the spot where the Thieving Bird's beak had left a crack on the surface of his black hand.

    Something moved in the emptiness that nestled in his skull, and then, the Deathless Spirit shifted his crushing gaze at the avian horror in front of him.

    The Vile Thieving Bird opened its beak and let out a chilling, harrowing shriek — the sound of it made Sunny, Nephis, and Ananke groan, grabbing their ears.

    The Archon moved then, lunging forward to grab it by the neck.

    Sunny cursed.

    “Brace yourselves!"

    In the next moment, the world quaked, a hurricane of black feathers and bone shards obscuring the entrance to the burial chamber of the Demon of Oblivion, seething water rising through the cracks in the obsidian. The momentary quiet was torn apart and vanquished by the indescribable cacophony, and in the mayhem of the deific clash...

    The stolen shades lunged forward, colliding with the remains of the Shadow Legion in a chilling bacchanalia of violence.

    Sunny steeled his Will against the coming shockwave, increasing his weight to withstand it. To his left, Ananke raised a rampart of manifested essence in front of her, while to his right, Nephis simply allowed herself to be mangled by the impact and then mended herself in the healing crucible of her flames.

    All three of them moved forward after that, coming together while the Vile Thieving Bird and the Wandering Archon battled in front of them. The heart of the Stone Titan shook from the calamitous violence of the divine clash, as if beating anew.

    Despite the harrowing forces unleashed by the battle of two deities, however, the Thieving Bird did not seem to be taking its enemy seriously — it wasn't trying to take to the sky and utilize its main advantage, at least, choosing to fight the Deathless Spirit on the surface of the lake.

    It shrieked and cawed, avoiding the devastating attacks of the gigantic black skeleton in a whirlwind of black feathers. The Archon, meanwhile, was on the offensive, pursuing it like an incarnation of death... which he himself had been deprived of.

    The Vile Thieving Bird was stronger than the Deathless Spirit — it had to be, considering their difference in Class, as well as the fact that the Deathless had long lost the most important parts of themselves. However, somehow, it seemed like it could do nothing but retreat from the undying horror, its demented eyes burning with a peculiar, feverish madness.

    Sunny, Nephis, and Ananke finally met amidst the carnage of clashing shades. Nephis put her hands on both of her companions, healing them — healing them as much as she could in the short span of time they had, at least.

    Ananke's wounds were relatively light, considering that she had only suffered her life force being stolen by the Vile Spawn. Sunny, however, was wounded quite severely despite having used the [Chain] — in fact, he would have been already on death's door, or at least forced to abandon his corporeal form, if not for the tenacious nature of the Weave.

    "What do we do now?"

    Neph's voice was barely audible in the thunderous clamor of the profane battle. She glanced at the hurricane of black and gold that raged in front of them and shook her head.

    “We can't take both of them on. We can't even take one of them on, really... not unless something changes.”

    Ananke glanced at the two fighting deities, as well, her face pale.

    "I don't... I don't know where that second creature came from, but it looks awfully strong.”

    The second creature, of course, had come from within Sunny's soul. But that was not important right now.

    The important part was that Nephis was right — and things were even worse than she had described. That was because the remains of the Shadow Legion were losing to the shades of the Vile Spawn, which meant that there would be an army of deadly shades fighting against the three Supremes soon.

    As if an undying Spirit and a Cursed Terror were not enough.

    The problem was that the Vile Spawn had obliterated some of the strongest shades Sunny commanded in that first explosion of black flame, and then stole the Wolf on top of that. Sunny had yet to summon a second Sacred shade to replace the primordial beast, so his shades, despite having a numerical advantage, were slowly losing.

    In fact, they were only losing slowly, as opposed to rapidly, because Saint and Slayer were among them, serving as a bulwark protecting the Shadow Legion and a sharp blade that cut its enemies down.

    Sunny hesitated for a moment, considering whether summoning Abundance, Puppeteer, or the Rat King would be wise.

    In the end, he simply glanced at Nephis and Ananke.

    “Ananke... you will have to destroy the shades that vile little wretch stole. You will also have to try to weaken the Thieving Bird as much as you can. Nephis and I will take on that loathsome thing once it destroys the Archon."

    There was a moment of silence, and then Nephis asked, straining her voice to be heard in the deafening cacophony:

    “Are you sure that the Archon will be destroyed?"

    Sunny lingered for a second, then nodded.

    "I am."

    His somber voice was confident.


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    That was because he had noticed something while observing the two deities clash.

    The Deathless Spirit seemed to have pushed the Vile Thieving Bird on the defensive... but actually, with each blow he delivered, something about the undying god of the Nightmare Desert changed.

    It was the bands of gold decorating the ancient bones of the gargantuan skeleton. Each time the Thieving Bird seemed to barely avoid his obliterating attacks, more and more of those bands disappeared without a trace.

    His staff was already missing its crystal, and one of his eye sockets had lost its golden frame.

    ...The damn thing was not retreating from the Deathless Spirit. It was simply more focused on stealing the shiny gold off his black bones than on taking him apart bone by bone.

    Sunny had no doubt that once the Thieving Bird satiated its avarice, the Wandering Archon wasn't going to last long after that. Nephis simply nodded, trusting his words. She had another question, however:

    “How are we going to hurt the Thieving Bird, then? You saw it already. It easily shrugged off both your killing Will and my flames."

    She smiled faintly.

    “Of course, neither of us has gone all out yet. Even if the quality of our Wills seems insufficient to slay this Terror, quantity might do the job."

    Sunny looked at her intently, remained silent for a short while, and then said quietly:

    "This time, our attacks are going to hurt it — because you will weaken its Will. All you have to do is speak to it. You must say..."

    He paused for a moment, and then added in an even tone:

    "...Lost from Light, I command you to die."
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      Chapter 2957

      2957 Lost Memory

      The waterfall of poisonous snakes that had replaced Ananke's hair slithered and hissed, their scales glinting like dark jewels, while her eyes blazed with an amber glow. Grasping her harpoon, she threw one last look at Nephis and Sunny, smiled, and rushed to join the battle against the Wolf and the stolen shades.

      A vast nebula of silver strings trailed in the air behind her, twisting as each thread of essence silk shot toward the enemy legion. Each infinitely thin string was sharper than a razor, slicing the warriors of the Vile Spawn apart when Ananke moved the fingers of her free hand to draw it taut.

      At the same time, a colossal moth descended upon them in a hurricane of ethereal threads of silken darkness, sowing death and destruction among the silent shadows.

      With Ananke and the Puppeteer joining Saint and Slayer, the Shadow Legion was going to turn the tide of battle and eradicate the enemy... Sunny's own damn shades... soon — especially because of how deadly she was when fighting them.

      Sunny and Nephis, meanwhile...

      Were meant to confront the Vile Thieving Bird.

      For now, though, they were biding their time — his dreadful wound was slowly being healed by the soothing warmth of her flame, while her pain was being soothed by the cold sorcery of the cursed chain he had forged.

      They were not going to wait until the loathsome Thieving Bird destroyed the Deathless Spirit, and were instead intending to attack as soon as Sunny was healed. ‘Soon...

      Surrounded by mayhem and carnage, deafened by the thunderous clamor of the calamitous battle, Sunny and Nephis watched two fallen gods fight.

      The Archon seemed as implacable as ever, but his movements seemed strained. His boundless Will, which had been able to reshape Ariel's Hell according to his whims, was like a caged beast now — fierce and ferocious, but powerless against the indestructible bars of its cage.

      That cage was the Will of the Cursed Terror he was facing — an ancient, demented creature who had returned to the world of the living after escaping a Nightmare created by the Spell.

      The Thieving Bird was simply retreating, for now, cawing and shrieking as it miraculously avoided the devastating onslaught of the Archon. And at the same time, its dreadful eyes smoldered with an increasingly dark and terrifying malice.

      With each moment, the gold encasing the vast expanse of the enormous skeleton was dwindling. His staff was already bare and dim, having lost its radiant crest. His skull was now devoid of adornments, with only the crown still shining in the sunlight like a golden beacon.

      Sunny's ribs had been mended, and his lungs were not bubbling with bloody foam anymore. His heart was beating steadily, as well — now, only his muscles needed to be repaired for him to be able to enter the battle in top shape.

      Of course, he had no doubt that his body would become a wreck again by the end of the fight...

      Sadly, the Vile Thieving Bird did not give him time to recover.

      Long before Sunny was fully healed, the last piece of gold disappeared from the skeleton of the Wandering Archon. The Vile Thieving Bird jumped back, creating distance between itself and the Deathless Spirit, and then raised its head, throwing something into the air.

      Catching the golden crown with its beak, the Cursed Terror cawed in satisfaction, and then aimed the dark gaze of its terrifying eyes at the Archon.

      Suddenly, Sunny felt a cold chill run down his spine.

      In the next moment, the world was suddenly enveloped by a terrifying maelstrom of black feathers, the brilliant light of the stolen suns drowning in their frenzied whirlwind. The fluttering ivory shroud of the Archon grew indistinct, his colossal figure almost impossible to distinguish in the descending darkness. And yet, Sunny still saw the dreadful silhouette of the Thieving Bird colliding with the towering god of Ariel's Hell, its talons piercing his chest.

      Grasping the Archon’s ribs with its talons, the Thieving Bird perched on them and batted his arms away with its boundless, mighty wings.

      Then, it thrust its beak into one of the Archon's empty eye sockets.

      From afar, it looked like a crow was pecking at a dead man's eye.

      Of course, the Vile Thieving Bird was not a crow... and the Wandering Archon had no eyes.

      And yet, when the ghastly Cursed Terror moved its head back, it was as if something dark and slithering was grasped in its beak. The Thieving Bird raised its head and swallowed the ethereal, writhing thing it had stolen from the depths of the Deathless Spirit's being.

      In the next moment, the Wandering Archon grew strangely still.

      His arms fell, and his shoulders sagged.

      His skull rolled back lifelessly...

      And then, the enormous skeleton simply crumbled, making the Stone Titan's heart quake.

      He became nothing but a towering mountain of black bones buried under an ivory shroud.

      [Your Memory has been destroyed.]

      The Deathless Spirit might not have found death... but he had found annihilation at the hands of a vile thief, in the end.

      That was how the curse of Shadow God had been broken.

      Looking at the mountains of blackened bones, Sunny could not help to feel his heart turn cold.

      ‘D—damn...’

      There was no more time.

      He glanced briefly at Nephis, and then forced out a smile.

      "Hey... I think it's time. For us to go all out."

      She met his gaze calmly and nodded.


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      A pale smile illuminated her face, as well.

      "Why do you sound nervous? It's just a Cursed Terror."

      Sunny stared at her for a moment, and then let out a chuckle.

      "Indeed."

      He turned to the Vile Thieving Bird and gritted his teeth.

      "Let's go!"

      As they both lunged forward, a familiar coldness of Weaver's Mask obscured his face.

      Sunny turned into a torrent of shadows, while Nephis shone like a luminous star and rose into the sky.

      The Vile Thieving Bird raised its head and stared at her luminous form.

      Then, it froze for a moment and abruptly turned to look at Sunny. Something moved in its demented eyes... as if it recognized the scent of his blood.

      And then, its eyes blazed with a dangerous glint.
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        Chapter 2958


        2958 Three Curses

        “Lost from Light, I command you to die!" The words that would have filled Sunny with terror once now filled his heart with hope. They thundered from the sky, slamming into the Vile Thieving Bird a split second before it lunged at Sunny in a hurricane of black feathers.

        This was the gamble he staked his life on... the fact that even if the Thieving Bird was not a Shadow Slave, it had stolen the fate of one, and was therefore fated to be beholden to the same bond.

        If Sunny was wrong, they would die.

        If he was correct, however, and fate was a blade that cut both ways, then they would gain a vital advantage in the fight against the Cursed Terror.

        He did not know what that advantage would entail — whether the Thieving Bird would truly drop dead or become more susceptible to being killed — but he knew that having stolen his Fated Attribute, it was prone to finding itself in improbable situations. There was a simple reason he was willing to bet his life on the outcome of Nephis calling out his lost True Name.

        It was that between the Thieving Bird killing both of them and them killing the Thieving Bird, the latter was infinitely more improbable.

        ‘Come on!'

        As Sunny rushed forward as a river of shadows and the Thieving Bird was preparing to rip him apart — probably to add his blood, bones, flesh, mind, spirit, and soul to its collection of Weaver memorabilia —a cold wind blew across the Estuary Lake.

        And then, the Thieving Bird stumbled.

        It lost its balance for a moment, shaking its horrid head in apparent confusion. Something was different about it now — something imperceptible, but quite easily felt.

        Sunny could feel it, indeed...

        Hearing Neph's command, the Vile Thieving Bird did not die, and neither did it offer its neck to be killed. The absolute power of Shadow Bond did not seem to be absolute when it came to the loathsome Cursed Terror.

        But it wasn't non-existent, either.

        Perhaps the Thieving Bird was simply weakened instead of being killed due to its tenuous connection to the fate of being Lost from Light. Perhaps it fell under the effect of the command to die, but managed to resist it — was actively resisting it — due to the fact that it only possessed his fate, not personified it.

        But it was weakened, nonetheless. The insurmountable ocean of its terrifying Will receded, becoming smaller and more shallow — still far greater than his, but not quite as overwhelming.

        In his mind, Sunny grinned viciously when his perilous theory had turned out to be true.

        That was all he needed...

        A chance.

        A fighting chance against the creature that even the gods had failed to eradicate.

        'Kill!'

        That was the only thought that remained in Sunny's mind.

        The Thieving Bird was already weakened by the need to resist the fate of being bonded to Changing Star of the Immortal Flame clan. But that was not everything Sunny had in store for it.

        In the next moment, before the loathsome Terror had an opportunity to come to terms with its new condition, Sunny unleashed the [Weakening Curse], using all seven links of the Curse to sap its power.

        Usually, there would be little difference between using his shadows to augment himself or to weaken a single enemy. Things were different now, however, because Sunny was not fighting alone. If he had empowered himself, only he would have benefited from that augmentation — but with their common enemy weakened, both Sunny and Nephis could exploit its diminished state.

        However, that wasn't all either.

        Just a split second after Sunny enveloped the Thieving Bird in [Shadow Flame] to weaken it from a distance, Ananke unleashed her powers as well. Now that she had assumed her Transcendent form, the blessing she was usually able to grant had become a curse. And she placed that curse on the Vile Thieving Bird, weakening it even further.

        The malediction of Changing Star, the hex of the Lord of Shadows, and the curse of Ananke of Weave...

        Restrained by three Supremes, the Thieving Bird let out a disgruntled caw.

        And by then, Sunny and Nephis were already upon it.

        The three weakening curses had not only diminished the power of the Cursed Terror, but also cost it the initiative.

        So instead of being pierced by the harrowing talons once more, Sunny was the one who gave the Thieving Bird no chance to react this time.

        Rising from the flowing darkness as a Shadow Colossus, he grasped the hilt of his great odachi with both hands and delivered a devastating downward slash.

        One hand pushing, one hand pulling...

        Just like Nephis had taught him on the Forgotten Shore.

        This was the very same cut he had practiced thousands of times during their journey through the Crimson Labyrinth — the very first step he had taken as a swordsman.

        At the same exact moment as the black blade of his gargantuan odachi fell down, akin to a wall of darkness, a radiant plane of pure white light plummeted from the sky — it was the Blessing severing the world to cleave the Vile Thieving Bird apart. The loathsome Terror pierced Sunny with a frenzied gaze and then shrieked, making his vision blur.

        Its wings rose to meet the two obliterating strikes.

        'I...'

        The next thing Sunny registered was seeing Serpent flying into the sky, a net of cracks covering its serpentine blade. The great odachi spanned dozens of meters in length, and yet it was spinning like a feather, soaring higher and higher as it bled darkness.

        It took him a moment to register that both arms of his Shell had been torn off at the elbow.

        The force of the impact had been so dire that it severely wounded Serpent and completely obliterated his hands and forearms... leaving only a shallow wound on the Thieving Bird's wing.

        On the other side of the odious Terror, the light of the Blessing was suffocated and extinguished, barely scorching a few feathers and leaving a small burn on the other wing.

        Sent staggering back, Sunny balanced himself and glanced at the Thieving Bird in grim silence.

        A heavy feeling settled in his heart.

        He cursed quietly.

        And then lunged forward, creating new arms for his Shell from the shadows.

        "I'll still kill you... just you wait..."
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          LimitlessVenerable
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          THANK YOUUU AHHHH IVE BEEN WAITING SOO LONGG
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          JR3
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          FINALLY! thank you! banana
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        Kai_the_Son_of_G3
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        is this real, are these official chapters or did you become this good at writing
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          Rei-absolute
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          I wish I could write so well.
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    Reaper.
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    When are we getting the next chapter...
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    ZionCrestZero
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    Funfact: next POV change back to Yutra, then Tamar, then Roan, then Morgan, then Sheshian, then Beastmaster, then Ananke, then finally VTBs POV. G3 said it on discord. Ananke and VTBs being the longest due to their long centuries and millions of years lifespans
    Quote: G3 on discord
    next POV change back to Yutra, then Tamar, then Roan, then Morgan, then Sheshian, then Beastmaster, then Ananke, then finally VTBs POV.
    Ananke and VTBs being the longest due to their long centuries and millions of years lifespans
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      Rei-absolute
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      That's in just a few chapters, like 2 POVs per chapter, or he'll torture us for weeks until he gives us what we want, Sunphis's POV.? I have anxiety, I'm saying g3 is going to torture me like this.
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      SAILOR
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      You've never been so right
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      Mukesh bhandari
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      im also in dscord havent seen the message which channel?
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