[...You have slain an Ascended human, Pierce.]
[Your shadow grows stronger.]
'Gods... I actually did it...'
Sunny smiled darkly, allowed himself a second of rest, and then rose to his feet, knowing that the battle was not other.
Mordret and Welthe were still there, both as deadly as the damned bastard he had just killed.
He dismissed the Cruel Sight and immediately summoned it again, simultaneously checking on his reserve of shadow essence. Sunny had spent a lot, but not so much as to worry… yet.
The Soul Serpent appeared from the shadows and slithered onto his skin, turning into an intricate tattoo.
Still keeping his eyes closed, partially out of caution and partially because his eyelids were burned and hurt like hell, Sunny extended his shadow sense forward and tried to understand what was happening to the other two participants of this hellish battle.
Welthe was standing some distance away from him, swaying. Her hands were pressed against her face.
Meanwhile, Mordret…
Sunny froze.
The female sentinel... was dead.
He had not noticed it before, but she was laying lifeless on the floor, her neck twisted at an unnatural level.
'How… how can this be?'
Something was not adding up… how could Mordret lose his only vessel so easily? He had only fought one of the Masters… surely, he had the ability to defeat Welthe one on one. Otherwise, what had he been planning to do if Sunny allied with the knights of Valor? How had he planned to resist both of them, let alone with a third enemy added into the mix?
The Prince of Nothing could not have been that weak…
Suddenly, a small detail attracted Sunny's attention.
One of the sentinel's hands was clenched in a fist, something dangling from it.
A piece of a torn chain…
...Didn't that chain feel awfully familiar?
A cold, uneasy feeling appeared in Sunny's chest. He turned his head slightly and concentrated on the last survivor of the Valor forces, searching for...
Welthe suddenly laughed. Her voice sounded strange and different.
And her amulet... the anvil amulet was gone.
The Master lowered her hands and smiled.
"Ah! That is much, much better…"