Shadow Slave

Everything having to do with Sleepers was situated in the same building. Sunny followed the instructions sent to his communicator and quickly found the dormitories, which were situated on one of the lowest levels. To his surprise, he actually got a whole room to himself.

It had a bed with a soft mattress, a table, a dresser, and even a separate bathroom! The materials were new and aesthetically pleasing, the air crisp and sterile. It was warm inside, and the outer wall was equipped with a hidden screen that seamlessly imitated a wide window, opening to a picturesque vista of a snowy park.

There were even several sets of clothes with the Academy emblem provided to him for free.

'How extravagant,' Sunny thought, a little stunned.

Rationally, he understood that such an arrangement was not really luxurious. However, to him, who grew up wandering the outskirts, this room was like a palace. He scratched his head.

'Looks like… I've made it?'

Sunny glanced around, then winked at his shadow and smiled.

"I guess we're moving up in the world, huh?"

The shadow didn't respond, apparently not very impressed. Perhaps it didn't care about such things.

'Right, what would a stupid shadow know?'

Sunny changed into new clothes and studied himself in the mirror. Then, remembering something, he summoned the runes.

He finally had time to study the Puppeteer's Shroud.

Memory: [Puppeteer's Shroud].

Memory Rank: Awakened.

Memory Type: Armor.

Memory Description: [A worm of doubt once found its way into a righteous king's heart. With time, the king was devoured from inside and became its puppet. A lifetime later, the Puppeteer Worm escaped from the king's dead body, leaving behind a cacoon of black silk. No one knows where it went; however, once people dared to approach the silent castle, they found the silk among the mountains of gnawed bones and fashioned it into an armor.]

made a sour

terrifying. Yeah. I'm not

to think of it, the first creature he killed was called a larva. If he were to assume that Mountain King was a mature Puppeteer Worm — and

it's better not to

into a set of armor. It

restrain his movements at all. It also made no sound when he moved. Perfect equipment for someone who likes to lurk

knew that this armor would be tough to pierce for any Creature below the Awakened rank, which gave him a great advantage in dealing with all

does it have enhanced protection

he was

He wouldn't expect anything less from the Memory of a powerful

was obviously not meant to be worn on top of a full set of clothes. Quite satisfied, Sunny dismissed it

recalling all the rewards he had received during and

taste real meat finally came true: not only was it freely available to Sleepers, there wasn't even a limit to the amount each of them could eat! More than that, there were rice, bread, various side dishes,

thought, steering

a small mountain of food on his plate, he found an empty seat and, for a while, forgot about the world's existence. As juicy, textured, perfectly seasoned meat filled his mouth, Sunny's vision suddenly was full of stars.

to think, he could have lived like

didn't you infect me

and more than a little gorged, Sunny longingly looked back and thought about getting another serving. But it was

he stood up and left the

across from an administrative worker. The worker was very friendly, and started the

Remembering her

at ease. As such, most of them started with nice and polite preambles like "would you like to tell

you mind telling me about the type of Aspect Ability you received, as in combat,

but had

I'm not sure. I haven't had time to

Are you able to

not? Earlier, I wasn't

information to create an impression that his Aspect was weak,

to his room, undressed, and

be weird, but in fact, it was surprisingly easy. Lying on a soft mattress, with his skin against clean bedsheets