When it was finaly time to go in the capsules sunny sent neph a mental message:' if we are on forgotten shore, i will come for you, ok, i love you.'
Neph replied:'sure, i love you too'
[Welcome to the Dream Realm, Sunless!]
'More like welcome back'
Sunny found himself in an ocean of black water, he instantly knew where he was, he was glad and confused. It didn't matter he went for the surface of the water and swam away from that stupid shark towards the statue. When he laid on the neck of the statue he instantly summoned puppatuers shroud and sent neph a question:' are you on forgotten shore, and are you ok.'
A few minutes passed and he was worried but soon heard:' i'm ok, i was looking for cassie, we are on the massive coral like last time. We are gonna rest for the night and you come for us in the morning, ok?'
'Yup, rest well' sunny was glad they were ok. He also went to sleep, knowing tomorrow the jurney for the dark city will start.
In the morning, while the sun was rising in the sky, the dark sea was receding and revealing the labyrinth made of crimson coral, sunny was preparing to go to nephis and cassie. He was ready to start climbing down, when he saw the giant tree made of crimson coral and was determined to get there as soon as possible.
He started his jurney as soon as the dark sea retreated, he went ahead with the sword he got from the hero ready for any carapace scavangers to ambush him, he knew what he had to do to kill them so he was scouting ahead for any changes in the floor sides of the labyrinth and so on.
He was slowly making progress, taking his time scouting and making sure everything went acording to plan. An hour ago sunny was almost killed by a scavanger because he wasn't paying enough attention to his own surroundings, he got a big slash from one of the pincers across his arm and was now holding it and trying to focus on healing so neph doesn't find out.
After he killed the scavanger sunny got a memory, it was the very same memory sunny gave to nephis since she didn't have any armor type memory on forgotten shore at first. He was glad she wouldn't have to wait long for one, and it would help them with geting as many of the sleepers to the walking world.
When he finaly reached the coral tree after 2 hours he was atacked 4 more times, this time he was the one to initiate it. Sadly he didn't get any new memories, but he did get an echo. Witch would help them cary cassie acros the labyrinth, at a good pace. He saw nephis and cassie not far away, he waved at them and aproached, cassie had her staff in her hands to help her move around and not fall, she also had a golden rope around her witch nephis was holding and leading the way with a serious expretion on her face.
When rhey saw sunny, neph's face finaly relaxed a little and she was happy he got there safe. When they got closer nephis saw his injury and instantly healed it, sunny tought she wouldn't see it but was wrong, he didn't want her to suffer for his mistakes.
[You have received a Memory: Starlight Legion Armor]
"Suprise, i got it while fighting the first scavanger witch also gave me the wound on my arm"
"Thank you so mutch, i was already sick of the sea wead" as she said that she gave him a quick kiss.
Cassie fake coughed to get their attention:" do you maybe have anything for me?"
"I do infact, i also got an echo of a scavanger so it's gonna be easier to manuver trought the labyrinth." Said sunny while summoning the echo.
"Why do you have sutch good luck, it doesn't make sense, a memory we got before and an echo in 1 day. It's not fair." Nephis said in a serious tone, she already summoned the memory and was wearing it, but was nonetheless still happy.
"Well, i don't know, i don't have 'fated' anymore so, we are probably gonna find an awakened titan tomorrow, to even this out." Sunny was wishing he could lie and say he was joking, but he knew it was pointless thinking about all of this, since nobody would know, even cassies vision could be wrong and we could all die before we even get to the dark city.
Since the sun would soon start to set they climbed the coral tree, they didn't have mutch since sunny couldn't take mutch with him because of his injury, they had to save for the morning. Neph made the food and they ate in peace and quiete, after they finished, sunny gave them the soul shards to use and get stronger. They went to sleep and sunny took first watch.
In the morning nephis cooked the rest of the food and they ate and got ready not long after that. When they climbed down sunny summoned the echo of the scavanger and helped cassie get on it. They reached the statue after a few hours tired, they had to fight 5 scavangers today, sunny killed 3 and nephis 2. They didn't get any memories, but atleast got more food.
After they ate and absorbed the shards they went to sleep and again sunny took first watch.
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A month later, sunny nephis and cassie were back at the soul tree, they were stronger this time, had more usefull memories, but still felt a lot weaker than it, they were fixing their plan on how to kill the carapace demon.
They knew after the fight they had to escape, since they would use mostly the same strategy for the start it would be early morning when they join the fight. So if they got injured nephis would heal them and they would go to the previous island. The strategy was good, but they were still at risk troughthout the run to the tree branch. They didn't have any memories to help them with that, so it was the same as the last time. Sunny did however get a better sword then the one from the hero. It had a simple enchantment to enhance the sharpness. After discussing the plan they finished their food and were geting ready. The plan was gonna take place today just before nightfall.
Sunny was geting the sacs with the flamable acid ready, nephis was making the echo look more like a scavanger centaurion, and geting the soul shard ready for it to carry. Cassie was waiting for them to finish.
As they were making their way to the island with the demon they were going over the plan again.
A disembodied carapace scavanger was aproaching an island in an ashen barrow, the island had a giant tree made of obsidian bark and crimson red leaves. The scavanger was making its way towards the island with an ascended soul shard in its bone scythes. On the island there was a creature as large as a house, with its eight segmented legs resembling tall pillars. Its form was similar to that of scavengers and centurions, comprised of a crab-like carapace and a protruding, somewhat humanoid torso. Instead of chitin, the behemoth's shell was seemingly made out of polished, lustrous metal. The steel monster resembled a giant knight but it radiated a sinister aura. The polished armor of the creature was covered with long, jagged spikes. Its humanoid torso had four mighty arms, two ending with powerful pincers, the other two — with razor-sharp, terrifying scythes. The demon's head was more pronounced than that of a scavenger and crowned with several tall, sharp horns. Its metal face was almost human-like but simultaneously repulsively monstrous and bestial.