OM DENNE EPISODE
Episode 119
The Lord of Shadows was supposed to be dead, and in the opening chapters of this Shadow Slave episode, a shell-shocked recruit named Corsair learns exactly how alive he is. This is fantasy web novel Shadow Slave in anime-style audiobook form, and this stretch trades war for the strange peace after it: a secret second Dream Gate under Central Government HQ, a Dark Castle that is literally a living Transcendent Devil, and Sunny waving lazily at his newest employee while complaining that Aiko never thought of the black market.
What I loved here is the tone. Sunny wakes up beside Nephis, sits through morning meetings where Cassie rattles off reports about the Night Garden and a worrying volcano under Ravenheart, and Effie loudly lists his virtues while not knowing he is under the desk. A few chapters in, we follow his seven incarnations across the realms: one exploring caverns beneath the ruined Crimson Spire, one bleeding for Slayer's power in the Nameless Temple, and two fighting a losing-but-winning battle against the Black Millipede swarm in the Burned Forest. Slayer decapitating a Millipede Queen that hides between moments of time is the action peak.
By the end, the focus shifts to Rain and her friends' breakfast outing, where her newly unsealed Aspect, the power to grant Names, is revealed in the most delightfully mundane way possible: she is currently Sober and Well-Rested.
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