Chapter 29: Tongue Scrubber (Rewritten)
Sunny was mentally sweating bullets as he held Bronya at knifepoint. Dozens of rifles were aimed in his direction as he threatened to kill the daughter of the Supreme Guardian.
Normally, Sunny wouldn’t have been very threatened by mundane weapons. Although he wasn’t wearing it, the odds that a mundane bullet could get through the Puppeteer’s Shroud was extremely low. Even if the Awakened armor of the fifth tier couldn’t protect him, Sunny was an Awakened Demon. Not only that, but he wouldn’t bleed from a gunshot wound.
Of course, this only applied to mundane weapons. Even though the guns were not Memories, Sunny could feel a mystical property radiating from them — and the Silvermane Guards that wielded them as well.
The guards were not Awakened, and their rifles were just that — rifles. Normally, there wouldn’t be any threat, however...
Sunny’s thoughts drifted to his hostage. Bronya had yet to make any attempt to release herself. Considering that Sunny was augmented by all his shadows, it made sense that she didn’t have the strength to escape. What truly confused Sunny was the fact that Bronya hadn’t used her Aspect to at least make an attempt. Obviously, her Aspect had to be combat related — otherwise, she wouldn’t have been allowed to lead the Silvermane Guards to arrest the trio.
The artificial smirk that Sunny had on his face widened slightly.
’I see.’
It wasn’t that she hadn’t attempted to use her Aspect. Rather, she had already activated it. The feeling that he had gotten from the soldiers was a result of her Aspect — a strengthening of her allies and their weapons.
If he were to take a guess, the boost that was applied to the Silvermane Guards was her Dormant Ability, while the strengthening of their weapons was an Awakened Ability. Of course, it was possible for it to be the other way around; or for both effects to be the result of a single Ability.
If it was the latter, then that meant that Bronya’s Aspect Rank must have been relatively high.
Either way, Sunny came to one conclusion based on the gleamed information.