Chapter 69: Ghastly Hunger (Rewritten)
Sunny and Saint stared at each other for a long second.
"...Can you do anything new?"
The taciturn knight tilted her head, as if registering his words. Then, she shrugged.
She shrugged!
Looking at his seemingly reliable Shadow, Sunny started to question how far his sanity has fallen to be talking to a walking statue. How would she possibly know what her new Attribute did better than Sunny, who was able to directly read her runes?
Rereading the [Destined Destroyer] Attribute multiple times, he concluded that it didn’t have any initial effects. If it did, Saint would have probably shown them — or at least confirm that she had gained something out of it. Since she didn’t, he could only assume that the changes it had made weren’t noticeable at a first glance.
There was also the question of how Saint had gained the Attribute in the first place. Somehow, consuming the Thief’s Instinct allowed her to gain an affinity for the Destruction. The Memory had been obtained from slaying a soldier of the Antimatter Legion, so it was obvious where the correlation came from.
The problem was that Sunny didn’t understand the precise reason for this change. He had fed his Shadow with countless Memories, so why did this one in particular cause a change?
’...Wait, a shadow?’
Turning to look at Gloomy, who glared back at him mockingly, he thought about another example of a shadow being affected by the Destruction.
When Sunny was gazed at by Nanook, he had gained the ability to wield the Destruction. However, it wasn’t that simple. Instead, he needed to augment himself with Gloomy to use that energy. He hadn’t seen many examples, but he was sure that other simply draw power from their Paths without needing to use their Aspect as a conduit.