The final step

7th step of shadow dance

As Sunny was waking up in his room in the mimic, he got his room ready and summoned the endless spring and drank.

He was still tired from the fight he had with that abomination that he killed 2 weeks ago, and he was finally getting close enough to reaching the final step to shadow dance and was excited.

He left the mimic and dismissed the shadow back to his soul, he made a sword of shadows and started repeating the movements he used against the abomination.

He had fought a cursed titan and barely won; he started practicing right away while analyzing his moves and matching them to when he fought. It was hard, but to sunny. It felt like he finally had a way to do it; he was right there.

He thought he would get it in about a day or two. He continued swinging his sword and fighting with all the strength and speed he could muster; he was a sacred being and probably the strongest one.

He also had 7 cores and 7 shadows, and, soon, he would have all 7 steps of shadow dance. He was doing this routine for two weeks nonstop, he was 30 years old and finally almost done with his final step towards his aspect legacy.

3 years ago, 2 Category 6 gates spawned in the world, and it became inhabitable; during that time, Nephis had finally killed all the sovereigns and became queen of humanity. Not for long, though; after the gates spawned and their cohort went to try to kill the abominations, they failed miserably.

The cursed abominations were too strong and smart for them and almost killed Nephis, while others had heavy injuries. When most of the humanity got into the dream realm, they didn't expect a cursed titan to go to their settlement and rampage through.

The fight was hard, and barely 1000 people survived who were in the territory of the Bastion, soon even raven heart suffered the same fate, where only 300 people managed to escape. Most of the people were saints, some masters, and rarely an awakened or a few mundanes.

After about a year, only 200 people remained, most of them had survived thanks to being close to Nephis and in range of her domain, but not all of them had that amount of luck.

The remaining people were only the strong, very few had aspects that weren't combat oriented. Nobody survived in the dream realm alone, that was what Jet told Sunny in front of the academy gates when Sunny became a sleeper.

Well, it applied to basically everybody except him. Sunny was alone in the dream realm for half a year and had gotten mostly used to loneliness, but still missed Nephis and his cohort. Sadly, he had lost contact about half a year ago.

No matter where he traveled he never found them. They had managed to beat the fourth nightmare and find out how to become sacred inside the nightmare without the spell.

From what Sunny knew, he was the only sacred in the world, unless Nephis was somehow able to do it, he was doubtful anybody else was able to do it. He knew his cohort better than anybody else, and that is why he knew they were too weak to become sacred.

When Sunny lost contact with Nephis, he also lost the shadow bond, but was sure Neph was somewhere out there fighting against the spell.

Sunny finally had enough after practicing for hours; he called for mimic, prepared some food, and drank the water from the never-ending spring. Every night, sunny would go to sleep and make mimic travel around the dream realm in hopes of finding any survivors.

Sunny was getting ready to sleep when he stopped and summoned the serpent in his odachi form, as well as the underworld's mantle around his skin, before leaving the mimic.

Sunny sensed a great titan nearby, ready to ambush him. Sunny's soul was vast and powerful, so he was used to being ambushed and attacked. When he came out of mimic, he equipped his shadows and began sprinting towards the abomination.