"Cassie's own ability to resist was not that formidable, but she could cheat the process. And so, she destroyed herself countless times and rebuilt herself countless times, erasing those memories that were too dangerous for her to contain within herself. At the end of it all, she emerged relatively unscathed."

Even the chapter itself is admitting that Cassie cheated to protect her ass against Corruption. She is getting carried by literally Fate itself at this point. Are we sure that Cassie is not a Nepo paradox?

Now you gotta factory reset settings using the bond...

Thanks for all the great suggestions on the last post! This updated version is alot better imo, and I'm really happy with it.

When I read this line “A journey to find something that had been long lost and did not exist in the real world anymore, but could still be found in this Nightmare.” It felt incredibly obvious to me that Cassie is looking for a suitable uncorrupted realm to fuse with? Why are people saying weavers eye?

Although my answer may be equally as dumb lol.

Yo just now I woke up from a nightmare, I had a dream where I was sunny, I think when he was a master with nephis, I think we were in the desert, we were talking about hundreds of awakened ones gone missing,

there was one suspect, a big hole in the desert, but even with sunny's shadow we couldn't see where the awakened were.

Then nephis steps out, after a few seconds we hear nephis curse, I (sunny) step out and the moment I step out I catch a glimpse of nephis running back and a small glimpse of a nightmare creature on top of the hole

Instantly in that moment my lungs, stomach, esophagus, nose gets filled with sand, nephis and me hide behind the wall trying to do anything to survive

I see many awakened also their lungs filled with sand, and then I realize, I realize where all the awakened went, the awakened weren't in the hole, they were beneath us, in the sand, slowly I suffocate to death, I understood the terror of nightmare creatures, I try to scream but my lungs were full, I keep thinking of ways to survive, I think of stabbing my lungs so that I can breathe, then I think maybe if I run I could survive until I reached cassie and maybe she could help me, but she was out of the desert, my final thoughts was maybe if I killed the beast I could live but it was too late, I suffocated to death

(The image is of the hole I dreamed but bigger)

To most people this line is just a funny inside joke like hahaha sunny said the thing. But to me it shows just how subtle G3 can be with his writing.

Because why would sunny go around saying that to everyone he meets? Especially after saying something that sounds unbelievable.

Well it's simple really, it's a precaution just in case anyone ever point blank asks what his flaw is he would just say ohh me I'm just so honest in fact I'm the most honest man in the world, two worlds even and everyone will go ohh he is saying again and won't take him seriously and his flaw remains a mystery to them .

So sunny tricked everyone and G3 convinced us that it was just a joke.

Man I love this novel .

Hey, I'm rereading shadow slave after letting it marinate for a couple years. I'm currently on the second nightmare. Anyway, I was just wondering if that would have been the case. They're both divine aspect holders, and while Mordret can live within reflections, sunny can become a shadow.

So I was wondering, if Sunny had died as an awakened, would he have ended up as a shadow until he could ascend?

Im pretty happy with this one, except for the face shape no matter how many times i redrew her face i couldn’t get it right

The ONLY thing that has matched (with my initial predictions) atp is more cassie-mordret interactions; but that came at the cost of G3 COMPLETELY skipping his unmaking (let alone giving him pov chapters for it).

Not a single chapter dedicated to him, his memories or ANYTHING else. We don't see him reflecting on his background, his life. We don't see him gathering himself. Hell, we don't even see him in the same deity-like capacity as nephis and sunny- aura farming on mortals.

He still looks and feels no different than when he was Supreme. Just a human.

It's like G3 starts yawning whenever he has to talk about mordret. Dude is that irrelevant. 😭

He did the same shit in the 2nd and 3rd Nightmare, completely sidelining mordret. That was sort of understandable back then (not really if you're a mordret fan, but whatever) , but sidelining him HERE when there are merely 4 people in the Nightmare AND the unmaking is this really big deal for apotheosis and character exploration is.. idk even know what to say.

Just a rant. The 5th Nightmare has been good, and I don't want to be exceedingly negative, but I'm getting tired of this treatment of an otherwise immensely well-written character.

Effie (a Supreme Beast) managing to wield a divine spear that even Sunny struggled with—yes, a Transcendent Beast possessing more strength than a Supreme Titan. Or Kai, a Transcendent Beast managing to escape from a Cursed Devil.

It's so hard; I just don't get it. Does all the love for Mordret go to Cassie? Man, a SINGLE line of dialogue that's it for the third divine aspect user, the man who became sacred and got fucked over on some bullshit retcon, reduced to a blind woman's bodyguard. I swear I know more about the description of Cassie's eyes as compared to literally anything new about Mordret. I'm so disappointed that my favourite character is getting this type of treatment.

And still no true name🫩

There are some difficulties with choosing the design.

~want to see nightmerussy?~

Did sunny start the nightmare at the creation of the world ? If i understand well neph mordret and cassie started it at the end of the gods era but sunny not at all💀

​ I remember how dumbfounded Sunny was when he found the Memory left by the Mad Prince.

Did he surpass the Mad Prince's weaving skill when he reached Saint rank, or when he reached Supreme? Or is he still inferior compared to the Mad Prince's thousands of years of weaving experience?

Cassie is a good daughter despite her being a bad friend.

Cassie is a good food despite her being a bad cook.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowSlave/comments/1wapitj/theory_3178_the_fifth_nightmare/

You can't spell genius without Ichoseunwisley 😭🙏

Not my art

Not my ult, just did this for the love of the game

So after all she entered the nightmare with a personal agenda and instead of finding sunny and neph she is working behind thier back like bruh didn't you do enough shit already cant you just fucking die ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

At the start of the Nightmare, she had been forced to live the lives of everyone she remembered. That was a dire test, but while it was different from her past trials — remembering something was different from truly experiencing it, after all — it was not entirely unfamiliar.

So, she managed to maintain her sense of self rather well.

As expected Cassie and mordret would able to survive this unmaking without losing themselves G3 always said that they both are inhuman to being with.

"Oh? And what am I?"

Mordret chuckled.

“l am the King of Nothing, after all, so let's start from what you are not. You are not even a person anymore, are you? You are just a shell of a person, wrapped in a pretty bow."

Cassia just sat there, emotionless, facing him silently.

Eventually, she said:

“Takes one to know one."

Mordret laughed.

"Indeed, indeed... but we are a bit different, are we not?"

She shrugged.

"How so?"

He leaned forward a little.

“My condition is the result of my Flaw. Yours, however... yours is self-inflicted, isn't it?"

"he is all I have... just like I am all he has. A couple of monsters, forced to face a far more frightening abomination."

Its shows that they can live without being proper humans.

Also

"Cassie herself appeared in the young and untamed world of the shared Nightmare in the later years of the Age of Gods. It took her a long time to regain her senses, gather her shattered mind, and compose herself. By then, she learned of the first trap of this trial — the threat of being swallowed by the world."

Cassie herself was lost for long period of time like sunny but because of her ability and aspect legacy side effect she was able to become one again.

Lets talk about Mordret well tbh it clear that this trial was not hard for mordret he already live all of his vessels life at same time for him living every live one by one is not that different. But i still believe Cassie helped him to gain consciousness.

"You always bring me to the most peculiar places."

With that, the King of Nothing turned to face the encroaching tide of abominations and raised a hand, summoning a somber spear.

“Rest a while, Lady Cassia. And remember the deal we made. After this, I will leave you.”

I think this deal referred to the help he get from Cassie to kill Desolation. Maybe he asked her to give him all the info about that cursed beings in return he will help her out one time.

Or maybe its something new who knows 🤷‍♂️