Soul Serpent

* Names
* Status

* Debut
* Current

**Soul Serpent** is Sunny's first Shadow received from first mastery of his Aspect Legacy, Shadow Dance.

## Appearance

* Tattoo Form
* Weapon Form
* Soul Beast

### Tattoo Form

An intricate image of a black serpent coiled around his arms and his torso, its tail resting just above his right hand, its head just above his left. The serpent almost seemed to move under his skin, two curved fangs threatening to break its surface. It was striking, beautiful, and disturbing. It was the Shadow God's mark.

### Weapon Form

**Weapon form (default):** A menacing, formidable, foreboding black-bladed odachi. Including the hilt, the odachi was as long as he was tall. It was surprisingly light for its length, but heavy enough to inflict truly devastating wounds. Almost invisible on the dark steel, a lifelike image of a coiling serpent was etched into its blade.

Due to its ability **[Serpentine Steel]**, Serpent's Soul Weapon form can assume the shape of any weapon. The Serpent could take any form, but was limited by Sunny's knowledge. The better he knew a weapon, the better he could imagine it, to the smallest of details, the greater the result would be.

* Awakened
* Ascended

### Soul Beast - Awakened

Due to its attribute **[Soul Beast]**, Soul Serpent can assume the form of a beast.

A giant snake with jet-black scales, at least six meters in length, its body is as wide as a large man's arm and strong enough to crush granite into dust. Opening its maw, revealed long, terrifying onyx fangs. The serpent's eyes were as black as its mighty body and shone with dark radiance, as deep as the lightless expanse of an ocean of shadows.

After Sunny formed his fourth core, becoming a devil, Soul Serpent also rose to the same class acquiring the ability **[Formless]**. In its Soul Beast form, Soul Serpent can now assume the shape of any shadow contained within its master's soul, inheriting all powers and abilities. However, the shadow must be of the same or lower Rank and Class than itself.

### Soul Beast - Ascended

After ascension, the stygian creature grew at least twice its previous size, its mighty body covered in adamantine jet-black scales and as thick as a tree trunk. Its terrifying maw was wide enough to swallow Sunny's whole human body with its triangular head and two tenebrous eyes looking at him from above.
## Personality

The serpent's eyes were full of strange, alien intelligence. There was no aggression or ill will in them instead was simply recognition.

## Runes & Progress

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* In Chapter 848, Sunny mentioned that the name of the Soul Serpent was dim and lifeless. He could not dismiss or summon the Shadow back after gifting it to Rain, at least not from a distance. However, he still felt a subtle connection to it and knew that the Serpent was alive and well.

## Trivia

* This Legacy Shadow gets new Abilities/Attributes from mastery of Shadow Dance:
	+ **Second Mastery**: [Soul Beast] Attribute and [Soul Reaver] Ability
	+ **Third Mastery** : [Grace of Shadows] Ability

* Sunny transferred the Serpent to Rain and commanded it to hide unless the girl was in mortal danger.

Sunny cannot give Rain any memories or echoes as she lacked an Aspect or a soul core to encompass them and did not have a shadow core to receive one of his Shadows. But Serpent was different, [Grace of Shadows] allowed it to accompany anyone who had a shadow, including a mundane human.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 527 The New Guy
2. ↑ Chapter 810 Secret Gift
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chapter 359 Soul Serpent
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 653 Cute Little Snake
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 549 Soul Beast
6. ↑ Chapter 702 Devil
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 810 Secret Gift