Shadow Slave

Chapter 32

With an empty stomach and a head full of thoughts, Sunny returned to the center of the platform and sat down. After a while, he beckoned to his shadow and said:

"Wake me up if anything happens."

Then, he closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. His consciousness quickly slid into the sweet embrace of darkness, giving Sunny some well-needed rest.

In the middle of the night, however, a sudden impulse stirred him awake. Sunny jumped to his feet, his groggy mind full of tense apprehension. He was afraid that the owner of the giant tentacle had come back to finish the job.

Or maybe some other horror from the depths had sensed him and decided to snack on human meat.

However, the sea was quiet and calm. He didn't hear any abnormalities around the knight's statue.

"What is it?" Sunny whispered, addressing the shadow.

The shadow silently pointed him in a particular direction.

Turning his head, Sunny squinted. He quickly understood why it was a good idea to wake up. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to see…

Out there in the distance, a few kilometers away, a small orange light was shimmering in the darkness. Its reflections were rising and falling with the movement of waves.

It was too far away to make out any details, so Sunny just stared at it for a while. Pretty soon, the light disappeared.

"Other Sleepers? Natural phenomenon? Or some monster laying a trap?"

Memories of nightmarish deepwater creatures immediately came to his mind.

Shaking his head, Sunny lay back down and attempted to return to his slumber. However, this time sleep was escaping him. Pangs of hunger were still not unbearable, but slowly becoming more and more intense. The thirst, however, was worse.

up until the sun rose again, sending

***

morning came, the pincer monsters crawled back from their hiding spots and rushed to the

the platform to take a look

and formed something akin to

upper branches were just high enough to stay

ideas stormed into Sunny's head, but at the end of it, only two questions were

more importantly, should he even attempt to do it? After all, there was no

to investigate as far into the

as safe atop the headless statue as he probably could be in this strange place. The only problem was, he was going to

by Teacher Julius, with materials that were present pretty much everywhere in the Dream Realm. He could also prepare traps and hunt a pincer monster to eat. With their massive size,

to the statue at the approach of the night. It was probably his safest

Sunny alive, but had no way of giving him hope. If he was destined to spend the rest

just jump down

the source of the orange light. And if Sunny was really trying to

segment of the labyrinth was going to be

the next morning. He would spend the rest of today exploring

that, he closed his eyes and concentrated his perception

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upon the dark sea. Sunny was stirred awake by the

Staying low so as to not be blown over the edge of the platform, Sunny cupped his hands and waited

lightning illuminated everything above the churning sea. If anyone were to see

for several hours. Sunny crouched in the middle of the platform, enduring its rage. More than once, a tall wave would crash into the headless knight's neck, threatening to wash him away. But Sunny held tight to the deep grooves in the stone surface

the storm finally dissipated, all of his muscles

there was no time to

a few stragglers quickly following behind, he

student a crash course in all possible forms of traversal. Additionally, Sunny had

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