Shadow Slave

A few minutes later, Sunny heard a noise coming from somewhere above. Looking in that direction, he noticed that Cassie was standing at the edge of the wide branch, gripping the golden rope in her hands.

Before he could react, the blind girl was already climbing down. She was very cautious, but also quite nimble for someone without sight.

He blinked.

'Is she crazy? That's dangerous!'

But he was worried for nothing. Cassie quickly reached the ground and let go of the rope, safe and sound. She then summoned her staff and took a hesitant step, trying to remember where his shout had come from.

Sunny made his presence known and guided her by saying:

"I'm here!"

The blind girl turned her head in his direction and walked forward, carefully feeling the ground in front of her with the staff. Because of how uneven the surface of the island had become, it took her longer than usual to reach him.

Just as she was about to walk past, Sunny spoke again:

"Hey, Cas."

Cassie stopped and lowered her head with a surprised expression. Then, she asked:

"Why are you lying on the ground?"

He smiled weakly.

"Ah, it's very comfortable."

Suddenly, the blind girl frowned and asked in a worried tone:

"Are you hurt?"

Sunny shook his head with a sigh. His sense of humor was not always appreciated. In fact, it had often landed him in hot water in the past.

"Just bruised all over. Nothing serious. I'm just really tired… that one was really intense."

Since Cassie was still frowning, he thought for a moment and added:

"Neph is also fine. She's resting a bit further away."

Finally, the delicate girl relaxed. Her face cleared, and she offered him a hesitant smile.

"You really killed that demon?"

Sunny cast a gaze at the giant corpse and closed his eyes.

"Yeah. He's very dead."

Both of them were silent for some time. Sunny was on the verge of falling asleep when Cassie carefully asked:

just going to

his eyes and blinked, trying to remember what

morning. There are things we

had to make preparations to execute the plan, race to the top of the hill, climb the great tree, hide themselves in its branches, risk their lives to set the demon on fire, not to mention the… all the stuff that happened after. All culminating in the short but terrifying battle against the

it was not time to rest yet. They had to take basic

stood up and offered Cassie his shoulder. After she placed her hand on it, he walked over to the

greeted them with

"Good morning."

Changing Star tried to force a polite smile. However, today it did not look

out of

were sitting in a circle, passing around the glass bottle full of cold, refreshing water. Sunny was in the middle of describing

Aspect Ability to ignite her sword and struck at the weakened patch of armor on the demon's chest, the one you told us

because Nephis had told her, or she saw something in one of her visions.

from the sea, so it was enough to finish him off. A few seconds later,

shook her head in

is… incredible. Two Sleepers killing an awakened demon! I

Nephis corrected her:

Without your vision and advice, we wouldn't have been able

girl lowered her

Two or three, it doesn't

girl to another, then finally turned to

would expect to happen. But, anyway… I promised to cook demon meat for you after this is over, didn't I?

the juicy, tender meat in his mouth. However, Cassie suddenly

don't

He raised his eyebrows.

"What? Why?"

She lingered before answering.

weird to eat the meat of an intelligent creature. Even if it was evil. I didn't think about it before, but now… uh.

In retrospect, the idea of making steaks out of a creature whose intelligence was comparable to theirs did seem a little wrong. Even if that creature was a

how things worked in the Dream Realm. Monsters devoured humans, and humans devoured monsters. It was the circle of life... death? The circle

Carapace Demon was not only smart. He had his own thoughts and personality. Even though Nightmare Creatures were universally insane and obsessed with murder and destruction,

dark sea, he did not

come Teacher Julius did not educate me on the ethics of eating your enemies?

Sunny's silence, Cassie blushed and

just how I feel. You and Neph don't have

Sunny shook his head.

It's just that we didn't bring any supplies with us, so we won't

blind girl sighed. Then, her face brightened and

the great tree's fruits? I bet

at her

"Are you serious?"

visibly confused by his

"Uh… yes? Why?"

blinked a couple of times before

very strange and suspicious. Why is it able to grow here when nothing else can? I'm pretty sure that it's the reason why all the coral around the Ashen Barrow is dead. Have you seen anything else capable of damaging the