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:

going to continue

and blinked, trying to remember what was

morning. There are things we have

long and exhausting. They 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

time to rest yet. They had to take basic precautions, at

she placed her hand on it, he walked over to the Carapace Demon's corpse, stopping

them with

"Good morning."

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

give it 3.6 out

passing around the glass bottle full of

Neph attacked. She used her Aspect Ability to ignite her sword and struck at the weakened patch of armor on the demon's chest,

Star's new trick. Either she knew all along because Nephis had told her, or

wounded from his fight with the… the thing from the sea, so it was enough to finish

her

killing an awakened demon! I thought that stuff like that

Nephis corrected her:

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

blind girl lowered her face, a

Two or three, it doesn't really change

from one girl to another, then finally turned to

I promised to cook demon meat for you after this is over, didn't

mouth. However, Cassie suddenly frowned,

I don't know

He raised his eyebrows.

"What? Why?"

She lingered before answering.

it was evil. I didn't think about it before, but now… uh. It just doesn't seem right, I

of a creature whose intelligence was comparable to theirs did seem a little wrong. Even if that creature was a bloodthirsty demon who would have swallowed them whole

things worked in the Dream Realm. Monsters devoured humans, and humans devoured monsters. It was the circle

were universally insane and obsessed with murder and destruction, just like he was, there were also other qualities to the

and fearless, even valiant. When fighting against the terrifying monsters of the dark sea, he did not hesitate to stand his ground, refusing to

not educate me on the ethics of eating your enemies? What

Sunny's silence, Cassie blushed

I feel. You and Neph don't

Sunny shook his head.

didn't bring any supplies with us, so we won't be able to eat anything unless we

Then, her

the great tree's fruits? I bet

at her

"Are you serious?"

confused

"Uh… yes? Why?"

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and pretty, but it's also 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