Shadow Slave

Sunny had dropped the throwing dagger near the monster's body in advance and then took all those steps back to make this exact situation possible. As soon as the Parrot Rock spoke, he pulled on the invisible string, sending the kunai flying back in his direction. The tall bastard didn't just happen to be in its path, either.

[You have slain…]

The leader of the hunting party really should have listened to that rock.

[... shadow grows stronger.]

Before the Sleepers even had time to react, Sunny was already moving. The shadow had been wrapped around his body a long time ago, making him that much faster. Summoning the Midnight Shard, he fluidly slashed at the nearest enemy, severing the man's arm at the elbow.

The blade struck right between the vambrace and the couter of his enchanted plate armor.

To Sunny, these people we slow and clumsy, their power level and technique severely lacking. He had already been more experienced than them after the harrowing journey through the crimson labyrinth, learning how to wield the sword in combat from Changing Star herself.

The three months he had spent hunting and surviving alone in the cursed city only made the gap that much wider. Despite looking like easy prey, Sunny was anything but.

However, he wasn't foolish enough to challenge all five of them. People might have been weaker than Nightmare Creatures, but what made them really dangerous was their unpredictability. Each Aspect was unique, arming humans with a formidable arsenal of inexplicable Abilities.

Facing something you couldn't understand was the surest way to end up dead.

With his advantage of surprise gone, Sunny decided that it was time to retreat.

to pursue someone who could see in the dark on these narrow streets, so there

still attached to Sunny's wrist. Sliding out of the dead leader's skull, it fell to the ground and clinked loudly against the stones, then jumped a few meters away

He killed

stone, the Sleepers lunged forward, following in Sunny's

'What a persistent bunch.'

his arm was on his heels, either having a way to stop the bleeding or simply unwilling to let the attacker escape even if it cost him his

hunting ground. He knew every nook and cranny of these streets like his own five fingers. Honestly, he was unsure what these guys were even thinking. If it wasn't for

were experienced and

have been dead a long

was extremely rare to see them

these fools even real hunters? If

it. To be honest, he wasn't really curious. Human business had

had much more

on the steps, pretending to be in

a large ruined building, fear clearly written on his dirty, pale face. It seemed as though he didn't know where to go, afraid to run

into the

run now, rat!" hissed the man who had

Sleepers followed

the scared kid.

man belatedly realized that something was wrong, the rock said in an ominous

say goodbye to your