Shadow Slave

Chapter 99

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.

and ran. It was really hard to pursue someone who could see in the dark on these narrow streets, so there was

the dead leader's skull, it fell to the ground

the bastard! He killed the

metal striking against stone, the Sleepers lunged forward, following

'What a persistent bunch.'

stop the bleeding or simply unwilling to let the

own five fingers. Honestly, he was unsure what these guys were even thinking. If it wasn't for him carefully choosing the path, they would have ended up disturbing some terrifying

experienced and accomplished hunters. They feared the city and knew how to behave while outside

all of them would have been dead a long

of that, it was extremely rare to see them going anywhere

these fools even real hunters? If not, what

it. To be honest, he

had much more interesting things

his goal, Sunny lingered on the steps, pretending to be in

front of the entrance to a large ruined building, fear clearly written on his dirty, pale face. It

into the

the man who had lost his hand to

of killing intent, the Sleepers followed the crazy young

scared kid. The only thing they saw was a simple rock

realized that something was wrong, the rock

say goodbye to

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