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.

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 and hit the pavement again,

bastard! He

striking against stone, the Sleepers lunged forward, following in

'What a persistent bunch.'

lost his arm was on his heels, either having a way to stop the bleeding or simply unwilling to let

cranny of these streets like his own five fingers. Honestly, he was unsure what these guys were even thinking. If

might have been thugs, but they were experienced and accomplished hunters. They feared

them would have been dead a long

to see them going anywhere near the city at

even real hunters? If not,

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

more interesting

his goal, Sunny lingered on the steps,

of the entrance to 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

flinched and dove into the building with desperation in his

have nowhere to run now, rat!" hissed the man who had lost

the Sleepers followed

inside, they saw no sign of the scared kid. The only thing

the one-armed man belatedly realized that something was wrong, the

say goodbye to