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

fell to the ground and clinked loudly against

He

the sound of metal striking against stone, the Sleepers lunged forward,

'What a persistent bunch.'

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

these guys were even thinking. If it wasn't for him carefully

been thugs, but they were experienced and accomplished hunters. They feared the city and knew how to behave while outside the castle

all of them would have been dead a

extremely rare to

these fools even real hunters? If

one of them alive to interrogate later, but then decided against it. To be honest, he wasn't really curious. Human business had

more interesting things to

lingered on the steps,

victim. The scrawny kid was hesitating in front 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

he flinched and dove into the building with desperation

rat!" hissed the man who had lost

the Sleepers followed the

sign of the scared kid. The only thing they saw was a simple rock lying on

something was wrong, the rock said

goodbye