Shadow Slave

After a while, Sunny regained enough of his senses to warily look around.

The tunnel they were currently in was somewhat different from those they had traversed while fighting the horde of undead monsters. It looked more weathered and decrepit, with its walls and floor smoothed and uneven, as though eroded by something over the course of countless years.

What's worse, it was… wet. With a cold shiver, Sunny realized that they were surrounded by puddles of black water.

The smell of sea salt permeated the air.

Looking up, he found the tall figure of the boisterous huntress and asked in a raspy voice:

"Where are we?"

Effie glanced at him and gestured up.

"A hundred meters or so below the surface, pretty much exactly under the city wall."

He stared at her blankly, slowly comprehending the meaning of these words. The huntress gave him a nod.

"Yeah, you guessed correctly. Come night, this place is going to be full of seawater. That chasm behind us is what prevents the catacombs from being flooded by the dark sea."

She sighed tiredly.

"So, unless we want to drown or be eaten by some depth dweller, we need to get out of here as soon as possible."

Sunny closed his eyes, imagining a roaring torrent of black water erupting from the mouths of countless tunnels and falling into the abyssal chasm like waterfalls made of pure darkness.

Yeah, if they were still underground when that happened, sea monsters would be the least of their problems. The sea itself would kill them.

Luckily, the day was still young.

moments later, Nephis rose to her feet and glanced at the members of the cohort.

to go.

sighs and groans of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was the last one

to wonder if fighting

no, it wasn't. Terrible as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at least

nothing worse than facing an enemy that you

into the tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked with a hint

how do you even know your

like she could have leisurely explored these deadly

gave him a dubious

of passed down between the outer settlement hunters. I've been here a couple of times before, trying

Effie shivered.

Dark City at that time. Back then, the strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort of took me under her wing. We went

the back of his head and grimaced when his

That party must have been very strong, to return from

huntress glanced at him and

all died. I was the

her for a long time, and

all died, then why the hell

Effie shrugged.

you even realize

hesitated for a few moments

going to face. We'll get out

person, but at this point, he didn't really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress alone,

angled down. With each minute, the cohort was

battle against the army of the dead was behind them, Sunny began to

those