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.

rose to her feet and glanced at the members of the cohort. Her pale face was

go. Gather your

sighs and groans of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny

that hurts. I'm really starting to wonder if fighting Harus was a better

the battle with the skeletons was at least predictable. The damned hunchback, on the other hand, was

an

caught up with Effie and asked with a

do you even know your way

like she could have leisurely explored

him a dubious look

a couple of times before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to

Effie shivered.

strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort of took me under her wing. We

and grimaced when his battered body protested

been very strong, to return from this place

huntress glanced at him and smiled

all died. I was the only one

at her for a

died, then why the hell did you

Effie shrugged.

one. Do you even realize how

hesitated for a few moments

know what we're going to face. We'll get out of here in one piece,

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 descending

of the

all those human