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.

served as a signal. A few moments later, Nephis rose to her feet and glanced at

go. Gather

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

starting to wonder

wasn't. Terrible as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons was

facing an enemy that you knew nothing

up with Effie and asked with a hint of idle curiosity in

way, how do you even know your

could have leisurely explored these deadly

huntress gave him a dubious

hunters. I've been here a couple of times before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to be honest, I

Effie shivered.

then, the strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort of took me under

scratched the back of his head and grimaced when

party must have been very strong,

at

they all died. I

stared at her for a long time, and

all died, then why the

Effie shrugged.

to this one. Do you even realize how powerful the six of

she hesitated for a

to face. We'll get out

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

each minute, the cohort was descending

curiosity awakened. Now that the harrowing battle against the army of the dead

all those human skeletons come