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.

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

to go. Gather

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

to wonder if

might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at least predictable.

worse than facing an enemy that you knew nothing

tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked

way, how do you even know your way around

she could have leisurely explored these deadly tunnels

a

of passed down between the outer settlement hunters. I've been here a couple of times before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although,

Effie shivered.

strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort of

the back of his head and grimaced when his battered

been very strong, to

at him and smiled

alive? Actually, they all died. I was the only one to

stared at her for a long time,

then why the hell did you bring us

Effie shrugged.

realize how

a few

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

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

were now strongly angled down. With each minute,

Now that the harrowing battle against the army of the dead

all those