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

go. Gather

of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was the last one to follow

I'm really starting to wonder if fighting

as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at

facing an enemy that you

the cohort headed deeper into the tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and

even know your

could have leisurely explored these deadly

gave him a dubious

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

Effie shivered.

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

scratched the back of his head and grimaced when his battered body protested against the

have been very strong, to return

huntress glanced at

returning alive? Actually, they all died. I

a long time, and then

then why the hell did you bring

Effie shrugged.

that party was, they weren't even close to this one. Do you even realize how powerful the six of us are, all put together? Goddamn. I wouldn't want to be

hesitated for a few moments

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

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

now strongly angled down. With each minute,

against the army of the dead was behind

those human skeletons come