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.

her feet and glanced at the

go.

pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was the

to wonder

no, it wasn't. Terrible as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at least predictable. The damned hunchback, on the other hand, was a complete

than facing an enemy that

with Effie and asked with a hint

even know your way around

she could have

a dubious

before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to be honest, I only descended

Effie shivered.

the

grimaced when his battered

have been very

at

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

for a long time, and

the hell did you bring

Effie shrugged.

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

for a few

going to face. We'll get

he didn't really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress

strongly angled down. With each minute, the cohort was descending deeper and deeper

that the harrowing battle against the army of the

did all those human skeletons come