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

to go. Gather

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

to wonder if fighting Harus was a

might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at least predictable. The damned hunchback, on the

than facing an enemy that

the tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked with

way, how do you even know your way around

wasn't like she could have leisurely explored

huntress gave him a dubious

knowledge is sort 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.

the outer settlement sort of took me under her wing. We went down here with an

grimaced when his battered body protested against

party must have been very strong, to return from this place

glanced at him and smiled

anything about returning alive? Actually, they all died. I was

her for a long time, and

why the hell did you bring us

Effie shrugged.

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

for a few

going to face.

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

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

the army of the dead was behind them,

all those human skeletons