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.

few moments later, Nephis rose to her feet and glanced at the

go. Gather your

everyone stood up. Sunny was

hurts. I'm really starting to wonder if fighting Harus was a better

been, the battle with the skeletons was at

worse than facing an enemy

tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked with a hint of idle curiosity

even know your

like she could have

him a

I've been here a couple of times before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to be honest, I only descended this deep into the catacombs

Effie shivered.

in the outer

of his head and grimaced when

been very strong, to return

huntress glanced at him and smiled

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

stared at her for a long

died, then why the hell did

Effie shrugged.

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

a few moments and

I know what we're going to face. We'll get out of

really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress alone, he walked in silence

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

army of the dead was behind them, Sunny began to wonder

did all those human skeletons come