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

go. Gather your

sighs and groans of pain, everyone stood up.

I'm really starting to wonder if

with the skeletons was at least predictable. The damned hunchback, on

than facing an enemy that

into the tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked with a hint of

you even know your way

have leisurely explored these deadly tunnels

a dubious

settlement hunters. 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

Effie shivered.

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

of his head and grimaced when his battered body protested

That party must have been very

glanced at him

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

for a long time,

died, then why the

Effie shrugged.

to this one. Do you even realize how powerful the

a few moments and

what we're going to face. We'll get

point, he didn't really have a choice.

now strongly angled down. With each

awakened. Now that the harrowing battle against the army of the dead

exactly did all those