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.

feet and glanced at

to go. Gather

sighs and groans of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was

hurts. I'm really starting to wonder

no, it wasn't. Terrible as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons

worse than facing an enemy that you

tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked

do you even know your way around the

like she could have leisurely explored these deadly

a dubious look and

outer 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 the catacombs

Effie shivered.

the

scratched the back of his head and grimaced when his

have been very strong,

glanced at him and smiled

Actually, they all died. I was the only

a long time,

then why the hell did you bring us

Effie shrugged.

strong 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 our

for a few

what we're going to face. We'll

this point, he didn't really have a choice.

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

Now that the harrowing battle against the army of the dead was behind

did all those human skeletons