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.

to her feet and glanced at the members of

go. Gather your

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

that hurts. I'm really starting to wonder if fighting Harus

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

an enemy that you knew

tunnel, Sunny caught up with Effie and asked with a hint

way, how do you even know your way

could have leisurely

gave him a

sort of passed down between the outer settlement hunters. I've been here a couple of times before, trying to escape

Effie shivered.

was new in the Dark City at that time. Back then, the strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort of took me under

and grimaced when his battered body protested against the

very strong, to return from this

glanced at him and

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

a long time, and then

they all died, then why the hell did you bring us

Effie shrugged.

Do you even realize how powerful the six of us are, all put together? Goddamn. I

a few moments

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

but at this point, he didn't really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress alone,

each minute,

the army of the

exactly did all those human skeletons come