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 the members

to go.

pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was the last

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

might have been, the battle with the skeletons was

nothing worse than facing an enemy that you knew

with Effie and asked with

you even know your

like she could have leisurely explored these

a dubious look and

before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to be honest, I only descended this deep into

Effie shivered.

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

been very strong, to return

at him and smiled

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

her for a

they all died, then why the

Effie shrugged.

you even realize how powerful the six of us are, all put together?

for a few moments and

know what we're going to face.

a particularly trusting person, but at this point, he didn't really have a

angled down. With each minute, the cohort

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

did all those human skeletons