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.

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

to go.

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

to wonder if fighting Harus was a better

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

worse than facing an enemy that you

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

do you even know your way around the

she could have leisurely explored these

a dubious look

couple of times before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although,

Effie shivered.

at that time. Back then, the strongest hunter in the outer settlement sort

back of his head and grimaced when his battered body

That party must have been very strong,

glanced at him and

all died. I was the only

at her for a long time,

why the hell did

Effie shrugged.

to this one. Do you even realize

for a

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

he didn't really have

down. With each minute, the cohort was descending deeper and

of the dead was

those