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 the members

to go. Gather your

of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was the

to wonder if fighting

wasn't. Terrible as it might have been, the battle with the skeletons was at least predictable. The damned hunchback, on the other hand,

an enemy

with Effie and asked with a hint of idle curiosity

even know your

she could have leisurely explored these

huntress gave him a

before, trying to escape from especially terrible Nightmare Creatures. Although, to be honest, I

Effie shivered.

in the outer settlement sort of took me under

scratched the back of his head and grimaced when his battered body protested against the

been very strong, to return from this place

glanced at

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

for a long time, and then

why the hell did you bring

Effie shrugged.

one. Do you even realize how powerful the six of us are, all put together? Goddamn. I wouldn't want to be

hesitated for a few

face. We'll

point, he didn't really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress alone, he walked in silence

each minute, the cohort was

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

all those