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.

few moments later, Nephis rose to her feet and glanced at

go.

of pain, everyone stood up. Sunny was

starting to wonder if fighting Harus

the skeletons was at least predictable. The

than facing an enemy that you knew nothing

Sunny caught up with Effie and

the way, how do you even know your

have leisurely explored

a dubious look

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

Effie shivered.

the outer settlement sort of took me under her wing. We went down

grimaced when his battered body protested against

That party must have been very

at him and

Actually, they all died. I was the only one to

stared at her for a long

why the hell did you bring

Effie shrugged.

that party was, they weren't even close to this one. Do you even realize

for a few moments and

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

particularly trusting person, but at this point, he didn't really have a choice. Leaving the tall huntress alone, he walked in

each minute, the cohort was

awakened. Now that the harrowing battle against the army of the

all those human skeletons come