Shadow Slave

The surface of the cursed sea seethed and boiled, then exploded into the skies. Following the disappearance of the gargantuan tentacle, six others appeared from beneath the black waves. They rose and loomed above the marching colossus like twisted mountains, blocking the clamor of the storm for a fleeting moment.

Sunny gritted his teeth and stared at the terrible image, trying to comprehend the scale of the approaching battle.

How were tiny humans supposed to survive the fight between titans?

A second later, the tentacles collapsed from the skies to assail the stone giant. Because of their size, it seemed as if they were moving in slow motion. However, Sunny knew that it was just an illusion.

Four of the arms of the unseen leviathan submerged back under the water to coil around the legs and the torso of the colossus, while two remaining ones slithered toward his hand.

The ancient statue continued to walk south, seemingly unperturbed by the furious assault of the terrifying dweller of the depths. It batted one of the tentacles away, and allowed the other to wrap around its wrist.

"Hold fast!"

Sunny didn't register whose shout that was, but followed the advice and grabbed onto the Stone Saint even tighter.

'Curse it all!'

In the furious roar of thunder and blinding lightning, the stone giant suddenly staggered and slightly careened to the side. The tentacle that was coiled around his wrist had tensed, trying to pull the hand down.

surface of the ancient stone. It almost looked as though the wrist of the colossus was going to snap and

his palm and grasped the tentacle, then squeezed it in an obliterating

which creature was more devastatingly powerful. But then

torn to

the black waters of the cursed sea, but he could vividly imagine two of them coiling around the legs of the ancient statue, two wrapping around its torso, and another one holding down the hand and the

walking statue slowed, as if it had to struggle against an unimaginable weight that was dragging it back. The colossus staggered once more,

'Not good…'

feet, Sunny could feel the vibrations running through the ancient stone. The giant was trembling, as if straining to move his colossal body with all his strength. The circular platform they were hiding on slowly began to slope to the side, allowing even more

them with rain and seawater. The thunderclaps merged into one continuous, deafening roar, and the flashes of lightning

almost as if… as if the colossus was bending his waist and

understood what was about

wasn't the

the Stone Saint followed his command and fell to her knees to thrust a hand into a crack in

under!

'Here we go again!'

second, the colossus leaned forward and dove under the turbulent surface

previous day when they had to cross the canyon, this time they were being pulled deep into the

current rush past him, Sunny held on for his dear life and waited. If he

water grew heavier and the cold of the lightless void seeped into his bones, the circular platform suddenly stopped and swayed lightly. Despite being submerged deep underwater, Sunny could hear a loud, indescribable sound spreading through the vast expanse of

'Gods, gods!'