Shadow Slave

Chapter 313

On the last day they would spend in the Dark City, Nephis led a small group of her most powerful warriors on one last hunt.

The members of her cohort were all following behind her. Sunny, who stubbornly refused to accept his status as one of them, walked apart from the group, idly looking around and observing the ruins.

Gemma and Seishan were also with them, as well as ten or so of the most experienced hunters — some of them formerly from the Host, some formerly from the outer settlement. There was no difference between the two anymore.

All of them were simply Changing Star's people now.

As they were walking, Gemma approached Sunny and glanced at him with curiosity.

After Tessai had fallen to Neph's blade, the tall man seemed to have found some measure of peace. Somewhere deep in his eyes, however, there always was a hint of sorrow.

Sunny stared at him and raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

The hunter smiled slightly and asked in a friendly tone:

"You're Sunless, right?"

Sunny shrugged.

"Yeah, that's me."

Gemma silently measured him and then asked with interest:

"I've heard that you lived for months alone in the city. Is that true?"

'Ah, makes sense.'

The tall man was perhaps the most experienced hunter on the Forgotten Shore. He had survived countless battles on the streets of the cursed city. It was natural for him to be curious about this matter…

Sunny gave him a nod.

"Sure. A little over three months, I guess."

Gemma rubbed his chin, then asked bluntly:

"How did you survive?"

Sunny grinned.

How had he managed that, indeed?

hiding, lots of killing. A modicum

at him for

about right, I

Changing Star and asked in a

you know what we are going

looked at

"She didn't tell you?"

tall man hesitated, then shook

did. I'm just not sure that I believe

smiled and looked

was that she had lost her mind. What

few moments of

can we

'Poor guy…'

lingered for a bit,

you know more about it

like that,

day, they reached the eastern edges of the city and climbed the imposing monolith of the great wall. Standing on top of it, they saw

was hiding in a vast underground chamber

going to hunt the Lord of the

***

years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of the underground chamber. Now, there was a chasm in the ground that led into the lair of the Lord of

and the rest had used that breach to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were going to use it to descend into that darkness,

below. Sunny wasn't really surprised that Nephis had chosen to return to this place. After all,

was really curious about how exactly

gathered around the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him and

can your shadow take a look at

he sent the shadow into the breach. It slid on the mud and entered the dark hole, then hid in the palm

was still there, in the middle of

from how it had

mass of bones, some of them comparatively thin, others as thick as a human body.

it

and finally noticed the thing that he had expected to

exact same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as soon as they were back in

hunter, that box had appeared on his pillow with a small note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents

been the leader of the Artisans. Her Aspect Ability allowed her to

bone-eating vine, as it turned out,

then spoke,

Kido's vine. It seems

nodded and remained silent for a few moments. Then, she

the Dead will attack us. Now that its power is reduced, and with the help of the Dawn Shard, we should be able to survive the

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