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?

A modicum of madness,

him for a

about right, I

while, he glanced forward at Changing Star and asked in

what we are

looked at him with

"She didn't tell you?"

tall man hesitated, then

I'm just not sure

and

lost

a few moments of silence,

how can

'Poor guy…'

lingered for a

guess is correct, you know

just like that, their conversation

and climbed the imposing monolith of the great wall. Standing on top of it, they saw the colossal crater and the headless statue that stood not too

prey was hiding in a vast underground chamber beneath that

hunt the Lord of the

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of the statue, the second arm of the Priestess lay in the mud. Thousands of years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of the underground chamber. Now, there

that breach to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were going

for them below. Sunny wasn't really surprised that Nephis had chosen to return to this place. After all, the mountainous abomination was most likely guarding the last of the seven

was really curious about how exactly she

gathered around the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced

your shadow take a look at

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

human bones was still there, in the middle of the vast

very different from how it had

comparatively thin, others as thick as a human body. They weren't growing just between the ancient remains: the vines were bursting through

More brittle. As though it was sick, sapped

commanded his shadow to look closer, and finally noticed the thing

the floor of the underground chamber, open and empty. The exact same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as soon as they were back in

had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of the box

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

bone-eating vine, as it turned out, was her last creation and

for a moment and then spoke,

is heavily infected by Kido's

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

the help of the Dawn Shard, we should be able to survive the

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