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?

of hiding, lots of killing. A modicum of madness, and a

him for a bit,

right, I

forward at Changing Star and asked in a curious

we are going

at him

"She didn't tell you?"

tall man hesitated,

not sure that I believe

smiled and

lost her mind. What can I

moments

how can we

'Poor guy…'

at him, lingered for a bit,

is correct, you know

like that, their conversation

middle of the 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

to hunt the Lord of the

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the mud. Thousands of 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

to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were going to use it to descend into that darkness,

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

curious about how exactly

around the hole in the mud, Changing

a look at the burial

slid on the mud and entered the dark hole, then hid in the palm of

of human bones was still there, in

from how

as a human body. They weren't growing just between the ancient remains: the vines

brittle. As though it was sick, sapped of its strength and

his shadow to look closer, and finally noticed the thing that he had

wooden box lay on the floor of the underground chamber, open and empty. The exact same box

pillow with a small note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of the

of the Artisans. Her Aspect Ability allowed

turned out,

hesitated for a moment and then spoke, his words causing a

heavily infected by Kido's vine. It seems to be considerably

silent for a few moments. Then,

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

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