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

for a bit,

right,

a while, he glanced forward at Changing Star and asked in a curious

we are

at

"She didn't tell you?"

hesitated, then shook his

did. I'm just not sure that I

and looked

thought was that she had lost her mind. What can I say… get

few moments

can we kill

'Poor guy…'

for a bit, and

you know more about it than

like that, their conversation

top of it, they saw the colossal crater and the headless statue that stood not

a

they were going to hunt the Lord of the

***

the mud. Thousands of years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of

the catacombs. Now, they were

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

how exactly she was planning to kill

the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him

shadow take a look at

the breach. It slid on the mud and entered the dark hole, then hid in the palm of the giant stone hand and cautiously looked

of human bones was still there, in the middle

it looked very different from how it had

growing from the mass of bones, some of them comparatively thin, others as thick as a human body. They weren't growing

seemed… weaker. More brittle. As though it was sick, sapped of its

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 Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as soon as

words the outer settlement hunter, that box had appeared on his pillow with a small note. That note had been written

the Artisans. Her

vine, as it turned out,

and then spoke, his words causing a

by Kido's

for a few moments. Then, she

Dead will attack us. Now that its power is reduced, and with the help of

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