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 of madness,

at him for

about right, I

while, he glanced forward at Changing Star and asked in

know what we are going to

at

"She didn't tell you?"

tall man hesitated, then

I'm just not sure that

and

Your first thought was that she had lost her mind. What can I

few moments of silence, Gemma

how can

'Poor guy…'

at him, lingered for a bit, and

is correct, you know more about it than

like that, their conversation

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

was hiding in a vast

hunt the

***

had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of the

escape from the

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

really curious about how

the mud, Changing Star glanced at

your shadow take a look at the burial

the shadow into the breach. It slid on the mud and entered the

mountain of human bones was still there,

looked very different from

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

it was sick, sapped of its

and finally noticed the thing that he had expected to

chamber, open and empty. The exact same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as soon as

written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of the box had been created for her by Kido, who was

Her Aspect Ability allowed her to control

as it turned out, was

to Nephis, Sunny hesitated for a moment and then spoke, his words causing a

is heavily infected by Kido's

and remained silent for

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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