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, and a

for

about right,

Changing Star and asked in a

know what we are going to hunt

looked at

"She didn't tell you?"

man hesitated, then

just not sure that

and

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

moments of

can we kill

'Poor guy…'

for a bit, and

my guess is correct, you know

just like that,

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 the colossal crater and the headless statue that stood not too far away, its

in a vast underground

to hunt the Lord of the

***

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

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

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

about how exactly she was

hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him

shadow take a look at the burial

mud and entered the

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

it looked very different from how

as thick as a human body. They weren't growing just between the ancient remains: the vines were bursting through the bones, too. Almost as

though it was sick, sapped of its strength and infected by a

shadow to look closer, and finally

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

note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy

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

vine, as it turned out, was her last creation and

a moment and then spoke, his words causing a subtle reaction

tyrant is heavily infected by Kido's vine. It

remained silent for

with the help of the Dawn Shard, we

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