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?
lots of killing. A modicum of madness, and a
for a bit,
right, I
forward at Changing Star
what we are going to hunt
looked at him
"She didn't tell you?"
hesitated, then shook his
not sure that I
smiled and
let me guess. Your first thought was that she had lost her mind. What can I say… get
few moments of silence,
can we kill
'Poor guy…'
lingered for a bit, and
my guess is correct, you know
just like that, their
wall. Standing on top of it, they saw the colossal crater and the headless statue that stood not too far away, its one remaining hand thrust toward
was hiding in a vast underground chamber
were going to hunt the Lord of
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second arm of the Priestess lay in the mud. Thousands of years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome
had used that breach to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were going to
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
curious about how exactly she was planning to
gathered around the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him
a look at the burial
a shrug, he sent the shadow into 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 of the vast circular
from how
as thick as a human body. They weren't growing just between
brittle. As though it was sick, sapped of its strength and infected by a terrible
and finally
The exact same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as soon as they were back in the Dark
appeared on his pillow with a small note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of
Her Aspect Ability allowed her to control and
vine, as it turned out, was
and then spoke, his words causing a subtle reaction in
tyrant is heavily infected by Kido's vine. It seems to be considerably
remained silent for a few moments.
attack us. Now that its power is reduced, and with the help of the Dawn Shard, we should be able to survive the onslaught. We should also be able to wound, and eventually
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