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?

killing. A modicum of

at him for a bit,

right, I

forward at Changing Star and

we are going to hunt

looked at him

"She didn't tell you?"

man hesitated, then

did. I'm just not sure that I believe

and

she had lost

moments of

can we

'Poor guy…'

at him, lingered for a

guess is correct, you know more about it than I

just like that, their conversation

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

hiding in a vast

going to hunt the Lord of the

***

broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of

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

had chosen to return to this place. After all, the mountainous abomination was most likely guarding

was really curious about how exactly she was planning

around the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him and

your shadow take a

into the breach. It slid on the mud and entered the dark hole, then

mountain of human bones was still there, in the middle of

looked very different from how

green vines were growing from the mass of bones, some 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, too. Almost as

seemed… weaker. More brittle. As though it

to look closer, and finally noticed the thing that he

same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to Caster as

had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of

the Artisans. Her Aspect Ability allowed her to

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

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

Kido's vine. It seems

silent for a few

we enter the chamber, the Lord of the Dead will 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

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