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 killing. A modicum of madness, and a

at him for a bit,

about right,

glanced forward at Changing Star and asked in a

we are

looked at

"She didn't tell you?"

man hesitated, then shook his

just not sure that

smiled and looked

that she had lost her mind. What

a few moments of

can

'Poor guy…'

lingered for a bit, and then

guess is correct, you know more

like that,

monolith of the great wall. Standing on top of it, they saw the colossal crater and the headless

prey was hiding in a vast

hunt

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

to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were going to

return to this place.

curious about how

everyone gathered around the hole in the mud, Changing Star glanced at

shadow take a look at the burial

slid on the mud and entered the dark hole, then hid in the palm of the giant stone hand

of human bones was still there,

different from how it had been

body. They weren't growing just between the ancient

More brittle. As though it was sick, sapped of its strength and infected by a

to look closer, and finally

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

hunter, that box had appeared on his pillow with a small note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the

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

it turned out,

then spoke, his words causing

is heavily infected by Kido's

for

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

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