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 little bit of

for a bit, then

about right, I

while, he glanced forward at Changing Star and asked

you know what we are going

at

"She didn't tell you?"

man hesitated,

I'm just not sure that I

smiled and

let me guess. Your first thought was that she had lost her mind.

moments of

how can we kill

'Poor guy…'

lingered for a bit, and then

you know more about

that, their

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

in a

hunt the Lord of

***

the second arm of the Priestess lay in the mud. Thousands of years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through

to escape from the catacombs. Now, they were

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

really curious about how exactly she was planning

in the mud, Changing Star glanced at him and

shadow take a look at the

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

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

very different from

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.

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

his shadow to look closer, and finally noticed the thing that

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

with a small note. That note had been written by Changing Star's spy — Seishan. And the contents of the box had been

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

out, was

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

Kido's vine. It seems to

remained silent for a few

and with the help of the Dawn Shard, we should be

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