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?

lots of killing. A modicum of madness, and

at him for a

right, I

Changing Star and asked

we are

looked at him

"She didn't tell you?"

man hesitated, then shook his

not sure that I believe

and looked

that she had lost her mind. What can

moments of silence, Gemma

can we

'Poor guy…'

lingered for a

guess is correct, you know more about it than I

like that, their

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

a vast underground

to hunt the

***

the base of the statue, 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 underground chamber. Now, there was a

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

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

how exactly she was planning to kill

gathered around the hole in the mud,

shadow take a look at the burial

It slid on the mud and entered

there, in the

from how

thick as a human body. They weren't growing just between the ancient remains: the

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

finally noticed the thing that he had expected to

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

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

Artisans. Her Aspect

as it turned out, was her

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

Kido's vine. It

nodded and remained silent for a

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

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