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 hiding, lots of killing. A modicum of madness, and a

at him for a bit, then

about right, I

at Changing Star and asked

we

looked at

"She didn't tell you?"

hesitated,

not sure that

and looked

thought was that she had lost her mind. What can

few moments

how can we kill

'Poor guy…'

glanced at him, lingered for a bit, and then

is correct, you know more about it than

like that, their

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

was hiding in a

were going to hunt the Lord of the

***

years ago, it had broken off and fell, crashing through the dome of the

escape from the catacombs. Now,

catacombs waited for them below. Sunny wasn't really surprised that Nephis had chosen to return to this place. After all, the mountainous abomination was most

about how exactly she was planning to kill

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

take a

entered the dark hole, then hid in the palm of the giant

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

from how it had been

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.

Dead seemed… weaker. More brittle. As though it was

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

empty. The exact same box Nephis had mysteriously entrusted to

words the outer settlement 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

the Artisans. Her Aspect Ability allowed her to control and

it turned out, was her last creation

and then spoke, his words causing

Kido's

Star nodded and remained silent for a few moments.

help of the Dawn Shard, we should be able to survive the onslaught. We should also

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