Shadow Slave

Sunny had to spend a few moments calming down his wildly beating heart. Then, he looked around once again. The situation... was much better than he had expected it to be. He really had not considered that the grotesque tunnel left behind by the Azure Serpent would be only partially drowned. Slicing through the flesh of a Great Monster was no easy task, and doing so underwater would have been even harder. More than that, he was less restricted in the use of Shadow Step now.

But, most importantly, he could summon the Covetous Coffer. Opening the alloy chest underwater would have just resulted in the spatial storage being instantly filled with water. Now that they stood on a solid surface, things were different... of course, the tunnel could be flooded at any moment, so they had to hurry.

Sunny looked at Nephis and flashed her a smile."Let's be quick!"

The sparks of light swirled around them, manifesting into Memories. Neph's flame was replaced by a luminous paper lantern, and a sizable alloy chest appeared on the porous pink surface of the Great Monster's bone.

A moment later, their weapons manifested, t...

"Am I reduced to a mere butcher's cleaver? Ah... such humiliation..."

Sunny almost yelped when a familiar figure emerged from the darkness. The Sin of Solace looked somberly at his disheveled appearance, then shook his head. He was still clad in the Shroud of Graceless Dusk, not to mention perfectly dry.

"Damn fool."

Sunny whispered a stifled curse and commanded the shadows to wrap themselves around the jade blade of the cursed sword, which had manifested itself a split second before. Then, he hissed:

"Gods, you almost gave me a heart attack."

Nephis froze for a moment and looked at him with a slightly startled expression.

"Oh... did I? Sorry..."

Sunny's eyes widened.

wasn't

observed him with a small,

This is a peculiar location for a date. Harvesting monster meat from inside the

closer to the wall

meat

'Damn it.'

been augmented by the shadows on top of that. And yet,

just from the fact that chewing it was a tough task. However, the actual difficulty of trying to slice off a sizable chunk of the abomination's flesh was even greater than he had expected. Its durability in an uncooked state was simply

then how am I going to fight one of these things in

Sunny concentrated on the task. Taut muscles rolled under his skin as he put all his strength into it, and the jade blade cut deeper with excruciating slowness. Nephis was just as strained, using a

making the water filling the morbid tunnel roll and slosh. Carving the meat was hard, and doing it while struggling to keep balance was

taking too

enough to feed them for a few days. Of course, as long as the battle between the Azure Serpent

first chunk of meat into the maw of the alloy chest, the carcass of the Black Turtle quaked again. This time, however, there

each other. Sunny's

are below

fact that the massive bulk of the Black Turtle would protect them from the two battling abominations. Now, the area of the battle was shifting, and the creatures were already

that they were moving in the direction of the turtle's

reflected the glow of her scorching dagger.

you want

a bit, then gritted

Returning with empty hands would mean that it was all for nothing. We'll have to wait for a chance to do it all over again, and even if

of carving the

Covetous Coffer, and at the same time, the shockwaves traveling through the island showed that the battling abominations were drawing closer to the creature's