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.

I wasn't

of Solace observed him with a small, disdainful

the

to ignore the bastard, Sunny threw the lid of the Covetous Coffer open and then moved closer to the wall of the flesh tunnel. Pushing down the feeling of

strange. The taste of the Black Turtle's meat was truly

'Damn it.'

top of that. And yet, cutting into the flesh of the dead Great Monster felt like he was trying to cut stone with

would not be easy, 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

how am I going to

blade cut deeper with excruciating slowness. Nephis was just as strained, using

and slosh. Carving the meat was hard,

is taking

hoped to fill the Covetous Coffer to the brim, but now he realized how unrealistic his lofty desires were. At this rate, it would be good if they managed to harvest enough to feed them for a few days. Of course, as long as the battle between the Azure Serpent and

into the maw of the alloy chest, the carcass of the Black Turtle quaked again. This time, however, there was something different about the tremor - instead of being pushed to the side, Sunny had almost been

stopped, looking at each other. Sunny's mouth was suddenly very

are below us

would protect them from the two battling abominations.

meant that they were moving in the direction

the gloomy darkness as they reflected the glow of her scorching dagger.

you

a bit, then

a chance to do it all over again, and even if such a chance presents itself, we'll be much weaker by then. So... let's continue. I

agreement, prompting them to return to the arduous task of carving the turtle's flesh. Both of them

same time, the shockwaves traveling