Shadow Slave

Chapter 1414

1414 Bone Garden

Nephis and Cassie were talking about the Guiding Light. With no one noticing his hollow eyes, Sunny lingered for a while, then walked over to Nightmare. He reached to adjust the stirrups and froze.

After a moment of hesitation, Sunny climbed into the saddle instead.

His companions looked at him in confusion.

"Sunny?"

He stared into the mist.

"Stay here for a while. Please. I'll… I'll be back soon."

With that, Nightmare leaped off the deck of the Chain Breaker and carried him into the fog.

'Damn it, damn it, damn it…'

The ghastly leopard had already been bad enough, and yet… Sunny felt that the cohort would have been able to slay the dreadful creature, if at a steep cost.

But that bloodied hand…

They had not even caught a glimpse of the nebulous being that wandered the mist, snapping the towering pine trees like matchsticks. It had torn a Great Beast apart and obliterated them so casually… how was Sunny supposed to contend with something that oppressive and ineffable?

It felt as though something was pressing down heavily on his heart.

Was it… fear?

'Damn it!'

Sunny guided

her, and brought her

the time loop. There were some deviations from the previous conversations, but mostly,

the end, Nephis suggested going

at her in silence, remembering the brief, but gruesome moment of all of them

As I said… it

a subtle frown twisting the beautiful lines of

can do better this time. What's the alternative? Give up and

She shook her head.

we can't even run away until nightfall. Before then, you won't have enough essence to empower the Chain Breaker and

sighed and rose to his feet. Glancing at his

is

wounded back touched the bulkhead and returned to her

what do

Sunny shrugged.

a single swift scout can make it

was hard to read her expression, but she seemed reluctant to let Sunny take

"I don't like it."

He shrugged.

that have to do with anything? Like it or not, that seems to be the best option

managed to convince the other members of the cohort to stay hidden

anyway. Nephis was suffering from essence exhaustion, Jet was heavily injured, and Cassie did not possess a lot of physical prowess — despite her insidious Aspect,

lacking physicality, an enemy who was fast, strong, and inevitable enough would leave no opportunity for the blind girl to exploit. Sensing a few seconds into the future was useless if those seconds

"I'm going."

rode Nightmare and dove into the

can do it… I can… can I do

hand. The softly shining crystal at the tip of

However…

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