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 Nightmare

found her, and brought her back to

on Wind Flower, then told everyone about the

the end, Nephis suggested

in silence, remembering the brief, but gruesome moment of all of them being crushed under the giant, bloodied

already. As I said…

a subtle frown twisting the beautiful

can do better this time. What's

She shook her head.

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

his feet. Glancing

strength is not enough to brave the mist, at least not when we don't

when her wounded back touched the bulkhead

do you

Sunny shrugged.

but a single swift scout can make it through. Basically, I'll go retrieve Effie

while. It was hard to read her expression, but she seemed reluctant to let Sunny take all the

"I don't like it."

He shrugged.

Like it or not, that seems to be the best option right

the situation some more, but in the end, Sunny managed to convince the other members of the cohort to

that unreasonable, anyway. Nephis was suffering from essence exhaustion, Jet was heavily injured, and Cassie did not possess a lot of

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

"I'm going."

once again rode Nightmare and

I can… can I do

he was holding the Guiding Light in his hand. The softly shining crystal at

However…

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