Shadow Slave

Chapter 1819

Chapter 1819: Pursued Chapter 1819: Pursued

Rain froze, afraid to move.

There, below her, far away, something was moving In the darkness. Sunlight did not reach that deep Into the canyon, but she was still able to discern a vague and frightening shape.

The creature was immense and hunched, with countless arms protruding like a sinewy forest from its massive hump. She thought she saw a clawed hand reaching up to grab the weathered rocks, and in the next moment, an echoing sound of rolling stones rose from the canyon.

Rain's whole body grew tense.

The Awakened Tyrant they had fought before falling into the river seemed to be alive. Worse than that, it was here now, either by coincidence or because it had followed their scent.

For a moment, her heart was drowned with fear.

She had battled and slain many Nightmare Creatures. Most of the were dormant, while some were Awakened. The strongest of them had been the Huntsman... and barely survived that fight.

There was no chance that she would be able to survive a battle against an Awakened Tyrant. That creature was not something a mundane person could ever kill. Not even an Awakened would face it alone - even a full cohort was not always enough to deal with a Tyrant.

To rain, the hideous abomination was like a herald of death.

...Still, she forced herself to calm down. Fear was not going to help her

What would, though? Nothing came to mind.

‘Run. We must run.'

That was the only logical conclusion.

Forgetting to breathe, Rain slowly backed away from the edge, trembled as she turned her back to it, and silently rose to her feet. Then, She took several cautious steps forward, and broke into a sprint.

it, damn it, damn

for ten days. Not only had danger found them, but it was also of a kind that they had no

Her teacher had been strangely silent since the morning, as if he wasn't there

she didn't

at the ceiling with a bleak expression on her face. The younger girl was in

that was not in the cards

motions and grim expression, Tamar rose on

"What's the matter?"

hunger and physical strain did not

"Get on the stretcher."

moment, and

damned Tyrant has followed us. It

Tamar's eyes widened.

froze for a moment, then gritted her teeth and silently

the rolled jacket to her, then grabbed the

'Ah...'

Rain could carry comfortably. Worse still, that weight wasn't distributed evenly between her shoulders and waist, like that of a backpack would. Dragging her to the ruins was a bit of an exercise... but would Rain be able to drag the stretcher across

killing

'Curse it all!'

For now, she had to create as much distance between them and the Tyrant as possible. There was still a possibility that the creature had been carried to this corner of the Moonriver Plain by the same current as them - so, It could have been here by coincidence. In that case, they still

If not...

"Let's go."

hesitated for a few

were they supposed to

same - except for where the canyon, and the Tyrant, were. So, Rain felt inclined to rush in the opposite direction from the

As if guessing her thoughts, the Legacy girl spoke quietly from the

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