Shadow Slave

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.

damn it,

from danger in the ruins. So much for waiting for ten days. Not only had danger found them, but it was also of a kind that they had

not knowing if she should say something. Her

end, she didn't

laying on the floor, staring at the ceiling with a bleak expression on her face. The younger girl was in terrible shape, so Rain had hoped that she would have an opportunity to rest and recover

not in

Rain's hurried motions and grim expression, Tamar rose on an elbow

"What's the matter?"

rolling the strips of monster meat into her jacket, knowing that hunger and physical

"Get on the stretcher."

for a moment,

us. It is climbing

Tamar's eyes widened.

moment, then gritted her teeth and silently crawled

the rolled jacket to her, then grabbed the

'Ah...'

wasn't exactly heavy, but she still weighed much more than 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 many kilometers

without killing

'Curse it all!'

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

If not...

"Let's go."

and hesitated for a few

they

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

to ask Tamar's opinion first. As if guessing her thoughts,