Shadow Slave
Chapter 9
There was a problem.
They were planning to follow the road up to the mountain pass and then over it, getting as far away from the scene of the massacre as they could before the night came. However, the road was no more.
At some point during the last months, or maybe even just yesterday, a terrible rockfall occurred, obliterating whole segments of the narrow roadway and making its other parts untraversable. Sunny stood on the precipice of a vast chasm, looking down with no particular expression on his face.
“What do we do now?”
Scholar’s voice was muffled by the collar of his scavenged fur cloak. His follower, Shifty, angrily looked around. His gaze stopped at Sunny — a suitable victim to vent his frustration.
“I’ll tell you what we need to do! Get rid of some dead weight!”
He eyed Sunny’s fine boots and turned to Hero:
“Listen, your lordship. The boy is too weak. He is slowing us down! Plus, he’s weird. Doesn’t he give you the creeps?”
The young soldier answered with a judgemental frown, but Shifty wasn’t done.
“Look! Look how he’s glaring at me! I swear to gods, ever since he joined the caravan, nothing had gone right. Maybe the old man was right: the boy is cursed by the Shadow God!”
Sunny struggled to not roll his eyes. It was true that he was unlucky: however, the whole truth was opposite to what Shifty was trying to insinuate. It was not that he had attracted misfortune to the slave caravan; on the contrary, it was because the caravan was doomed to begin with that he had ended up here.
Scholar cleared his throat:
“But I’ve never said that…”
“Whatever! Shouldn’t we get rid of him just in case?! He can’t go on for much longer anyway!”
Scholar gave Sunny a strange look. Perhaps Sunny was getting paranoid, but there seemed to be a bit of calculating coldness in the older slave’s eyes. Finally, Scholar shook his head.
too hasty, my friend. The boy might prove useful
“But…”
finally spoke, putting an end to
how much longer he’ll be able
clenched his teeth, but
what do we do
the slope of the mountain, and finally up, where a sheer cliff wall was broken apart by the falling rocks. After
old days, there used to be a path leading to the peak of the mountain. It was sometimes used by pilgrims. Later, the Empire had widened parts of the path and built a proper road on top of it — now
He looked up.
it, we should be able to find our way back to the undamaged section
shifting uncomfortably at the prospect of climbing the treacherous slope. Except
to the rockfall, the slope wasn’t an almost vertical wall anymore, but still, the incline
was the first one
that? Are
Scholar helplessly shrugged.
you have a
they began the ascent. Shifty and Scholar stubbornly carried the weapons they had picked up off the dead soldier’s bodies, but Sunny, with some regret, decided to
to be that heavy right now, but every extra gram of weight was bound to feel like a ton all too soon. As the weakest member of the group, he was already struggling to keep up, so there wasn’t a lot of
up the mountain road with the weight of the supplies on his shoulders was already hard enough, but climbing up the mountain itself turned out to be pure torture. Just half an hour later, he felt like his muscles
his teeth, Sunny continued to move forward and up. He had to constantly remind himself to watch his footing, too. On this unstable, icy slope
something pleasant,’ he
happy thoughts could
the end of this trial. The boon of the First Nightmare was the most important thing given to an Awakened by the
vastly improve their power. But it was this first one that determined what role an Awakened would be able to play, how great
the ability to perceive, and interact with, Soul Cores. Soul Cores were the basis of one’s rank and power. The stronger your
same went for Nightmare Creatures, with a deadly caveat that, unlike humans, they could possess multiple cores — a lowly beast had just one, but a tyrant like Mountain King had five. Coincidentally, the only way to improve your Soul Core was to consume Soul Shards
About Shadow Slave - Chapter 9
Shadow Slave is the best current series of the author Guiltythree. With the below Chapter 9 content will make us lost in the world of love and hatred interchangeably, despite all the tricks to achieve the goal without any concern for the other half, and then regret. late. Please read chapter Chapter 9 and update the next chapters of this series at novelebook.com