Shadow Slave

Chapter 32

With an empty stomach and a head full of thoughts, Sunny returned to the center of the platform and sat down. After a while, he beckoned to his shadow and said:

“Wake me up if anything happens.”

Then, he closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep. His consciousness quickly slid into the sweet embrace of darkness, giving Sunny some well-needed rest.

In the middle of the night, however, a sudden impulse stirred him awake. Sunny jumped to his feet, his groggy mind full of tense apprehension. He was afraid that the owner of the giant tentacle had come back to finish the job.

Or maybe some other horror from the depths had sensed him and decided to snack on human meat.

However, the sea was quiet and calm. He didn’t hear any abnormalities around the knight’s statue.

“What is it?” Sunny whispered, addressing the shadow.

The shadow silently pointed him in a particular direction.

Turning his head, Sunny squinted. He quickly understood why it was a good idea to wake up. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to see…

Out there in the distance, a few kilometers away, a small orange light was shimmering in the darkness. Its reflections were rising and falling with the movement of waves.

It was too far away to make out any details, so Sunny just stared at it for a while. Pretty soon, the light disappeared.

“Other Sleepers? Natural phenomenon? Or some monster laying a trap?”

Memories of nightmarish deepwater creatures immediately came to his mind.

Shaking his head, Sunny lay back down and attempted to return to his slumber. However, this time sleep was escaping him. Pangs of hunger were still not unbearable, but slowly becoming more and more intense. The thirst, however, was worse.

In the end, he remained awake up until the sun rose again, sending the dark sea in retreat.

***

morning came, the pincer monsters crawled back from their hiding spots and rushed to the giant

of the platform to take a look in the direction where he had seen the mysterious light the

headless statue, five or six kilometers away, the ground rose naturally and formed something akin

of it, its upper branches were just high enough to stay above water in the

but at the end of it, only two

and cover that distance during the day? And more importantly, should he

study the monsters. He did, however, send the shadow to investigate as far into the labyrinth as the range of Shadow Control allowed, hoping to chart at least the beginning of the path that could potentially lead him to that

headless statue as he probably could be in this strange place. The only problem was, he was

taught to him by Teacher Julius, with materials that were present pretty much everywhere in the Dream Realm. He could also prepare traps and hunt a pincer monster to eat. With their massive size, just one of them would be enough

returning to the statue at the approach of the night. It was probably his

way of doing things lacked one vital element: the potential for improvement. It was well suited for keeping Sunny alive, but had no way of giving him hope. If he was destined to spend the rest

jump

much meant that the only choice left for him was to try and reach the source of the orange light. And if Sunny was

of the labyrinth was going to be

leave the headless statue the next morning. He would spend the rest of today exploring paths through the labyrinth

that, he closed his eyes and

***

stirred awake by the shadow in time to prepare himself for the crushing winds and the pelting

this time he was too thirsty to think about anything except for freshwater. Staying low so as to not be blown over the edge of the platform, Sunny cupped his hands and waited until they became filled with rainwater. Then he raised

anyone were to see Sunny now, they would have

into the headless knight’s neck, threatening to wash him away. But Sunny held

dissipated,

no time to

few stragglers quickly following behind, he slid over the edge of the platform and

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