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.

***

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

side of the platform to

the ground rose naturally and formed

of it, its upper branches were just high enough to stay

at the end of it, only two questions were really

he even attempt to do

far into the labyrinth as the range of Shadow Control allowed, hoping

this strange place. The only problem was, he was

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

such a routine: hunting by day, returning to the statue at the approach of the night. It

for keeping Sunny alive, but had no way of giving him hope. If he was destined to spend the rest of his life in the small area surrounding the headless statue, devouring monsters and trembling at

he would rather just jump down

light. And if Sunny was really trying to attempt it, he had

segment of the labyrinth

next morning. He would spend the rest of today exploring paths through the labyrinth and preparing

that, he closed his eyes and concentrated

***

awake by the shadow in time to prepare himself

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

to see Sunny now, they would have

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

the storm finally dissipated, all of his muscles

was no time

as the monsters came back to the carcass, with a few stragglers quickly following behind, he

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