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.

***

came, the pincer monsters crawled back from their

for some time and then walked to the opposite side of the platform to take a look

or six kilometers away, the ground rose naturally and formed something akin to a hill. On top of that hill, an especially massive coral pillar rose

were just high enough to stay above water in the

into Sunny’s head, but at the end of

importantly, should he even attempt to do it? After all, there was no indication that the source of the

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

speaking, he was as safe atop the headless statue as he probably could be in this strange place. The

with materials that were present pretty much everywhere in the Dream Realm. He could also prepare traps and hunt a

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

If he was destined to spend the

jump

only choice left for him was to try and reach the source of the orange light. And if Sunny was really trying to attempt it, he had to do it before the pincer monsters were done consuming the

surrounding segment of the labyrinth was going to be free of

the headless statue the next morning. He would spend the rest of

that, he closed his eyes and concentrated his perception on the moving

***

the night, a sudden storm descended upon the dark sea. Sunny was stirred awake by the shadow in time to prepare himself

be blown over the edge of the platform, Sunny cupped

of lightning illuminated everything above the churning sea. If anyone were to see Sunny now, they would have noticed a wide grin on

of the platform, enduring its rage. More than once, a tall wave would crash into the headless knight’s neck, threatening to wash him away. But Sunny held tight to

when the storm finally dissipated,

there was no

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

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