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.

***

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

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

and formed something akin to a hill. On top of that hill, an especially massive coral

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

but at the end of

the labyrinth and cover that distance during the day? And more importantly, should he even attempt to do it? After all, there was no indication that the source of

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

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

down. He could desalinate the seawater in a number of ways 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 to feed him for

day, returning to the statue at the approach of

this 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 of his life in the small area surrounding the headless statue,

would rather just jump down and end it right

orange light. And if Sunny was really trying to attempt it, he had to do it before the pincer monsters were

way, at least, the surrounding segment of the

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

his eyes and concentrated his perception on the

***

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

rain always put him in a bad mood. But 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

anyone were to see Sunny now, they would have noticed

crash into the headless knight’s neck, threatening to

the storm finally dissipated, all

there was no time to

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

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