Shadow Slave
Chapter 40
“Halt!” Sunny whispered, observing the group of scavengers through his shadow.
As soon as the word left his lips, Nephis immediately summoned her sword. After studying the surroundings for a second, she turned her head and glanced at him with a question in her eyes.
Cassia, meanwhile, froze in place and hesitantly raised her staff.
Sunny counted the monsters: one, two, three… five…
‘Curses!’
The hulking beasts seemed like the losers of the pack, similar to the one he had killed. However, their wounds were not as pronounced and terrible. Each of them was much more of a threat than the mangled one from before, and there were half a dozen of them at least.
“There are scavengers on the path ahead, six of them. They’re slowly moving in our direction.”
Nephis cast a gaze forward. There was a calculating look on her face.
“They’re done with the carcass?”
Sunny thought for a moment and then shook his head.
“No, I don’t think so. But maybe there’s not enough meat for everyone anymore, so some stragglers had no choice but to leave with an empty stomach.”
Nephis nodded and gestured to a nearby branching path.
“We’ll circle around them.”
The three Sleepers hastily moved forward and changed paths, giving a wide berth to the group of monsters. Tense and grim, they continued walking, trying to stay on course and not get lost in the labyrinth.
However, in the next hour, they had to turn in a random direction again and again, avoiding other scavengers. The distance between them and the giant statue was not shortening at all.
At some point, they were catching their breath near one of the numerous dead ends of the crimson labyrinth. They had no choice but to wait, since a large number of creatures was moving past their hiding spot, separated from them by a long length of a twisting coral passage.
Sunny sighed and shook his head.
“We can’t go on like that. At this rate, we’ll never make it to safety before sunset.”
Cassie was the first one to react.
“Maybe… maybe we should turn back?”
That was a reasonable suggestion. However, Sunny felt reluctant to agree.
Nephis shared his thoughts. With a blank expression, she said:
“It will only get harder tomorrow.”
She was right. By tomorrow, there would be even more scavengers flooding the labyrinth.
“Then what should we do?”
Changing Star tilted her head, thinking. After a while, she turned to Sunny.
“Fight.”
of those monstrosities?
to hide his derision as he
you forgotten that each of those things is a whole rank above us? We won’t survive in a fight against
Nephis nodded.
large groups. Cut down smaller
moment,
there’s one or two of them, there’s a
but couldn’t find a good
“Fine.”
him for a while.
studied the corpse of the
that
surprised, Sunny
“No.”
was too busy being in pain and trying to make it to safety before the sea returned. And why would
think Teacher Julius mentioned
a short pause,
bodies. The first one is obvious: it’s their joints. Anything that has to be flexible can’t be too rigid. So, there’s gaps in the armor above the joints. By targeting the joints, you can diminish their mobility
one could better understand their strengths and vulnerabilities. This idea was so obvious that
Meanwhile, Nephis continued:
torso connects to the carapace. If you manage to accurately hit that spot, you can heavily injure a scavenger and deal serious damage to its body. However, unless you
but notice that Changing Star’s awkwardness seemed to disappear whenever she talked
‘Curious.’
is on their back, approximately at the level where the eyes are. There’s a slightly concave, discolored cavity in their armor. It is where several armor plates connect. The chitin there is comparatively thin. If you can pierce through it, you can destroy the brain directly.
know. However, that weak point was too high to be hit
reading his thoughts,
is almost impossible due to their size, speed
him
My task will be to make it turn around and then restrain it, exposing the third weak point. Your task
Sunny gulped.
if there’s two of
Nephis paused before
“Don’t die.”
***
no choice but to attempt a fight against a scavenger. Behind them, there was a long stretch of the labyrinth with no suitable branching paths for them to turn onto. Ahead of them, there was a small clearing
that passage, a massive scavenger was moving slowly
Star’s
fight in
that, Nephis gently guided Cassie to the wall of the labyrinth and helped
We’ll
thought,
“Soon.”
walk away, Cassie grabbed her hand. Her face was
you… be
Update Chapter 40 of Shadow Slave by Guiltythree
With the author's famous Shadow Slave series authorName that makes readers fall in love with every word, go to chapter Chapter 40 readers Immerse yourself in love anecdotes, mixed with plot demons. Will the next chapters of the Shadow Slave series are available today.
Key: Shadow Slave Chapter 40