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.”
against dozens of
tried to hide his derision as he
forgotten that each of those things is a whole rank above us? We
Nephis nodded.
groups.
moment, she
or two of them,
couldn’t find a good reason.
“Fine.”
him for a while. Then, she
the corpse of the scavenger you
that supposed to
Sunny shook his
“No.”
and trying to make it to safety before the sea returned. And why would he study a
I think Teacher
a short pause,
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
could better understand their strengths and vulnerabilities.
Meanwhile, Nephis continued:
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.
help but notice that Changing Star’s awkwardness seemed to disappear whenever she talked about things that she felt
‘Curious.’
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. That will be a killing
is good to know. However, that weak point was too high to be hit by
his
target. Circling around a scavenger is almost impossible due to their size,
looked at him
task will be to make it turn around and then
Sunny gulped.
if there’s
usual, Nephis paused
“Don’t die.”
***
was a long stretch of the labyrinth with no suitable branching paths for them to turn onto. Ahead of them,
passage, a massive scavenger was moving slowly
waited for Changing Star’s
in
Nephis gently guided Cassie to the wall of the labyrinth and helped
We’ll be
thought,
“Soon.”
to walk away, Cassie grabbed her hand. Her face was pale
be
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