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 those monstrosities?
to hide his derision as
you are skilled with the sword, but have you forgotten that each of those things is a whole rank
Nephis nodded.
large groups.
a moment, she
one or two of them, there’s a
retort, but couldn’t find a good
“Fine.”
for a while.
corpse of the scavenger
that
Sunny shook his
“No.”
pain and trying to make it to safety before the sea returned. And why would
I think Teacher
short pause, Nephis
to be flexible can’t be too rigid. So, there’s gaps in the armor above the joints. By targeting
so, by studying a dead monster, one could better understand their strengths and vulnerabilities. This idea
Meanwhile, Nephis continued:
one is the same. It’s where their 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 succeed in severing
awkwardness seemed to disappear whenever she talked about things that she felt confident about, like ancient
‘Curious.’
in their armor. It is where several armor plates connect. The
too high to be hit by a human — after all, scavengers were more than two
reading his
is almost impossible due to their size, speed and the attack range
looked at him and calmly
scavenger, I’ll be the bait. My task will be to make it turn around and then restrain it, exposing the third weak point. Your task will
Sunny gulped.
if there’s two
Nephis
“Don’t die.”
***
wasn’t long before they were left with 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
passage, a massive scavenger
situation and waited for Changing Star’s
fight in
that, Nephis gently guided Cassie to the wall of the labyrinth and helped her find a place to
We’ll
some thought, she
“Soon.”
Cassie grabbed her hand.
you… be
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