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.”
Fight against dozens of those monstrosities? Was
his derision as
of those things is a whole rank above us? We won’t survive
Nephis nodded.
avoid large groups.
a moment,
there’s one or two of
couldn’t find a good reason. In the
“Fine.”
at him for a while. Then,
studied the corpse of the scavenger
was that supposed
surprised, Sunny shook his
“No.”
to make it to safety before the sea returned. And
I think Teacher Julius mentioned
a short
their 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
so, by studying a dead monster, one could better understand their strengths and vulnerabilities. This idea was so obvious that Sunny admonished himself for not realizing
Meanwhile, Nephis continued:
to accurately hit that spot, you can heavily injure a scavenger and deal serious damage to its body. However, unless you succeed in
awkwardness seemed to disappear whenever she talked about things that she felt confident about, like ancient heroes. Or
‘Curious.’
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
to be hit by a human — after all, scavengers
his thoughts,
is almost
at him and
will be to make it turn around and then restrain it, exposing the third weak
Sunny gulped.
if there’s two of
Nephis paused before
“Don’t die.”
***
stretch of the labyrinth with no suitable branching paths for them to turn onto. Ahead of them, there was a small clearing with only one other
into that passage, a massive scavenger was moving
quickly described the situation and waited for Changing Star’s
in
to the wall of the labyrinth and helped her
We’ll be
some thought, she
“Soon.”
to walk away, Cassie grabbed her hand. Her face was pale and
be careful,
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