Shadow Slave

Chapter 48

“We need to move, now.”

As Nephis turned to him, Sunny grabbed Cassie and helped her stand up. His face was even paler than usual, and there was a panicked look in his eyes.

“Now! Help me get her back on the scavenger!”

The silver-haired girl raised her head and looked at the sky. Soon, her expression darkened. Without saying anything, she did as he had asked.

Cassie seemed a bit disoriented. She grabbed the reins and helplessly turned to her friend:

“Neph? What is going on?”

Changing Star glanced at her. When she eventually spoke, her voice sounded heavy.

“A storm is coming.”

Meanwhile, Sunny sent his shadow to climb on top of a tall pillar of coral and looked ahead, trying to understand how far the cliffs they were aiming for were. From the look of it, there was still a considerable distance to go. However, the giant statue was already much further away.

Going back now would have been suicide.

He turned to Nephis:

“We’re about three or four kilometers away from the cliffs. Do… do you think we can make it?”

She scowled.

“If we take the most direct route. Maybe.”

Sunny hesitated, then asked:

“What about the monsters?”

Changing Star looked ahead and gritted her teeth.

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he was fruitlessly trying to come up with some devious trick

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were howling between the coral blades, sending bits

choosing the straightest path toward the cliffs with the help of his shadow. Nephis was a step behind him. The scavenger carrying Cassie was stomping through the mud with its eight legs in

walls were flashing past them in a blur. There was no need to hold back and conserve strength for the long run — if they were

the labyrinth did not give them much trouble. The scavengers seemed

a quick slash of the sword or a threatening clack of a pincer was enough to make

downpour, each drop becoming a torrent. The winds

of lightning tore through the darkness, followed almost immediately by a deafening

the next moment, the ground under Sunny’s feet trembled, causing him to lose balance and fall. He rolled in the mud and tried to stand up, but slipped and

darkness of the storm, Sunny saw Changing Star’s face. She

“Don’t stop! Run!”

her behind the roaring wind

to move, the dark, salty water was already as high as his shins. He gritted

was

but with each minute, it was rising higher. Soon, it was up

then, in a sudden flash of lightning, when they saw a

it to the

saw a colossal, crushing torrent of black water rushing through the crimson forest. Some distance away,

‘Curses!’

He turned to Nephis:

up! Start

him

“Dismiss your Echo!”

scale the cliff. In any case, Cassie wouldn’t have been able to hold on if it did. He helped the blind girl get down

her back, then tied them together with the golden rope. Not wasting any time, she gritted her teeth and stepped forward to grab onto the wet rocks of the cliff

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