“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.
have to cut
it? That’s
devious trick to save them, Nephis turned her
you waiting
***
coral blades, sending bits of mud and seaweed flying. With storm clouds gathering
was leading their small group, choosing the straightest path toward the cliffs with
necks, they moved with amazing speed. Side passages and crimson walls were flashing past them in a blur. There was no need to hold back and conserve strength for
a series of bloody skirmishes all along the way, but, to his surprise, the inhabitants of the labyrinth did not give them much trouble. The scavengers seemed to be as
aggression, a quick slash of the sword or a threatening clack of
pelting downpour, each drop becoming a torrent. The winds grew in
through the darkness, followed almost immediately by a
He rolled in the mud and tried to stand up, but slipped and fell again. Someone’s arm grabbed him by the shoulder
storm, Sunny saw Changing
“Don’t stop! Run!”
almost couldn’t hear her behind the roaring
began to move, the dark, salty water was already as high
sea was
the water was coming from, but with each minute, it was rising higher. Soon, it was up to his knee, then up to his
was then, in a sudden flash of lightning, when they
had made it to
of black water rushing through the crimson forest. Some distance away, a tardy
‘Curses!’
He turned to Nephis:
is up!
him
“Dismiss your Echo!”
whether the scavenger could scale the cliff. In any case, Cassie wouldn’t have been able to hold on if it did. He helped the blind girl get
climb on 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
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