Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2314

Chapter 2314: Pawns of Snow

Sunny remained silent for a while, then chuckled.

"Well, whatever it is, we’ll find out sooner or later — as long as we live long enough."

He considered his next steps.

Kai, meanwhile, was studying him with a complicated expression.

"So you are searching for pieces of a daemon’s Lineage?"

Sunny nodded.

"Yes. And one of those pieces is somehow connected to the Snow Tyrant. Speaking of..."

He hesitated for a moment, then asked:

"You saw me from all the way on that other volcano. And you can see Slayer, too. So... can you see what is waiting for us on those three mountains, as well?"

Kai opened his mouth, then closed it again and looked into the distance. After a while, he said in a subdued tone:

"Yeah. I see them."

’Bingo.’

Now, he would at least know what they would have to face.

Sunny leaned on his odachi lazily and asked, his voice calm:

"There should be three Snow Beasts on those mountains. What do they look like?"

Kai hurriedly looked away, as if someone out there stared back at him. He shivered, then brushed his hair back and straightened.

"Right in front of us... the whole mountain is riddled with caves, like an enormous ice beehive. Inside, a swarm of insect-like abominations is slowly coming to life, each of them seemingly carved from gemstones. They look frightful, if a little mindless."

Sunny’s face fell.

’Huh.’

"So a single figure can represent a whole swarm of abominations, not just a lone Beast. I see. What of the other two mountains?"

Kai frowned.

"The one on the right... there’s a statue standing on its peak. No, not a statue... more of an automaton, I guess? A clockwork knight. Actually, he looks like the giant version of one of the toy knights we saw in the Toy Room. I feel an enormous amount of dread when looking at him, though. That one... is not a simple Nightmare Creature, I think."

This time, it was Sunny’s turn to frown.

’If a single abomination makes Kai more wary than a swarm of them, then it must be powerful. A Cursed Beast? It’s possible.’

"And what is on the third mountain?"

Kai shivered.

"There is a worm-like creature there. Actually, it’s not on the mountain... it’s inside the mountain. This creature is simply enormous — it seemed to have hollowed out the entire mountain and made a nest inside of it, coiling into a sphere. It took me a while to realize what that colossal mass of flesh was."

A sour expression appeared on Sunny’s face.

’A giant ice worm, huh.’

He had just come from months of battling giant millipedes. He had really had enough of worm-like creatures.

Sunny sighed.

"I’m guessing that one is a Cursed One, as well."

A swarm of Great abominations and two fallen deities... and these were some of the weakest Snow figures on the board.

The first battles of the Death Game promised to be quite unpleasant.

Sunny looked at Kai.

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