Shadow Slave novel Chapter 3063

The floor of the chamber shattered, pulling Saint into the boundless darkness below. Everything happened so fast that even her impossibly swift reflexes weren't enough to react — not that she could have done anything otherwise.

Saint was a master of warfare and excelled in all types of combat. However, there were still things she wasn't capable of, and one of them was flying.

As countless tons of shattered stone plummeted into the abyssal chasm below the vast chamber, she fell as well, pulled down by her immense weight.

Sunny and Nephis fell with her.

The Hollow Mountains had earned that name because they were hollow on the inside, drowning in elemental darkness. The entrance they had used was at the very pinnacle of one such mountain, and the ancient battlefield must have been located immediately above the great void of its empty interior — the last place where a besieging army could have been stopped. Now, the last obstacle had been broken, and they fell into the depths of the Underworld.

Even after surviving myriad calamities, Sunny still felt a cold sense of panicked alarm take hold of his mind — even if it was only for a moment. Then, he forced that feeling down and regained his composure. The mountain they had entered was not the tallest mountain of the vast mountain range by far, and yet, it was still taller than the highest peaks of Earth — easily surpassing ten kilometers in height. It was to the point that anyone below Transcendent Rank would find it difficult to breathe while nearing its pinnacle.

So, now, Saint was facing a ten-kilometer drop, with nothing around her to arrest her fall and no indication of what waited for her at the bottom of the enormous cavern... if the interior of the mountain could even be called that.

That was troublesome in and of itself, but the peril of falling from such height paled in comparison to the true threat — the fact that they were plummeting into the depths of the Underworld, surrounded by an endless expanse of true darkness and all the horrors that could be dwelling in its cold embrace.

‘Troublesome.'

The fall itself was not a problem. Nephis could summon her wings, and once she illuminated the world with her radiance, Sunny could use Shadow Manifestation to do the same.

However, there was no need to go so far — yet.

Even if Saint could not fly, she had her own ways of handling this fall. She could turn into a torrent of elemental darkness, for example, rushing down unscathed. Alternatively, she could use the power of nothingness instead.

That was what she chose to do, swiftly reducing her weight to that of a feather. A moment later, she wasn't falling anymore and seemed to be hovering in the air — in truth, she was gliding downward at an infinitely low speed, supported by air resistance.

The immediate crisis had been resolved, but Saint was still in a precarious position.

That was because, as the debris of the crushed floor of the gateway chamber disappeared into the darkness, taking the last traces of the ancient battle with them, a thunderous groan resounded from above.

It echoed in the boundless darkness, making Saint look up.

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