Chapter 123 Helping Hand (1/2)

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Chapter 123 Helping Hand

Soon after Nephis had finally come back to her senses, they prepared to leave the shelter of the giant stone hand The un, so there was plenty of ti distance and clio well, they would meet the next sunset on top of the tall wall of the o wrong between now and then But, for some reason, Sunny felt optimistic

This was a rare moment for his cynical, paranoid heart

Just like before, Sunny and Neph took turns cli Cassie to one another with the help of the golden rope However, they had grown considerably stronger since the last time they had to do it

Sunny reht's statue in that way and chuckled Now, he felt as though he could do it three tih he had spent the last few days in an endless nightht his body to the point where it was about to shut down, now, there was nothing but resilient strength filling his muscles

These two months that they had spent in the perilous hell of the cri for their lives and slaying monsters that no Sleeper should ever face one after another, had made all three of them much more powerful

Sunny doubted that a lot of Awakened had ever gone through this ruthless of an initiation and lived to tell the tale Once he returned to the real world, he would most likely be considered one of the elite representatives of the current generation

'Huh, that ht actually be a proble on Nephis She was already close to being a endary Immortal Flaed to receive a True Nahtmare, the top student in her batch of Sleepers in the Academy, and so on

ReadNovelFully like her had been able — and willing — to carry two pathetic weaklings on her back all the way to the Gateway

Sunny just had to choose his words carefully when describing the events leading up to their triuard, he was a hts, he didn't even notice the flow of tiround

Just before ju into the soft black ilant"

She didn't have to remind hierous — mostly because it was natural for people to allow the that the worst was already behind theoal already in sight

He wasn't planning on beco one of them

Sunny carefully lowered Cassie doatched as Neph helped her step out of the rope loop, and juround in a nimble roll, immediately jumped to his feet and outstretched one hand, ready to suht Shard at ato kill theed tense looks, and then sloalked forward

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At so Star to stop and turned around, curious to take a look at the statue whose hand had saved the in the dark depths of the cursed sea

Out there on the slope of the colossal crater, slightly tilted to the side, a giant statue of a slender wo robe towered over the black raceful, with a slih trying to embrace them

At least that was how she had looked once, a long tio Now, one of the ar in place Luckily, the other one was still there, and had served as a safe haven for the three Sleepers in their moment of desperate need

Just as Sunny expected, there were seven shi+ning stars carved into the stone surface of her robe

What piqued his curiosity the ht, the graceful woain, Sunny wondered if these stone titans were created without faces to begin with, or if so had beheaded thee

'seven severed heads guarding seven seals,' he thought, re vision

TheHowever, it seeh it was destined to remain unsolved — Sunny doubted that he would ever co to the real world

There were ions in the Dream Realm, and alotten Shore

'To hell with all this crap!'

Sending silent gratitude to the statue that had saved their lives, Sunny turned around and headed west

…As they approached the section of the slope that was alerous finally happened Just as Sunny was about to step on a wide stone buried in the mud, the stone suddenly shi+fted and rolled to the side