My Dungeon Life: Rise of the Slave Harem

Of course, when the door shut, we weren’t plunged into darkness. However, my light spells suppression was amplified. In front of the palace, the darkness had been pushed back a bit, but now on the inside, it was even worse. Sapphire moved closer to me, looking mildly frightened. However, my interest was in the stone. It was identical to the one that had struck me in the head earlier. It couldn’t be more of Terra and Garnet’s recordings, could it?

I immediately placed my mana into it, causing a new image to appear. It was once again Terra and Garnet. I could tell they were walking in this very corridor.

“We’re almost there,” Garnet whispered.

“Do you really think so?”

“I don’t think so… I know.”

“You mean, like the code at the doorway?”

“Shhh! What was that?” she stopped.

“What?”

“Do you hear that?”

Terra cocked her head and listened carefully. “Something in the darkness… it sounds like footsteps.”

“Are we being followed?”

“I don’t think so. How could we? We just came through the door and it closed behind us.” Terra clanked back. “We would have heard it opening. Don’t you-”

Terra turned back, and then she stopped speaking.

“Yeah?” Garnet asked.

“Garnet?”

Garnet frowned. “Yeah?”

“Where did you go? Garnet! Seriously? Don’t play games.”

“Terra… I’m right in front of you. What are you saying?”

“Garnet! Garnet!” Terra called out, looking right past the other girl.

“Hey!” Garnet walked up and then slammed her heel on Terra’s foot!”

“Ow!” Garnet cried out, blinking tearfully until her eyes landed on Garnet. “Oh, there you are. Where did you go?”

“I didn’t go anywhere! Dummy, I was here the whole time!”

“Huh? You were totally gone.”

“I wasn’t.”

“Okay, we’re hearing things and now we’re seeing things… this is getting worse.”

“Let’s just keep going.”

“Ah… Garnet?”

“Yeah, what is it?”

“Where did your shadow go?”

“Huh?”

“Your shadow… your shadow is missing.”

Garnet looked down and then behind herself, when she turned back, there was a slight smirk on her face. “Oops.”

“Wh-why don’t you have a shadow?”

“A better question, why do you still have one?” Her voice sounded off.

Terra took a step back. “Garnet, are you doing okay?”

“I’m doing fine.” Garnet took a step toward Terra, causing her to take a step back.

“You’re overreacting, it’s just a trick of the light.”

“Stay away from me!”

“Terra… Teeeeeraaaa…” She started giggling as the imager ended right there.

They had been experiencing the same phenomenon that I had experienced. I hadn’t heard any footsteps yet. Was that coming? Sapphire grabbed my arm and pulled on me. I looked up to see her smiling eagerly. A thought suddenly came to me. I was using the Light spell. It had no light source, so in general, it didn’t cast a shadow.

I slowly lifted my hand and created a light orb and then turned off the light spell. The light came out across Sapphire’s face, but it wasn’t as bright as the previous light, caused her face to take on a darker appearance. Her smile started to grow. Looking down at her feet, I could see there was no shadow being cast behind her.

Her smile broke into a toothy grin. “Bye-bye…”

The light orb went out.