Underworld Player Chapter 85 – Elementary, My Dear Watson

While he was loath to admit it, Traveler's spirits had been steadily declining—after all, he and Viridescent had been effectively imprisoned.

It had become overwhelmingly clear that the corridor the two Players were in had no beginning and no end, and ten minutes of non-stop running along it had put them no closer to finding an exit. Meanwhile, the wall-slapping shadow had tailed them the whole way, never falling more than a few meters behind.

Whenever the shadow got within about five meters of them, Viridescent had to slash at it to send it further back along the corridor. Failure to do so meant that little cuts would start appearing on their bodies out of nowhere.

Despite Viridescent's speedy reflexes, both Players had suffered dozens of cuts over the past ten minutes. Fortunately, the cuts were not deep, and they had supplies with which to heal themselves, but this state of affairs was far from sustainable.

As she sent the shadow back once again with a swing of her blade, Viridescent shot a gloomy look at Traveler. "This cannot continue. At this rate, we'll die to attrition!"

Not a single one of her attacks had landed. Every time she slashed at the shadow, it merely teleported a short distance away, then resumed its approach. Conversely, it was the Players who suffered under the relentless barrage of cuts. While they could keep it up for some time, they knew it was over for them as soon as they expended the last of their stamina.

"There's nowhere else we can go but forward." Traveler frowned as he tore a strip of gauze to bandage the wounds on his arm.

He had suffered the brunt of the shadow's attacks, with dozens of cuts to show for it, while Viridescent was relatively unscathed. It was as if he had been sliced by so many invisible shards of glass, and new bloody lines always appeared suddenly and without warning whenever the shadow drew near.

So far, they had determined that the cuts would start appearing whenever the shadow approached within five meters of them, and increased in severity the closer it

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