The shadows attacked fiercely. They were many to begin with, and as if they were planning to smother their enemies with sheer numbers, they poured in continuously without any signs of stopping. The shadows on the upper floor attacked them before they could take the next set of stairs, and the shadows they left behind didn’t stop chasing even after they climbed those stairs. They were perfectly trapped in between enemies.

These shadows were not strong individually. Zich and his companions were incomparably stronger than them, and they weren’t running away because the shadows posed a real threat but simply because they didn’t want to waste strength on creatures that were chasing after them for who knew how long. Yet, it was true that they were bothersome. 

Leona shot her arrows at the shadows running at them from the front. After checking that the shadows had been extinguished, Leona pulled apart the arrow container she had been holding and threw it away. The container was empty, so she took out another container from her magic box and nocked another arrow. Then, she shot again. There was no hesitation in...