My Shadow Monarch's System
Chapter 41: Spectre Of Death.

Chapter 41: Spectre Of Death.

Standing confused, his eyes darted between the two females that stood before him, then back to the demon. More than startled, he was perplexed.

What in tarnation had happened? The demon looked like it had been run through a meat grinder with just the bones to spare. And I did that?

"Me?" He poked at his chest. "You’re crazy, you know that right?" He chuckled a bit, maybe the demon was already dying by the time they had found it, Liora probably weakened it with some spell while the other girl finished it off.

"You think I?... Would face that thing?" She pointed at it once more then poked Shadow’s chest. "Deal with it, you had an insane power up, something possessed your body and killed the demon almost instantly" she shrugged.

Insane power up?

He shook his head in disbelief.

"It’s true" the odd girl spoke for the first time, bowing her head slightly.

"You were possessed by the Spectre of Death, it’s fragment that still remains" she bowed in respect towards Shadow.

"Hey now..." He said with outstretched arms, "Who are you again? And what’s with you bowing down to me?"

She straightened up and looked Shadow. "I am Eryn Valaire, a spirit Mage and I was brought here because of the oddities that were happening in the mountains" she said truthfully.

Oddities... His mind flashed back to that rabbit, the black tendrils that sucked away at life. He shivered visibly and looked at her once more.

"Eryn huh? So... Is it true? Did I do that, to that?" Shadow pointed at the piles of flesh without looking at it. He wasn’t going to take his chances if he would throw up or not.

"Very much so my Lord" she bowed her head once more.

My Lord?

"What did you just call him?" Liora called out to the girl.

She looked at Liora and then back at Shadow. "I called him my Lord. He deserves to be called so. His body is the vessel containing the Spectre of Death. In his body lies the powers of a forgotten god. I must show my respect" she finished.

Shadow looked at her perplexed. Was she high on crack?

He shook his head, not ready to deal with whatever the strange girl decided to call him. He left Liora arguing with Eryn and walked towards the corpse of the monster.

He observed the mutilated body and drew In a sharp breath. This...

He could feel traces of his magic on the decaying flesh. Small wisps of Shadow energy flowed out. But not in quantities that he had ever been able to produce.

[IMPRESSIVE ISN’T IT?]

Shadow sighed deeply.

’What do you want?’ He asked tiredly.

[AT LEAST SHOW SOME RESPECT. YOU WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ALIVE IF NOT FOR ME]

Shadow blinked. He suddenly remembered Liora’s words. That he had been possessed.

’Did you possess my body? Without my permission?’ He felt slightly upset, angry actually. What gave the system the right to use his body?

[WOULD YOU PREFER TO BE MONSTER MEAT?]

Shadow scoffed. He knew Syl wasn’t wrong, but he had to admit, he was too weak to deal with the demon. So weak that he needed to be saved from death by the system.

’How disgraceful. All my efforts till now where for what?’

[DON’T LOOK TO DOWN. IF YOUR BODY WAS TOO WEAK, I WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DESCEND TO YOUR BODY.]

[BUT ON THE BRIGHT SIDE. YOU HAVE MORE ACCESS TO THE RULERS POWERS]

Huh? More access?

[TRY USING YOUR POWERS AGAIN.]

Shadow looked behind him, Liora still seems to be arguing with Eryn, while she shamelessly scampered around. Shadow smiled. At least she was alive.

He took a deep breath and reached into himself. As usual he always felt unfathomable darkness that lay within. With such depth and harrowing mass that his soul shivered before it. But now it felt different.

He felt he could commune with these shadows. Like they were aware of him and somewhat accepted his existence. Not like that of a ruler or an equal. But just merely acknowledging his existence. That was fine enough for Shadow.

He drew out the power and breathed out. He heard Liora yelp behind him and opened his eyes. He looked around him, everything seemed dark. Unfathomably dark. He could still see with no issues.

After all, he was off the Shadows. But for the girls. They seemed utterly blind.

’Syl? What is this?’ he asked perplexed.

[WHAT DO YOU THINK. YOUR POWERS HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED YOU. YOU HAVE MORE POWER THAN BEFORE.]

Shadow smiled. This greatly pleased him but there was just one more problem.

’Since when were you so talkative? You never spoke this much ever’ he questioned the system.

[WELL AFTER DESCENDING INTO YOUR BODY. THE BOND BETWEEN YOU AND I HAS STRENGTHENED. AS WELL AS YOUR POWERS. IF YOU KEEP GROWING STRONGER, I MIGHT BE ABLE TO FORM A PHYSICAL BODY]

Shadow felt dazed for a bit. A physical body? He shook his head. That was most certainly a nightmare he would never risk having.

"Uuhhm. This is your doing right?" Liora called out to him. Shadow sighed and drew the power back inside him. He still had so much more to learn.

"Alright ladies. Let’s get out of this valley. Makes me sick just being here" he said then looked at the head of the demon. He thought about it for a moment.

Revealing this to the public would cause an uproar and unrest, peace would be destabilized and the organization would be aware of Shadow’s existence. So it was in fact better that he hid this and never talked about it.

On second thought, he flicked his finger as ice covered just the head of the demon. He walked over to it and picked it up.

"What are you doing with that? Uuurgh. Disgusting" Liora cried out, taking several steps away from him.

"Spirit magic" Eryn cried out, her eyes widened looking at Shadow with reverence. Shadow sighed. Eryn didn’t look like she wanted to part ways with them.

He also wasn’t ready to have yet another woman to take care of. He sighed and left the cave with the two women. He had other pressing matters to attend too.