Aldrich plumted down into his shadow, and all sounds vanished around him.
There was nothing to be seen remotely, except the white-haired girl in front of Aldrich. Her blue eyes twinkled like lone binary stars in the space's depth. Her body had lascivious curves, and though her breasts weren't big, they felt just right for her size.
But sothing had changed. The black leathery suit or skin on her body wasn't as dull anymore. From her neck, countless runic symbols that seed like complex geotric shapes ran down towards her breasts. But they didn't stop there. They kept going down and down, covering her chest entirely and then reaching her navel area.
If seen with blurry eyes, the entire structure looked like randomly thrown equations and diagrams by a scientist on a piece of paper. And sohow, despite its complexity, it felt simple and captivating at one glance. The way it kept giving out blue and green flashes was like countless fireflies roaming around in the deep of the night.
This was the RUMOK Aldrich had carved out and engraved on the Item, the Shadow Homunculus.
As he marveled at his creation with his almost dead white eyes, he rembered the Rumok's Stats.
[
Item: Remote Link
Type: Rumok
Rank: Baron
Description: The many part Item can control its parts remotely and function by itself
Warning: The Item can only control four parts, including itself, at the sa ti
]
It was incredibly simple to understand how this Rumok worked.
But the scariest part about this Rumok wasn't the number of Items it would let Sha and Aldrich control simultaneously. It was the lack of ntion of any distance. As Aldrich had found out after his various experints, there was no limit of any distance that needed to be maintained between Sha and him.
No matter where Sha would go, how close and far, she could maintain at least three Items on Aldrich. Yet, this was only a direct effect of this Rumok. Aldrich and Sha had found out there was also a hidden aspect of it. Sha was an Item with an intelligence rivaling the Drears. With the other Items being nothing but the separated parts of her, she could use them to sense everything that happened near Aldrich.
Even if Sha were to be in a distant part of the Galaxy, she could sense what Aldrich sensed, and she could perceive what even Aldrich couldn't. And even though Aldrich couldn't do the sa with Sha, she could let him know the things on her side using the bond they shared in his mind.
This was also the reason for Aldrich to make her hide in Nicholas' shadow before the end of the ceremony. He knew there was sothing wrong with the Marquess, and if his instincts were right, then he would co back for him.
Aldrich had no way to sense Nicholas' presence given the fact he was a Marquess and on top of it, he had a gene-based Skill tailor-made for him to hide. But Sha kept giving him live feedback about Nicholas' position, making him tune his plan accordingly.
As Aldrich was contemplating his next move, Sha let out a shriek and lunged at him.
"Whooo Daddy It's so fun."
Aldrich tried to move, but in the Shadow World, only Sha had such mobility. Sha took full advantage of Aldrich's incompetence in mastering the Law of Shadow and put her hands around his neck like a piggyback. Her legs wrapped around Aldrich's waist, and she shouted in Aldrich's ears.
"Daddyyy Sha Hungryyyyyy!!!"
Aldrich squinted his eyes in annoyance and replied.
"Tch! Calm down. Are you trying to burst my ears or"
"Hungryyyyyyy"
""
Sigh!
Aldrich couldn't help but let out a sigh. He didn't know what it was, but the Law of Shadow just didn't co to him as naturally as the Law of Darkness and Devil had co. Aldrich had co here many tis by now. Even though both Shadow World and that Darkness were similarly dark, their essence differed to a great extent.
The Darkness Aldrich went to after his death was like dense black water and fog mixed into each other. It was heavy, but it was also smooth. It flowed like a calm river, eternally in search of an ocean. And that ocean was the enormous Being behind the Black Veil.
On the other hand, the Shadow World was like mud. A mud, so dense, the more one struggled to co out of it, the more they would get buried. It wasn't smooth, nor was it calm. If Aldrich had to give it term, it would be more in tune with a chaotic nature.
'Turbulence at its core,' Aldrich nodded to himself and thought.
Both Darkness and the Shadow World lacked Mana. But Aldrich was more concerned about a fact that he had found out after using it.
In the Darkness, Ti seed irrelevant to him. He could never say with surety how much ti he had spent there. To him, it always felt like hundreds of thousands of years or more, but for all he knew, it could very well be only one second. Even after mastering the Law of Darkness, he couldn't figure out this property. The one thing he realized was that this irrelevance of Ti wasn't because of the Darkness.
In the Shadow World, the irrelevant thing was the Distance. All shadows above in the real dinsions felt close and far at the sa ti. If Sha hadn't marked all the shadows she entered and ca out of, even she could lose her way in this dinsion. Eternally dood to roam in search of the right path.
Aldrich lifted his right hand sohow and banged Sha's head with his knuckles.
"Get off ! Food is coming soon."
"Aah!"
As soon as she heard the good news, Sha exclaid out, and a stream of her drool fell on Aldrich's shoulder.
Not minding the wetness he felt on his greatcoat, Aldrich spoke out.
"Let's go. You have marked Harold's shadow, right?"
"Yes.. yes"
Sha nodded and grabbed Aldrich by the back of his neck before dashing away in a planned direction. As he felt the surrounding heaviness, all Aldrich had on his mind was nothing but one question.
'If there is that Being in the depth of that Darkness, what lay in the depths of this Shadow World?'
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