"Co," the Shadow figure hissed, raising its weapon high.
"Let your souls feed the temple of the forgotten god."
Its form seed to warp and shift, shadow tentacle snaking across the floor like living darkness.
The first strike ca too fast for Eva to react.
A shadow tendril lashed out, coiling around her leg and yanking her into the air.
"Ooohhhh..." She yelled out, but Alan was already moving.
With a swift gesture, a barrier of swirling golden runes materialized around her, dispelling the shadow and sending her tumbling back to the floor.
Zara took advantage of the distraction, her hands weaving intricate patterns as she summoned her magical daggers and moved to attack the figure.
Pfft!
But the next mont, her abdon was injured as if a sword had pierced through, however, she wasn’t attacked.
Looking closely, her physical body was indeed not attacked but her shadow was.
This shadow guardian is made from shadow energy and shadow law.
As long as it can attack your shadow, your real body will take damage.
Zara stumbled back, clutching her stomach as blood seeped between her fingers.
"Dammit!" she gasped.
"It’s hitting our shadows!"
Alan’s eyes sharpened, already analyzing what just happened
Shadow law...?
It bypasses physical space. Attacking reflections, not bodies. That’s how it’s doing this.
"Don’t let your shadow touch the floor directly!" he yelled.
"Stay airborne or keep light under you!"
Ami instantly responded, conjuring a flickering do of light beneath her.
"Light will suppress the shadows temporarily... but it won’t last long!"
The Shadow Guardian laughed again, its voice like knives on stone.
"You understand nothing. Your light will flicker... and your deaths will echo for eternity. Kneel before the true might."
It slamd its massive blade down, and darkness erupted outward in a ring of crushing pressure.
Boom!
The blast scattered them.
Eva rolled to the side, her hamr dragging sparks as she barely avoided a rising tentacle.
Tia crashed backward into a cracked pillar, coughing as blood sared the corner of her lips.
[Ti Remaining: 27:14]
[Warning: Shadow Infestation spreading. Area corruption: 14%.]
Zara wiped her blade clean and gritted her teeth. "We’re not lasting thirty minutes like this."
Alan’s mind began to work for a mont.
The Guardian’s body was nearly untouchable, immune to all magical and physical damage.
But its shadow... itsownshadow flickered behind it like a serpent, reactive, pulsing in rhythm with its attacks.
"Tia, can you enhance light projection?" Alan called, rising to his feet again.
She nodded, raising her staff. "I can, but only for a short burst, ten seconds max!"
"Good enough."
Alan’s eyes flared as he activated one of his newly gained Authorities.
Hellfire Judgent!
His feet ignited with violet-black fire, propelling him forward like a cot. At the sa ti, his sword, now crackling with dark mana, reford in his grip.
He didn’t aim for the Guardian directly.
Instead, he moved behind it, and stabbed into the Guardian’s shadow.
Alas, nothing happened.
Who the fuck even attacks shadows?
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Alan’s shadow was pierced by tentacles and his real body was hard.
Pfft!
His heart was crushed... His left eye was crushed.
"Supre heal"
He healed his own body while he raised his sword.
His sword aura should be able to kill anything including ti-space and concepts then how co he can’t even hurt a guardian made from shadow?
Alan stood, blood still streaming from his crushed eye and chest.
He panted heavily, the green glow of Supre Heal sealing his broken flesh, but his soul felt the tear, the pain of shadow wounds didn’t fade so easily.
His sword shimred, dark and radiant at once.
The Shadow Guardian tilted its head mockingly, its voice like a whisper woven from screams.
"You wield a blade for form... but not for aning. Shadows are not bound by ti or space. We exist in truth beneath truth... It’s been a long ti since I faced a Sword Saint, it was a pity I killed him instantly,"
Swish!
The figure rushed forward and attacked Alan with its sword.
Clang!!! Clash!!!
His mythril sword was instantly sliced and he was pushed behind.
Pfft!
"Arghhh...." He scread as his left leg was chopped off.
Ti seed to freeze as Alan’s vision blurred, pain radiated from his entire body.
He gritted his teeth, forcing himself to focus.
Zara rushed to his side.
"Alan! We need to regroup!" she shouted, fury igniting in her eyes.
The Shadow Guardian lood over them, the edges of its body fraying into a mass of swirling darkness.
"You persist against the inevitable," it taunted, a cruel smile twisting its shadowy face.
It has a face but just made from shadow.
"It’s ti to end your suffering... Die!!!"
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They returned to back to the obsidian gate with the blue window hovering over them.
They had died and couldn’t challenge this domain for 3 days.
"ahh... We died? I don’t even know what happened. He just said sothing and we were killed."
"Don’t get wrong... But aside from Alan, we aren’t capable of fighting such monsters."
"Yeah, we need to increase our stats even more..."
"Let’s have more sex..."
The won said.
"Yeah... Let’s have more sex."
"Let’s focus on other dungeons first...we need to focus on the Dungeon of Abyss and other dungeons at the mont."
Alan sighs and nods solemnly.
"Yes, we were woefully unprepared for the power of that shadow guardian... I agree, we should focus our efforts on conquering the Dungeon of Abyss and other dungeons first before attempting to challenge that guy again,"
"And maybe we should also add others..."
"Nice... But for now, let’s have sex... My body feels so unalive at the mont," Amai said while squeezing her breast.
"Sex, Sex, Sex... Think of sothing else too," Zara said.
Tia just smiled on the back.
Eva on the other hand supported Ami’s idea.
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