Free Web NovelChapter 30: Born from Darkness
"Wake up!!!" The muscular bandit leader shouted toward everyone with an angry voice.
All the bandits that were trembling suddenly stopped somewhat and awoke from their fear. They turned to look at their leader, whose Peak Iron Knight aura was fully released as his body was slightly covered with a thin layer of black-silver colored aether.
"Who cares if he becomes huge?" he yelled while moving toward me with his two strongest fighters, the one-eyed bald bandit and the other thin bandit with long black hair holding a spear.
I tilted my head, amused by their confidence.
The leader completely ignored this as he continued, "He is alone, and that’s all that matters."
The other bandits finally relaxed somewhat and laughed, trying to calm down their trembling hands as they increased their grip on their swords.
"Hahaha, yeah! He is alone and we have hundreds!!!"
The other bandits also started shouting at this.
The female prisoners looked worriedly toward my side, but—
"HAHAHAHA!"
I laughed loudly with one hand holding my face, as all of this was very funny.
As my laugh echoed, their expressions changed slightly as they looked toward me with questions in their heads.
"Did he finally lose it?"
They gave each other careful glances and started approaching me.
While they were moving, my Bronze Knights also slowly started closing the distance from the prisoners, as most of the bandits’ attention was focused on me, so only a few bandits remained there, even though they were also looking toward me.
"Alone?"
Suddenly my mocking voice came out from behind my hand-covered face, but they could see my lips, which had now turned into a smile.
SHIVER.
All of them shivered from this, as even the leader found something suspicious.
"Archers and Crossbowmen, aim your weapons!"
He shouted hurriedly toward everyone who were ranged fighters.
"Yes!"
More than a hundred bandits got startled by the sudden order, but they obliged and hastily loaded their bolts and arrows. Then each of them from a distance aimed their ranged weapons toward me.
Though I could see some were aiming while hiding behind trees or stones.
I ignored their futile bravery and instead looked toward my Nyx Titan ability.
[Nyx Titan: Racial Ability]
| Shadow of Nyx |
Description:
The signature ability of the Nyx Titan.
The user summons a Void Doppelganger born from the darkness of the Void Path.
Unlike ordinary illusions, the Shadow of Nyx is a real combat entity capable of fighting alongside its master.
The shadow possesses the user’s current physical strength and can independently engage enemies.
As a primordial hunting technique of the Nyx Titans, this ability was once used to overwhelm prey from multiple directions before delivering the final execution.
"Crazy."
I muttered after reading its description, then lowered my hand slowly, but the next moment—
Dark blue and black Void Energy gathered beside me.
It became darkness.
Then it twisted.
A second figure slowly emerged.
It had the same face and same eyes as me.
Its presence also felt similar, so identical that hardly anyone could tell the difference.
But there was one difference.
Its body appeared darker.
Then—
The Shadow opened its eyes.
FLINCH.
Everyone took a step back after seeing this bizarre thing born from the darkness, but it felt even more wrong when it looked the same as that laughing giant.
"What the hell is this?"
The archers’ and crossbowmen’s hands trembled and their weapons lowered slightly after seeing this, but the next moment their pupils widened so much that if someone said run, they would do it.
Because another shadow appeared beside both giants.
Now a total of four smiling giants were standing together, and each gave off the same suffocating pressure.
"Idiots, what are you waiting for? Fire!!!"
Suddenly all of them heard their leader’s furious voice.
Then they came out of their fear and without hesitating anymore all released their arrows and bolts.
WHOOSSHH.
I watched calmly at the incoming volleys of arrows and the expression of the bandit leader who was thinking I was already dead.
"Go."
The next moment everyone heard my calm voice, as the three shadows took a step in front of me and then each of them raised their large longswords.
"Voidfang."
They muttered slowly, then started rotating the swords with one hand.
CRACK. CRASH. SHATTER.
Everyone’s face became ugly as all the arrows shattered or were deflected after colliding with the rotating swords.
But the next moment, as the volleys of arrows stopped, the three giants suddenly disappeared and everyone heard a loud sound of the ground shattering.
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"What!!!"
All of them exclaimed, but soon they found the answer as twenty bandits in the front were cut in half cleanly by three large black longswords.
SLASH.
"Nice."
The word escaped my mouth after witnessing this slash, then my gaze turned toward the remaining system information.
• Possesses 100% of Luke’s current physical strength
• Can fight independently
• Shares combat instincts with the user
• Can use Nyx Titan abilities
• Can equip and use Velzareth
• Can wield Voidfang ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com
• Remains active while stamina is supplied.
"Yup! They also have the ability to summon doppelgangers."
I said in a normal tone, but sadly.
Current Limitation:
• High stamina consumption
• Long battles rapidly drain the user
"When I was a Body Tempering Realm user, I could only summon one shadow because I couldn’t bear the stamina consumption for more."
Then I looked toward the three shadow giants who were thrashing and killing enemies like children.
The archers hastily loaded their weapons before firing again at them, but each of them just jumped too high, as all the arrows passed them without doing any damage.
But next came their nightmare.
BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.
Three explosions occurred as each shadow giant dropped from the sky with their full strength.
"That’s why they were erased, because if I had unlimited stamina, I could become a one-man army."
I said, but—
"I can summon only three shadow giants in the Iron Knight Realm."
I muttered sadly, then turned my gaze toward the prisoners and they were gone.
"Good."
I smiled that my Bronze Knights had finally done their work after seeing some bandit bodies scattered around the prisoner area.
The bandit leader’s face also changed after he looked back toward the corpses and understood that all of this was just a distraction.
But I didn’t give him a chance to think more as I threw my Voidfang sword directly at him.
WHOOSH.
"Don’t underestimate me!"
The bandit leader returned to his senses, then shouted as his muscles bulged and his eyes became bloodshot.
Then he struck back with his large great cleaver in an attempt to knock back Voidfang, which was now eight feet long.
BOOOOM! CRASHH!
Sadly, he overestimated himself and got blown away along with his sword-holding right hand.
"Well, my aura still belongs to the Early Iron Knight Realm."
I shook my head.
If my first armor bonus strength had not been removed and my First Titan Form strength now only increased my strength by one time, his body would have been blown apart by the previous attack.
BANG!
After taking one step, I charged toward him and killed every enemy with one punch that came along the way.
Sophia watched all this carnage with her bright blue eyes from the distance, in which there was not a single bit of sympathy for them.
Because they killed all of her subordinates and assaulted many women as well.
"If not for my status, then my outcome would not be any better."
She shook her head to remove those memories.
"Who is that person?"
She turned toward her saviors, knights in black-silver colored armor who were distributing food and water to the other women that were saved.
All the women were crying because they had faced many things, and some even had resentment toward their leader.
"Why did only we suffer so much? But she’s fine."
They thought when they looked at her clean appearance.
Sophia also noticed some women had a different attitude toward her, but she didn’t care about this.
The Bronze Knights stopped and told her about their master.
[Chapter End]
