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CHAPTER 357
Morrgain straightened fully, the fractured marble falling from his armor in chunks. The shadows around him twisted violently.When he spoke again, his voice was filled with rage.He thought Adrian was just an annoying bully he could take out with one kill.“You think this makes you strong?” Morrgain said, his tone vibrating through the courtyard. “I will show you why I have never been defeated.”The air around him shuddered.Darkness poured outward like spilled ink, crawling across the ground, up the pillars, over the walls. Morrgain lifted both arms slowly, as though pulling something vast from another world.“Thousand Veil,” he intoned.Reality fractured.One Morrgain became ten.Ten became hundreds.Hundreds became thousands.They appeared everywhere at once, surrounding Adrian from every angle. On the stairs. On the rooftops. Between the torches. Each copy moved, breathed, and radiated the same intent to kill. Every one of them was real enough to strike. Real enough to kill.A hor
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Valentina watched with clenched fists.Azazel leaned back confidently, amused by Adrian's display.Whatever charm Don gave him he was still no match for his shadow.The drums grew louder and faster.Boom. Boom. Boom.The two shadows began to circle each other.Morrgain’s presence felt wrong.Like a stain in the air.Every step he took bent the light around him.The torches flickered violently.Then the drums stopped.The duel had begun.Morrgain vanished instantly.One moment he was there and the next... nothing.Gasps erupted from the crowd.“Where did he go?!”“He disappeared!”“I can’t see him—!”Panic spread like wildfire.Even trained mercenaries tensed, hating and their hands on their aponses, their eyes darting uselessly.Azazel smirked.This was it.This was the moment Morrgain always ended fights.The moment prey realized they were already dead.He glanced at Adrian, expecting him to panic or show signs of fear, but he didn't.He did not even look up to guess where he was.In
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The faceless figure straightened.Then slowly he bowed.His voice came from everywhere and nowhere at once. It was deep, hollow. Inhuman.“Master,” Morrgain said, lowering his head toward Azazel.“You have summoned me.”A chill ran through the plaza.Several people staggered back as if the word itself had weight.Azazel smiled, clearly pleased.“This man,” he said lazily, gesturing toward Adrian, “has challenged you to a Shadow Duel.”Morrgain turned.There were no eyes.No face.Yet when his head angled toward Adrian, disdain flooded the air so thick it was almost visible.The torches flickered violently.Even the stone beneath their feet felt colder.“Mortal,” Morrgain said quietly.“Shall I truly waste my blade on you?”A few people laughed nervously.Others swallowed hard.Azazel sighed spreading his hands dramatically.“Rules are rules,” he said. “If he wishes to die by your hand… then so be it.”He leaned forward slightly, his voice dripping with mockery as he addressed Adrian.
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A wave of sound ripped through the plaza.Some gasped in shock while some burst out in laughter.Some faces lit up with cruel excitement.“Finally! This boy will die a disgraced death!”“He dared the Shadow Duel? Madness!”Others shouted warnings, fear sharp in their voices.“Do you even know who Azazel’s shadow is?!”“That thing doesn’t just kill!”“It traps the souls of those it slays!”“Your soul will be chained to him forever!”“You’ll be tortured for eternity!”A robed elder stepped forward, voice shaking.“Kneel, boy! Apologize now while you still have a soul to save!”“Beg Azazel for mercy!”The pressure in the air became unbearable.Even the Don… for the first time… hesitated.Don Ventresca took a step forward, his grip tightening around his cane.His eyes flicked to Adrian.His eyes were filled with real concern.This was no street fight.This was not politics.This was death.He opened his mouth to speak.“Azazel,” the Don began, his voice lower, careful. “The duel...”But b
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Azazel’s face twisted in disgust.“This man?” he spat. “This washed-up little bully? This is your shadow?”He scoffed, shaking his head.“No. Impossible.”He pointed a shaking finger at Adrian.“How can you claim someone this ORDINARY is your shadow?”The crowd erupted.Voices rose from every corner of the plaza.“This man mocks us!”“He killed a second-in-command of Azaael in front of the Summit!”“This is an insult to the underworld!”“He deserves to be beheaded on the spot, not promoted!”Finger after finger pointed at Adrian.Hatred spread like fire through dry grass.Some stepped forward boldly, emboldened by numbers.Others spoke with fake calm.“If you allow this,” one man said coldly, “then the rumors are true.”“You have grown old, Don Ventresca.”“Weak.”“Unfit to rule.”Another voice followed, quieter, sharper.“If you go ahead with this madness… an anonymous bounty will be placed on your head.”“And on his.”A murmur of agreement rippled through the elites.Threats disguis
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Azazel stood frozen.His eyes blazed with confusion and rage.Gaius’s body twitched once on the marble… then went still.Azazel took a step forward, his voice breaking with fury:“What… did you just do?”Adrian didn’t blink.Didn’t flinch.Didn’t show a single drop of fear.“He offended me,” Adrian said calmly, as if stating the weather.“And you refused to apologize on his behalf.”He dusted his hands.“So he had to go.”Gasps tore through the crowd.“Is this man insane?!”“He killed Azazel’s second-in-command??”“Oh God—someone stop this.”Azazel snapped.His aura detonated outward like an explosion.CRACK—CRACK—CRACKThe decorative windows nearby shattered under the pressure.His hand flew to the hilt of his true blade.The blackened sword was covered in burning red runes.“You dare kill my right hand?” Azazel roared.His voice shook the entire plaza.“You DARE?!”The mercenaries scattered back instinctively, terrified to be caught in the blast radius.The crowd had now fully forme
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