Beyond the Shadows

The blackwood staff swept through the air, and a massive magic circle covered in countless glowing runes hummed softly. Blood soaked through his boots, and frozen corpses crumbled to dust. Beneath his black robe lay wounds from blades, swords, battle aura, and magic...

His contracted beast fought tirelessly like a meat grinder, while his hands, transformed into blades, were like the Reaper’s scythes. The powerful members of the Secret Arts Guild were hysterical, and the Divine Blessing Knights summoned the last traces of their battle aura. A spatial magic circle, unseen for hundreds of years, appeared once more on the Aogu Continent. The seed of a power capable of shaking any authority awakened and took root. A boy in a black robe stood beneath the moonlight, his indifferent eyes like those of a ferocious deep-sea beast.

“Why are you fighting against the whole world?” the allied army’s commander asked.

“Because we refuse to be slaves to fate!” the two replied in unison, exchanging a smile.

Several centuries later, the “Ten Thousand Nations” quietly rose to power in the Land of Shadows, becoming every bit as formidable as the mighty races whose names were known far and wide. Magic circles laid by Archmages repelled magic cannons and withstood countless attacks of battle aura, magic, black powder, and even conspiracies.

This is the story of a powerful man destined to rise above the gods, and his mysterious contracted beast.