Becoming a Shadow in the New World

It seems, maybe, perhaps, there were one or two fallen angels...? I can't quite remember.

Try to think, Sid, your memory can't be that bad.

...I've got it!

102 days ago, the day after he destroyed the church, while cleaning his spoils, he found a bloodstain of mixed light and dark energy on his 3,733rd collection, which matched the characteristics of fallen angel blood.

In other words, what he fought 103 days ago was indeed a fallen angel, not some mysterious creature.

Also, there was item number 3737—a large cross covered with mysterious symbols of unknown purpose. While cleaning it, he found several strands of long golden hair on it. According to Asia's confession, those should have been the tools used to seize the artifact from Asia's body.

Ha, he always said he had a good memory.

Although I can't quite remember the number of enemies, the location of the church, what the enemies looked like, whether I rescued anyone, or why I broke in, isn't it natural to forget some details after so much time has passed?

As long as it can be proven that Asia was telling the truth and that he did indeed save Asia's life, that's enough.

This evidence proves that Asia is different from Himeragi Yukina; she was not a pawn deliberately sent by any force to approach him and try to use him.

This means that Asia might actually become his assistant, a being with shadow-level strength!

Thinking of this, Sid couldn't help but secretly look at Asia with a burning gaze.

He originally thought Asia was a sugar-coated bullet thrown by some force, and planned to enjoy the sugar coating first, then throw the bullet back and follow the clues to kill that force.

If you tell him now that not only is there a sugar coating, but the bullets are also made of sugar, then the plan has to be modified. If we could get a Shadow-level assistant once and for all, that would be wonderful.

He wanted to repay a debt of gratitude, possessed special abilities, was simple-minded, had no one to rely on, and had no relatives or friends. He knew his true identity on his own, and over the years, he had only met Alpha and Zeta, two people more suitable than Asia to be his assistant as a Shadow-type powerhouse.

But putting aside the fact that he no longer wanted to play the Diablo Order game, Alpha's own career meant that Alpha could not be his assistant as a Shadow Power. He knew this, which is why he took the initiative to terminate his relationship with the Diablo Order game. If they kept wasting their feelings, the friendship would not be far from ending. He still cherished his friendship with the Seven Shadows.

So now whether he can get a genuine Shadow-level assistant depends on whether he can fool Asia, and... whether Asia can answer his last question.

"Then let's ask one last question, Asia..."

As he said this, Sid narrowed his eyes, and a terrifying aura pressed down on Asia.

Through the gap between her eyelids, she could see Sid's dark, deep pupils, like black holes, making Asia feel as if her soul was about to be sucked away just by looking at them.

He had only thought of using Asia as a disposable tool and made up nonsense, planning to have his fun once and then take action, so he wasn't serious. Now that he knows Asia wasn't lying and that she could really become his Shadow Power assistant, he has to be serious.

"How...did you find my trail?"

Sid spoke slowly, allowing Asia to hear every word clearly, making her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave, with the cold wind penetrating to her very bones.

"Yes, it was the Lord who told me."

"Did the Lord tell you that?"

“Yes, Mr. Sid, after I met you, I had the ability to pray to the Lord, and every night the Lord would answer my questions.”

???

Reason told Sid that Asia was lying. Although he had never seen the Lord of the Bible pantheon, he knew that the Lord of the Bible pantheon lived in seclusion at the ends of the earth, and if He were to descend to earth, the commotion would be enormous.

But Sid's senses told him that Asia wasn't lying. He couldn't sense other people's presence because it was too weak, but Asia was always specifically targeted by him, and he could clearly see any emotional fluctuations in her.

and so……

Sid closed his right eye, and magic surged into the eye that was shrouded in darkness, instantly covering the black pupil with crimson.

The left eye was still looking at the real world. Because it was covered by the eyelid, the brain lost part of its vision. With the influx of magic, a sliver of light appeared in the right eye, allowing it to see the outside world through the eyelid. However, this newly appeared vision was clearly disconnected from the real world seen by the left eye.

Welcome to the world of life, which only a pure soul can see.

Chapter Seventy-Two: The Norms of Life

Skillfully ignoring those creatures that made him feel sanity, in this world where he was currently the only spiritual being—in the natural order of life—Sid sensed for a while, then identified a direction and moved his perspective in that direction.

As Sid moved on, the number of those sanity-draining creatures around him decreased, but their sizes became larger or more solid.

The further you go, the more terrifying, ferocious, and bizarre these creatures become. Even though 99.99% of them are in a deep sleep because they lack physical bodies and spirituality, the powerful aura emanating from their massive bodies can still easily shatter the soul of an ordinary person.

If someone capable of resurrecting life and possessing enough magnanimity to tolerate a group of lawless madmen discovered this place, then it is believed that if that person so desired, they could easily unleash a catastrophe in the real world.

Unfortunately, all that momentum was useless against Sid. Even if the people here were just a bunch of souls, and even if their physical bodies were resurrected, they would only take him one to three moves at most if he didn't play around with them.

It's more likely that he'll destroy all of them because he's disgusted by their sanity in the conventional world of life, rather than hoping that the aura emanating from these souls will affect him. At the very least, their appearance will genuinely make him feel physically uncomfortable.

Ok?

The view that Sid should have quickly passed by suddenly stopped. Sid made a puzzled sound and turned around, slowly moving backward.

'Was this the dragon that was originally here?'

Sid stopped moving in front of a black dragon, looking at it with a puzzled expression. In his memory, the last time he came here, there was a dragon that looked like a tree, not the one with light black scales in front of him.

That was his first time coming to this world of life and reason, and also the first time he had seen a dragon that looked like a tree. The tree dragon left a deep impression on him, after all, he even had the idea of ​​solidifying the tree dragon's soul and taking it out as a specimen to collect. It would be hard not to be impressed.

Of course, the tree dragon isn't important right now. After all, the souls here are useless things that will automatically dissipate if they aren't resurrected after being taken out. Instead of focusing on the tree dragon, we should think about why this black dragon appeared here.

It's not that the black dragon can't appear here, but according to the natural order of life, all the souls living here are in a dormant state. If they want to move, there's no other way but to move naturally over time. According to his estimate, it would take at least several hundred years to achieve the current situation.

So... what happened to the original tree dragon?

Looking around, there wasn't a single dragon, let alone a tree dragon, except for the black dragon in front of me.

How strange.

Sid's gaze swept around the black dragon in front of him a few times, and after thinking it over, he came to a conclusion.

Why is he thinking so much? This is none of his business.

That's true, why would he care about this when he has nothing better to do?

He is neither the master of this place, nor is he missing a soul; it's not a big deal.

Anyway, even if all the souls that are supposed to be living beings were to be resurrected and come after him, the ones who should be thinking about how to escape would be the other side, and he would only need to consider how to prevent any of them from escaping.

As it turns out, the two main answers in life are "It's none of my business" and "It's none of your business."

After reaching this conclusion, Sid felt instantly refreshed.

No longer caring about tree dragons, Sid resumed his flight in the direction he had started. After passing one sleeping soul after another, Sid stopped. He had reached his destination—the end of the world of life's natural order.

If there is an end to the world, then Sid believes that the place where souls slumber, this place in the world of the natural order of life, is the end of that world.

At the same time, based on his speculation and what he saw with his own eyes, Sid believed that this should also be the place where God of the biblical pantheon rests.

evidence?

Sid looked at the alternate dimension ahead, where the holy light continuously emanating from the entrance and the thousands upon thousands of spells floating outside the dimension were evidence of its power.

Even though he was much stronger now than when he first came here, Sid couldn't help but marvel at how cautious the Holy God was, using so many powerful spells for defense when he saw the thousands upon thousands of spells.

No, it should be said that it is precisely because he is much stronger now than when he first came here that he can see the power of these techniques.

If these spells were ordained by the God of the Bible, then even if he has almost mastered the core knowledge in the library, in terms of magical skill alone, he is at most on par with the God of the Bible. This parity is based on the premise that these spells are the full power of the God of the Bible and that he has not made any progress in recent years.

When he first came here, he had the idea of ​​greeting this powerful figure and having a fight with him, but no matter how he called him from outside, he couldn't wake him up and could only leave with regret.

Looking back now, if we had actually woken this person up and fought, it would have been a battle of who could take down the other first.

Otherwise, with so many magic arrays, even that seemingly tough red dragon would probably be instantly killed. No, it might not even last as long as him.

Sid's gaze fell on a few of the thousands of spells. The attack power of these spell arrays was estimated to be only SS level. Theoretically, these attacks could not even break through the red dragon's defense. Well, as long as these spells did not have such a high dragon-specific attack power.

Even though there was a distance between them, Sid could feel the high-quality sleep that existed in the other dimension.

After glancing at the Bible and confirming that God was still asleep, Sid left the world of common sense.

"The location of this alternate dimension seems to be slightly different from where I was last here. I must have remembered it wrong."

Exiting that peculiar perspective, as if a filter had been removed, Sid's right eye was plunged into darkness once more.

When I opened my right eye, the missing part of my vision was restored, but the magic surging in my right eye remained.

His bright red pupils stared intently at Asia, forming a pair of heterochromatic eyes with the jet-black pupil in his other eye.

The gaze passes through Asia's outer skin and reaches the depths of Asia's soul.

The soul... aside from being a little unstable, seems to be fine.

???

So what's the problem?

Wait, I forgot!

After releasing the 0.01x soul grab from her left eye, Asia's somewhat unstable soul immediately calmed down.

Without the interference of soul-grabbing, Sid was able to see with his right eye this time.

Chapter Seventy-Three: A Day Trip to Paradise

A faint golden light emanated from the surface of Asia's soul and spread to the distant horizon. This golden light was so sacred and dazzling, similar to the light that Sid had once seen on angels, but even more holy.

Subconsciously glancing at Asia, who was in a daze as her soul stabilized, Sid remained silent for a moment before focusing his attention back on that sliver of golden light.

Following this ray of light, Sid's vision expanded forward, and the magic within him surged into his right eye, making his crimson pupil even more vivid.

Finally, after following the light into a small world, Sid saw a huge white door.

The door was engraved with a bunch of defensive and anti-detection spells, but unfortunately they were useless against him; Sid simply walked through the door.