[System Notification]
[Shadow Monarch Activated] [Rank D] A contract has been invoked. The First Army of Shadows answers the call.
Andrew's breath caught.
"What… the hell is that?"
The ground beneath him rippled like disturbed water. From the cracks in the cathedral's shattered floor, inky tendrils slithered upward. They curled like vines, thickening and merging, forming outlines..bodies, until a full ring of figures surrounded him.
Seven in total.
Seven shadows. But these weren't mindless silhouettes or indistinct phantoms. Each was grotesquely precise, as though carved from the core of a nightmare.
