POV: Shadow Lord

The moon was high in the sky, and the rotten light from the laps was spread all over the streets.

But there was no problem for me since I wasn't using the streets to travel through the town, instead, I was jumping from roof to roof and using the shadows.

The guards were lazily parling the city, never bothered to look up which made my infiltration job easier.

At first, it was a new experience to sneak into the enemy base and not blaze through to destroy it.

My brother used that method and it was pretty efficient.

Unfortunately, I can't use the same method as him since the Prince is holding my Spawner as hostage and I'm only used to scare people or kill certain important figures.

I've been doing the same thing for a few months to my great shame, but it wasn't all that bad.

While my brother was doing more damage when he was attacking that doesn't mean he was more dangerous.

Since he was so direct and loud, everyone knew when he was coming and could try to oppose him.

At first, it didn't work, as they were losing more people trying to kill him than running away.

But those were mare soldiers, easy to replace once you give another human some armor.

Generals and leaders are the real treasures of humanity, and one could be as valuable as 10 soldiers as 100 if it's good.

That is why the method I'm currently using could be said to be more efficient than what my brother did.

Since my method of fighting is through stealth, nobody is expecting my attacks in the middle of the night, making it an easy kill.

If I kill enough important people in the night, the next day the town would be in chaos, which would be the perfect opportunity to attack it with an army.

Unfortunately, this wasn't the Price goal, but as long as humanity was getting weaker I was satisfied.

I stepped out from the shadows in front of a huge mansion, the lights on the side were more annoying and the guards seemed to be more alert.

Not that it mattered since they couldn't stop me even if they tried.

I made a huge jump and landed on the roof looking around the property.

My target this time was an old man with white beard, thick eyebrows, and usually wears a blue robe.

He wasn't in the garden so I went into the shadows to get inside the mansion.

I was in the hallway of the third floor which only seemed to have four rooms in total.

While it wasn't a lot for such a big mansion, the size of the rooms was almost tall enough for me to not be in.

I checked each room in search of my target, and after seeing the son of the house, the two women one with a black helmet, and one single man in the first three rooms, I arrived at my target.

His room was uncesray decorated like the other nobles, and the color was off-putting, to say the least.

There was nothing that had a good color like the black of the Void.

I was about to kill the man in his sleep and leave unnoticed when something caught my eye.

A floating blue creature was in the room looking at me with its big eyes while holding a flower in its hand.

Was this a pet of the old man?

But it's inside, and why does it feel like it's alive and dead at the same time?

Is it a monster perhaps, It doesn't seem to be intimidated by me like the other animals.

Who cares, let's just finish this mission and get back to scouting the guards around my spawner.

I need to somehow move my spawner from their clutch.

I took one of my normal arrows and was ready to decapitate the man when suddenly the door was opened and a firework was shot at me.

I quickly dodged to the side and looked at the person who dared attack me and was taken by surprise.

Why couldn't I feel anything about him?

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Why does he have an aura of fear like he's a monster?

Behind him came another one who wore enchanted diamond armor which took me by surprise.

Who are those people, they shouldn't be someone the old man can afford to buy.

But something was different about the one in blue armor, I could sense something from her and it was completely repulsive.

She was someone heavily connected with the System.

She must be the Hero that my master was talking about.

What a blessing, if I kill her now and absorb her power I should be able to kill the Prince with the new powers.

I dodged another firework shot at me and went into the shadows, next appearing in the hallway getting a red arrow ready.

Suddenly something was thrown at me which I dodged but I realized too late what that item was because out of nowhere the man in black armor appeared and slashed his sword at me.

My pants were cut and the bones were damaged which took me by surprise.

I didn't expect a human weapon to be able to damage me to this extent.

This was getting more dangerous than anticipated.

"Don't you dare ignore me!"

Behind me, the hero yelled as her sword was about to reach me, but was blocked by my bow without a problem.

But the strike was too weak for some reason, and I found out why when she got closer to me with a spin and managed to slash me with her second attack, leaving almost the same amount of damage as the man.

This is the first time someone has managed to damage me since I came to this world, and two people seem to possess this power.

This is not good, my specially is fighting from afar, and here I can't do this in a building.

I have to finish this mission now or bring the fight outside.

I dodged the next two slashes and went into my shadows appearing back into the old man's room.

Unfortunately because of the commotion, he was wide awake and not willing to die quietly by my hands.

I took an arrow as the man was screaming in fear, but my back was hit by a firework making me switch my targets, only to see another Ender pearl thrown at me.

But this time I wasn't going to let it slide.

I caught the incoming ball and it broke as soon as it touched me making the man in black armor appear in from of me.

Before he could do anything else, I grabbed him by the head and tried to shove the arrow in his eye.

His armor may be strong but there are still parts I can exploit.

Suddenly I felt pain in my left leg and was losing balance making me miss the eye and hit the helmet leaving no damage.

What happened?!

I looked at my leg and saw that It was ripped apart, and the culprit made itself invisible.

That was clearly a monster, why did it attack me?

And what was with its strength? It is almost on the same level as us the Monster Lords.

This mission is getting too dangerous, I have to leave before I take more damage.

I went back Into the shadows and appeared outside.

The guards started to gather because of the sudden commotion, and I couldn't do my usual jumps since I was missing a leg.

Curse my slow regeneration, what's the point of being tough when there are monsters that can crush through?

I went back into the shadows and appeared in a dark alleys or roofs until I was out of town.

With a final check around me, I went back into the shadows getting back to the main base.

This was the second time I tasted defeat and I didn't like it.

I was going further and further away until I stopped on top of a sand dune surrounded by monsters.

Suddenly an explosion appeared a few blocks away from me, a huge crater with a green creature in the middle of it was left behind.

This was my brother the Zombie Lord, who I felt was getting closer in the past week.

But now that he was in front of me, I could feel that he was weaker than expected, did something happen to him as well?

"Ah, Brother of the Void. It's such a good thing to see you."

The green monster got up as his recently destroyed legs were getting regenerated at a visible speed.

"Hello, brother."

I replied to him.

"Not the talkative type I see. What happened to your leg brother?"

"I had an unpleasant encounter with the Hero and her friends."

Suddenly his calm expression turned to one of anger, and punched the Creeper nearby, killing it on the spot.

"That wrecked being, filled with the System energy. We need to take care of her before she stops us any more than this."

The hero is much more dangerous than before, but what concerns me is the fact that a monster similar to our level was helping the humans.

I didn't feel a connection with it, so it wasn't created by the Void.

But if so, who created it?

"Brother, why do I feel like you lost more power?"

"That Hero found me and destroyed my spawner. I didn't die, but now I'm much weaker than before."

That's not good, I was almost in the same position, maybe a little worse.

I have to get rid of the Prince and hide the spawner in a better location.

But now my brother was here and the enemy didn't know about this, I could use this to my advantage.

We stayed on the Sand dunes for a few hours until a new leg grew back.

While we were waiting, I told the Zombie Lord what happened since I appeared in this world, and he seems to lose respect for me the more I spoke.

"Brother, there's no other master for us besides the Void. How dare you follow the camand of a human. You should've just killed him even at the risk of your spawner being broken."

I was ashamed to admit it but he was right.

While I learned a few important tunings from him, every day im feeling like I'm betraying my master for a rock.

"I'm ashamed of my weakness, please help me brother since I'm hopeless."

The Zombie Lord looked at me with disgust but still deciding to help me.

We both jumped towards the secret location, arriving there in no time.

The Zombie Lord stayed in the back waiting for my signal, while I went ahead to report the 'success' of my mission.

"Good, I'll report this to the Prince later since he has a guest now. You can leave until further instructions."

The guard at the entrance dismissed me like I was nothing, forgetting that I was capable of killing him with one arrow.

How humiliating.

But the Prince was distracted now with a guest, so it would be best time to gather more information.

I walked away from the guard and went back to the shadows, but appearing inside the cave that was guarded.

From shadow to shadow I arrived at a larger room, with the Prince and two guards sitting besides his trone.

In front of the throne stood a man with pale skin kneeling.

"Are you sure about that filthy Piliger?"

"Your hurting me young prince, I thought we were closer then that. Of course I'm telling the truth."

"And why would you share that information with me?"

"The Coral Kingdom is putting more of a fight then we expected and we need some help."

The Prince narrowed his eyes while looking at the man.

"Your better not be lyng about the weapon that could kill the System, otherwise I'll send the whole church against you, with Monser Lord or not."

What did that man say, a weapon that could kill the System?