SSS Ranked Shadow Monarch: Summoning Infinite Shadows-Chapter 252: One attack

Aren looked confused and shocked when he heard the offer. He looked at the patriarch, and then he saw it in his eyes. The patriarch simply wanted to show Aren that he wasn’t anything, he wanted to shatter Aren’s pride completely.

Athena tugged on Aren, "Don’t do it," she said. She could easily tell that the patriarch was extremely strong, and she knew that Aren would try to take it for her.

Aren looked at her with a calm look in his eyes and then placed his hand on her head, petting her slowly. "Athena, I’ll never leave you here." He said with a confident smile.

She tried to say something, but she saw his face, radiating with confidence, anything that she said now would be pointless.

"Please be alive," she said, before letting go of Aren and stepping away. June and Peter also rushed to move away, not wanting to be a part of whatever was about to happen here.

Aren looked at the patriarch. "I have one request to make though."

"Oh? What could that be?" the patriarch asked.

"I’m allowed to use whatever means I have, items and tools as well, whatever it is, and you are not allowed to change your mind after this, you must allow me and Athena, along with Peter, to leave," Aren said.

The patriarch looked at Aren with skepticism. He could feel that Aren had something planned, but he couldn’t wrap his head around what that thing could possibly be. His mind raced in circles, but he seriously couldn’t see a way that Aren could tank the hit.

Then finally, something came to mind, so he said it. "You are not allowed to use pocket dimensions, that’s if you have one. Even then, my attack will most definitely shatter whatever pocket dimension you have, so it’s still pointless," the patriarch expressed.

"I understand, I’ll not be using any of that," Aren said, still sounding calm.

The patriarch found his calm act unnerving, he wanted to figure out why Aren was calm as water now.

"Hmm, are you trying to act calm to throw me off?" the patriarch asked.

"Haha," Aren let out a nervous chuckle, "who knows. I guess it’s best to be calm when you are about to face the attack of someone that stands at the peak of humanity," Aren said.

"Hmm, I see, then we’ll get on with it," he said.

"So I’m taking it here?" Aren asked.

"Hahahaha, I’m not in the mood to completely destroy my town," the patriarch said, and then suddenly snapped his finger and right before Aren’s eyes, the platform seemed to stretch and twist in space, growing farther and farther away rapidly.

The platform suddenly became a thousand times its original size, reaching the size of the town and more. The town was still around them, only now very far away.

Athena, June, and Mira were also extremely far away, Aren could barely see them, they were far away from what his shadow sense could even pick up.

’He manipulated space so easily, and this massive of a change to add, this is crazy, crazy,’ Aren thought, looking at the patriarch, he was finally understanding why this man was the patriarch of a Royal Family.

"This should be enough," the patriarch said. He took a few steps back. "I’ll not use a sword though, that would be overkill," the patriarch said.

"Thought you were using your full strength," Aren said, he found himself slightly pissed off at the fact that he wasn’t using his full strength.

"Haha, you are one crazy kid," the patriarch said. He turned around and faced Aren. "An attack with my personal sword is considered illegal, amongst the Royal Families, the patriarchs are not allowed to truly go all out unless they are faced with a world-threatening threat," the patriarch said.

"Hmmm, isn’t that an issue? If you can’t go all out, how can you train and get stronger?" Aren asked.

"Hmmm, pretty observant. But that’s part of it, a regulation of our own strength, to ensure that none of us single-handedly becomes the new war God," the patriarch said.

"Huh? Why wouldn’t you all want someone that stands for humanity like the war God?" Aren asked in confusion.

"The war God caused more harm than good, the issue is you never hear about that, because it’s covered deeply. Haha, well I guess you know now," the patriarch said.

"I see, there is more depth to everything, I guess," Aren said, then he looked up. "I’m ready to take your attack, but remember, you can’t forget our deal."

"Hmm, alright," the patriarch said and then started backing up. As he did, his aura rose like a wave, surging with power, twisting and turning. The ground trembled, the air shook.

"In this world, there is power and then there is power beyond power, one that overtakes every power that you know, a power that stands above all, to all humans I am one of those powers," the patriarch said and then turned around, he looked at Aren.

"Get ready," his tone changed into one that was far more heavy.

Aren nodded and immediately summoned his dark armour, he activated its special state, and then his shadow armor, before activating his shadow form, then he summoned his dagger and the hammer.

He didn’t stop there, Aren used all his soul energy, summoning to summon his strongest shadows, Riker, Fang, Raze, the Hydra, and finally, the giant.

Only from these summonings, his soul energy was nearly depleted. Kai had one more trick up his sleeve, but he couldn’t use that now.

The patriarch saw all of this and was surprised, Aren indeed was a talent and if left to grow, could rise to the top.

The patriarch lifted his hand into the air and suddenly space started twisting, shaking and tearing, everything was suppressed by the power, it shook even the sky above, turned it dark as night and ripped through the platform.

"It’s time," he said calmly, swinging his hand down.