SSS Ranked Shadow Monarch: Summoning Infinite Shadows-Chapter 253: Using Casper

’Why do I do this?’ Standing there, watching that hand slowly swing down, Aren asked himself a question, one that he had never thought of asking before.

’Everything I do, is there really a reason for it?’ He wondered, he clenched the dagger and hammer in his hands, looking at the attack prepared by the patriarch.

"Yes there is," Aren said with conviction, he felt the ground shaking beneath him, he felt everything trembling like it would fall apart at any given moment.

"My reason for everything is because I want to ensure, no one tells me what the hell I’m meant to do."

That exact moment, the hand came down, slashing extremely fast and powerful. Space distorted instantly, it twisted like it wanted to turn inside out.

A massive invisible arc ripped through the air, it wasn’t a normal arc, it carried laws and understanding that were foreign to Aren, it was as though it was shaping reality.

"What the heck is that slash even meant to be." Aren said as he watched the attack get closer, his entire body was trembling, and everything that was inside him screamed at him to run and run very fast, but he kept himself rooted, kept his face high, he clenched his jaw and got ready to tank it.

The patriarch watched in surprise, "he isn’t going to give up or run? Is he really going to take the attack? Even I would not take an attack from myself.

This kid, what could possibly be going on in his head, what pushes him to want to defy me so much? All for someone that isn’t really his family?

It’s like he doesn’t even think about what could happen to him before he acts. He rushed into my town and now is taking my attack. Haha, what a marvelous fellow, I see why Geisha is so interested in him."

Aren on the other side of things was bracing for impact. He waited until the attack had crossed the middle distance and then he made a move.

This attack was heavily contained to ensure that it didn’t destroy everything, and even then it was ripping through the platform and twisting space and everything that was around it. It showed the level of skill and power that the patriarch had, he was in his own way giving Aren a way out.

If Aren moved out of the way fast enough, the attack wouldn’t do anything to him.

Sadly Aren wasn’t even backing down, never.

"I’ll attack it with everything I have, and I’ll make sure that I survive this, no matter what." Aren roared and then charged at the attack along with every shadow, all moving at the same time toward their probable demise.

"He is running toward it?" the patriarch said in shock, he watched as Aren collided with the attack, and what followed was an explosion that shook the sky

BOOM

The force of the explosion was extremely massive, the entire platform was blown into bits, the air rushed like it was a hurricane, the sky twisted around it.

There was no one that would think Aren would survive that.

June, Athena and Peter all watched in shock, worried about what happened to Aren, fear that he might have died gripped their hearts, they all looked in the direction of the explosion, even June couldn’t help but be worried about the brash kid.

The smoke and dust slowly cleared from the now destroyed platform, and at the center Aren could be seen on his knees and standing beside him was a never seen before Shadow, one of the first humans Aren had ever turned into a Shadow, it was none other than Casper.

Aren coughed up a huge amount of blood on the ground, his entire body filled with weakness, he unsummoned Casper while fighting to not collapse.

Despite the fact that he had used everything that he could, that attack swallowed it all, destroyed every Shadow and everything that he had to throw at it in the moment.

At the end, he was forced to expend a huge amount of soul energy for one last summon, Casper. Casper’s lock was onto the Patriarch as the enemy, and then gained enough power to resist the attack.

Even then, it had almost completely shattered Aren, the force of the blast, the use of soul energy, he was at the very end.

The patriarch looked at Aren, but the initial shine in his eyes was no longer there, it was only a dead stare. In that moment, the patriarch finally realized why Aren had made sure to tell him not to react no matter what happened. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

The patriarch sensed Casper when he was summoned, and then he saw the Shadow. He knew in that moment that Aren had done something to Casper.

"What did you do to Casper?" The patriarch asked, trying to be calm.

Aren looked at him and spoke, "sadly, no response I can give will be soothing to you, I needed to enter, so I did what must be done, I killed him."

The patriarch’s eyes twitched when he heard that, "you killed Casper?" He asked to be sure.

Aren slowly rose to his feet, he looked directly at the patriarch and in a calm tone, "yes I did."

"And then you turned him into a summon for your use." The patriarch said, his face twisted in anger.

"How dare you?" He growled, the ground began trembling from the sheer pressure that he exuded.

"I’m sorry it came to that." Aren replied honestly. "If there had been another way to enter, I would have taken it over killing him." Aren said.

"You can justify killing him, but what is your justification for turning him into an undead summon?" The patriarch asked in anger.

Aren looked right at him and responded, "nothing, I simply did." He said, and instantly the pressure of the patriarch surged rapidly, rushing like a wave.

"I’ll make sure that I twist your head off that little body of yours and use it as a keychain."