SSS Ranked Shadow Monarch: Summoning Infinite Shadows-Chapter 261: No Shadow

"Aiden rush the attack, I’ll hold back the door," Kira yelled, she thrust her hands forward, frost exploded outward and wrapped around the door monster, stopping it in place.

Aiden charged ahead, he moved extremely fast that he became a blur, leaping into the air, he attacked with a clean slash, an arch exploded from his sword and cut deep into the monster, almost cutting it clean in half.

Rawwwwwwwwwr

The door monster rose and shattered the ice, about to lunge forward and attack again, but Zero stepped forward, creating multiple spatial orbs, she hurled them at the monster, each one exploding loudly, ripping through the flesh, throwing blood in every direction.

The monster wobbled backward in pain, Aiden charged ahead, he leaped into the air and went for the final attack, cutting it clean in half in one strike.

He landed on the ground after it, taking a deep breath, and then turning to look at the others with a smile.

"Tch, show off." Kira said.

"Well he did get three gods to become his Patreon." Zero said, rubbing her chin like she had a beard.

Kira smacked her hand away, and then folded her arms, "tch, you’re one to talk, having four Patreon gods should be illegal, and I only have two." Kira protested, "I can’t ever catch up no matter what." She complained.

Aiden walked closer, "well mine were three normal gods from the look, but you got one true god to look your way." Aiden said.

"Stupid," Zero palmed her face, "Aris is a true god you dumb ass."

"Oh he is? I forgot." Aiden let out a nervous chuckle and scratched the back of his head.

"Tch, whatever." Kira said, she looked at the door that was now standing there.

"I guess this is the real door." She said.

"Or maybe another trap door." Aiden commented, Zero immediately smacked the back of his head. "Be positive." She said.

Kira walked to the door, she pulled on it, and this time it opened.

"Alright, let’s go." She said before jumping in, and the others immediately followed after her.

They fell through the clouds, the same way Aren and Athena did.

"We’re falling?" Aiden asked.

"Yeah genius." Zero replied.

"Tch, do you think we will finally find Aren here?" Aiden asked.

"He has to be here, we heard when he asked Elton the question, before the fog set in." Kira said, she had a strange look of conviction in her eyes.

"I hope we do, and I pray Athena’s fine." Aiden said.

"Tch, I’ll skin Aren for not carrying me along." Zero said, she frowned.

"I’m sure he didn’t want us to be caught up in the issue." Aiden spoke, trying to be the voice of reason. Ever since Aren left, he was the new voice of reason because Kira was pissed and refused to see reason anymore.

As for Zero, she had always been the most impulsive, so there was no use thinking that she would see reason at all.

"Don’t excuse what he did." Kira said, her eyes turned cold, "he can’t run off and leave the entire team without telling us, that’s not how it works yet." She said.

"Arghhh, I don’t know what to say about it." Aiden said, "I’m also pissed he left us, like we wouldn’t be able to do anything to help." Aiden said, complaining.

"We probably wouldn’t have been able to." Zero said, "I still hate what he did, but regardless, it’s the place of the Royal Family, he is probably the only one who could enter there unharmed and make it out."

They finally reached the ground, Zero used her gravity to stop their fall, they slowly descended and touched the ground.

Kira looked around first, she pointed at the mountain, "I’m guessing we are meant to go there."

"Looks like a fun time." Aiden said, looking at the statue that was at the top, it was genuinely terrifying.

[... ]

Aren was being pressed hard by the wolf in his mind, he dodged attack after attack as fast as he could, but the wolf continued to attack.

He tried to summon some shadows, but he realized that he couldn’t do that here, as well as every shadow ability that he had, or was connected to the system, it was all his strength right here, and that had put him in a very difficult situation.

The wolf lunged at him again, its attack getting stronger with every round they go, it let out a powerful roar that slammed into Aren.

Aren flew through the air, he slammed into the ground hard, rolling for a few meters before stopping.

"Urghhh, I hate this wolf." He muttered in anger as he rose to his feet, eyes pinned on the wolf which was already attacking him again.

"Alright, deep breath Aren, we don’t need Shadow for this, use your martial art and lean into it."

The first claw came for his head, Aren leaned back dodging the attack with grace, and then he locked into the gap in the attack, throwing a clean right hook into the side of the wolf, his fist met with the flesh.

BAM

The force of his punch threw the wolf down, it hit the ground hard and skidded back, getting up almost instantly, and rushing at Aren again, this time it unleashed multiple claw strikes, each one several feet long.

Aren evaded each one, but one cut into his side, the cut was deep, blood gushed out instantly.

"Arghh"

He refused to allow the pain to take over, but even that moment of faltering was enough, as the wolf already left his sight and when he turned around a claw was already in his face, it cut deep into his face with an explosive force, blood flew into the air as Aren tumbled to the ground.

Seeing that Aren was down, it rushed at him to finish this off, but Aren suddenly pushed off the ground and forward at the same time, tackling the wolf to the ground with a malicious glow in his eyes.