Life Of A Nobody - as a Villain

Chapter 380: The hungry shadow

As soon as the kill order was issued, system's anxious tone sounded in Rio's head. [Host, something's wrong.]

'Good guess, how'd you know.' Rio joked, staring at an army coming at him.

System ignored it's host's teasing tone and explained what it found.

[...They don't have a soul now. I mean even before their soul was shrouded in that green cocoon but now they've lost it whole...If before they were just hypnotized, then now they're full-on puppets. Much like how a necromancer controls dead soldiers.]

'Can you track who's controlling them?'

[Who else but that tree.]

'Can you find out what that is?'

[It's __ confidential information. System level requirements not met. Host lacks authority.]

'What the fuck???'

[Well, we can't do nothing about that. Just be careful when you're facing it.]

[Sayonara host. See you outside.]

'Hey system, what do you mean see you outside, where'd you go you fucker, answer me... .'

[.. I'm not here ..]

'???'

Rio ignored this damn system who went into silence mode refusing to give him any more information or help, and looked at the hundreds of puppets coming towards him from all sides.

"Kill him."

"Must kill him."

"Cursed _ kill him."

"Mother order _ I follow."

"Killllllllllll "

Rio was getting prepared to fight as he broke the chains binding him, and pulled unique ranked swords in both his arms.

Valtor stared at his swift actions, silently wondering in his heart where did these magic swords come from? And how'd he break restraints that seized mana.

Though curious, now wasn't the time to ask questions.

'Burn anyone who comes into your way.' Rio's voice came to the shadow's ears, making it smile. "Kekeke."

The sound of crackling laughter could be heard even though the dark figure had no mouth, just fog. Making it look even more eerie.

The shadow moved again, it's feet forming a domain of darkness for 3 meters all around it, which pulled anyone and anything in range into itself. Leaving only some screams and some chewing and gobbling sound.

The more 'life' his shadow ate, the more hungrier it seemed to become, and the more stronger too.

[A/N - To those who forgot Rio had used a forbidden spell to give his shadow the blessing from the sin of gluttony in the dungeon he was trapped in. If u wanna know more read previous chaps again or just ask me]

Since this shadow had no physical form all the attacks thrown at it from the Simir's, which just used roots to stab, entangle and form traps, had no effects.

The illusiory shadow just walked through everything, showing no sign of injury or hurt, except causing slight distortion in its form for a few seconds upon contact, which were covered by darkness almost instantly again.

"Kill him. We can't let him reach the sacred tree."

"Did the Ersion priestess said what mother wants next?"

"I just heard the priestess's voice, I think she ordered all the others to attack their real bodies and kill them."

"Great, so we just have to hold on until those musclehead sapin kills him."

"Yes, so we can't cower. We must never let the cursed one go near the sacred tree."

"But this damn flame, if I had known about it before, we could've guided him to some other camp, instead of bringing him here on our home."

"Where would we even take him, we already lost contact with 2 of our cities, and Cetum city is just... not right."

"We needed the rewards and protection, and now we're paying the price for it." Another tree spoke, watching as his 'friends' rushed forward and burned slowly in front of his eyes.

Just when the shadow had burned the last of the cannon fodder and reached the perrifery of garden, where 12 floating trees surrounded the big so called Sacred tree, forming a last line of defense, it disappeared from its place.

Taking along all the darkness, flames and depression too.

"What happened?" A floating tree moved forward after much courage and looked around in confusion. "Did the spell end? Or.."

"maybe he's dead." another tree said, seeing no trace of the shadow anywhere near again.

"Hahaha I knew those musclehead bastards won't be so useless."

"Finally the cursed one is dead. There's no more prophecy."

"I wonder who killed him, was it the camp chief Baani, Shin leader Nefrat Shi, or someone else?"

While the faces on floating trees were celebrating their victory, back in camp's square, Rio turned his face and stared at Valtor, the man who was still holding the sword stabbed through his back.

"W_why?" Rio said as he grabbed his friends collar, who just stared at him with no emotions and a green glint moving in his eyes.