Chapter 3: Fateful Encounter

I managed to escape the Necromancer's lair. All this time I've pretended to be unable to walk so he'll let his guard down.

I was gambling on finding an opportunity to escape before the Demonic Possession took my legs too and using the opportunity brought by the elf girl who was mutated by my blood, I escaped. But where should I go?

For what reason should I live? My own people abandoned me after I caught the Demonic Possession. It wasn't long before I was caught by another bandit group and my Demonic Possession progressed far enough to engulf my entire body, slowly taking away my mind with it.

I don't remember how much time passed since then but I was surprised when I gained control of both my body and my mind again.

"Hmm… What should I do? Oh. I have an idea!"

I heard the voice of a young boy, though at the time I couldn't hear him properly due to me just regaining my consciousness after losing it for a long time.

"Bear witness! This is the first stage of the Eminence in Shadow! Ahem!"

As my blurry vision got clearer, I saw a black-haired boy sitting on a wooden crate in an abandoned house, gazing at me.

"You're finally awake."

"Uhh…?"

I rose up from the floor and noticed that my body, once ravaged by the Possession, had been completely cured as if the Possession never happened. Impossible.

"My body… impossible!"

"The curse that ravaged your body has been lifted. You are now free."

The boy, my supposed saviour, revealed that the Demonic Possession is the work of the Demon Diablos, who cursed the descendants of the Three Heroes who defeated him, that the demon-worshipping Cult, the Cult of Diablos, rewrote history to condemn the Heroes' descendants like me to persecute us, that they intend to resurrect the demon and that his mission is to fight them in the shadows because they will never step into the light.

I believed his story, for I have suffered under their hands. The Necromancer who experimented on me… must be a member of the Cult of Diablos.

That's the only reason he would be interested in experimenting with me and that poor girl.

His story also makes sense considering my blood triggered the curse in that girl too, even to the point of turning her into a monster.

"Yes. My name is Styli- No. My name is Shadow. The one who lurks in the shadows and hunts the shadows."

As he introduced himself, a purplish magic engulfed him. I was alarmed when I saw his outfit change into a black hooded robe that almost resembled my tormentor's own but I noticed differences in them both, like how my tormentor was taller than him, had white hair and wore a skull mask.

I calmed down after noticing the difference between them.

This boy… Shadow… is my saviour… and currently my only ally in this world.

I swore an oath to serve my saviour, Shadow, and he bestowed me with the name Alpha. And it was there that my life began anew, under the banner of Shadow Garden.

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A/N-The chapter is a bit short because it's focused on Alpha.

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