[The Shadow Realm]
GASP
Krista's eyes burst open as her body jerked from the bed she was lying on. Her heart raced, her ears plagued by a constant, nagging ring. Her head throbbed with vivid images of the dragon Daeva flashing in her bloodshot red eyes.
Her muscles ached and tensed repeatedly, a painful reminder of her recent ordeal. In great fear, she looked around, trying to understand where she was and whether the Canine beast truly freed her or if it had all been a lucid dream.
The young woman found herself in a dark room with gray walls and a warm bed underneath her. There was nothing else in the room except for...
"Shadow Clone?" Krista's holder, the former leader of the Feline Beasts and Ancients, had informed her about the Shadow King, the Fire Man, and the dragon Daeva. Since then, she had tried looking for the Shadow King based on her faint knowledge of his abilities, one of them being Shadow Clones.