Spending years cultivating he gained new skills and effects but as his power grew that small shadow could not conceal it. As his power grew more and more of it appeared drawing attention eventually rumors and story's began to appear some very accurate. "Legend has it that there's a very powerful monster hiding with in the shadows and those things are merely fragments of it's shadow", "I herd that it's called a demon and it comes directly from hell", "My husband fought one he says their smart and extremely powerful" as the house wives are gossiping a powerful mage was listening "Hmm powerful and smart that means I can't just tame it I'll have to appease it than make a deal with it".
At the old ruins that mage was standing in the center of a summoning circle "I've tried twenty eight different ways to grab this stupid things attention it will show up this time." things weren't going well standing in front of a 4 year old girl chained up to reveal her back the shadows finally appeared forming a small circle around the area "HaHaHa yes notice me demon!" as he raised his ceremonial dagger and prepares to sacrifice the child the shadows lept forward at the mage ripping him apart tarring his soul out of his shredded corpse and dragging it in to the shadows never to see the light of day again.
The child gagged and terrified was on the brink of losing conciseness. As her vision was fading a figure appeared from the shadows "Poor thing, poor thing let's get you out of those shackles."