Weeenngggg…
At the very instant the condensed Shadow Energy from the Shadow Bear Valyr killed made contact with the young man, it swiftly headed towards the dark beam of energy that connected him to the Shadow Plane, melding with it as it attempted to expand the connection even further.
Fortunately, as the Shadow Bear's Shadow Energy was considerably stronger than the Shadow Energy from the Shadow Mammoths he had been absorbing so far, even the energy from one Shadow Bear was more than enough for the connection to surpass its bottleneck and expand to even greater widths.
Because of it, Valyr's perception of the Shadow Plane had changed greatly, allowing him to notice far more detail regarding the Shadow Plane, even though the only difference he had done was that he had killed a Shadow Bear.