[Shadow Devourer]
[The ability to eat another person's shadow, temporarily making them weaker than their usual self for a few seconds]
[When the shadow Devourer is used. The person would feel an unpleasant cold and become weak. When the shadow is swallowed. It makes the user's own shadow more and more effective and stronger]
[Note: The more shadows you devour. The more stronger your shadows ability would be and the less shadow points it would take]
They were now in an arena filled with several people and aliens alike. It was thesame arena Xentor had carried him to where he fought beasts. He didn't want to fight at least for now.
Xentor was hovering in a chair and could see Miller's confused expression.
"Alright," Xentor said as they were transported back to the desert.
Xentor was no longer sitting in his chair; he was standing on his two feet and was now ready to teach Miller the skill known as Shadow Devourer.
"The System's explanation of the Shadow Devourer is nothing but just plain or telling you only the tip." Xentor said. "In real life you would use 30 Shadow Points to get a person's shadow. That is to eat another person's shadow."
"When you Devourer their Shadow. Your own shadow grows stronger. But there is one more thing i want you to know Miller. The deduction of your Shadow Points would Still be normal until your Shadow Points reach Zero and it would then be calculated by the new Shadow you have received plus your own Shadow."
"As your shadow gets stronger. It takes longer time than any other skill for it to require little shadow Points before it would be performed. The System Should be able to give you an insight of how many Shadow's you would need to devour."
As Xentor said those last words. The System responded almost instantly.
[0/10 Shadows Required To Be Devoured!]
"You have just heard it. You would need to Devour Ten Shadows for you to achieve that goal for your Shadow Devourer." Xentor continued.
"You Shadow Devourer is like a magnet which draws the Shadows of a person. For it to draw that person's shadow. You have to be physically stronger than that person."
'Why the conditions.' Miller thought worried. He knew he wasn't that strong; at least not yet.
"If that person is stronger than you, your Shadow would be granted consciousness from you and it would move and eat that person's shadow. Once that person shadows has been eaten. They would instantly feel a little bit weaker than they usually are until their Shadows reappear again. Then they would go back to their full strength." Xentor said again. "Now let us start with the training."
After Xentor said those words, Out from the sandy ground ten different individuals appeared. They were all humans and they looked like people Miller had meet in Harvestville before. He knew clearly they weren't real so he didn't concern himself that much.
"Now, what you have to do is connect with your Shadow." Xentor said.
Miller closed his eyes and due to his past experiences he was able to easily connect with his shadow.
"Connected." He said to Xentor's hearing.
"Now at the same time connect to the other's shadow." Xentor said.
As Xentor said those words Miller looked at him a little bit crazy. He was able to connect with his own Shadow. But connecting with another person's shadow is a little bit difficult as he wasn't even able to connect with Jason's shadow and now Xentor is telling him to connect to both Shadows at thesame time.
Closing his eyes, he was ready, he was ready to connect with both Shadows. As he close, his eyes as usual, he was able to see his Shadow and feel it. But the others ten individuals was a problem.
After about an hour of totally focus and a little bit of frustration, one of them finally connected. A smile could be seen on his face as he also cleaned the sweat that was on his forehead out of frustration. After a While, he was able to connect to another two persons. In totally he had been able to connect with three persons, plus his own making it four.
"I think that is my limit for now." Miller complained as he Gasped out air, because this thing was mentally exhausting.
"For Now." Xentor repeated. "Just now you need to get stronger to be able to protect those you love."
"But since you have already connected with those three, you can desire your shadow to
swallow them all. First you have to magnet them."
Miller thought of it, and in an instant, his own shadow changed shape, forming a circle around his foot. The shadows of the three men he had successfully connected with were sucked in faster than he could even see, like a magnet. Once they were swallowed by his shadow. His Shadow grew in size and looked a bit thicker and went back to his normal shape.
Looking at the three individuals whose Shadow has just been swallowed. He could feel that they were weak as all their legs were shaking, like they were trying to recover from some kind of Weakness.
"Perfect." Xentor said. "Now you would have to send your Shadow this time to come and eat my own Shadow."
"How do i do that?" Miller asked confused.
"It is easy. You have to desire it, like you did last time." Xentor replied.
Unlike the previous step, this one Miller didn't have to connect with anybody's Shadow except his own which was way easier. Looking at his legs Miller could see that his Shadow had changed from his shape to a Circle like before only this time. It wasn't completely circled in shape as one part of the shape looked like something that had mouths and it opened its mouth had headed towards Xentor. But what Miller noticed that this time the Shadow moved slower compared to the previous one, Although it was still faster than Average humans.
When the shadow got Xentor's shadow, it opened its mouth and swallowed the entire shadow whole like a python would have done. The Shadow grew in size and then went back to Miller and turned back to his normal shape.
"Wow." Miller said.
"I believe you like it." Xentor said.
"I love it." Miller replied.
"So now, let's just learn few more." Xentor said. "Which one do you want to learn next?"
Without hesitation, Miller said, "Shadow Doppelganger. I want to learn that skill next."
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