A hidden portal lay at the edge of the known world, concealed beneath the ruins of an ancient civilization.
The entrance to the Endless Abyss.
Cid stood at its precipice, gazing into the swirling void with an amused smirk. Behind him, Alpha, Beta, and the rest of the Seven Shadows stood, awaiting his command.
"This place…" Alpha murmured, scanning the pulsating rift before them. "It shouldn't exist."
Gamma nodded, her hands trembling slightly. "This is beyond any recorded magic. If we step through… we may not return."
Cid tilted his head slightly, his smirk widening. "Then that just makes it more interesting, doesn't it?"
The Seven Shadows felt it—his overwhelming presence, the unshakable confidence that turned the impossible into inevitability.
And so, without hesitation, he stepped forward.
The abyss swallowed him whole.
The void shattered.
And the next chapter of Shadow's legend began.