Shadow Apostle

dark.

black cat.

Jumping lightly on the abandoned building.

The power of blessing that dominates Bast allows the body to naturally adapt to the way of action in cat form.

The surrounding ruins are older Gothic buildings.

The tall buildings are eerie and depressing.

The tall spiers penetrated into the thick fog above the head like a sharp sword.

The city's buildings collapsed, there was no one, and all the animals were extinct. It looked like a doomsday ruins.

There are only countless human-faced rats walking in and out of the building.

Like countless dead souls buried with the dead city.

Wandering in the ruined city, there will be no relief for eternity.

Desolate, lonely, twisted, weird.

It perfectly fits the fantasy of people in this world about strange and abandoned cities.

That would be true if there wasn't that huge black shadow in the distance in the city center.

But there is.

A huge black shadow, far taller than all the buildings, was entrenched in the distance.

That strange light source came from the position of the black shadow.

Even if the shadow is hundreds of meters away, and even if the light is dim and close to nothing, it is still impossible to ignore.

The specific shape cannot be seen clearly, only a vague outline can be seen.

Huge bodies almost filled the entire city center.

It was as if he was crouching on the ground, breathing up and down with his body. His heavy breathing was like thunder and could be heard clearly hundreds of meters away.

The edge of the outermost shadow is constantly squirming and twisting, as if there is no definite boundary at all. There seem to be thousands of weird things hidden in the squirming edge.

The moment he recognized the mass, the black cat's jumping figure suddenly paused.

He even held his breath.

The small body lay as low as possible, lying on the edge of the roof of the abandoned building. A pair of green eyes lit up from the darkness, peering in the direction of the black shadow.

Just looking at the squirming edges of the black shadow, Horst already felt intense nausea.

The brain tries to understand everything the eyes see.

But this is where the horror begins.

Because everything he saw was strange beyond understanding and mysterious that broke common sense.

Trying to understand this behavior is itself the greatest sin.

The mortal mind cannot handle all that it is trying to understand.

For a moment, it felt as if his consciousness was being repeatedly crushed by a steam locomotive.

Disgust, despair, pain, fear.

All kinds of negative emotions come one after another.

Unable to close my eyes, my confused consciousness cannot even think of closing my eyes.

You can't even look away.

He could only stare straight at the hazy black shadow, as if his body had turned into a stone sculpture.

Snap.

There seemed to be something crawling around.

The touch of fur awakened the confused consciousness. Horst suddenly took a few steps back, and his limbs lay limply on the ground.

He stuck out his tongue and panted desperately, trying to dissipate the fear in his body.

Something's wrong, is this the real master?

The hair on Horst's tail exploded.

After gathering enough strength to get up again, he turned around and ran away.

As soon as he turned around, he felt his body being pulled.

Only then did he realize that it was the tentacles of beef soup that had just touched him, and at this moment, several of its tentacles were waving in the direction of the black shadow, as if it wanted to pass by with all its teeth and claws, and its mood was full of anticipation.

No matter where I go, I almost collapse after just one glance. If I go, I will be gone.

Horst tugged the tentacle hard. As if sensing Horst's rejection, the upright tentacle dropped down.

His mood quickly dropped, from expectation to disappointment, and he shrank back behind Horst.

But at least there was no cheating.

Horst breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and ran away from the shadow.

He quickly climbed up to the roof and was about to leap forward, but just before exerting his strength, he suddenly stopped.

Do you really want to leave?

The spirit slowly calmed down from the shock just now, and reason once again took over.

Let him think calmly.

For a year, although Beef Soup often does inexplicable stupid things, and judging from the information fed back in its consciousness, it doesn't know why it does what it does, and it is completely ignorant and follows its instincts.

But it is undeniable that the things it does have never really harmed itself.

Even if I saw something inexplicable in the past two days, my brain might have been roasted to a medium degree, but I still came back to life in the end.

And there are only advantages and no disadvantages.

Do you really want to leave this time?

Even if you don't consider the beef soup guy, just follow the rules of survival in the mysterious world.

Sudden abnormal situations are often mysterious signs.

Do I really want to ignore such obvious signs and turn around and run away now?

There is no shame in running away.

He ran around blindly in panic, and it was embarrassing to lose the opportunity in the end.

Horst always considered himself a decent man, and he did not want to be embarrassed.

So he finally turned around and cautiously glanced at the huge black shadow again.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m gradually getting used to it, but the impact this time is far less severe than before.

Although he was still mentally confused, he quickly recovered with his own will.

It even gradually became clear that the black image was the image of a crouching toad.

Horst suppressed his racing heart and patted his belly with his paw.

Come on out, beef soup, I’ll trust you again this time.

puff.

A group of tentacles instantly emerged from behind, dancing violently behind it.

It was filled with elation, almost like the promise of another beef stew.

After waving for a while, it was not enough to wrap around Horst's cat head. It wasn't until he was slapped with a paw that he let go of his neck angrily.

What a stupid monster.

Horst's flesh pad gently touched the wriggling tentacles, and his eyes turned to the dead, abandoned city.

It was at least a few hundred meters away from the edge of the black shadow, and it was not easy to get closer.

Even if you don't consider the black shadow itself, the human-faced rats all over the city are a big problem.

If one of these hordes of monsters alarms one, who knows whether it will attract rats that alarm the whole city, or even the black shadows.

After all, in the mysterious world, anything can happen.

Try to sneak in as much as you can, I'm a cat now anyway, I still have five minutes.

Beef soup, here we go.

If you have to go, then give me a good help. If you help me well, I will take you to eat beef stew later.

There are also fried beef, boiled beef, steamed beef, stir-fried beef, stewed beef...

With a pop, the tentacles seemed to be full of power, and they swung more intensely.

Horst raised the corners of his mouth, licked his paws, and took the first step carefully.

Then, a black cat waving its tentacles quietly approached the black shadow in the darkness.

The strange image is no less chilling than the abandoned city.

Silently, he jumped over the two rooftops and jumped down from the ten-meter-high Gothic spire.

Even if you turn into a cat, the slow-falling effect of the windbreaker still exists.

Horst fell to the ground like a paper cut.

Softly without making a sound.

There was no human-faced rat passing by on the empty ground at this time. As soon as the black cat landed, it immediately clung to the ground and turned into a black lightning, speeding along the empty and silent long street.

Running silently, like a real black cat.

The black cat's ears suddenly twitched.

With the keen hearing of cats, Horst heard a small rustling sound coming from the front left.

Time waits for cats.

No time to waste with the human-faced mouse.

With a thought in Horst's mind, the tentacles behind his back shot upward at high speed.

Several human-faced rats squeezed out from the narrow cracks in the wall.

Peering outside without noticing.

But before they could emerge, Horst was already in the air.

The tentacle attached to the outer wall of a building, the suction cup firmly attached to the wall, and then the entire tentacle suddenly contracted.

The black cat took advantage of the pulling force and directly hit the outer wall.

The limbs borrowed the force from the outer wall, and the body was shot out in the opposite direction. The suction cups of the tentacles were released in time and retracted into Horst's body.

With one flight and one swing, Horst had already passed far beyond the range of the human-faced rat that had emerged, and unnoticed he fell towards an empty drainage ditch on the side of the road.

Falling into the ditch and then hiding along the drainage ditch should shorten the distance quite a bit.

While in the air, Horst was thinking this in his mind, when an omen of extreme danger suddenly arose in his heart.

In the field of vision, I seemed to see a shadow that should not exist, shrouded in the drainage ditch.

Is this my feature boot?

Horst suddenly felt like a light on his back.

The hair on the tail exploded instinctively.

Don't fall, there is danger, beef soup will help.

puff.

The tentacles stretched out again and attached themselves to the gorgeous and strong eaves above their heads.

The falling Horst's body suddenly shrank upwards, and his body that was about to touch the drainage ditch instantly moved away.

As he ascended, he looked hard toward the drainage ditch.

The drainage ditch was shrouded in darkness, almost indistinguishable from its surroundings.

However, Horst only felt cold in his heart because he discovered that it was not darkness at all, but a mass of gel-like fluid.

Invisible Son.

I don't know how many invisible children gathered in the drainage ditch to form a solidified river of darkness.

How dangerous, how could I forget about the Invisible Son.

The cat's claws stretched out, Horst hung upside down on the eaves with lingering fear, looked at the environment, and jumped back to the ground again.

The hearing is fully open and the sense of smell is fully open.

Horst never dared to go near the drainage ditch again, let alone be careless.

So, a black cat kept the most cautious posture and walked through the empty long street.

Ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...

Horst's speed gradually increased.

But as I was running, I suddenly felt a faint vibration coming from the ground.

what happened?

Before the brain could react, feline intuition had already caused the body to take action.

No matter what happens, leaving the place as soon as possible is the best choice.

Horst pushed with his four claws and flicked out to the side.

As soon as they left the place, a long and huge black shadow emerged from the ground.

There are no signs of damage on the ground, but a large round mouth with hundreds of teeth has shot up into the sky.

It was empty in one gulp.

Then it hit the ground hard.

The human-faced rats around were alarmed, screaming and swarming out, running around in panic.

For a time, the streets of the abandoned city were filled with figures of rats with human faces running wildly.

However, at this time, Horst had already jumped onto a row of eaves and ran along the eaves lightly.

This damn city is a nightmare.

Up and down, over and over again.

Horst repeatedly jumps between exposure and concealment.

I was almost exposed to the eyes of a human-faced rat several times, but I still managed to stay safe thanks to the convenience of beef soup.

With a whoosh, the black cat soared into the air again, and its tentacles flew several times to use its strength, sending him flying towards another Gothic spire, which was already the tallest building nearby.

Because after a few minutes of hard work, the black shadow was already not far ahead.

However, as soon as his four feet landed on the ground, Horst suddenly realized that the sound of heavy breathing had stopped at some point.

The next moment, a group of light suddenly lit up in the dark environment.

Just like the rising sun, every detail of the surrounding area is revealed.

Under the light, among the ruins, gravel, gravel, and shaking shadows, there were panicked and screaming human-faced rats rushing into the abandoned building.

Everything seems to be gone.

Except for the black cat.

Once the light came on, Horst felt like he was seeing a close relative.

Because where there is light there is shadow.

He immediately hid in the shadows.

Only then did he have time to take a breath and look carefully in the direction of the light source.

Only then did he realize that what he was seeing was not a light source at all.

Those are a pair of eyes on the top of the black shadow's head.

The Lord of Illusions, the Lord of Enkai, the eyes of Sathoggua.

Just now, Satogua was sleeping with his eyes closed, his eyes were tightly closed, and the light shined through the gaps, making it appear hazy and very weak.

At this time, it opened its eyes, instantly making the center of the abandoned city as bright as day.

His gaze was directed towards Horst's position.

He accurately stared at Horst in the shadow.

It was as if he had seen through the shadows and saw the black cat in the shadows.

His arms were ready to move, and his claws seemed ready to grab him.

However, just when the master's claws were about to stretch out, its movements suddenly stopped, and the light beam formed by its eyes suddenly turned to the position below the tower.

Horst felt relieved, then tense again.

meet again.

Wherever the Lord looked, he saw a squirming darkness.

This scene was all too familiar to him. The same scene had played out in the escape tunnel of the Burnt house not long ago.

The flat shadow suddenly became three-dimensional, and a figure wearing a hooded cloak emerged from the black shadow as if emerging from the water.

boom.

The paw that just happened to be raised slapped it hard.

Look at the action as if you are trying to grab the other person.

But the opponent's body condensed by darkness seemed to be just a deceptive illusion. The huge claws easily passed through and slapped the ground hard.

"Roar."

An extremely weird roar instantly echoed throughout the ruined city.

Satogua used his claws several times in succession, but was still unable to catch the black shadow.

At this time, the master's movements stopped, his eyes stared at the darkness of the human form, and he picked up a few human-faced rats passing by and threw them into his mouth.

The frightened screams of 'Snacks' came from the mouth, but as the giant mouth made chewing movements, the screams suddenly stopped.

All that was left was the numbing crunching sound.

Chewing the food carefully, Sathoggua stared at the black shadow and let out a low roar: "God."

Only then did the black shadow take off his hood like a human, and then bowed gracefully.

"Praise the unbridled freedom, praise the unbridled lies, and pay tribute to the Lord of Enkai on my behalf."

The advocate of Enkai opened his mouth wide, and a ball of air formed by a red mist condensed in his mouth. The air ball formed by the mist had a substantial texture, and the surface flashed with dazzling flashes from time to time.

"Praise be to the great Lord Sathogya. This visit is traveling under the will of my lord and represents the will of my lord."

Seeing Satugua's reaction, the black shadow said respectfully, wondering how the small human voice reached the ears of the huge master:

"It doesn't matter if you want to kill me, but penetrating my lord's territory is equivalent to declaring war on my lord. Do you really want to break the tacit understanding with my lord?"

The air mass slowly dissipated, and Tsatogua closed his mouth, his eyes focused on the black shadow.

The friend who mentioned Horst's mental state in the previous chapter meant just to protest and ridicule after the proposal was rejected. It was like expressing dissatisfaction when someone stopped me from naming a cat Ergou. . But it may bring you misunderstanding and ambiguity. I have modified that sentence and made it less intense. I shouldn’t have the feeling you said anymore.

PS as an afterthought: I don’t know why it only showed up at this time. I just thought it was reviewed and I didn’t pay attention.