[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron":3,"chapter-my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-chapter-460":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Living Shadow System Devours To Make Me Stronger",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},320343,587,"Chapter 460 - 462: Death Of A Truth Seeker","my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-chapter-460",460,"\u003Cp>Chrome seemed certain of his ability to escape. But he was greedy too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wanted more than survival. He wanted to capture Damon and extract his memories of the Death Zones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A shame Damon had found out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant the academy would find out soon enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just been chased by Kael. The suspicion was already there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he wasn’t worried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he had to do was get past the academy’s barrier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon Grey would serve his purpose well—and if the boy died? Then Chrome would just use his corpse, his blood, and his organs for research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blood was a prime ingredient for summoning creatures of dark affinity... and occasionally, even twisted entities born in light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’His shadow attribute is definitely not normal...’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome had been watching Damon the whole time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved his hand and teleported into the air—his staff crackling as it unleashed spheres of spatial energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon’s body melted into shadow—partially. That was the effect of his ascendant armor. An enchantment form based on his attribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved his sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome flickered, teleporting away just in time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Magic circles bloomed around him, the old man sneering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You young ones rely too much on skills... when magic already has it all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That wasn’t a skill, it was a sword strike...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground rumbled beneath Damon’s feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt his body slowing—gravity twisting against him. He activated [5x], boosting his speed, and flashed forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome hadn’t expected that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He barely raised a barrier before Damon’s fist smashed into him, sending the old man flying into a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He rolled across the cracked stone like a rag doll, blood dripping from his mouth and soaking into his white beard before he flickered away, teleporting into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His staff rose again, and he laughed hoarsely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That ascendant armor... I will take it from your corpse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chunks of ground rose and hovered unnaturally as space tore in zigzag patterns. Dozens of spatial orbs filled the air and launched toward Damon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt the air shred as they came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dodged the first, stepping into the air with his [Air Walk] skill, moving two steps up before—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Explode!\" Chrome’s voice boomed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The space erupted in chaotic, violent surges of mana.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chrome wasn’t finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled out a small bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Disorienting Bell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon ducked left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body veered right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His vision bent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He barely managed to turn himself into shadow again, narrowly escaping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spatial ripples consumed everything as the orbs tore the sky apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Damon reappeared in human form, Chrome was already behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon sensed the danger and swung—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His blade slashed through Chrome’s robe, but not his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome chuckled. \"Ah, that’s an artifact too. The design... first epoch, isn’t it? A shame. I thought you would’ve gotten something from the Zero Epoch by now.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon snarled and unleashed Ashborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Black flames exploded outward, scorching everything. The ground cracked and shattered, the sky lit in shadow fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome reappeared, expression grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I truly can’t place how you got Ashborn. I summoned the dark spirit Rashi Ignath... yet somehow you wield his flames without a contract...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon engulfed his sword in flame and swung down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dark Blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome teleported away again, appearing behind him—blood still lingering from the earlier blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But it seems you have... restrictions,\" Chrome muttered. \"Otherwise, you would have used it more freely...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon’s next strike cleaved the ground. Dust rose in waves. Chrome raised a glowing barrier—it cracked from the sheer intensity of the heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He frowned, tasting more blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is getting... annoying.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His tone grew colder. \"Let’s end this.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon’s eyes narrowed. He’d had enough of Chrome’s games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome floated upward, raising his hand. His white hair flared in the artificial wind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You can see through shadows, can’t you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tossed an artifact—a white orb—into the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light burst everywhere, flooding the world in blinding white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All shadows were banished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon blinked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course. This was how Chrome had ambushed him in the library a few months ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d used this exact artifact to remove all shadows—and strike unseen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Damon chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So these are the tricks you used.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped forward. \"But shadows will always return. Wherever light and darkness meet... there will be shadow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome smiled. \"Is that so?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stabbed his staff into the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All around Damon—clones of Chrome began to appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Illusions?\" Damon muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then one attacked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His danger sense screamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tilted his head just in time as a beam of magic singed past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No... these aren’t illusions. They’re all illusions... except one. You’re using spatial magic. Shifting your real body between clones.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every Chrome smiled in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then they laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That is correct. All of me... and none of me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Would’ve worked—if he didn’t have danger sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his hand without looking and deflected a beam behind him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Chrome would run again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon snarled and raised his hand—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unleashing Ashborn across the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black flames consumed everything. Before they vanished, he reached into his shadow storage and pulled out the Staff of Carnage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ashborn was both flame and shadows...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had used this technicality to bypass the white light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pulled it out of his shadow storage... his hand burning slightly. But he had fire resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t fully charged with mana—but that wasn’t the point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d been charging it with Ashborn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slammed it into the ground. The Staff Of Carnage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion that followed shook the academy to its foundations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon stood amidst the roaring fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could hear Chrome’s screams as the flames devoured him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barrier Lilith had raised to keep the battle quiet shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could sense shadows approaching—Kael, students, even faculty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matia emerged from his shadow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been watching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked to Chrome’s charred body and kicked him to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome raised his burned face—looking up at his death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matia raised her hands. Ice gathered and reshaped into the form of an execution scaffold—sharp and cold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More people arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kael. Professors. Students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Matia forged a massive greatsword of ice—and handed it to Damon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised the cold ice above Chrome’s terrified face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Any last words, Professor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old man coughed, black blood spilling from his lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I... I was so close... I could have touched... Akasha...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Damon’s expression didn’t change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chrome began to crack. He saw death approaching.... The old man did not beg he would find none here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he called upon a god. He laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hail... Unknown... the Unknown God...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn’t matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sword came down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Chrome’s head was severed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gasps echoed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The professors and students froze in stunned silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had just killed Chrome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have slain Truth Seeker Chrome, the Dark Spirit Summoner.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[You have leveled up.]\u003C\u002Fp>",1132,"2026-05-30T02:59:42.787Z","2026-06-01T04:30:06.225Z",1,"novelbin.me","a6178bcc0621c09704d3dcfd4c5fadf88b4a315114c3bd2fa373f9f5000778b9","my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-chapter-461","my-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-chapter-459",1048,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-living-shadow-system-devours-to-make-me-stron-cover.jpg"]