Becoming a Shadow in the New World

Seeing the exaggerated headlines on the Underworld News, Sid clicked on them.

"Ding Ding Ding-"

The school bell rang, and hearing footsteps at the door, Sid could only regretfully turn off his phone, which was refreshing the page.

This is Natsuki-chan's class. Natsuki-chan hates it when people ignore her authority as a teacher and play on their phones during her class.

Chapter 115 First, achieve the status of a Shadow-level powerhouse.

Peng…

The enormous minotaur suddenly flew out and crashed to the ground with a loud thud, attracting the attention of Claire and Sid inside the café.

Shaking its head, the minotaur tried to get up, but was locked by chains that appeared out of nowhere, causing its half-raised body to fall to the ground.

The minotaur twisted its body, trying to break free and tear off the chains, but the chains on its body were not broken by the minotaur's brute force. Instead, they made a clanging sound as they began to tighten.

"Moo!"

The minotaur roared in pain, befitting its appearance, and struggled even more violently.

But this was just a waste of effort. The tightening of the chains did not loosen because of his struggles. Instead, they continued to compress his movement space until he was finally locked up and unable to move.

Just as the minotaur was completely controlled by the chains, a petite figure with black hair appeared out of thin air on the ruins that the minotaur had crashed into.

Holding a parasol, the black-haired woman looked at the minotaur in front of her with a grim expression. She quickly stepped forward to examine it and then took something out of the monster's fur.

The next second, the minotaur's body began to shrink, and magical mist mixed with a large amount of negative emotions burst out in all directions as the minotaur shrank.

"Sid, step back!"

Faced with the chaotic magical mist blowing towards them, Claire didn't gamble on whether the mist was dangerous. She simply drew her sword and used her magic to disperse it.

"Sid?!"

Hearing the commotion, the petite figure turned around and immediately noticed Claire and Sid.

At this moment, the minotaur lying in front of the black-haired woman began to dissipate as the erupting magical mist began to dissipate. Its originally huge body began to shrink, eventually turning into a middle-aged beastman curled up in a ball with a loose body surface.

"Teacher Nazuki!?"

Peeking out from behind Claire, Sid recognized the black-haired girl as his teacher, Nagatsuki Nangong.

He waved his hand behind him, and the security personnel who had just arrived quickly stepped forward to subdue the minotaur in the pit.

After doing all this, Nangong Nayue finally had the leisure to pay attention to the siblings who were staring at her.

"Um... hello, judging from how Sid addressed me just now, are you Sid's teacher?"

After a slightly reserved greeting, Claire began to inquire.

"I am Sid's homeroom teacher. May I ask who you are...?"

"I am Claire, Sid's older sister. Sid has been very well taken care of by you."

"Sister? That's a good opportunity to do a home visit."

"Alright, alright, please sit here, teacher. I'd also like to ask you about Sid's daily life at school."

……

Sid silently chewed on his straw, watching the two chatting away. He didn't care about the home visit, but he hated trouble.

So what's wrong with his sister again? First, after Rias declared that his constitution had mutated and he could no longer absorb the demon pieces, she directly pulled out the pieces and bloodline that had already been integrated into her body. Then, she blocked his way home after school and dragged him to a coffee shop to talk about his future development.

So, how did my sister expel the demon system from her body? Although theoretically it's possible to separate the demon blood through powerful control, most of the world's top fifteen don't have that level of control (Violet is one of that small group), so it's practically irreversible.

Then, out of nowhere, a minotaur flew out, interrupting his conversation with Claire and leading him into the home visit segment.

"Yes, Sid works very hard in his training. I believe that as long as he continues to persevere, Sid will definitely become a strong person in the future."

"Really? Thank you, thank you, teacher. I've been worried about this child's future, since Sid's performance hasn't been very good. Now that you've said this, I feel relieved."

"No, no, Sid is a very charismatic and hardworking student. I like students like him very much. I've seen how hard he works to keep up with the others, haven't I, Sid... What are you looking at?"

Noticing that Sid's gaze wasn't on them, but rather fixed on something else, Nangong Nayue's eyes instinctively followed.

"Sid, are you interested in that orc from earlier?"

"Ah...haha, yes, a little bit, then Teacher Yue, do you know what happened to that beastman just now? He was so strong, and his size became so big. This shouldn't be the 'divine beast transformation' of the beastmen from World 2 (Strike the Blood), right?"

When his distraction was discovered, Sid laughed awkwardly a few times.

With a seemingly unintentional turn of his head, he dodged Nangong Nayue's fan attack, which struck Sid's shoulder with a crisp sound.

Seeing that her sudden attack had missed, Nangong Nayue was stunned, but she didn't think much of it and reprimanded her with a stern face and a scolding tone.

"That orc was a researcher for a terrorist organization, and the first member of that organization to be captured alive by us."

Despite the fact that he didn't seem to have any major injuries, before this, everyone in this organization that we discovered and tried to arrest had taken a red, unidentified pill before being captured.

After taking that drug, their strength and magic will become extremely powerful within ten minutes to half an hour, but at the latest within half an hour, the person who took the drug will die suddenly.

Currently, apart from the orc who already possessed considerable strength before taking the medicine, and whose medicine was of a higher grade and used in a different way, none of them survived.

So, work hard honestly and don't covet power that comes without effort; the price of using that power might be your life.

Obviously, Natsuki-chan, you've completely misunderstood something. I'm not interested in this kind of method of increasing power through external means. If people find out that I'm a Shadow-level user, my prestige will drop.

Sid's lips twitched inwardly. He pretended to be annoyed by Natsuki-chan's nagging and turned his head towards the car. He rested one hand on the table and covered one eye. Magic flowed into his eye, and the eye under his eyelid turned red.

Although as long as he controls his eyes from turning red, Yue-chan definitely won't notice, sure enough, using magic without his eyes turning red is just like using a nuclear bomb without shouting "I am atomic"—it doesn't affect his strength at all.

With the help of magic, Sid's gaze easily pierced through the obstacle in the middle and saw the orc who was firmly locked up.

As expected... Men are finally being possessed by demons. Has this genetic disease, which has existed for thousands of years, evolved to no longer be sexist after the world has merged?

Looking at the man's loose skin, Sid sighed.

He hadn't noticed the orc when it was in its giant minotaur form, but he immediately saw it after it shrunk. The orc's rotting body and rampaging magic, hidden beneath its loose skin, were exactly like those of a demon possessed state. It looked exactly like a demon possessed state.

After some investigation, Sid finally confirmed that this was demon possession, which immediately proved his conjecture—demon possession is a virus with transmissibility and heritability.

Those mythologists who say demon possession is a curse on a world can go to sleep. This is just a magical world encountering a biohazard virus. What nonsense about an alternate world and a curse surrounding the entire world? They spoke with such conviction that they almost fooled them.

Before the worlds merged, he always thought that demon possession was only hereditary. It wasn't until after the worlds merged, and demon possession appeared in people in the other two worlds who were not related to World 3 by blood, that he realized that demon possession was also contagious. It was just that the hereditary disease had been present in the entire World 3 before, so it hadn't been shown.

When the world merged, it shattered an alternate dimension. The body of what appeared to be an ancient creature, possessed by a demon, was smashed and crushed by the collision between the worlds, spreading through the air to all parts of the world.

This is the truth about demons possessing people in other worlds. What nonsense about cursing the entire world? Curses can evolve due to the merging of worlds.

It's true that the demon possession originated from another world, but it wasn't a curse cast on this world by that other world. Rather, it was a curse from a place in World 3 that collided with another other world thousands of years ago, and it's now being used by that other world in the world war.

Now, due to the evolution of the demon possession virus, it manifests in two different forms in men and women.

After women undergo two stages of enhanced strength and their bodies decaying into chunks of flesh, they are summoned to the world battlefield due to a virus from another world within their bodies.

Once transported to the battlefield of another world, a top-15 powerhouse from that world will sacrifice themselves, pouring their power into the woman whose body is possessed by a demon, making that woman a top-15 powerhouse in the world for a short period of time.

Although the other world needs to sacrifice one of the world's top fifteen, from the perspective of the other world, it is enough as long as the woman who was infused with power reaches the level of the world's top fifteen for even a moment while she is alive.

If someone reaches the top 15 in the world even for a moment, the balance rules of the world battlefield will determine that the main world has sent out someone from the top 15, and the upper limit of combat power will be broken, increasing the conflict with the healing cycle of high-end combat power in the main world.

As for what will happen to the woman who was summoned to the world battlefield and used by the other world to break through the limits of combat power... the other world isn't that stupid.

According to Natsuki-chan's information and his exclusive intelligence, the evolved demonic possession, when activated in a male, manifests as an increase in size and magical power. This amplification can only last for ten minutes to half an hour, after which the male will die suddenly...

It seems that once the physical enhancement stage is over, the male possessed by the demon will die and will not be summoned to the world battlefield by the other world. In addition, because the body is decaying and covered by loose skin, male demon possession is not recognized as demon possession. Instead, it is regarded as a means of overdrawing the body. A terrorist organization has researched how to artificially induce demon possession.

According to the latest intelligence, if a man's method of triggering demonic possession is not through taking medicine, or if he already possesses a certain level of strength before triggering demonic possession, the possessed man will fall into a coma and accumulate spontaneous magical power within his body, causing him to self-destruct...

It feels like the demon possession is still sexist. The enhancement time for women is not only several days long, but they also don't die immediately during the enhancement stage. If you find him during the body's decay stage, he can even save you.

For men, the enhancement process lasts for several tens of minutes, after which they die immediately. They can only be saved during the enhancement phase; once the enhancement phase is over, there is no way to save them.

Where did the latest intelligence come from?

Sid's gaze fell upon the magical power gathering within the unconscious orc in front of him.

They say it's the latest information, is that new enough?

In the few seconds that Sid was indulging in his own amusement, the magical power within the beastman's body seemed to have reached its limit, and it began to shake violently.

"boom…"

"the world!"

The magic of the explosion had just emerged from the orc's surface when the power of time, capable of stopping even atoms in motion, descended.

In this world where time stands still, Sid begins to move, and jet-black slime liquid seeps out, transforming into a black coat.

Don't get me wrong, he's not that kind, he just wanted to...

"First, I'll aim for the Shadow-level Strength achievement."

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

"Sorry, I'm late."

Inside the restaurant, Lan Yu Qiancong apologized and pulled out a chair to sit down.

“It’s alright, Ms. ‘The Weaver’.”

Sitting opposite Lan Yuqiancong was an elderly orc wearing a suit, but who gave off an air of pretentious pretense.

“My name is Christopher Juddhieu, and I am the leader of the organization that was introduced to the ‘Weaver’ by Netheril.”