Invasion
Hells narrowed his eyes. The black markings on his body had been concealed by secret techniques. As a third-level enhanced semi-shadow human, he had chosen the path of magic. He did not come from the Empire, but from a small world.
His world was one with little supernatural power. In his world, there were only a few types of supernatural beings: vampires, werewolves, and wizards. These supernatural beings hid among mortals and had vague connections with human nations. According to the Shadow Kingdom's measurements, this was merely a low-magic world.
Back when Gresta was still in the Starshine World, he used his connections to transmit many things to different worlds. As a casual little experiment, it was during that time that Hells received Gresta's gift: an early version of the Shadow Mark.
As an ordinary person in the United States of this world, Hells had no power, could not collect those magical materials, and was not given an Artificial Protagonist Halo by Lu Li. So, in order to gain extraordinary power, he embarked on a path of crime.
He sacrificed dozens of people to achieve the first level of semi-shadow transformation, but he was also wanted by the police of this world. Thus, Hells began his escape. Because of his abuse of supernatural power, he was also wanted by supernatural beings.
He fled, using the power of shadow enhancement to kill some extraordinary creatures and seize some extraordinary materials. He performed a ritual to enhance himself to the second level of shadow enhancement. Then, when he was cornered and had nowhere to run, he made a desperate gamble and used the few extraordinary materials he had left to build a teleportation array, which transported him to the Shadow Kingdom.
Most incredibly, Hells actually succeeded. He successfully became a member of the Shadow Kingdom, but his ambition didn't stop there. After learning that the Shadow Kingdom was going to invade other worlds, he didn't hesitate to sell his own world, obtain a batch of contribution points, purchase the third level of semi-shadow transformation enhancement, and then volunteered to return to his own world.
Hells stood atop the building, which was filled with corpses, not a single living person. In this world, he was surrounded by enemies, making it virtually impossible for him to develop any significant power. Therefore, he wisely chose the fastest method.
Hells contacted some outlaws from his previous escape and used his remaining contribution points to buy magical materials to create a batch of basic Shadow Mark. With these Shadow Mark, Hells bribed the outlaws, and then led this small force to perform a blood sacrifice on an entire building. The rooftop of the building was covered with blood-drawn arrays and runes.
The sirens of American police and the rumble of helicopters grew louder as they approached. Hells, leading his outlaw squad, watched the police draw closer and closer, along with the extraordinary creatures lurking in the darkness. He laughed arrogantly, "Foolish creatures, you have no idea what magnificence I've witnessed, but I don't mind sharing it with you. May the Shadow Lord cover the heavens forever!!"
The blood-smeared runes all burst into flames, and a massive black hole gate unfolded on the building. Clad in armor coated in jet black, the well-organized First Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Shadow Legion surged out from the gate.
Runes lit up on the surface of the armor, receiving the power of the blood sacrifice to resist the world's repulsive force. Adre stepped out of the portal, the armor on his face opened, and he looked up at the sky. The power of shadow on his body surged, and a black smoke shot straight into the sky.
The once clear sky quickly turned into a swirling mass of dark clouds under the influence of the shadows, obscuring the sunlight. The soldiers of the First Battalion roared with excitement and jumped directly from the building. The tower was over thirty stories high, more than a hundred meters tall. The black armored vehicles, about three meters high, landed directly on the police cars below, smashing them to pieces. The flying metal fragments and stones caused initial injuries to some American police officers wearing star-studded hats in the vicinity.
Amidst the clashing of gunfire, the shadowy creature within the armor grinned menacingly, completely ignoring the gunfire. Each of its armored arms extended a meter-long blade, and with a swing of its arms, blood and fire flew everywhere.
The Shadow Legion's standard equipment, the Shadow Armor, is a standardized set of equipment forged by the Thousand-Dimensional Eye, primarily based on Starshine World technology and supplemented by various mysterious methods. It is equipped with two arm blades, a chain sword, three energy ray weapons, and is engraved with force field protection runes, world interference runes, and flight runes. It has an internal shadow crystal as its power source and can also be driven by the pilot's own Shadow Magic, making it adaptable to various world combat scenarios.
In the sky, machine guns on the helicopters kept firing, but to no avail. An armored vehicle floated in the air, its palm open, and a beam of red-hot energy shot out. With a circle of its arm, all the helicopters were destroyed.
"Boss, is this the power of the Shadow Kingdom?" A desperate outlaw whom Hells had recruited asked, trembling.
"That's not all, you'll find out later!" Hells stared at the black armor with fanaticism. He knew that the people inside could crush him even without the armor. After all, to join the Shadow Legion, they were at least complete Shadow Ascensionists. The reason they wore armor was simply to resist the world's rejection.
After casting the shielding spell, Adre let out a slight sigh of relief. Fortunately, this world wasn't too averse to magic; otherwise, he would have found it difficult to cast such a spell that could alter the heavens, given the world's rejection of it.
"Well done, kid!" Adre patted Hells on the shoulder, then asked, "Are you going back now, or coming with us? You're from this world, you know it better than we do."
"All for the great Shadow Lord!" Hells declared fervently. "Hells is willing to go through fire and water for the Legion!"
"Very good. According to your intelligence, this world possesses extraordinary power. Is it one of those creatures lurking in the shadows?" Adre clenched his fist forward, and Shadow Power flew out like smoke, forming chains that pulled a handsome man with a pale face out of the shadows.
"You dare to hide in the shadows in front of our Shadow Legion? You have quite the nerve!" Adre grabbed the handsome man with one hand, but the next moment the man suddenly exploded, turning into hundreds and thousands of bats that scattered and flew into the distance.
"A futile struggle!" Adre sneered, flicking his finger. A thin, black thread shot out, piercing one of the bats. The thread then coiled around the bat, pulling it back into his hand. Immediately afterward, black flames appeared out of thin air, sweeping away all the bats except for the one in Adre's hand.
A black bolt of lightning flashed across the sky, and pitch-black rain fell, spreading the power of shadow throughout the world. Adre infused the bat in his hand with this Shadow Power. Because it was originally a creature of shadow nature, it easily completed its first transformation, and of course, it also brainwashed the bat in the process.
Releasing the bat from his grasp, the bat's wounds rapidly healed in the black rain, transforming it back into human form. Its pale face was contorted with madness, its eyes burning with fanaticism. "May the Shadow Lord cover the heavens for eternity!!!"