The Shadow Wizard felt that his entire worldview had crumbled just a tiny, enormous bit today.
First, a twelve-year-old brat had defeated him in the Shadow World and nearly killed him. Then two senior members of his organization had demonstrated, one after another, abilities that could directly affect the Shadow Realm.
Before today, the Shadow Wizard had always believed that only Shadow Magic or large-scale, group-cast counterspells such as the Thousand Knots' End Curse could break the Shadow Realm.
But just now, the Vampire Wizard had forcibly dragged him out of the Shadow Realm, and now the Necromancer had used some unknown method to attack Tris directly inside it.
The world was changing so quickly that the Shadow Wizard was struggling to keep up.
He might not have been able to keep up, but Tris certainly could.
The instant the Necromancer acted, Tris had guessed that this attack was no simple matter. After all, the other side had a Shadow Wizard among them. They couldn't possibly know nothing about the Shadow Realm.
If he dared to attack under these circumstances, he must have known what he was doing.
Sure enough, as the Necromancer grabbed at thin air, a gray claw crossed the boundary between reality and shadow and appeared directly in front of Tris.
The attack came incredibly fast, but with a body honed through relentless training under the system, Tris might well have dodged it if he had wanted to. Yet the moment he saw the true nature of the attack, he decided not to evade it.
No need. There really was no need!
To everyone else, however, it looked as though Tris had been caught by the gray claw before he could react at all.
Kingsley was horrified. Everything had happened in a flash: from Tris breaking through