SSS Awakening: Rebirth of the Strongest Vampire God novel Chapter 622

Chapter 622: Umbra’s Eternal Shadow

The enormous panther, muscles like coiled steel, claws that could cleave boulders, was bowing. Bowing. Then it lifted its head, glanced at Damon, glanced at the kitten, and made a very deliberate gesture toward the darkness.

It wanted them to follow.

"...You brought me a prisoner who’s giving me directions?" Damon muttered.

The wolves barked softly, tails wagging like they’d just executed the most brilliant tactical move in history.

The kitten strutted back to Damon with the confidence of a monarch whose decree had just been obeyed without question. She flicked her tail, then hopped right onto Damon’s shoulder and tapped his cheek. Tap tap.

As if saying, Papa. We go now.

Damon chuckled at the whole interaction. He needed to talk to some humans soon. "Alright. Let’s go and check it out."

The panther whirled around and sprinted into the darkness, stopping just long enough to make sure Damon was following. Its body flickered in and out of visibility, shadow-stepping between ridges with silent urgency.

Damon moved forward, wolves flanking him like a personal escort. The deeper he went, the thicker the shadow essence grew around him. The panther suddenly stopped at a jagged ridge, then bowed again, lowering its body all the way to the stone.

Damon frowned. "What, this is it? This rock?"

Then the rock... moved. A faint grinding noise rolled through the ridge. The entire "ridge" shifted, groaned, and split open along a long hidden seam. A cavern opened up. Not a normal cavern. Not even close. Inside was a lake looking particularly sinisterous.

It was a vast, undulating ocean of liquid shadow, swirling in slow, ominous currents. The surface rippled like ink on the verge of boiling. Wisps rose from it like evaporating darkness, twisting upward and vanishing into the cavern’s high ceiling.

The wolves whimpered in unison. The panther flattened itself to the floor in trembling reverence. The kitten lifted her head, tiny nose twitching with interest.

Damon stepped closer to the edge. Shadow essence here wasn’t just dense, it was saturated to the brim. Just being near it made his shadow affinity tingle and expand.

"What the hell is this place...?" Damon murmured.

A notification flickered.

[Umbra’s Eternal Shadow] A pool containing condensed shadow essence accumulated for millennia. Warning: Entry is fatal to 99.9% of beings.

Damon let out a low whistle and turned to the panther. "This is what you wanted to show me?" 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

The panther bowed again.

While the panther was shaking and trembling, barely able to stand several feet away from the pool, the little kitten hopped off Damon’s shoulder and trotted right to the edge of the shadow lake, peering down at it like an emperor inspecting her new domain. "Meow," she declared, sounding extremely satisfied.

Damon himself wasn’t all that free of the effects of the pool. He was somewhere in between. While he was not paralyzed like the panther, he was also not able to casually walk upto the pool.

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