Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

The air smelt poisonous and rotten with the distinctive smell of charcoal.

Dorian circulated his qi, creating a clean vacuum a few inches away from his body.

~Gwwww~

All Creatures stared at him viciously, trying their best to attack him from where they stood.

Vmmmm!

One of them elongated himself to the highest length it could, shocking those watching from the Mortal world.

"What is going on? Isn't standing still enough to guarantee the Grandmaster's survival?"

Xiang Shore, Donghai, Leah, and everyone else were all going crazy with worry.

Haru thinned his lips, explaining what he picked up from the Grandmaster's earlier words.

And the revelation left everyone dumbfounded.

"You're saying that these shadows can grow up to the highest sun-touch-length that we experienced throughout our lives."

Bewoh nodded.

"That's right. Imagine a day on the beach with the sun causing long shadows. That length is taken in by the shadows and becomes part of them. But I'm guessing that they can only elongate towards the sun direction that the sun in our mortal world had pushed them to."

"F***!"

One of the men exclaimed, seeing the many shadows elongate like long balloons with sharp teeth and overly pointy hands with claws.

"Look, look! They've got the grandmaster surrounded!"

"Yes!" Leah replied, grabbing another person's wrist so tight, almost causing an injury.

All their shadows were quick to surround the Grandmaster, but why was it that his shadow seemed unfazed?

Dorian's Shadow was still leaning on the ground with his legs swinging playfully.

And soon, she knew why.

A silver light suddenly flashed.

Pap. Pap. Pap.

Quick bladed sounds echoed out, with no one seeing what was going on.

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1, 2, 3… the darkness suddenly cleared, followed by the eerie wails of these shadows.

"Skeeeiiii~~~~."

They immediately turned as small as a baby, not daring to grow any bigger.

Everything happened too fast. And they themselves were also clueless about what this bastard had done to them.

If not for the burning pain they felt, they would've thought it all to be an illusion.

Dorian stared at the now-shivering shadows expressionlessly.

"Behave."

Shiver. Shiver. Shiver.

With their toddler appearances, they nodded vigorously, not daring to disobey.

No wonder this mortal was the counterpart to the evil shadow over there.

What were they thinking?

Those watching felt a chill of fright run up their spines.

It should be that some of their shadows' fears had penetrated their beings too.

Though the feeling was very small, a shadow could still affect its mortal counterpart by 1% or so from the mirror world.

It can be said that humans were 1% being the shadow and the rest being the soul.

However, though small the percentage was, they still couldn't be without shadows.

Xiang Shore gripped his chest, pushing the strange feeling away.

Of course, he still cursed Old Gia in his heart.

'Old man, just wait to see how I clean you up after this!'

Dorian stared at his Shadow very authoritatively.

"Are you coming or not. You choose."

"Hahahahaha~" The shadow calmly stood, looking at Dorian playfully.

"Do I have a choice?"

"No."

If you don't come willingly, then you'll be dragged!

Sigh~...

"So bossy, aren't we?... Ah…. You were just about to say our favorite catchphrase, weren't you?"

Dorian choked on his words.

Noisy.

"Let's go!"

Only he can choke himself.

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Like so, Dorian in black and his counterpart in white closely advanced side to side, looking like the ultimate duo.

What was more shocking was that his counterpart had a dark fan in his hands.

The fan looked ordinary, but the feeling it gave Dorian was powerful.

His counterpart chuckled as though enjoying this unique experience.

"I am you… So don't you think I can see through you?"

Dorian suddenly paused amidst the rubble all around him.

"You are not me. You are but a shallow shadow of me… Nothing… More."

Instantly, the air turned hotter, becoming very dangerous.

The duo stared at each other eyeball to eyeball, no one backing off.

Though his shadow still had a smile on his face, the fury radiating from its eyes was so great that it changed its eye color to pure mirror-silver.

And in just another blink, his eyes returned to the same color as Dorian's.

His smile broadened in a very devilish manner.

"Hahahahah~... You're right. I'm just a shadow. However, you of all people should know never to underestimate a threat, no matter how small it is."

"I know… Just stating the obvious." Dorian said, as a matter of fact.

His counterpart waved its black fan, covering its lower face. And with a deep stare, it looked at Dorian expressionlessly.

"Hmmm… I'm your shadow. A prisoner to you. But not for long. Sooner than you think, I'll be out… Sadly, not today."

Dorian didn't even bother responding to it.

Try all you might; you're not getting out of here.

What was the point of arguing about this fact?

Dorian Didn't think its counterpart would ever be able to escape his grasp. However, it was always best to take precautions.

'System, keep an extra eye on him while in here. I have a feeling that he'll try to slip something on me.'

['No problem, host. I will keep a good eye on him!'] The system responded, using its laser-focus to watch the counterpart.

In a sense, he and his counterpart were both smart. He was confident, but it wasn't good to be overly confident, lowering his guard.

His counterpart had strange objects on him, all of which were too suspicious.

Where did he get them from?

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['Host, 1 minute in the Mortal world is up!']

1 minute outside was equivalent to 5 minutes here.

'Hmmm'

The victim's shadows were on the faces of those creatures in the mortal world.

And using a particular spell, he located the victims.

Maybe it was because they sensed their shadow location in the mortal world… but what he found was that they weren't too far away from him.

They were actually on the bottom floor of this same broken police station building he was standing in.

His counterpart understood his expression. And right before his eyes, the fan enlarged, turning into a flying fan.

"Getting on?"

Dorian stared at it deeply. "No."

"I thought as much."

~Swish!

The duo vanished.