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My Living Shadow System Devours To Make Me Stronger

Chapter 405 - 406: Closest To His Heart · Sep 30, 2026

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401 Chapter 401 - 402: Money Making Mechanic 2026-09-30
402 Chapter 402 - 403: Trouble In His Future 2026-09-30
403 Chapter 403 - 404: Knowledge In The Dark 2026-09-30
404 Chapter 404 - 405: Separation 2026-09-30
405 Chapter 405 - 406: Closest To His Heart 2026-09-30
406 Chapter 406 - 407: I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream 2026-09-30
407 Chapter 407 - 408 Death Seeker 2026-09-30
408 Chapter 408 - 409: Ten Thousands Foes To Sanity 2026-09-30
409 Chapter 409 - 410: Whisper From The Heart 2026-09-30
410 Chapter 410 - 411: Whisper Coin 2026-09-30
411 Chapter 411 - 412: Ruin Knight 2026-09-30
412 Chapter 412 - 413: All Things Unwhispered 2026-09-30
413 Chapter 413 - 414: A Master Of Denial 2026-09-30
414 Chapter 414 - 415: Cruelty Of The Truth 2026-09-30
415 Chapter 415 - 416: Dual Attribute 2026-09-30
416 Chapter 416 - 417: What Comes After Ruin 2026-09-30
417 Chapter 417 - 418: The Last Ascendant 2026-09-30
418 Chapter 418 - 419: The Silent Halls Without War 2026-09-30
419 Chapter 419 - 420: Full Circle 2026-09-30
420 Chapter 420 - 421: Legends Of Tomorrow 2026-09-30
421 Chapter 421 - 422 /423: Signs Of Trying Times 2026-09-30
422 Chapter 422 - 424: Ice Bath [bonus - ] 2026-09-30
423 Chapter 423 - 425: Assertive 2026-09-30
424 Chapter 424 - 426: Gladstone 2026-09-30
425 Chapter 425 - 427: The Expected Incident 2026-09-30
426 Chapter 426 - 428: Relaxed Too Soon 2026-09-30
427 Chapter 427 - 429: A Father Before A Distant Ruler 2026-09-30
428 Chapter 428 - 430: Lumos 2026-09-30
429 Chapter 429 - 431: Grand Duke 2026-09-30
430 Chapter 430 - 432: Nostalgia 2026-09-30
431 Chapter 431 - 433: From Victim To Villain 2026-09-30
432 Chapter 432 - 434: Irrefutable Evidence 2026-09-30
433 Chapter 433 - 435: Morning Tea 2026-09-30
434 Chapter 434 - 436: Damon The Ascendant 2026-09-30
435 Chapter 435 - 437: May I Have This Dance 2026-09-30
436 Chapter 436 - 438: Gardenias 2026-09-30
437 Chapter 437 - 439: Someone I Have My Eyes On 2026-09-30
438 Chapter 438 - 440: Has Never Known Humility 2026-09-30
439 Chapter 439 - 441: Gap In Power 2026-09-30
440 Chapter 440 - 442: Honor Bound To Leave 2026-09-30
441 Chapter 441 - 443: The Duke’s Evil Intentions 2026-09-30
442 Chapter 442 - 444: Reunion To Ruin 2026-09-30
443 Chapter 443 - 445: Blast Away 2026-09-30
444 Chapter 444 - 446: New Type Of Bullying 2026-09-30
445 Chapter 445 - 447: Oath 2026-09-30
446 Chapter 446 - 448: Unrelenting 2026-09-30
447 Chapter 447 - 449: No Payment For A Hero 2026-09-30
448 Chapter 448 - 450: Racist, Supremacist Assholes 2026-09-30
449 Chapter 449 - 451: Catching Damon Grey 2026-09-30
450 Chapter 450 - 452: Welcome Back To Aether Academy 2026-09-30

Chapter 405 - 406: Closest To His Heart

Making it to the top was easy—uneventful, really—but the chill in Damonʼs spine only got worse.

”I can see why youʼre anxious. That thing is quite strong...”

Damon glanced at Valarie, who hovered in front of him like a wisp.

”You... can take that thing, right?”

Valarie turned to him, his hollow gaze drifting toward the final floor of the spiral tower. The others had yet to arrive. It was just him, Matia, and Sylvia.

”I can,” she said simply.

Damon clenched his fist. ”How are you still able to fight? And if you could, why not just take yourself to Dawn Break Hollow?”

Valarie smiled faintly.

”I was sealed, remember? Even now, Iʼm just a discarnate soul. I can use remnants of my power… by burning whatʼs left of me.”

Sylvia bit her lip until blood reached her tongue.

”Then youʼll be... burning your soul now too...”

Valarie scoffed. The disembodied lips curled into a grin.

”Iʼm already dead. All I want now is a good place to rest. If whatʼs left of me can help you all... then I will be honored to help.”

Matia stepped forward, removing her helm. She stood in front of Valarie, her mouth parting slightly, yet no words came.

The silence made Valarieʼs smile widen.

”Donʼt worry. As long as I donʼt overdo it, I can last a little longer—just long enough for you to bury me. The waypoint can get you to Dawn Break Hollow, so consider it a nice stop before your departure.”

Damon nodded, taking a deep breath.

”Weʼll wait for the others...”

Valarie floated around like a flickering wisp.

”Iʼll take care of the monster above before they arrive... should be a decent surprise.”

Damon raised his hand to stop her, but Valarie vanished—a streak of dancing light ascending the tower.

Moments later, the sounds of battle rang out above—bestial growls, the roar of magic. Damon noticed a shimmering golden light bloom across the ceiling. Valarie had cast a barrier to keep them safe.

Still, Damon felt a rising unease.

”And thatʼs all you can do...” came the mocking voice of Back-to-Back again, slithering into his mind.

Damon ignored it, eyes fixed on the floor above. The only sounds were the crackles of the spatial rift and the haunting echo from the abyss below—the kind of hole that would swallow even hope.

The group stood in anxious silence. No indicators. No warning.

Damonʼs skin prickled.

His danger sense flared—and the moment it did, he spun—but something grabbed his mouth. Sharp pain stabbed into his cheek. He narrowly dodged, avoiding a lethal hit, but blood flowed.

Then chaos.

Sylviaʼs head was smashed against the wall. Matia was kicked across the chamber like a ragdoll.

Mana surged. A blade—an artifact—flashed with power, slashing Matia as she rolled perilously close to the edge of the pit.

Damon tried to scream her name—Matia!—but he couldnʼt.

He couldnʼt scream.

He couldnʼt because—

Because Damon no longer had a mouth.

It was gone.

Stolen.

He tried to scream, but his mind floundered.

No scream came.

Not even a gasp.

Just the throbbing of this violation, the raw terror of being made less than whole.

Rage consumed him. He unleashed Ashborn in a mad fury. The dark flames burned his mind, a torment worse than dying, as shadow energy and mana bled from his very soul.

But the flames were pulled away—devoured by another artifact.

He didnʼt even have time to be surprised; it was too fast.

This was an ambush. A well-planned strike by an enemy that knew how they fought.

Damon staggered. His vision blurred.

Sylvia stood, blood soaking her snow-white hair.

She struck at the attacker—but the enemy unrolled a white scroll. Its runes flared, and her mana was drained in an instant.

Damon teleported—his blade slicing out—but the enemy anticipated his movement. Still, Damon shifted again, slicing its side with a sharp rip of steel.

It groaned.

And the sound that came out—

Was his own voice.

Then he saw its face.

The creature was white, bipedal. Its body was smooth, unblemished—its fingers long and pale. Its face, or lack thereof, was blank.

Except now… it had something it didnʼt before.

A mouth.

His mouth.

This thing—it was…

A Face Stealer.

Damonʼs body grew heavy. He shook his head, trying to fight the influence of whatever curse or mental assault it had placed on him.

This creature wasnʼt just terrifying. It was intelligent.

It used human tools. It wielded artifacts. It fought strategically.

He didnʼt wait. He couldnʼt. He was bleeding out—but so was the creature. Damon had used the Bloodletting skill—its wounds would not stop bleeding.

It smiled with his mouth while Damon stood, jawless—skin stretched tight where his lips should be.

He unleashed his shades—weak, but enough to distract—

But it only smiled, as if expecting it.

”Iʼve been watching, human,” it said, voice dripping with smug certainty.

It pulled out an orb. A flash of blinding light banished the shades.

”Iʼve been learning your methods.”

Then came a flash of ice. A jagged shard shot from the floor, impaling its legs. Matia groaned—her body drenched in blood.

The Face Stealer winced—but before Matia could move, it raised its hand, commanding shadows—Damonʼs attribute —using Damonʼs mouth to do it.

It could also imitate the attributes of its victims.

The darkness clawed at Matia, wrapping around her bleeding frame—then hurled her into the void.

Damon fired his omnidirectional gear, latching onto Matia—he was pulled toward her, grabbing her hand just as the gravitational pull of a spatial rift seized her legs.

The Face Stealer grinned using Damonʼs stolen lips, staggering toward Sylvia.

”I need a face... I need her face... I need to heal...”

The voice echoed—his voice.

Sylvia was bleeding. Unconscious. Helpless.

Valarie was still battling the monster above.

The rest of the party was nowhere in sight.

Damon held onto Matia, her hand slipping in his grip. The void below howled like a hungry god. His body ached. His consciousness flickered.

This was the worst ambush theyʼd ever faced.

Matiaʼs hand slipped further.

The hole exhaled with force—Damonʼs bones groaned as he held on.

And the Face Stealer was nearing Sylvia, hungering for her face.

Then a voice whispered in his mind.

Back-to-Back. Close. Too close.

”Let her go... you can only save one.”

Damonʼs bloodied hand tightened around Matiaʼs.

Another voice echoed. Cold. Inevitable.

”Let her go…”

Damon closed his eyes.

Matia or Sylvia.

He could only save one.

Choose.

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