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As Beru spoke, describing himself as a commander, countless memories of battle flashed through his mind.
In the distant reaches of the outer universes, the shadow army had once stood against an endless horde—and annihilated it. However, their leader, the Monarch of Shadows, had not been content with just that. He tore the souls from every one of those corpses and turned them all into his own soldiers.
The army of the Outer Gods had been left reeling in disbelief. They had clearly invaded in numbers that should have overwhelmed this world in no time at all, but instead of gaining an easy victory, they were forced to watch their forces being sapped away in real time. What was supposed to be a swift conquest had dragged into a taut tug-of-war, one that still showed no sign of ending.
Yet there was something they had failed to consider. What happened to the soulless husks, the remains left behind after the Shadow Monarch had extracted their souls? Surprisingly, very few gave it any thought. The war was too fierce, too constant. Even if one had noticed, they would soon be dead, just another corpse themselves. In the end, all those horribly mutilated bodies drifted through space or disintegrated entirely, becoming nothing more than dust in the void.
However, in truth, that wasn’t the end. Beru was there, the shadow soldier who had been the most active among the battlefield’s many terrors. He fought the enemy consumed by bloodlust, and whenever he came across those bodies, he shoved them into his mouth, tearing and devouring them. The endless...
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