Baek Gyeo-Ul tilted his head in confusion, unable to understand what Chang-Sun meant by ‘shadow’. Looking back at him, Chang-Sun chuckled lightly. It was understandable that Gyeo-Ul could not understand, as Chang-Sun had heard the phrase ‘become a shadow’ from his father, Xerxes.

“Shadow? What are you talking about?”

“You know I normally don’t have a fixed physical body, right?”

“Yeah, or else you wouldn’t look like that now.”

“Just as you said, I normally can’t even manifest in a spirit body, because you could say I’m a false deity. No matter how exceptional a Celestial is, they normally don’t recognize me, but you’re different.”

“So?“

“So, in order to have a body, I extracted your shadow, then artificially made a ‘shell’ and inhabited it.”

“Hmm!”

“If it weren’t for your shadow—no, the hidden side of your imprint, to be more accurate, it would have been difficult to manifest like this in the physical world.”

“That means you’re parasitizing me, am I right?”

“…I don’t like the way you put it, but yeah, something like that.”

As it happened, Chang-Sun had not intentionally encountered Xerxes. While exploring some ruins, Chang-Sun had coincidentally sensed him and realized he was a being who had been expelled from the planes and the universe, like the <Forgotten Stars>. Thus, Chang-Sun had lent Xerxes his shadow as a medium for Xerxes...