The skies above the smoldering ruins of the Azure Sky Sect still wept with crimson clouds, remnants of the calamity Aezreal had unleashed. Mountains lay sundered, rivers boiled into vapor, and the once-proud palaces of the sect now stood as broken silhouettes against the horizon. The world itself seemed to recoil from his presence, as though heaven and earth feared to provoke him further.
Amid the silence of death, Aezreal's voice cut through.
"Sign-in."
The omnipotent system, cold and absolute, answered at once.
> [Ding!]
Omnipotent Sign-In Successful.
Location: Azure Sky Sect (Extermination Ground)
Reward: Primordial Companion — Shadow of Eternity (Rank: ???)
Aezreal's pupils contracted slightly, his calm composure only breaking for a fleeting second.
"Primordial… Companion?" he whispered. Even for him, the word carried weight. The system had granted him weapons, power, bloodline resonance—but this… this was something altogether different.
The air began to distort around him. From the blood-soaked earth, a circle of black light unfurled, expanding outward in runes older than creation itself. The ruins trembled. Corpses of sect disciples and elders, strewn across the battlefield, began to dissolve into smoke, their essences pulled into the circle as fuel.
A roar echoed. Not beast, not dragon, but something deeper—something that seemed to originate from the abyss beneath all worlds. The heavens darkened further, thunder rolling as a crack split the sky.
From the circle, it emerged.
At first, it was only shadow—a vast silhouette slithering and coiling, too large to comprehend. Then, piece by piece, it condensed. A beast of obsidian scales shimmered into existence, its body long like a serpent but with talons sharper than blades of divine steel. Its eyes, twin voids, bled threads of starlight as though entire galaxies were swallowed within them.
It bowed.
Not as a beast subjugated by force, but as a creature destined, by law of creation itself, to kneel before Aezreal.
> [Companion Bond Formed]
Name: Nyx
Race: Primordial Shadow Beast (Origin-Class)
Rank: Eternal (???)
Bloodline Resonance: 100% (Linked to Aezreal, Primordial Chaos Demon Dragon)
Abilities:
– Eternal Shadow Step — traverse through darkness, unhindered by space or time.
– Devourer of Light — consume energy, blood, or life to strengthen.
– Twin Soul Bond — shares growth and evolution with master; cannot die as long as master lives.
Aezreal's lips curled faintly. "So, this is my reward."
The beast—Nyx—lowered its head further, its abyssal aura cloaking Aezreal like a mantle of living night. Its presence was so terrifying that if any cultivator of the continent had seen it, they would collapse in despair. A pet of this level was not something meant for the mortal plane.
For the first time since his awakening, Aezreal felt something stir within him—a faint thread of familiarity, of inevitability. As though this creature had always been with him, waiting to be called into existence.
He lifted a hand, brushing against the cold obsidian scales. Nyx trembled, not in fear, but in devotion.
"From now on," Aezreal said quietly, "you are my shadow. My eternity."
The bond sealed. A pulse of power rippled across the continent. In distant empires, in hidden sects, ancient beings meditating in seclusion opened their eyes in shock. Kings trembled. Sects whispered in fear.
"Another calamity has been born."
Some dared to whisper a name. Not yet known to the world, but already carried on the wind.
"Aezreal."