Chapter 187 - The Living Shadow (Part. I)

The shadow climbing the walls did not remain still. It crossed the ceiling, covered the shattered tanks, and filled the cracks in the floor like a thick liquid searching for room to spread. Within seconds, the red crystals stopped illuminating the circular chamber, and Victor lost a clear view of the walls, platforms, and corpses scattered around them. He could still see in the dark, but the shapes refused to remain stable. Distances seemed to change whenever he moved his eyes, the dead bodies shifted positions between one blink and the next, and Ghideon remained in front of them without appearing to truly occupy that place.