The Return of the Mad Witch
The Shadow King

"Well, this is exhausting. Why did that court knight never give up chasing after me?!"

Valencia was relentlessly grumbling along the way to the room. A few hours earlier, the court knight came again to drag him down forcibly. However, Valencia again beat them and again they failed to bring Valencia.

"What are you mumbling alone? Looks like you're getting crazy after I stay a while."

Valencia's expression turned flat as he entered the room and found the fat cat asleep on his bed. Who else if not Sean, the chatty guy who always pisses him off all the time.

"Why can this fat and ugly cat appear again before me? I'm glad you're not in my life."

"Stop mocking me! You're such a bitch!" shouts Sean as heckled.

"Well all right, let's hear what took you so long in Davey's castle."

Valencia sat himself on the edge of the bed. Tired of that cute face.

"There are some problems I can't tell you about" Sean replied.

"really? Is it related to the sound of bells ringing from the direction of the sky?"

Both of Sean's eyes were perfectly rounded, he was completely shocked for a moment.

"What's? Can you hear the sound of bells from the sky?"

"Yes, is that weird? Or you don't hear his voice?"

"No, the castle bells do ring, but they rarely make it to the human world" Sean said.

"Yes, I think that's pretty awkward."

Valencia grabs a packet of chips on the table, he will listen to whatever Sean tells him while eating chips previously given by Rachel.

"There's something I want to tell you and it has to do with Berliana" Sean said suddenly.

Valencia stops chewing when Sean discusses Berliana. The girl was getting serious about watching Sean.

"Where? Did you meet him? Why did I never meet Berliana in the afterlife? Does he not consider me his best friend?" cecar Valencia grumbled in annoyance.

"That's because the souls of men in heaven are forbidden to interact with souls outside heaven. He just happened to be allowed to come out for a while to see me. He left a message for you" Sean explained.

"Message?" Valencia looked increasingly curious. "What does he want to tell me?"

"He wanted to say that he was grateful that you kept your promise to spread his story around the world. He also said that you should find your own happiness. There is no need to think about him in heaven because he is now united with his love. Then he also said that he missed you so much."

"Is that so?"

Valencia suddenly carved an unusual smile on his lips. A sweet and mellow smile at the same time, it was like the most sincere smile of his life.

Sean was stunned as soon as Valencia smiled like that. A very rare smile, this time Valencia showed a foreign side of him.

"Valencia, hot!"

Rachel in an irregular state suddenly came through Valencia's room. Tears flowed from his eyes.

"What's wrong? Is something going on?"

As Valencia rose from his position, he brought the hysterical and shocked Rachel into the room. Not forgetting Valencia gave him some drinking water to calm him down.

"Say slowly. What the hell is going on?" ask Valencia.

"Valencia, you gotta look out there! Something strange happened to people then I saw Devina .. Anyway you just saw it for yourself!"

Valencia rushed out of the room, he went down the stairs of the dormitory. He only realized one thing, the entire room in his room was empty. The door was wide open but no one was inside.

"Damn! Did I miss something?"

How shocked Valencia was when he saw such a crazy sight. The entire dormitory suddenly lost control. Their gazes were blank, they involuntarily walked towards the one place that was in front of the academy gate.

"Valencia, what's really going on here? Very frightening, they walked without their own consciousness."

Rachel whined, she was drowning in a baseless fear. Watching the entire horrifying scene left Rachel possessed by bad thoughts.

"You better get some sleep, leave this matter to me."

Valencia touched Rachel's forehead, the girl slowly closed her eyes and ended up sleeping. Valencia takes Rachel to safety before she takes action.

"The moonlight was engulfed by the dark sky, the clouds were pitch-black and spiked by magic, perhaps that was what made them lose consciousness. It was fortunate that I had protection magic installed on Rachel's body, so she was not exposed to the effects of her magic" Valencia muttered.

At the same time, in the air fluttered black wisps of light that had no definite shape. The wisps of light were not just one or two but there were many and almost filled the expanse of the night sky.

"It looks like it's black magic" Sean said, turning to his original form.

"Yes, you're right. It was black magic, they seemed to lock onto everyone's souls. This incident is similar to that time," said Valencia.

Valencia and Sean followed everyone who headed to the front of the gate. They wonder where their true purpose is.

"Hey, Sean! Isn't that a portal? But, why was the portal shrouded in blue flames?" tanya Valencia first saw the portal.

Valencia looked even deeper, watching closely that there were many piles of human bodies beside the portal. The black-robed skull figure was like an angel of death while carrying a huge scythe absorbing one by one the souls of the people who approached the portal. Their souls were put into one portal.

"Devina!" Valencia's sense of sight caught Devina's body lying between the bodies of the unconscious.

Valencia was about to go there, but his wrist was held by Sean. The movement is intercepted so as not to go to a place they do not know first before finishing observing as a whole.

"Hold yourself, don't just attack them. If you misstep, then I'm afraid their souls are destroyed" Sean said.

"But—"

"Valencia!"

Xeros and Frintz came together to Valencia and from the other direction were seen Reibert, Sammy, and Leano. They happen to be in an area close to the academy so they can quickly catch up with Valencia.

"What's really going on here? It seems that everyone in the capital is experiencing the same thing" Leano said.

"The sky's getting closed!" exclaimed Xeros pointed towards the sky.

Darkness came to the night sky of the Alegra Empire. Black light clumps are increasing, the blob is thought to be the main cause of darkness in the bright night sky.

"Hahaha, you lowly human!"

With laughter blaring in the sky, the wisps of black light merged into one to form a black shadow shaped like a giant cloaked with a crown on its head.

"I will make you die and make you a victim to awaken my power!"

The sound of the shadow was huge, the ground level to the point of shaking for a moment his voice resonated in the expanse of the night sky.

"Shadow king! How dare you show yourself here!" valencia shouted in anger.

Yes, the giant shadow is the King of shadows. When Valencia became Klarybell, he defeated the shadow king and killed him. However, who would have thought if the King of the shadows lived back in this time.

"Shadow king? The giant black shadow that wore a crown, he was indeed the King of shadows. However, why did the King of shadows appear here? Wasn't he killed by Klarybell?" confused Frintz.

Frintz as a history lover once read this in a world history book. One of the books is the story of Klarybell's fight with the shadow King who messed up on the continent of Mihovil.

Everyone who was there knew it too. They were also told by Frintz some time ago.

"It turns out you're not affected by my magic, are you really human?" ask the King of the shadows.

"It doesn't matter if you know we're human or not!" valencia jolt with deep emotions.

The shadow king sharpened his eyes towards Valencia. He had only first met the figure of Valencia, but somehow it felt the aura of Valencia felt familiar to him.

"Little girl, who are you? Why I feel—"

Surprisingly, Valencia flew high into space. He no longer intended to hide his magic power from the five men watching him

"What's wrong? You feel Klarybell's aura, don't you?"

The shadow king was aghast in shock, Valencia speaking the language of the Mihovil continent. Suddenly the King of shadows felt a deep fear like he had against Klarybell.

"A-What? Don't you Klarybell?"

"Right, I'm Klarybell." Valencia pulled out a blue-lighted sword. "Klarybell the Great Witch and ruler of the Mihovil continent. You're shocked? Naturally, everyone thought Klarybell was dead. But, unfortunately Klarybell is still alive today."

"lik! Klarybell died a long time ago. How could he still be alive? And again live in the body of another girl," denied the King of the shadows did not want to accept the reality.

"But this is the reality." Valencia pointed the sword at the shadow King while smiling his trademark smile.

"Did the gods play with your death? There's no way you can live after more than eight hundred years of your death."

The shadow king was still trying to deny and invited Valencia to argue with him. Valencia began to feel sick of the shadow King's endless babbling.

"I never die! For over eight hundred years, my soul flew freely in the universe in search of a suitable container for my resurrection. And now you're watching for yourself that Klarybell is really back."

The shadow King momentarily fell silent, he could not deny anymore, the magic aura of Valencia could not be lied to, especially the gaze of his eyes. The gaze of his eyes was sharp and full of cruelty, it was no mistake that the girl was Klarybell.

'I'm trapped! However, it seems like he still does not know that I am different from the old me. Now I'm sure I can beat him. He might have been weak for a long time not using magic, ' the shadow King was petty.

Sean patted his forehead, Valencia made everyone other than himself hang. They were glued to watch from under Valencia flying in the air.

'That girl is so sloppy! He let others see his magic power. What's in his head right now? I don't think out, ' Inner Sean.

The five men who were standing beside Sean were at a loss for words for a moment. They are confused to respond to what kind of scenery they are facing at that time.

"I'm not dreaming, am I? Valencia flying," said Sammy.

"Valencia he really flew in space and now he's level with the shadow King."

"Look at that sword Valencia was holding. His sword shines, in contrast to the sword in general."

Here only Reibert did not comment because he was so shocked to see with his own eyes a flying human hovering in the air without wings. He stood like a statue, barely able to breathe looking towards Valencia.