He woke up at 11AM the next day, yawning with no care in the world of who saw him, he freshened up in the shower, and dressed up and as usual he signed in but he was shocked to the core by what he got
[Congratulations to the host for winning the abilities of the shadow monarch]
[??? Interfers, recalibrating, wait a moment host]
After two minutes, the system came back
[ By the authority of ??? The host will be allowed to select 6 members from the shadow monarch army]
Anthony was stunned, the being intervened again, didn't the being say he won't be able to see him again, but it kept coming back, was it...bored
Immediately he thought this, the system message changed
[ By the authority of ??? The host will be allowed to select 3 members from the shadow monarch army]
He saw that the original six has dropped to three because of his useless thoughts, he wailed, he apologised but the system didn't change, it even inserted a 1 minute timer which started counting down immediately
Out of fear he immediately picked his shadows
[Host has picked Bellion the fallen Angel]
[Host has picked Beru the Ant king ]
[Host has picked Igris the Swordmaster]
[All shadows have been summoned, they are all at Paragon level 9]
Anthony was astonished, he got the three strongest, all of them at Peak Paragon rank, and even got the shadow monarch ability
He could use this ability in tandem with blood servant and it would be.....
Anthony's mind exploded, he started guessing if he was ???'s son, it came bearing gift each time, the being knew the shadow monarch was his best fictional character, so he presented him with gifts, he wanted to bow in a random direction but before he could, three shadows materialized out of no where, Anthony was shocked by their appearance.
Bellion, Igris, Beru immediately knelt on one knew and said "Master", he didn't know how to reply, he was still drowning in happiness.
Then he replied to the three of them
"We have a long road ahead, train your skills in the shadow world and always be ready to fight"
The three nodded and disappeared from his sight into the shadow world, but they could still see and hear what was happening at all times, if their master was ever in danger, they would spring out and kill who dares trespass.
He immediately went downstairs to find the butler. "Uncle good morning how are you doing" he usually calls the butler uncle, his mind couldn't bring him to call an OP big shot like him butler.
"Good morning young master, I'm good how are you, do you need anything" the butler replied
Anthony asked "uncle do you know any cemetery or where big shot are buried at least the Grandmaster Rank" he knew he was greedy, but after seeing his three shadows he couldn't just bring any shadow into the shadow world
The butler thought and answered "Yes young master, I know where some are buried from Master to the Paragon rank are there, but for the rank above that, I'm sorry young master but they are not buried"
Anthony immediately nodded not paying the other rankers that are not buried any mind, that was not his concern right now
He said to the butler "Let's go there immediately" he started moving towards the garage
The butler followed and asked "do you need anything there young master"
Anthony replied with a straight face, "I am going to the academy soon, I have to pay my respects to those who protected us from the demons"
The butler drove the Ferrari and they got to the cemetery, Anthony didn't know If this place was a cemetery or a palace, but considering their rank and contributions to humanity, it was worth the fund, even the land was blessed by a priest above the Paragon rank, the flowers, the air, everything here said here was not a cemetery.
He immediately entered and told his butler to wait outside for him, the butler waited in the car but still used his sense to see the young master in case of action.
Anthony erected a void barrier, he told the butler he didn't want to be disturbed, the butler agreed cause his sense passed through the barriers, he didn't know that it was Anthony that allowed his senses to pass, if not how can he cross the void, Anthony then used the authority skill: perfect one to fool his sense, and made the butler see him giving thanks and all that to the dead expert.
He may just have gotten void affinity recently but he has studied all the knowledge of all elements and mana, this is just child's play
But in reality, he was going to awaken them all, he stood at the cemetery and wanted to speak the command words just to remember, he didn't set any, as if on cue, the system chimes.
[Host should choose a command word]
Anthony thought for a while, he wanted to use the shadow monarch popular word but who knows whether he would be killed by the shadow monarch in a parallel world out of anger, he stole his shadow soldier, stole his abilities, and now he stole his phrase wasn't that courting death, and last time, the shadow monarch was already a god, who said he hasn't gotten stronger again.
Then he picked his word "Emerge"
[Command word "Emerge" has been saved]
Then Anthony looked around and said with happiness coursing his veins
"EMERGE"
A black purple aura spread, and beings woke up from their slumber, they all varied from master Rank to paragon
He looked around and saw there about three thousand people buried here according to the butler, but he got only 120, this was already a huge gain. They all remembered their past life but now they are loyal to him. They all knelt and greeted "Master"
He noticed only two people were at the Peak Paragon rank, one was an assassin, the other was pure marital artist who used his body, Anthony had respect for martial artist.
He asked their names, the assassin's name was 'unknown' when he was alive since no one ever caught him, he died of old age, the martial artist was called George, he only asked these two people their names, the rest he didn't have brain capacity to remember them, he sent them all to the shadow world, told them to train and breakthrough.
All of this happened in 5mins, he then removed the space barrier and he left with the butler.
When he arrived at the estate he asked the butler "where did Mother and father go?"
The butler replied "They had businesses to handle for sometime they would be back soon"
Anthony nodded and returned to his room after having breakfast, but his parents weren't here to keep him company, when he entered he counted his shadow, he had 20 Paragons that was a nice spoil, 40 Grandmasters, 60 Masters all of them in the shadow world training to break through to the next rank.
As they are Shadow they no require no sustenance aside mana, they could train forever as far mana was provided, and who was Anthony?, he was the boy who wished for an infinite mana passive skill, be would abuse this skill in the future.
Then he opened his phone and just scrolled through his chats and went to the Mana-net to see if there was any news today, as he pressed his phone. The whole day passed by and it was already 1AM, he sighed as he didn't get to see this parents today.
With that he went to sleep.