The Black Shadow was not something that began recently in Aurethia’s underground world.
It had existed long before most criminal groups even learned how to survive in the shadows.
For generations, people only spoke of it in whispers. Some said it was not just an organization of assassins, but something far more disturbing. They were believed to practice forbidden methods of combat, techniques that mixed poison knowledge, pressure-point killing, controlled breathing destruction, and strange body conditioning that looked almost unreal. Many could not tell where science ended and something darker began.
Its base was hidden deep in Alderton Hills, built into the side of rocky cliffs surrounded by thick forest. The location itself felt like it rejected the outside world, swallowing sound and
