Shadow Slave: A visionary's guide

Ivan sighed heavily once again, the blonde boy with golden eyes had been staring at his runes ever since he opened his eyes in this world, prying his eyes off the runes he looked around at the sleepers compound situated near the heart of the awakened academy.

The building was encircled by numerous training fields and parks, creating a striking juxtaposition between the artificial structure and the lush natural landscape.

He was led to a great hall filled with hundreds of other awakened Sleepers like themselves waiting for the induction ceremony.

The awakened academy really isnt a joke, the novel's description severely under described this titanic structure.

Ivan found himself in a middle of the whole croud, he was surrounded by sleepers from legacies or unfortunate people who were merely mundane people just few weeks ago. Still disoriented, Ivan found himself staring at his runes once again.

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Name: Ivan

True Name: Adam

Description: ???

Rank: Sleeper

Class: Devil

Soul Cores: [4/7]

Soul Fragments: [23/4000]

Attributes: [spectator], [Secrets Suppliant], [Sailor], [Bard], [Reader]

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Aspect: [Visionary]

Aspect Rank: [Divine], ???

Description: [The Visionary is a master of thought and imagination, you are able to shape the flow of time and history itself through foresight. With unparalleled clarity, they can perceive and determine the emerging trends of the world, molding the future with their will.]

Innate Ability: [Envision]

Attempts: [7/7]

[Envision]

Ability Description: [You possess the power to shape reality by envisioning it. You can create grounds, objects, and even powers from your imagination. What you see in your mind will come to life, transforming the world around you, though each creation is limited by your mental strength and vision. Your imagination holds the key to the future, and the future bends to your will.]

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Sub-Ability: [Holy Ground]

Description: [You can Envision a blessed space, an area where those within a 20-meter radius are granted a strength beyond their rank and limitations. Allies are empowered, receiving physical fortitude and minor healing, though the latter is not as potent. It is a place of refuge and power, where the divine flows freely and amplifies those who stand within.]

Sub-Ability: [Imbuement of Life (0/2)]

Description: [Through your power, you can breathe a unique sense of life into inanimate objects, transforming them into living beings that resemble familiars. These entities are bound by your will, becoming extensions of your mind and will, capable of carrying out tasks.]

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"Fking hell, no matter how many times i look at it, this is still insane, i was just making instant ramen the other night while reading and the next morning i found myself in the same gods forsaken world of the novel"

"I straight up skipped the first nightmare and woke up as a sleeper, i dont know if i am lucky or unlucky, firstly i dont even have a clue of the nightmares cruelty, second these runes…"

Ivan rubbed his tired eyes again, he has been doing this almost all the time after he woke up here.

He looked at the runes again.

"There is no question this is basically what Adam's Rune would look like if he transmigrated into shadow slave."

"Visionary, Secret suplicant, bard, sailor, reader… this is the god almighty pathways but in the form of attributes, devine aspect, aspect legacy.. "

"All of it its straight up copy of the real thing, also i woke up with 4 soul cores, didnt Ancient sun god (ASG) also wake up as a dual pathway true god?"

"Instead i woke up as a sleeper while ASG woke up as a true god which would be the Devine rank in this world, is it because i am also ukrainian?"

"Am i suppose to be the ancient sun god of this world?"

"What about the main protagonists of this novel, sunny and nephis?"

Immediately after the chattering croud went silent, Turning his head he looked at the direction everyone was staring at.

"Well speak of the devil"

Nephis of the immortal flame clan and sunny the future lord of shadows but now here as sleepers.

"Their appearance is just as the novel described, Nephis was a tall, slender girl around Sunny's age, with clear grey eyes and a detached look on her face. She had silver-white hair that was cut short and neatly parted to the side, and sunny he is a frail-looking young man with pale skin and dark circles under his eyes. He was unhealthily thin and pale, looking haggard in cheap clothes due to lack of sleep."

"It seems i am around the start of the shadow slave, everything is going according to the story"

"And here i am right infront of the characters i only knew as words and a Arts from the shadow slave community, not like there were that many fan arts, he.. Lost from fanart is a fitting name"

Hearing commotion, ivan saw sunny talking to casters group.

"Right sunny's flaw, he is making a scene so no one takes him seriously and underestimates him"

He watched as as sunny made himself look like a fool infront of everyone, he watched as sunny got slapped by the female sleepers.

"Poor guy, cant even get a break and wont get a decent one in a long time, i will make sure to pray for you sunny."

"First and foremost i need to plan ahead, i am not fighter other then my sailor and bard pathway i am not at all prepared for the dream realm, i am a coward, i have no intention of fighting, he he i should be of the Lord of the mysteries pathway instead of the god almighty pathway"

"Still i am quite fortunate i dont have to die in the first nightmare and i know almost all the important information regarding my pathways, as well as the aspect legacies"

"Further more this isnt the lotm Universe had i awakened in that universe i would be dead before i even processed the first visual signal from my eyes"

"Speaking of aspect legacies…."

Ivan focused on the runes.

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Aspect Legacy:

[Quill of Alzuhod]

Description: [ The legendary quill you wield has the power to bring anything written with it to life, within the bounds of reason. What is penned will take shape in the real world, guided by the logic of your vision. With each stroke, you etch reality itself, molding the future through words alone.]

[Unwanted Attention]

Description: [ When you place a mark upon someone, a direct connection forms between you and the marked. Through this bond, you gain the ability to communicate with or bestow gifts upon them. Your meta-awareness sharpens—anything spoken or thought about you will be known to you. The deeper the mark, the more influence you gain; as the marked's trust and belief in you grow, so does your power over them, allowing you to manipulate their actions and perceptions with greater ease. The more they know of you, the more you know of them. ]

Memory Name: [Quill of Alzuhod]

Memory Rank: [???]

Memory Type: [Enchanted Artifact]

Memory Enchantments: [Fated], [Why is this happening!!?]

[Fated] Description: [Anything written by it, within logical boundaries, will come true.]

[Why is this happening!!?] description: [ the more you use it the more it will throw you in unwanted scenario's ]

Name: [Unwanted Attention]

Rank: [???]

Type: [Mark]

Memory Enchantments: [Binding Gaze]

Enchantment Description: The mark creates a bond between the bestower and the marked, allowing the bestower to communicate and bestow gifts onto them. The stronger the marked's belief in the bestower, the greater the influence, while the bestower gains insight into the marked's thoughts and secrets.

Marks: [0/1]

Flaw: [Unraveling Mind]

Flaw Description: [Every time you reshape reality, a piece of your mind slips into madness. The more you create, the more you lose control—visions become nightmares that torment your psyche, and you risk becoming a prisoner of the abyss of madness that not even gods can escape, forever trapped in endless suffering.]

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"[ Quil of Alzuhod ] is exactly like how it is in the lotm universe, and [Unwanted Attention] is basically a severely underpowered version adam's meta awareness, as well as a mix of sunnies aspect legacy "mark of shadow" was it? And cassie's acended ability"

"Speaking of cassie…"

Turning his head to a corner where a bench laid and the area around it strangely empty, For some reason, Sleepers were unwilling to approach it: currently, there was only one girl sitting quietly on the bench.

The quiet girl was delicate, demure and very pretty. Her clothes were tidy and neat. They weren't very expensive, but still rather tasteful. With her pale blond hair, big blue eyes and exquisite face, she looked like a beautiful porcelain doll.

She was subtly breathtaking.

"Hell where is the fairness?, if she had tried she could easily outshine every awakened in terms of looks alone,"

Looking at the girl's empty expression it was understandable why no one would approach her.

"She is a dead weight destined to die the moment she enters the dream realm"

Ivan looked at the girl with a pained expression, "the despair and the fear she must be feeling, i cant even imagine myself blind much worse imagine myself in a world where i am forced into a world of nightmares"

"She was my favourite character despite being misunderstood and being hated by almost everyone, i still supported her, i always felt sad that there werent a moment she found a short amount of happiness, awakened deserved it, and she too deserves it"

She had around her a palpable aura of death, making it so no one was willing to approch her or even give her words of consolation.

"But as a reader of shadow slave i know more then anyone here of how important her role is and that she would just survive the dream realm but would go on to become transcendent and one on the most important figures in both worlds, and she is going to be my ticket to saving my butt"

I cant leave her like this, i cant let someone feel this kind of despair she needs all the encouraging words.

"Heh i am already starting to act like a psychiatrist"

Focusing on the runes.

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Aspect: [Visionary]

Aspect Rank: [Divine], ???

Description: [The Visionary is a master of thought and imagination, you are able to shape the flow of time and history itself through foresight. With unparalleled clarity, they can perceive and determine the emerging trends of the world, molding the future with their will.]

Innate Ability: [Envision]

Attempts: [7/7]

[Envision]

Ability Description: [You possess the power to shape reality by envisioning it. You can create grounds, objects, and even powers from your imagination. What you see in your mind will come to life, transforming the world around you, though each creation is limited by your mental strength and vision. Your imagination holds the key to the future, and the future bends to your will.]

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Focusing on "Attempts: [7/7]"

Attempts description: [ you are able to envision grounds, objects and abilities above your rank temporarily for a limited time, higher the level of the envisioned object the less longer you can maintain and more likely it is for it to fail to manifest, each attempts take 5 hours to recharge and each envisioning brings you closer to madnesses embrace ]

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As a visionary i should be able to draw on the power of a psychiatrist..

Ivan closed his eyes, "here goes nothing.."

Ivan imagined himself with the abilities of a psychiatrist and shortly heard a strangely familiar voice

The voice was calm and tranquil and almost soothing yet it had a hint of inhuman feeling..

Ivan opened his eyes to see a new set runes.

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[ would you like to envision the abilities of a psychiatrist? ]

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"Yes."

The runes changed to form a new set runes replacing the former

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Attempts: [6/7]

Currently envisioned: [ abilities of a psychiatrist ]

Timer: [ 4:59 ]

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Right after reading the runes, his ears were bombarded with inhuman illusory screams and a gaze breathing down the back of his neck.

Ivan would have collapsed had he not attempted using his abilities before.

The first time had caused him to nearly faint from extreme fear.

"There is a reason why flaw's are an essential part of this world; the greater the power, the greater the flaw, if i hadnt kept it together the first time, i would have lost control, diedand had my soul in literal hell constantly shattering, reforming and repeating for eternity."

"Even using my abilities would get me killed if i lost myself to my imagination and didnt use it with moderation."

Straightening up and tiding himself, he walked towards the bench on the corner.

Approaching the blonde girl, Ivan asked in a slightly cheerful tone.

"Is it alright if I sit here?"

The blonde girl looked in the direction of voice in clear surprise written all over her face.

Which is understandable as no one even bothered to talk to her until now.

"Y-yes.. You may." Her voice came out soft and strained from long exposure to isolation.

Ivan sat down beside the blind girl.

The blonde girl was about to ask something to the boy with golden eyes when Ivan grabbed her hand and placed something on her hand.

Cassie was confused on what he gave her, so she asked, "what is this?"

The boy with golden eyes replied, "its a lemon smoothie i got; its really good, i saw you were just sitting her alone with gloomy expression thought i would share to liven the mood"

Ivan spoke with a tone of that of a professional psychiatrist as well as one that a close friend and beloved family would use.

Ivan muttered, "step one, liven the mood and remove suspicions."