Lord Shadow

Her eyes are glaring at the bald man as the bald man slowly reach out and put his hand on the handle of his blade, ready to pull it out from the sheath the moment she moves

He is gathering momentum on his feet and his body. The moment she tried to do anything, a sword strike might end her life.

Sasha is now trying to think of other ways

In the six years that has passed since the absence of Death Monarch, the Shadow Guards stance on the ruler of Pandemonium has shifted.

Six years is a long time and Shadow Guards is a special existence in Pandemonium. 

They are not particularly liked by the Central government and the Three Army also don’t like their secretive nature. There is only one reason why the Central Government and the Three Army tolerate and had to respect them. And that is because their backer.

And who is the backer of Shadow Guards? 

The true ruler of Pandemonium, Death Monarch. 

Outsider probably would not understand why the Shadow Guards had split into two and why even though there are remnants of the Shadow Guards in Pandemonium, it never shows any sign of serving Loki and the Central government or run to the Three Army for support.

No one outside Pandemonium and no one outside of the Shadow Guards would understand. 

It almost like every members of the Shadow Guards seems to be too prideful for their own goods

The Shadow Guards was not created to aid the future rulers of Pandemonium. That is not why they were formed. They were formed to aid Death Monarch to do things.

To search information for him, to be his blade that cut down his enemies, to protect his life from schemes and plots and assassination and any other kind of harm.

They were not created to rule Pandemonium, they were not created to kill and obliterate the enemies of Pandemonium or guard it from foreign enemies. 

They were created solely to serve as Death Monarch loyal servants

In the beginning, Azief himself could not have expected that his creation of the Shadow Guard would lead to such loyal force under him. 

Sasha was the one that created this tenet of remaining loyal to Death Monarch and nobody else. 

And Azief had approved it after Sasha convinced him the merit of having such a powerful military arm to mobilize.

And as such, even Azief himself has treated the Shadow Guards as an organization that should be loyal to him and only him.

If they could not even keep their loyalty to him, then when Death Monarch return why would he keep such people who could not do even a simple thing?

There is one paramount requirement for any Shadow Guards. They need to have this to be even eligible to remain in Shadow Guards.

Complete loyalty to Death Monarch. Once you are inducted into the Shadow Guard there is no out. Only Death will end your service. 

This is what Sasha told her recruits and it is also why the shadow Guards felt no belongings to the other forces in Pandemonium and why they possess such power and influence in Pandemonium that they could override any executive commands of the Central Government and even send a decree to the Three Army to follow.

Because no one doubts the loyalty of these Shadow Guards. Everyone knows how much Death Monarch trusted the Shadow Guards

Death Monarch would not care if he could not trust his officials or even if he could not trust his army but he would not accept that he could not even trust his own Shadow Guards.

As such, they were also given some special privileges that have earn them the ire of the Central Government and the Three Army.

Some people thought that they have their own relations with Pandemonium but it is clear after six years of not returning to Pandemonium, many forces in the world now regarded Sasha and his band of Dark Blade Division of Shadow Guard had gone rogue, preferring only to execute mission that have been left by Death Monarch. 

They are outsiders so they don’t understand the complex relationship between the Three Powers inside Pandemonium. 

These three powers are the Central Government, the Three Army and the Shadow Guards.

The unifying force of all these forces is Death Monarch. Now Death Monarch is not there, their unity is tested like never before. And Sasha and her band is only doing what Death Monarch ordered them to do.

Sasha gritted her teeth as she looks at the two people, looking at her like she is something to be sold later.

She could not make them understand. because these people are outsiders.

If the Central Government really could not stand Shadow Guards, they would not just ignore them. 

The trickster would have sent legions of hunters, mercenaries, assassins from the Dark Syndicate to kill them. 

But even the Trickster and the many officials that don’t like the Shadow Guard did not do anything to them except ignoring them.

Why? 

Because they understand that all this conflict would end the moment Death Monarch returns. 

And when he returns and found out that the Central Government had oppressed his Shadow Guards, then those officials would probably all lose their heads.

As such, the least they could do is just ignore the Shadow Guards and let them do their own task while the Three Army and the Central Government do their job.

They are still spoken of in dread and fear but the band that Sasha had lead had no support from Pandemonium. 

And the Shadow Guard under Sasha all wear dark cloth and wears an armband of a nightingale bird on their arms, like they were separating itself into a different kind of organization than the one in Pandemonium headed by Shinji the Swift Sword.

The band that Sasha had lead are responsible for many assassinations of the Crime Alliance key figures and for six years they are the ones that walk among the dark side of the world, killing many influential figures that many people speculated come from a list that Death Monarch had written before his departure.

Rumors said that the list is written inside a book called the Book of Death. 

In the criminal world, these rumors persisted. 

The story goes that before Death Monarch decided to breakthrough, he had meet the leader of the Shadow Guards. 

He had given her a list of names that he spoke verbally and some that he had written inside a book that have all kinds of encryptions, codes and puzzles that needs to be solved before one could read it.

The solution to all the codes and puzzles inside the book could only be solved by Sasha the Nightingale because she was the one entrusted with the Book

The reason why the book had so many codes and puzzles to be solved to read it content is because inside that book, the list also includes many information about the operatives of the secret forces of the Seven Great Powers.

In other words, a list of spies

Many people in the world believe that story. 

Because to them Death Monarch was the one that created the idea of the Seven Great Powers. 

It would then make sense that he as the strongest person in the world had also created countermeasures to these other Six Great Powers and had a list made of the names of all the secret forces hidden all around the world

The names of spies their families and friends and other information is probably in Death Monarch hand. 

To many, the Book of Death is a book full of information. Some even speculated that inside the book, Death Monarch also includes ways to disable fortifications and magic formation barriers of Pandemonium and other Six Great Powers.

To the enemies of the Seven Great Powers, the book is a treasure that contain trove of information.

But for the Shadow Guards as the story goes, the only important thing for them inside that book is that Death List. 

This list of name contains the names of people that they had to kill when Death Monarch is gone. 

Then when Loki the Trickster become regent, and found out the name in that list, he was shocked

That is how the story goes.

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