As the Kage's anger reached its peak, he attacked Shadow, gripping his scythe tightly. When Shadow felt the Kage's power, he realized that he could not defeat him. Using his shadow powers, he hid in Kage's shadow and quickly escaped from there by moving to other shadows. Since Kage was not at his old strength, he attacked the shadows but could not kill the shadows.
Ken touched Kage's shoulder, trying to calm him down. "Shadow has escaped, calm down. We need to examine the documents in your office and find out his plan," he said.
Kage, as someone who did not like research, said, "You do research, I'm going to train," and jumped out of the window in Shadow's office. As the glass broke, the security alarm went off. All the hunters in the building gathered, and Kage began to use spiritual pressure to intimidate and kill the hunters. He got stronger with every kill.
Meanwhile, the warehouse door containing the documents was closed and the furnace started working to destroy the documents in case of emergency. As all the documents disappeared, Ken buried his face in his hands and said, "Kage will never get wiser, will he?" said. "Yeah, he won't get any wiser," Nijin replied, nodding.
When the tank cover was opened, they saw that all the papers were burned. However, a corner of a glossy paper remained. Ken had an idea: by transferring time energy to paper, he could return it to its state before it burned. Due to its sealed state, it could only generate very little time energy, yet the paper slowly began to return to its former state. Ken and Nijin began to carefully read the writings on the paper:
Subject 47: Failed. The subject had a huge outburst of anger during the experiment and became uncontrollable. We had to neutralize him. Experimental results: extreme violence, blood loss, uncontrolled strength increase.
Project: Eternal Shadows: We are working on the manipulation of shadows. If we are successful, we will be able to access anywhere through the shadows. Tests on subjects showed that shadow energy can drive living beings crazy and turn them into bloodthirsty creatures.
Ritual Blood Moon: One of Etheria's darkest rituals. During this ritual, participants gain great power by offering their blood. However, the blood of 100 innocents is required for the ritual to be completed. When the ritual is successfully completed, the participants' powers are incredibly increased, but their souls are condemned to darkness forever.
After reading the paper, Ken turned to Nijin in horror. "These documents show how dangerous the Shadow is. He must be stopped. But this ritual... If successful, it could completely take over Etheria."
"Yes, we should prevent this. But we need to know the time and place of this ritual," Nijin said as he continued to examine the paper.