Shadow Slave Audiobook
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The number one multicast audio production of Shadow Slave. Full cast, multiple voices, and built-in ambience that puts you inside the story instead of just reading it to you. This is a living production. It is constantly being improved, and the later episodes carry even better production than the early ones. Sometimes we go back and re-upload older episodes with new formatting so the experience keeps getting better across the whole series. Full multicast, multivoice, ambient sound. Made for listening straight through, on a commute, at night, or whenever you want the story in your ears.
Episodes 122
Shadow Slave: Nephis Fights a God That Denies She Can Kill It (Ch 2418-2437) Audiobook Episode 126
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Ep 126
Shadow Slave: Nephis Fights a God That Denies She Can Kill It (Ch 2418-2437) Audiobook Episode 126
Shadow Slave by Guiltythree.
I found out that Aiko had taught Little Ling a curse word. Yes, that Aiko, at the gates of Bastion, in front of a six-year-old Saint. I was furious.
Then I remembered what else she had done that day, and my anger sort of deflated. She had walked into a negotiation with a Caravan Master who seemed perfectly human, and something about him made her skin crawl. A merchant who did not haggle.
So she summoned a communication mirror, called it Call Mommy, and gave Effie targeting data. The thing wearing a human face was a Skinwalker, and it got exactly what it deserved. The whole Domain went to martial law for weeks, and honestly, I was proud of her.
Meanwhile, Rain had her own adventure. A bank robbery turned into a trap, and she faced a Master with nothing but words. She made him the Mute Tyrant, then the Slow, Combustible Tyrant, and spoke the True Name of Fire.
My little Shadow, a pacifist with a vocabulary. But the night that worries me is still in play. Nephis dove into the lake alone, under a full moon, to burn a fallen god.
The creature simply denied her flames. It proclaimed her power a falsehood, and so it became the truth. Luckily, she believes in herself.
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Previous: The Stone Saint Rises To Slay A Fallen God (Ch 2398-2417) Audiobook Episode 125 (Ch 2398-2417)
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Ep 125
Shadow Slave: The Stone Saint Rises To Slay A Fallen God (Ch 2398-2417) Audiobook Episode 125
Shadow Slave by Guiltythree.
The Puppeteer had my mind in its strings, and the only way out was to stop being myself entirely. So I became someone else. I summoned Condemnation, a shade the moth could never command through me, and while two Tyrants tore each other apart across a mountain of black silk, I broke my own mind into streams to slip the Strings of Doubt.
Then I did the thing I had been frightened of for years. I took the Fifth Step of Shadow Dance and became a Stone Saint, a titan of jade and shadow wearing the Mantle of the Underworld, immune to the very attacks that were unmaking me. My shadow wolf rose beside me like a warhound, Kai and Slayer shot the moth out of the sky, and I ended the Puppeteer with my own thrown shield.
But the true reveal came after. The prize I absorbed showed me how the gods died. Weaver killed them all, weaving the Nightmare Spell out of every soul in existence.
Meanwhile, back home, my little sister Rain walked straight into a bank robbery, and poor June realized exactly whose sister she is. Now Nephis and Cassie both have questions for me, and my restless night is only beginning.
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Previous: The Cursed Tyrant Asked Me Why We Had To Be (Ch 2377-2397) Audiobook Episode 124 (Ch 2377-2397)
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Ep 124
Shadow Slave: The Cursed Tyrant Asked Me Why We Had To Be (Ch 2377-2397) Audiobook Episode 124
Shadow Slave by Guiltythree.
I crossed the last bridge in Ariel's Game, ready for the fight of my life, and instead of an attack, a soft voice welcomed me. It called me liberator, and said it had been waiting for so long.
The thing on the mountain was the Snow Tyrant itself, a Puppeteer Moth so vast that when it shifted, the whole peak seemed to move. It had already shown me how terrifying its mind was. Its probing assault slipped past my Will like it was nothing, and I survived only by carving my own head into sealed partitions, trading pieces of my sanity for time.
The road here had been brutal. Two days of my memory were simply gone, stolen by a Snow Demon who somehow mesmerized even a Supreme, and Slayer was the only witness. Then Kai spotted an actual white dragon on a hill, and I blew the top off a mountain burying an endless Rat King under the rubble.
Now the moth and I stood talking. It asked why we had to be enemies, whether the fault lay with its Void or with my Flame, and every question it asked sounded reasonable, which frightened me more than any roar. Its webs still covered the world, and the true battle had not even begun.
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Previous: I Turned a Volcano Into a God-Killing Trap (Ch 2356-2376) Audiobook Episode 123 (Ch 2356-2376)
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Ep 123
Shadow Slave: I Turned a Volcano Into a God-Killing Trap (Ch 2356-2376) Audiobook Episode 123
Shadow Slave by Guiltythree.
"I think we won," I wheezed, kneeling in a scorched temple where a mountain used to be. Because the mountain was gone. I had turned the entire volcano into a trap, etching a grand enchantment into its tunnels, and when the Wolf, a Cursed Demon and fallen deity, pushed me to my limit, I pulled my friends into the shadows and let the peak ignite with white light brighter than the dawn. The Wolf and its whole pack were annihilated in one breath.
That fight was the closest I had come to dying in years. So I fought back the only way I know how, with cleverness. The Wolf was the embodiment of the concept of a wolf, so I channeled the one thing a wolf fears most. I became the Hunter, spear in hand, hunting dogs at my heel, and held a god at bay on my own ground.
Then I threw a jade figurine into the lake of lava and asked how the world ended. What I learned left me pacing and swearing. Nine mortals, prince Eurys among them, were fated by the blind Oracle to kill the gods themselves, and their blade may have been the Forgotten God.
But when the next Snow Demon came, it spoke cursed words that crawled into my mind. I woke up dragged across a tilted floor, two days gone from my memory, with Kai hanging from a pillar and Slayer raising two broken fingers.
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Previous: Sunny Kills a God and Steals Its Body (Ch 2334-2355) Audiobook Episode 122 (Ch 2334-2355)
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Ep 122
Shadow Slave: Sunny Kills a God and Steals Its Body (Ch 2334-2355) Audiobook Episode 122
Shadow Slave by Guiltythree.
The worm was a Cursed Beast, a lesser god, and I crushed it under my boot before the sun could set on me. That was the promise of this stretch of Ariel's Game, and somehow I kept it.
First came the Ice Hive. I walked into a fortress of fifty Great Beasts, armed with nothing but shadow, technique, and a very bad attitude, and walked out with every single one of them converted into Obsidian Wasps for my army. Kai stared at me like I had grown a second head. I told him I killed my first Great Devil as a Sleeper, which finally shut him up.
Then the Snow Worm, a monster of pure infinity that could grow endlessly and never die. My answer was elegance itself. Kai and Slayer riddled it with arrows of finality while a hundred shades ate it from the inside, and I poisoned its soul with pure will to kill. A god went from mountain-sized to a wriggling maggot in the mud.
Better still, its shade answers to me now. Abundance, my new Sacred worm, digs through solid rock as my siege engine, and I mean to carry an army of god-shades out of this game.
Now we hold the Shrine of Truth, waiting for three Snow figures to strike at once. And tonight I am inspired. I am going to perform sorcery so grand and terrible that even daemons would be impressed.
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Previous: Weaver Played Snow, and the Volcano Pays in (Ch 2313-2333) Audiobook Episode 121 (Ch 2313-2333)
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Ep 121
Shadow Slave: Weaver Played Snow, and the Volcano Pays in (Ch 2313-2333) Audiobook Episode 121
I threw a jade figurine into a volcano, and the volcano answered with a vision of the end of the world. Suddenly I stood on a shattered plain of ice where lesser gods lay broken, watching a dying giant kneel in golden blood. And then Weaver appeared, masked and silent, and I understood something that changed everything. This game of Ariel's was never played by the Jade Queen. The Demon of Dread played Ash. And Snow was played by Weaver himself. They were playing for truths, and Weaver won.
That meant every slain figure on this board was a coin I could spend. Sacrifice a Snow Beast to the volcano, receive a secret of the dead gods in return. Twelve Snow Abominations still stand on those peaks, and I have a lifetime of questions.
But the Snow Domain would not wait for me to get comfortable. At dawn, a swarm of crystal wasps descended on my volcano, their wings focusing sunlight into beams that turned rock to lava. I held the gate of the Ash Castle as a four-armed Shadowspawn, Slayer and Kai shooting over my shoulders, until I finally remembered the lesson arrogance had made me forget. The slain wasps still entered my Soul Sea. My army of shades grew with every kill.
The wasps fled when dawn burned out, and two volcanoes fell to Snow. Somewhere out there, a clockwork giant and an endless worm are waiting, and beyond them, the Snow Tyrant. I have until dusk to forge Kai a bow worthy of a god-killer.
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Previous: The Toy Room Turns People Into Dolls (Ch 2293-2312) Audiobook Episode 120 (Ch 2293-2312)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYMZxwgIpqIFull series playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: I Wish Our Date Was Real (Ch 1768-1784) Audiobook Episode 93
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 93This episode of Shadow Slave starts with a rare, peaceful moment as …
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Episode 93
This episode of Shadow Slave starts with a rare, peaceful moment as Nephis demonstrates her swordsmanship for the charming enchanter Master Sunless. There is a genuine, easy chemistry between them, especially when she heals him and he jokes about the pain, hinting at the deep history he cannot share. Their fake date takes a turn during a play about the Guardian Angel and the Devil, characters clearly based on them, where Nephis impulsively pulls him close in the dark box. The emotional peak comes over dinner when Sunny admits he wishes their date was real. Nephis actually agrees, and the two part ways with a hug, unaware that Clan Valor has already decided to knight him to make the match acceptable. The focus then shifts to Rain, who is hiding among a construction crew. She joins a survey team to leave the noisy main camp, traveling through the bleak Moonriver Plain where tensions rise over rumors that Clan Valor is accusing the Song Domain of assassinating Changing Star. The episode ends with a breathtaking reveal as the team spots Godgrave, a colossal skeleton rising from the ash that marks the boundary of a Death Zone.
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Full series playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: The Toy Room Turns People Into Dolls (Ch 2293-2312) Audiobook Episode 120
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 120In this stretch of Shadow Slave, Sunny gets pulled into a board …
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Episode 120
In this stretch of Shadow Slave, Sunny gets pulled into a board game that a demon left unfinished, and the episode ends with him standing powerless on a volcano, about to fight twelve ancient horrors with nothing but a shirt on his back. This is the LitRPG fantasy audiobook episode covering chapters 2293 to 2312, and it starts deceptively gentle. Rain takes Tamar and Telle out for pastries and shopping in Bastion, and casually slaps a Master named Tristan hard enough to leave his jaw aching. Sunny's reaction when he hears about it made me laugh out loud. From there Nephis begins teaching Rain dangerous True Names, and there is a quietly devastating chapter where Sunny, hiding in Kai's shadow, admits how much it hurts that no one remembers him, and that nobody can truly love someone they cannot know. That chapter hit me harder than any battle this arc. Then the adventure begins. Sunny returns to the waking world, reunites with Kai, kills a Corrupted Tyrant inside a volcano, and finally walks into the Jade Palace hunting for a piece of Weaver's legacy. The Song sisters reveal a forbidden Toy Room from their childhood, complete with a dollhouse that turns people into dolls. Inside waits the Death Game, a chess-like jade board supposedly invented by the Shadow God himself, and when Sunny peered into it he found a contained sea of Corruption worse than anything he has ever sensed. Moments later he is the Ash Tyrant, stripped of memories, shadows, and essence, with Kai pulled in as his first surviving piece. He ends the episode hurling a shadow javelin across the board and greeting his friend with a grin. I cannot wait for the next one.
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EPISODE GUIDE
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: The Dead Dark Lord Hired Me (Ch 2274-2292) Audiobook Episode 119
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 119The Lord of Shadows was supposed to be dead, and in the opening …
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Episode 119
The Lord of Shadows was supposed to be dead, and in the opening chapters of this Shadow Slave episode, a shell-shocked recruit named Corsair learns exactly how alive he is. This is fantasy web novel Shadow Slave in anime-style audiobook form, and this stretch trades war for the strange peace after it: a secret second Dream Gate under Central Government HQ, a Dark Castle that is literally a living Transcendent Devil, and Sunny waving lazily at his newest employee while complaining that Aiko never thought of the black market.
What I loved here is the tone. Sunny wakes up beside Nephis, sits through morning meetings where Cassie rattles off reports about the Night Garden and a worrying volcano under Ravenheart, and Effie loudly lists his virtues while not knowing he is under the desk. A few chapters in, we follow his seven incarnations across the realms: one exploring caverns beneath the ruined Crimson Spire, one bleeding for Slayer's power in the Nameless Temple, and two fighting a losing-but-winning battle against the Black Millipede swarm in the Burned Forest. Slayer decapitating a Millipede Queen that hides between moments of time is the action peak.
By the end, the focus shifts to Rain and her friends' breakfast outing, where her newly unsealed Aspect, the power to grant Names, is revealed in the most delightfully mundane way possible: she is currently Sober and Well-Rested.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: The Heir Of Weaver Must Never Be Loved (Ch 2256-2273) Audiobook Episode 118
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 118Sunny beheads Anvil, fakes his own betrayal of Nephis in front of …
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Episode 118
Sunny beheads Anvil, fakes his own betrayal of Nephis in front of two battered armies, and ends this stretch of Shadow Slave with a secret Dream Gate hiding under a siege capital. This is the fantasy LitRPG-style web novel delivered as an anime-style audiobook, and this episode covers the fall of the Sovereigns and everything that comes after. The confrontation with Anvil is the early highlight: before the execution, Sunny learns why Broken Sword had to die, that an heir of Weaver must never be known, loved, or worshiped, or the Forgotten God might wake. That revelation lands hard on a fateless man nobody can remember. Nephis gets her revenge arc payoff against Ki Song, and I loved her strange, childish outburst at the dying Queen, all that accumulated hurt finally spilling out. Then comes the twist I did not expect: Sunny donning Weaver's Mask to publicly 'betray' Changing Star so the Lord of Shadows can die a villain and vanish into obscurity. From there the episode slows into an epilogue volume, Sunny recounting it all to Eurys the skeleton, who casually claims he was a prince before he was a slave. We get the new world order, Neph's damning broadcast about the world being consumed, and genuinely chilling lore about Apotheosis and why Eurys insists Sunny can never become a Spirit. The final chapters widen the lens to Beth electrifying Bastion, Saintess Bliss crossbreeding scarlet jungle horrors with potatoes, and the Night Garden sailing through a Dream Gate to Earth. June's recruitment by the mysterious 'Witch' closes the episode on the reveal of an impossible Dream Gate buried underground.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: The Dead Crawl From The Chasm (Ch 2195-2214) Audiobook Episode 115
Episode 115Ki Song finally stops holding back, and in Shadow Slave episode 115 the Godgrave war goes from siege to full apocalypse as an entire army of the dead crawls out of the chasm and two Sovereigns throw …
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Episode 115
Ki Song finally stops holding back, and in Shadow Slave episode 115 the Godgrave war goes from siege to full apocalypse as an entire army of the dead crawls out of the chasm and two Sovereigns throw down on the bone plain. This is the fantasy LitRPG-ish web novel in anime audiobook form, and this stretch is basically the fuse burning down to the final battle. Early on, the horror is quiet and personal: Cassie walks out of the Queen's throne room as a partial puppet, her body moving on strings while her mind screams, and she can only hope Sunny reads her signal to stay away. I loved the Seishan chapter too, where Ki Song admits Nephis was marked for death simply for whose daughter she was, and reveals Cassie's True Name, Song of the Fallen, chosen so someone will remember the truth. Then the war erupts: pilgrims as a distraction, ash worms fusing into living bridges, Seishan holding a blade to Cassie's neck to force Nephis's retreat. Meanwhile Morgan dies over and over in Mordret's time loop, Gilead's expedition fails, Revel throws herself at a fleet, and finally Ki Song and Anvil trade farewells before a clash that cracks the dead god's bone itself, while Sunny quietly admits he cannot fail. The shadows across the Sword Army grow deep and cold, and that's where we leave it.
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: Cassie Becomes The Queen's Puppet (Ch 2174-2194) Audiobook Episode 114
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 114Cassie walks into the Song Domain in chains, drinks wine laced with …
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Episode 114
Cassie walks into the Song Domain in chains, drinks wine laced with Ki Song's blood, and becomes the Queen's literal puppet, and that is not even the biggest moment in this Shadow Slave episode. This stretch of the novel, delivered anime-style chapter by chapter, is where the war's endgame starts and the oldest secrets of the Sovereigns finally get spoken aloud. Early on, Cassie wipes Jest's memories, fakes her own death, and tells Sunny the news in one of my favorite beats, where he quietly mourns his cold tea while absorbing that the final war is now days away. Sunny and Nephis get a genuinely tender scene on the Ivory Island balcony, talking about what they will do if they survive, and it hurts precisely because the clock is running. A few chapters in, the heart of the episode arrives: Cassie kneels before Ki Song, who rules from a stone throne through puppeteered corpses, flawless and eerie. The Queen lays out the whole conspiracy, how Broken Sword's obsession with resurrecting Smile of Heaven led Anvil to kill him, how the Dreamspawn was stranded on the moon, and why child Nephis was hunted but never quite finished off. I loved how Cassie's own poison, turning Seishan and her sisters against their mother, runs underneath the entire conversation. By the end, Cassie trades real intelligence about Anvil's forces, and Ki Song's chilling smile, "that certainly changes things," tells you the board just shifted again.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2174
8:23 Chapter 2175
18:20 Chapter 2176
25:06 Chapter 2177
31:33 Chapter 2178
38:42 Chapter 2179
45:01 Chapter 2180
51:01 Chapter 2181
51:28 Chapter 2182
59:22 Chapter 2183
1:06:33 Chapter 2184
1:13:29 Chapter 2185
1:20:20 Chapter 2186
1:26:45 Chapter 2187
1:34:16 Chapter 2188
1:40:21 Chapter 2189
1:46:39 Chapter 2190
1:53:02 Chapter 2191
1:58:56 Chapter 2192
2:06:01 Chapter 2193
2:12:50 Chapter 2194
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Next: Shadow Slave: The Dead Crawl From The Chasm (Ch 2195-2214) Audiobook Episode 115
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Shadow Slave: A Perfect Copy of Anvil Waited in His Throne (Ch 2154-2173) Audiobook Episode 113
Ep 113Shadow Slave: A Perfect Copy of Anvil Waited in His Throne (Ch 2154-2173) Audiobook Episode 113The real Anvil of Valor was asleep in his sarcophagus. I checked the vitals myself, the way Jest did, staring …
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Ep 113
Shadow Slave: A Perfect Copy of Anvil Waited in His Throne (Ch 2154-2173) Audiobook Episode 113
The real Anvil of Valor was asleep in his sarcophagus. I checked the vitals myself, the way Jest did, staring through the narrow window at a body whose soul was still supposed to be lost in the Second Nightmare. So when word came that Anvil had been found in the throne room of Bastion, I felt the same cold sweat Jest felt. If the man they found was not Anvil, then something had walked into the heart of humanity's greatest stronghold wearing his face.
I watched Jest test it. The copy used Anvil's Aspect, loathed flawed things the way Anvil did, remembered the small peculiarities only family would know. And it was warm, soft, almost kind, like the boy Anvil had been before the Spell taught him to bury his heart. Jest could not bring himself to kill it. Neither could I, in his place, with Warden's son maybe breathing inside that skin.
Then the true Anvil woke, tore free of his shattered pod as an Ascended, and when he heard a copy of himself existed, I saw what Jest saw. Terror. The first fear Anvil had ever shown.
The two of them fought, and the compound nearly died for it. The real Anvil stood, broken and bleeding, and whispered that it was over. But it was not. Gwyn was gone. And Asterion, the thing wearing human skin, was still out there, smiling, offering Anvil a deal to help him kill Broken Sword. That deal is still waiting to be struck.
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Next: Cassie Becomes The Queen's Puppet (Ch 2174-2194) Audiobook Episode 114 (Ch 2174-2194)
https://youtu.be/U4GKNfZWupAFull series playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKShadow Slave: The Key Was Inside The Tyrant (Ch 202-222) Audiobook Episode 14
Episode 14Sunny shoves his hand into a Fallen Tyrant's body for a glowing key, and a meter-long leech immediately starts draining him dry. That's the kind of gamble that defines this stretch of Shadow Slave, a …
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Episode 14
Sunny shoves his hand into a Fallen Tyrant's body for a glowing key, and a meter-long leech immediately starts draining him dry. That's the kind of gamble that defines this stretch of Shadow Slave, a dark fantasy anime-style audiobook of the novel, and it only gets more unhinged from there. I was hooked the second he pulled that key out and realized the real threat was already attached to his arm.
Early on, the escape from the Lord of the Dead's chamber is pure chaos, and the Corpse Eater leech nearly kills Sunny before Nephis burns it away. A few chapters in, the cohort finally leaves the Dark City behind, and I loved the quieter beats: Kai's awkward questions about the key, Effie's beach-day teasing, and that fireside talk where Nephis reveals her mother is one of the Hollow. It's a rare moment of vulnerability from her, and it hit harder than any monster fight.
By the end of this stretch, Sunny's dream of the dancing slave unlocks Shadow Dance, a battle art with seven Legacy Relics attached, and the group reaches the shattered bridge guarded by a colossal headless warrior. The nest-clearing fight is a brutal, coordinated assault, and Sunny's shadow finally feels like a true weapon. But Nephis is still hiding something about this expedition, and Sunny knows it.
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Ep 112Shadow Slave: The Blind Seer Turned Predator (Ch 2134-2153) Audiobook Episode 112Cassie gets lured into the deep jungle by Saint Jest, an assassin who wants her head, and she calmly turns to him and asks …
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Ep 112
Shadow Slave: The Blind Seer Turned Predator (Ch 2134-2153) Audiobook Episode 112
Cassie gets lured into the deep jungle by Saint Jest, an assassin who wants her head, and she calmly turns to him and asks if this spot is far enough to die. That line sets the tone for this stretch of Shadow Slave, and it is a fantastic one. This is the fantasy LitRPG epic in anime audiobook form, and this episode belongs almost entirely to Cassie, which I loved because she has been quietly dangerous for so long and here she finally gets to show it. Jest's taunt Ability warping her emotions, turning Helie into a hate-fueled weapon, and Cassie countering with her future-sight and the returning Quiet Dancer made for one of the best duels in recent memory. Then she catches him in her eyes and drags us into his memories, and the episode shifts into something I did not expect: the origin of Jest himself. We see him as a nameless worker from the old regime, a "defective" Sleeper with no Memories, learning that killing humans makes him stronger, and then meeting the young knight who would become Warden of Valor. Their journey to conquer Bastion, the vermilion dragon that casts no reflection, and Warden's early fear of what unlimited personal power would do to the world gave me chills, because we know exactly what the Sovereigns became. By the end, the two of them find a settlement where a Governor treats mundane humans as cattle, and Warden's cold verdict, that they are not people, lands hard. Sunny and Nephis only bookend the episode, but her bringing him a home-cooked meal after he casually mentions killing a minor god was sweet and very funny.
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Shadow Slave: He Killed A God With A Broken Bone (Ch 2113-2133) Audiobook Episode 111
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 111Shadow Slave just handed Sunny a deicide and a talking skeleton in …
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Episode 111
Shadow Slave just handed Sunny a deicide and a talking skeleton in the same stretch, and I could not stop listening. This fantasy audiobook episode covers chapters 2113 to 2133, and it starts with Sunny being swallowed alive by the shadow of Condemnation, a dead god whose body slowly dissolves anything that enters it. Watching him duel the mysterious archer inside that collapsing corpse, stripped of nearly every power, reduced to fists and a shard of bone, is some of the most brutal and desperate combat this novel has delivered in a while. The tide turns when Condemnation falls and Sunny stabs the god's reforming heart with the ivory fang, then his seventh incarnation arrives like a Titan-sized punchline to finally break the archer. What follows is the real gold of the episode: Eurys, a maimed skeleton of the Nine, chattering away in a serpent graveyard and casually revealing that the entire Shadow Realm is the corpse of the Shadow God. The lore drops here are enormous, from the nature of Supremacy being rooted in defiance to the Nine's grudge against the War God. Then Sunny does the most Sunny thing imaginable and cuts the archer's throat anyway, knowingly inviting a feral, killer Shadow into his own Soul Sea. Of course she wakes up mid-stasis and tries to murder him immediately, and by the end his newest shadow turns out to be an insufferably lazy bastard. A wounded godslayer lying on the floor, lectured by his own shadows. This episode is peak Shadow Slave.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2113
6:33 Chapter 2114
13:06 Chapter 2115
20:10 Chapter 2116
28:02 Chapter 2117
34:04 Chapter 2118
41:17 Chapter 2119
49:13 Chapter 2120
56:32 Chapter 2121
1:04:59 Chapter 2122
1:11:29 Chapter 2123
1:18:07 Chapter 2124
1:25:42 Chapter 2125
1:33:39 Chapter 2126
1:39:45 Chapter 2127
1:50:45 Chapter 2128
1:57:04 Chapter 2129
2:05:33 Chapter 2130
2:11:56 Chapter 2131
2:19:24 Chapter 2132
2:27:33 Chapter 2133
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Shadow Slave: The Dead Were Never Dead (Ch 2093-2112) Audiobook Episode 110
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Episode 110
Sunny discovers that most of the Nightmare Creature carcasses stacked in the Sword Army's warehouse are not actually dead, they are the Queen's pilgrims playing possum in the heart of the camp, and that is just the opening disaster of this Shadow Slave episode, an anime-style audiobook of the novel covering chapters 2093 to 2112. I loved that reveal because it turns a routine errand into a slow-bomb under the whole army. From there the episode shifts hard: Sunny, shaken by how far beyond him Anvil and Condemnation are, tells Nephis he has to leave and dives into the Shadow Realm to hunt power, where the realm itself eats his shadows and cripples his best abilities. The mid-section is my favorite stretch in a while. He finds a shattered battlefield, a broken raven-feather arrow, the kilometers-tall shadow of Condemnation still walking, and dark drifters stalking it. So what does Sunny do? He improvises a slingshot from the ribs of a dead Soul Serpent and launches its fangs like siege projectiles, then baits the Vulture and Leech into Condemnation's crushing fist. By the end he finally faces the mysterious archer blade to blade, gets carved up badly, and realizes the thing is an ownerless shadow, which gives the Lord of Shadows one very rude idea. The duel ends mid-crisis with an essence tempest closing in and something tiny and fast already scratching his armor. I need the next episode immediately.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2093
7:51 Chapter 2094
19:34 Chapter 2095
26:22 Chapter 2096
32:45 Chapter 2097
39:57 Chapter 2098
46:43 Chapter 2099
54:07 Chapter 2100
1:01:22 Chapter 2101
1:07:53 Chapter 2102
1:15:09 Chapter 2103
1:22:27 Chapter 2104
1:30:22 Chapter 2105
1:36:23 Chapter 2106
1:43:36 Chapter 2107
1:49:13 Chapter 2108
1:55:55 Chapter 2109
2:03:27 Chapter 2110
2:10:19 Chapter 2111
2:18:02 Chapter 2112
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Shadow Slave: The King Cut The Sky To Slay A God (Ch 2072-2092) Audiobook Episode 109
Episode 109The King of Swords just cut the sky itself open to kill a god, and that is not a metaphor. This Shadow Slave episode, covering the Fragments of War arc as an anime-style audiobook, delivers the duel …
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Episode 109
The King of Swords just cut the sky itself open to kill a god, and that is not a metaphor. This Shadow Slave episode, covering the Fragments of War arc as an anime-style audiobook, delivers the duel I did not know I was waiting for: Anvil of Valor versus the Cursed Tyrant Condemnation, several kilometers tall and assembled from the ruins it stands on. But before that spectacle, the episode opens with Morgan revealing how she trapped herself and her Saints in a repeating day at Bastion, alternating between the hourglass and her Raised by Wolves enchantment to keep dying to Mordret over and over. Her bitter "we go and get slaughtered, one more time" line stuck with me. Meanwhile the siege of the Two Crossings grinds everyone down, seen through Sid frozen mid-battle under an eerie stillness, and Rain volunteering in a field hospital full of soldiers who no longer see the point of dying. Then Anvil summons Sunny to Vanishing Lake, and the plan is insane: march an army through the Hollows, which means killing Condemnation first, and the King will do it personally. I loved the detail of Sunny, as a weaver, being the only one to notice the storm of swords quietly arranging itself into a three-dimensional runic array. And the payoff, an invisible blade that slices through the dome, the veil of clouds, and lets Godgrave's annihilating sunlight do the actual execution, is one of the coolest kills in the series. The episode closes on Sunny shaken by the gulf between Saints and Sovereigns, heading to the resource hangar to weave himself a Memory, because he is running out of options.
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Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 108Sunny forges a soulbound sword for Nephis by working simultaneously …
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Episode 108
Sunny forges a soulbound sword for Nephis by working simultaneously in the real world and inside her dream of the Soul Sea, and that is only the start of what this stretch of Shadow Slave delivers. If you found this channel searching for the novel, this is the fantasy audiobook experience of chapters 2052 to 2071, and it is a big one. Early on, Sunny and Nephis visit the forgemasters of Clan Valor, where watching Master Snow grow a spellweave inside a cuirass gives Sunny the confidence, and the scheme, he needs for his own project. What follows is my favorite kind of Shadow Slave chapter: a long, grueling, beautiful crafting sequence. Sunny binds the Dream Blade to Nephis's soul using her flames, the Winter Beast's icy heart, his own blood, and a spellweave meant to grow and learn alongside her. His incarnations collapse one by one under the strain, and the payoff, Nephis waking with the Blessing in her hand and smiling like a girl with a new toy, genuinely warmed me. The enchantment breakdown, especially the sacrificial edge that grows stronger the more she burns her own soul, is chilling in the best way. Then the episode pivots hard into war. Rain's rearguard centuria is down to forty-two survivors, the Crossing Strongholds blow their own bridges, and Gilead's knights get erased one by one by something unseen in the ash, losing half their number without ever seeing the enemy. Revel and Moonveil plot to kill seven Saints and take a Citadel in the dark, and by the end Kai realizes something is deeply wrong with Morgan, who quietly admits she is not living this day for the second time. Effie's reaction had me staring at my screen.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2052
7:49 Chapter 2053
13:58 Chapter 2054
21:41 Chapter 2055
28:25 Chapter 2056
34:27 Chapter 2057
41:46 Chapter 2058
52:09 Chapter 2059
1:02:16 Chapter 2060
1:12:07 Chapter 2061
1:18:26 Chapter 2062
1:24:54 Chapter 2063
1:32:13 Chapter 2064
1:40:07 Chapter 2065
1:46:13 Chapter 2066
1:53:39 Chapter 2067
2:00:25 Chapter 2068
2:06:24 Chapter 2069
2:15:18 Chapter 2070
2:22:27 Chapter 2071
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Shadow Slave: Her Flaw Forbids Her To Kill Anything (Ch 2031-2051) Audiobook Episode 107
Episode 107Rain's Flaw is finally revealed in this stretch of Shadow Slave, and it might be the cruelest one yet: she literally cannot kill anything, not humans, not even Nightmare Creatures, in a world that …
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Episode 107
Rain's Flaw is finally revealed in this stretch of Shadow Slave, and it might be the cruelest one yet: she literally cannot kill anything, not humans, not even Nightmare Creatures, in a world that devours the unwary. This dark fantasy web novel episode, presented as an anime-style audiobook, opens with Sunny and Cassie forcing Rain to confront captured abominations only to confirm those three horrifying words, and I felt the dread right along with them. But the episode doesn't wallow. Tamar's blunt "I'll kill them for you" moment genuinely moved me, and Rain finally reading her True Name, Promise of a Distant Sky, was a lovely quiet beat in the middle of a punishing northward march. Cassie's revelation that Rain already has something like a Transcendent presence, and may even be a source element herself, quietly rewrites what we thought Rain is. A few chapters in, the focus shifts to the Ivory Tower, where Sunny and Nephis get rare peaceful days together, and their not-quite-symmetrical relationship gives this stretch its emotional undertow. Then comes the forging: Sunny casting a cold alloy from Winter Beast's heart-ice in the flame of Nephis's soul, planning to reforge her very first Memory, the Dream Blade, into a soulbound sword. The visit to the Valor forgemasters, with Masters Alice and Snow explaining Infusers, Forgers, and Spellsmiths, was nerdy worldbuilding I ate up, right down to the Spell naming an arrowhead [All Aboard]. It ends with Sunny watching Snow's enchantment take hold, wondering about fate and the Nightmare Spell's guiding hand, just before the true forging attempt.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2031
7:25 Chapter 2032
16:12 Chapter 2033
23:13 Chapter 2034
30:57 Chapter 2035
39:01 Chapter 2036
44:52 Chapter 2037
50:39 Chapter 2038
57:57 Chapter 2039
1:06:02 Chapter 2040
1:12:09 Chapter 2041
1:19:37 Chapter 2042
1:26:31 Chapter 2043
1:30:16 Chapter 2044
1:38:02 Chapter 2045
1:44:45 Chapter 2046
1:52:27 Chapter 2047
1:59:25 Chapter 2048
2:08:57 Chapter 2049
2:15:39 Chapter 2050
2:23:50 Chapter 2051
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Shadow Slave: He Kills His First Saint (Ch 2012-2030) Audiobook Episode 106
Episode 106The Lord of Shadows finally kills, and it costs him. This stretch of Shadow Slave, delivered as an anime-style audiobook, covers the Battle of Godheart, and it opens with Sunny pressed to his limit …
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Episode 106
The Lord of Shadows finally kills, and it costs him. This stretch of Shadow Slave, delivered as an anime-style audiobook, covers the Battle of Godheart, and it opens with Sunny pressed to his limit by seven Saints of Song, getting whittled down blow by blow until Lonesome Howl literally watches his body shrink with every wound it heals. That detail hooked me instantly: he is terrifying precisely because he is not invincible.
The turning point comes when Sunny's instincts and his long game finally collide. He does not want to slaughter these people, they are the infrastructure humanity will need after the war, but the Jackal pushes too far and dies for it. From there the fight becomes a masterclass in escalation: the Shadowspawn Shell collapsing into a six-horned, four-armed demon, then the genuinely great moment where a hidden incarnation slips through the Saints' guard and knocks Beastmaster cold with a stiletto and a joke about telling Rain. By the time the war horn sounds retreat, he has completed his Transcendent Battle Art fighting with four bodies at once.
What surprised me most is the aftermath. Nephis killed no one, Sunny killed six, and the bitter irony of that is not lost on him. The princesses of Song gathering in their tent, Rain sneaking off to a secret meeting in the Hollows, and Cassie revealing Rain has carried a True Name since her Awakening all land beautifully. The episode closes on the one thing even Cassie cannot see: Rain has attained her Flaw.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 2012
8:57 Chapter 2013
9:36 Chapter 2014
19:09 Chapter 2015
26:15 Chapter 2016
35:02 Chapter 2017
41:30 Chapter 2018
48:41 Chapter 2019
57:19 Chapter 2020
1:04:44 Chapter 2021
1:11:27 Chapter 2022
1:18:50 Chapter 2023
1:26:01 Chapter 2024
1:34:11 Chapter 2025
1:42:53 Chapter 2026
1:49:01 Chapter 2027
1:56:56 Chapter 2028
2:03:41 Chapter 2029
2:10:32 Chapter 2030
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Shadow Slave: Who Will Stop Me, Then (Ch 1992-2011) Audiobook Episode 105
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Episode 105
Shadow Slave just staged the largest battle in human history, and then Nephis looked the Lost Princess of Song in the eye and asked who exactly was going to stop her from joining it. This episode of the Shadow Slave audiobook covers the Godgrave Realm War arc, chapters 1992 through 2011, and it opens with the first full-scale clash between the Sword Army and the Song Army, a battle Sunny watches while realizing the Sword Domain is winning every exchange and still doomed to lose, because every soldier they kill rises again as one of the Queen of Worms' dead puppets. The attrition math is genuinely grim, and Anvil's refusal to act had me as tense as Sunny. Then the King puts Nephis on the spot, she plunges onto the field like a falling star, and everything changes. What really carried this stretch for me was Rain's perspective in the meat grinder of the Seventh Legion, especially the heartbreaking duel between Sid and Felise, two friends from the Forgotten Shore now trying to end each other under opposite banners. Rain nearly dying to Telle of White Feather, the daughter of Tyris and Roan, put Sunny in an impossible position he navigates without interfering, which says a lot about how far he's come. By the end, the armies withdraw and the Saints take over, with Sunny alone against thirteen enemies, including Beastmaster, and even Ceres gets swung around like a club. He loses an arm, takes an arrow through the chest, and shrugs it off, telling Rain to worry about the other guys instead.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1992
7:58 Chapter 1993
14:18 Chapter 1994
22:44 Chapter 1995
29:30 Chapter 1996
36:19 Chapter 1997
43:11 Chapter 1998
49:57 Chapter 1999
57:03 Chapter 2000
1:03:39 Chapter 2001
1:11:17 Chapter 2002
1:19:09 Chapter 2003
1:30:10 Chapter 2004
1:37:00 Chapter 2005
1:43:44 Chapter 2006
1:50:59 Chapter 2007
1:58:52 Chapter 2008
2:05:50 Chapter 2009
2:13:55 Chapter 2010
2:21:26 Chapter 2011
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Shadow Slave: Her Teacher Was The Lord Of Shadows All Along (Ch 1971-1991) Audiobook Episode 104
Episode 104Rain finally learns who her teacher really is, and the reveal lands like a thunderbolt: the man who's been trailing her for four years casually admits he IS the Lord of Shadows, the same Saint who …
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Episode 104
Rain finally learns who her teacher really is, and the reveal lands like a thunderbolt: the man who's been trailing her for four years casually admits he IS the Lord of Shadows, the same Saint who decimated the caravan and saved Tamar, Ray, and Fleur. That confession, and everything that follows it, is the heart of this Shadow Slave episode, the fantasy web novel I narrate chapter by chapter as an anime-style audiobook. The trail of identities Sunny lays out, from sellsword Saint to Knight Commander to Memory Purveyor to master chef, had me genuinely reeling alongside Rain, and the quiet moment where she asks who he really is and ends up calling him "Brother" is the emotional peak of the whole stretch. I loved the tree scene at the Nameless Temple, three carved lines for his marks on the world, and Sunny admitting it's essentially his grave. Then the episode shifts hard to Morgan in true Bastion, where Cassie's bombshell drops: the illusory city is gone, swapped into the Great Mirror. Morgan's war of attrition against Mordret gets brutal, with the Others, Typhaon rising from the lake, and Morgan finally unleashing her hidden true power as a deliberate trap to bait her brother into her soul. She counts down three destroyed vessels and wonders if it's enough. Meanwhile Sunny stands on the King of Swords' mobile fortress, quietly ashamed that the dying is all done by ordinary soldiers like Rain while the Saints just watch. That somber note is where we leave it.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1971
8:13 Chapter 1972
16:58 Chapter 1973
24:49 Chapter 1974
33:54 Chapter 1975
43:54 Chapter 1976
53:15 Chapter 1977
59:35 Chapter 1978
1:09:56 Chapter 1979
1:17:48 Chapter 1980
1:23:46 Chapter 1981
1:30:32 Chapter 1982
1:38:01 Chapter 1983
1:44:33 Chapter 1984
1:51:24 Chapter 1985
1:58:33 Chapter 1986
2:05:51 Chapter 1987
2:12:41 Chapter 1988
2:19:28 Chapter 1989
2:26:37 Chapter 1990
2:35:48 Chapter 1991
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Shadow Slave: The Lantern Was A Door To God's Realm (Ch 1951-1970) Audiobook Episode 103
Episode 103Sunny opens a tiny black lantern and realizes it is literally a gate to the dead Shadow God's own Realm, and this Shadow Slave episode is the fantasy audiobook chapter where he steps through and …
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Episode 103
Sunny opens a tiny black lantern and realizes it is literally a gate to the dead Shadow God's own Realm, and this Shadow Slave episode is the fantasy audiobook chapter where he steps through and immediately regrets it. This stretch of the novel has been building to that moment, and I loved how casually the dread sets in before he even goes. He knows the smart move is patience, but there is a portal to a Divine Realm in his pocket, so caution goes out the window. What he finds on the other side is haunting: a desolate plain under a starless sky lit by rivers of drifting essence, and a storm of soul sparks overhead that starts eating his incarnation alive. Then an unseen archer puts a black arrow clean through his heart, and the thing follows him back through the gate, nearly taking his head off in his own basement. After that tense opener, the episode slows into some of my favorite material in a while: Sunny processing heavy ideas about death and whether his own soul is a seed of a new Shadow Realm, then distracting himself by weaving gifts for Rain. The Bag of Withholding, the Green Canteen, gems like [Definitely Not Me] and [Safety First], this naming habit of his kills me. And then Nephis finally returns to camp. Their reunion is pure slow-burn sweetness, healing, teasing, and watching everyone in the crowd argue over who that smile was meant for, while only Sunny knows the truth. It ends with the Lord of Shadows walking alone out of true darkness to dismantle a Song Army caravan, leaving one survivor trembling with a very specific fear.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1951
7:23 Chapter 1955
28:24 Chapter 1956
36:01 Chapter 1959
55:42 Chapter 1963
1:25:15 Chapter 1967
1:52:03 Chapter 1968
1:59:55 Chapter 1969
2:06:10 Chapter 1970
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Shadow Slave: She Raised The Dead To Rule (Ch 1933-1950) Audiobook Episode 102
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 102It is absolutely chilling to witness the birth of a monster through …
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Episode 102
It is absolutely chilling to witness the birth of a monster through the innocent eyes of an old friend. In this episode of the Shadow Slave anime-style audiobook, we dive deep into Master Orum's memories, watching him guide a young Ki Song from the Academy to the terrifying awakening of her power at the Jade Palace. Early on, Orum's interactions with the cynical Ascended Jest set a bleak tone for the era, but nothing prepares you for the moment Ki calmly massacres the Awakened who betrayed her mother. The transition from her time as a gloomy student to a ruthless leader raising her enemies as undead soldiers is handled with a quiet, horrifying intensity. By the time we return to the present, Sunny is using these tragic insights to fuel his own desperate experiments in weaving and shadow dance, trying to understand the 'why' behind his sorcery before the coming clash with the Raven Queen.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1933
7:39 Chapter 1934
15:44 Chapter 1935
22:26 Chapter 1936
30:57 Chapter 1937
39:36 Chapter 1938
46:31 Chapter 1939
55:27 Chapter 1940
1:01:57 Chapter 1941
1:10:58 Chapter 1942
1:21:23 Chapter 1943
1:28:57 Chapter 1944
1:36:47 Chapter 1945
1:44:32 Chapter 1946
1:53:00 Chapter 1947
2:01:03 Chapter 1948
2:10:21 Chapter 1949
2:18:49 Chapter 1950
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous: Shadow Slave: She Raised The Dead To Survive (Ch 1914-1932) Audiobook Episode 99
https://youtu.be/JRf5KGpn7j8
Next: Shadow Slave: The Queen of Worms Raises Every Corpse (Ch 1914-1932) Audiobook Episode 101
https://youtu.be/VJSZCEHyPhE
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Shadow Slave: She Raised The Dead To Survive (Ch 1914-1932) Audiobook Episode 101
Episode 101Seeing Morgan finally face her twisted brother Mordret at Rivergate was a highlight of this arc, especially since she chose survival over a hopeless duel and escaped to prepare Bastion for a siege …
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Episode 101
Seeing Morgan finally face her twisted brother Mordret at Rivergate was a highlight of this arc, especially since she chose survival over a hopeless duel and escaped to prepare Bastion for a siege. That political tension contrasts sharply with the visceral horror Rain and the Song Army face in the Hollows, where they retreat from an endless tide of Nightmare Creatures only to run into a terrifying Great Demon. Just as hope dwindles and the battle seems lost, the Queen of Worms arrives, raising every corpse on the field to fight for them, a moment that gave me chills. Back at the camp, Sunny helps a drained Cassie recover, leading to a deep dive into her memories where she interrogates a spy named Orum. Witnessing Orum’s past with a young Song Jiwon during the very first days of the Nightmare Spell was incredibly nostalgic, offering a rare look at the world’s beginning right before the screen fades on a haunting realization about the children born after the Spell descended.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1914
8:09 Chapter 1915
17:06 Chapter 1916
24:55 Chapter 1917
31:59 Chapter 1918
38:09 Chapter 1919
39:20 Chapter 1920
45:23 Chapter 1921
52:48 Chapter 1922
1:00:52 Chapter 1923
1:07:11 Chapter 1924
1:16:35 Chapter 1925
1:24:47 Chapter 1926
1:33:46 Chapter 1927
1:42:49 Chapter 1928
1:49:09 Chapter 1929
1:55:22 Chapter 1930
2:03:16 Chapter 1931
2:10:20 Chapter 1932
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous: Shadow Slave: Saint Gained A New Form (Ch 1894-1913) Audiobook Episode 98
https://youtu.be/_bzhlhflJcM
Next: Shadow Slave: She Raised The Dead To Rule (Ch 1933-1950) Audiobook Episode 100
https://youtu.be/74XGnswWI8Y
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Shadow Slave: Saint Gained A New Form (Ch 1894-1913) Audiobook Episode 100
Full episodes are free on YouTube. Continue the story here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zKEpisode 100I honestly thought we were done for when Sunny fused with the Soul …
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Episode 100
I honestly thought we were done for when Sunny fused with the Soul Serpent to fight Revel, only to experience the jarring reality of becoming a living weapon. That shift into the sword’s rigid, alien perspective was wild, but seeing him desperately trade blows with the Lightslayer using nothing but physical strength was even more intense. Thankfully, Nephis arrived like a falling star to turn the tide, though Revel managed to escape using Sovereign power. The real highlight was discovering what Saint gained from destroying the Reflection. Seeing her summon a pool of true darkness and manifest her own Onyx Mantle armor was awesome, but her suddenly changing size just to look down on Sunny? That was unexpectedly hilarious. Just as the Sword Domain fully descends into the Hollows, the focus shifts to Morgan at Rivergate, where she faces a devastating clash against Mordret that completely reshapes the land.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 1894
2:27 Chapter 1895
8:50 Chapter 1896
9:11 Chapter 1897
18:17 Chapter 1898
25:24 Chapter 1899
31:09 Chapter 1900
40:26 Chapter 1901
46:43 Chapter 1902
56:05 Chapter 1903
1:02:56 Chapter 1904
1:10:21 Chapter 1905
1:19:37 Chapter 1906
1:26:50 Chapter 1907
1:33:19 Chapter 1908
1:40:11 Chapter 1909
1:48:06 Chapter 1910
1:55:07 Chapter 1911
2:03:09 Chapter 1912
2:10:05 Chapter 1913
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous: Shadow Slave: The Third Pillar Rises (Ch 1875-1893) Audiobook Episode 97
https://youtu.be/LULPMPZaEMc
Next: Shadow Slave: She Raised The Dead To Survive (Ch 1914-1932) Audiobook Episode 99
https://youtu.be/JRf5KGpn7j8
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Shadow Slave: He Challenged A Master Of Valor (Ch 545-564) Audiobook Episode 31
Episode 31Mongrel just challenged a Master of clan Valor to a duel in front of the entire Dreamscape, and I genuinely could not look away. This stretch of Shadow Slave, the anime-style audiobook of the novel …
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Episode 31
Mongrel just challenged a Master of clan Valor to a duel in front of the entire Dreamscape, and I genuinely could not look away. This stretch of Shadow Slave, the anime-style audiobook of the novel, opens with Sunny's brutal loss to Morgan of Valor, a fight that finally pushes his Shadow Dance to the second step. The reward he claims is a drop of Shadow God's blood, but instead of gaining a new lineage, his Weave evolves and devours it, leaving him screaming at Weaver. I felt that frustration right alongside him. A few chapters in, Effie and Kai arrive at the Chained Isles, and the dinner scene with Rain meeting the real Awakened Athena is pure comedy. By the end of this stretch, Sunny and Cassie set off for the Night Temple, a Citadel full of Lost and strange rules. The inspection scene takes a terrifying turn when a broken mirror shard makes Sir Pierce go pale with fear, and all I could hear was the sound of breaking mirrors.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 545
6:59 Chapter 546
13:19 Chapter 547
23:17 Chapter 548
29:24 Chapter 549
36:47 Chapter 550
45:49 Chapter 551
53:25 Chapter 552
59:34 Chapter 553
1:07:01 Chapter 554
1:14:24 Chapter 555
1:20:58 Chapter 556
1:27:47 Chapter 557
1:35:42 Chapter 558
1:42:02 Chapter 559
1:50:51 Chapter 560
1:58:11 Chapter 561
2:04:25 Chapter 562
2:10:09 Chapter 563
2:18:30 Chapter 564
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous: Shadow Slave: The Ghost That Fought Like Him (Ch 526-544) Audiobook Episode 30
https://youtu.be/GWXBGWl29b4
Next: Shadow Slave: The Mirror Shattered And Everything Changed (Ch 565-584) Audiobook Episode 32
https://youtu.be/WxWOLCcOYnE
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Shadow Slave: She Beheaded A Pathfinder In One Strike (Ch 143-161) Audiobook Episode 11
Episode 11Nephis walks into Gunlaug's castle and beheads a Pathfinder with one strike, and that's the moment everything in Shadow Slave changes. This is a dark fantasy, anime-style audiobook of the novel, and …
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Episode 11
Nephis walks into Gunlaug's castle and beheads a Pathfinder with one strike, and that's the moment everything in Shadow Slave changes. This is a dark fantasy, anime-style audiobook of the novel, and this stretch of chapters is where the Bright Castle arc finally shows its teeth. I've been waiting for the group to reunite, and the way it happens, with Nephis throwing a severed head at Effie's feet to recruit her, is exactly the kind of cold pragmatism that makes this story hit different.
Early on, Gunlaug's public execution of Jubei sets the tone. Harus snaps the hunter's neck in five seconds, and Sunny's realization that hope is poison lands hard. But the real shift comes when Nephis announces herself as Changing Star of the Immortal Flame clan. The crowd's reaction, that tiny seed of hope in dead soil, gave me chills. Then she kills Andel in one blow, and suddenly the outer settlement has a symbol to believe in.
By the end of this stretch, Sunny pieces together Cassie's vision: the woman with the bronze spear is Effie, and the castle burning is the future, not the past. He realizes Nephis is deliberately building a rebellion, and that everyone in the Dark City is going to die. The final chapter, where Harper asks Sunny a question he can't answer without his Flaw forcing the truth out, ends with Sunny stabbing the poor kid through the heart. I did not see that coming, and it left me genuinely shaken.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Chapter 143
6:51 Chapter 144
13:58 Chapter 145
22:06 Chapter 146
29:36 Chapter 147
36:38 Chapter 148
43:18 Chapter 149
50:01 Chapter 150
57:38 Chapter 151
1:05:55 Chapter 152
1:12:42 Chapter 153
1:21:22 Chapter 154
1:31:06 Chapter 155
1:39:39 Chapter 156
1:48:20 Chapter 157
1:56:31 Chapter 158
2:06:56 Chapter 159
2:14:17 Chapter 160
2:23:04 Chapter 161
EPISODE GUIDE
Previous: Shadow Slave: The Castle That Guards No Escape (Ch 122-142) Audiobook Episode 10
https://youtu.be/bvNIme10UQs
Next: Shadow Slave: His First Human Kill (Ch 162 - 181) Audiobook Episode 12
https://youtu.be/ejqa2ojuB1A
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Shadow Slave: Everyone In The North Is Dead (Ch 678-697) Audiobook Episode 38
Episode 38Cassie walks back into the story carrying a black scabbard and news that everyone in the northern reach is dead, and that's the moment this stretch of Shadow Slave, the dark fantasy web novel, stops …
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Episode 38Cassie walks back into the story carrying a black scabbard and news that everyone in the northern reach is dead, and that's the moment this stretch of Shadow Slave, the dark fantasy web novel, stops being a reunion and starts being a war council. I'm Xavileiro, and this is my read of the novel as an anime-style audiobook, episode by episode. The cohort is finally back together, but the Nightmare has chewed them all up in different ways. Effie's time with the Red Sect is the hardest to hear, a little girl forced to watch others punished for her escape attempts. Kai's story is just as grim: he fought the Ivory Dragon, Sevirax, and lost, and now he's held together by enchanted wood and tree bark. These aren't the same people who entered the Seed.A few chapters in, Sunny does something I didn't expect. He stops hoarding his secrets and tells Effie and Kai the truth: the Flaw, the True Name, the Divine Aspect, the three Shadow Cores, even that he's Lord Mongrel. It's a genuinely uncomfortable scene, and you can feel how much it costs him. Then Noctis drops the real bombshell about Hope: Sun God didn't destroy her kingdom because she was too powerful or too radiant. It was because she was worshipped. That one line reframes the entire Nightmare.By the end of this stretch, Sunny has done something wild with the Silver Bell, weaving a second enchantment into a Memory without destroying it, and turned a rock into the Extraordinary Rock so he can finally have mental privacy. But Noctis has one more favor to ask, and it sends them straight toward the tranquil lake, the one place Sky Tide warned him never to approach. The thing living there is Noctis's friend, and they have to go ask it for the Ruby Knife.🎧 More on Xavileiro: https://www.youtube.com/@xavileiroCHAPTERS0:00 Chapter 67810:14 Chapter 67918:10 Chapter 68025:11 Chapter 68134:19 Chapter 68240:21 Chapter 68347:03 Chapter 68457:00 Chapter 6851:02:48 Chapter 6861:09:44 Chapter 6871:15:16 Chapter 6881:22:03 Chapter 6891:29:34 Chapter 6901:38:36 Chapter 6911:45:57 Chapter 6921:52:44 Chapter 6932:01:25 Chapter 6942:08:39 Chapter 6952:15:29 Chapter 6962:23:30 Chapter 697EPISODE GUIDEPrevious: Shadow Slave: He Survived Nightmare But The Real War Begins (Ch 659-677) Audiobook Episode 37https://youtu.be/-96SFTY7WGYNext: Shadow Slave: The Lake Even Saints Fear (Ch 698-716) Audiobook Episode 39https://youtu.be/i51vxG_zn9wFull series playlist:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLooldVFTw_G3V2yiBuxn8jQlmCO4IW0zK
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