Zentopia, largest city in the south of Alegloria, home of 2 million people.

The once beautiful and lush city was barren, the once mighty city walls were no longer standing.

It had become an uninhabitable wasteland with dead and rotting carcasses everywhere.

Inside the governor's mansion, a party was going on. 

About 80 men and women in black skimpy revealing clothes were having a party.

There was a buffet table with severed arms and legs, served raw as the main dishes. Genitals, breasts, eyeballs and tongues were served as hors d'oeuvres on smaller tables, and two naked bodies were beheaded as the blood from their necks were being drained into a punch bowl.

A beautiful woman walked down the stairs dressed in an elegant, yet obscene looking dress that barely covered her nudity and stopped at the bottom stair.

The crowd bowed towards her reverently

"My subjects... this party is in honor of our victory. Tonight, when the sun sets, we shall depart to join the Demon King in conquering the rest of this pathetic nation.

But while the sun has yet set...let us enjoy ourselves with what we deserve" she said and gestured towards one of her attendants

"Let the party begin!" she announced as the handsome male attendant leaped into the air 

2 men and 2 women were tied up and dangling from the roof, held by one rope under their armpits, and the other by their hips. The attendant beheaded them with one hand and spun their dangling bodies with the other.

The crowd cheered as the blood sprayed on everyone below.

He jumped again and slashed with his hands as the bodies were split in half, their guts and internal organs spilled out, landing on the crowd below who were clamoring with their hands and their mouths open.

"Tereselyn... you're as disgusting as ever" a seductive female voice suddenly said

"Who..?" the Vampire Queen asked, looking around. To her surprise, even with her enhanced senses, she couldn't detect anyone. The other vampires looked confused too.

"I've seen enough. NOT... A...SINGLE...ONE... ALIVE!" a male voice commanded through gritted teeth, his fury could be sensed even from just the voice.  

Suddenly shadow clones of the succubi, werewolves and banshees poured out of the shadows, and a one sided slaughter started taking place. 

Usually, vampires were slightly superior in battle to succubi even though they had similar speed and strength, and they were a close match for werewolves, but the succubi numbered 400, and the there were 65 werewolves compared to the 80 vampires. They were completely outnumbered

And they had no defenses against the banshees who were incorporeal. However, the banshees were ordered not to use their death touch, rather damage them with their screams and physical strength. 

The vampire queen shouted in fury, bravely diving into battle, destroying several shadow clones.

"Your battle is with me" Morrigan said, intercepting her. 

"You? Not on your best day, Jeruzabel" she sneered at Morrigan, recognizing her even if she looked different. 

"How about me?" Kali appeared besides her. 

"Sylvania?" the Vampire Queen was startled, slightly intimidated by the fierce lamia.

Then Ahmanet joined in silently. 

She didn't recognise Ahmanet, but she could feel that she was very powerful, probably a match for her too. 

"You! You all are betraying the Demon King? Are you mad?" she screamed

"Demon King? You should worry about me.. the Shadow King" Lex said as he appeared with his sword drawn. 

He instantly regretted saying that in the heat of the moment. Shadow King? Isn't that the name of the enemy that killed him in the cultivation world?

"Shadow King? I've never heard of you. But my lord the Demon King will enjoy your soul very much" she said and prepared to attack.

"That's all I need to know" Lex said as he sliced her shadow. 

The Vampire Queen's eyes opened, not realizing what happened. 

She held her neck, but her head fell off even with her best efforts to try to keep her neck attached. 

Rather than stabbing her heart, Lex swung his sword downwards, splitting her body from her neck to her groin. 

He raised his hand and a shadow emerged from the vampire's body

"Please give me a name, master" she said

"You will be called Selene" he said, naming her after the protagonist of the Underworld movies. 

He looked around and saw that all the vampires had been killed and commanded the werewolves and harlots to pile them all together. 

And like that, he had an army of 80 vampires, all which he collectively called the Twilight after the movies of the same name. 

The Twilight consisted of roughly an equal number of 40 males and 40 females, all dressed in black and alluring clothes. 

However, now that they were his shadow clones, they still retained their devilish good looks and charm, but no longer had that evil vibe.

"All hail the Shadow King!" Selene shouted

"All hail the Shadow King!" the Twilight echoed, joined in by the Harlots and the Wolfpack.

Lex grimaced, knowing he had made a mistake. But that wasn't important

He asked Selene if there was any humans left alive in the building, but she shook her head. 

He nodded, taking one last look at all de bodies here.

He spat and opened the door, leaving the mansion. 

The shadow clones followed him obediently and the Twilight, being formerly vampires, subconsciously hissed and flinched from the sunlight. 

However, to their surprise, the direct sunlight of mid day didn't do anything to them except made them look more ethereal. This was the same for all the other shadow clones too. 

Lex surveyed the city and was drawn to a part of the broken city that seemed to have been swallowed by vines. 

Lex frowned, wondering what the hell this thing was

"Master! Watch out! That thing is an alroune!" Selene said

An alroune is a monstrous demon plant, able to generate untold vines, shapeshift to seduce humans, release spores that can hypnotise and cause one to fall unconscious, all for the purposes of eating human flesh. To be able to fight Grom meant that it was at very least, a level 7 by this world's standards.

A beautiful naked woman stepped out of the vines wearing a large pick flower over her left ear and similar looking large petals as a skirt that hid her groin, but she was naked on top. She smiled at Lex seductively as she approached him, rubbing her breasts with her hands.

"Is Jasmine at the forefront of my subconscious? Why do all you seductive creatures always turn into her?" Lex asked angrily, slashing the clone of Jasmine from the top of her head to her naked groin

The vines suddenly attacked en masse, forcing Lex to stop and back off a few steps.

"Very well, you asked for it" Lex said, angry that this was the creature that killed Grom

He controlled the shadows of the vines to entangle with its real vines, then set the shadow on fire!

The plant shrieked as it felt the fire burning and eating up its body, yet there was no flames on it to put out!

While it burned, Lex extracted water out of it's shadow, causing it's vines to shrivel and burn faster, then filled it's shadow with lightning.

Parts of the plant exploded inexplicably from the lightning while others burned to nothingness.

What was supposed to be a tough battle instead became a one sided mutilation as Lex tortured the plant until it withered and died.  

Looking at the remnants of the plant, looking no bigger than a 2 meter shriveled vine out of the ground, Lex extended his hand.

"A plant has no soul master" Ahmanet said.

Lex frowned, but decided to try anyway

A shadow popped out of  the dead plant, which surprised Ahmanet

But what was even more surprising, the shadow clone looked remarkably like Grom, only a shadow form, and she had a large flower on her head, and large petals around her waist forming a skirt like the alraune did, except purple in color.

"Please give me a name master" she said

"Your name is... Ivy" he finally said, naming her after the Batman villain rather than his lover and Grove Nature Druid, Grom.

Though she looked nearly the same, and probably had the same soul and memories, she was his shadow clone now.

He turned around, sighing in his heart and searched the city for any survivors, even though he knew that it was virtually impossible.

It was then that the dry wind blew something towards him that landed on his feet

He picked it up and realized that it was Agartha's naked empty skin!

All the flesh, bone and organs within were gone!

He trembled as he held the skin, as tears started dropping on it. 

"Noooooo!" he yelled as he fell to his knees in tears, holding her skin to his face.