Mrs. Shadow Knight 💚💜 On VGEN

ALT "It's baffling the lengths people will go to brute force solutions to problems they won't even try to understand the cause of. They'd rather axe their way through a wall than try to look for a door." A full page illustration of a landscape. It's a hilly terrain with a large river cutting into it and in the center a walled in kingdom with multiple inner rings leading up to a castle. The entire landscape is consumed by void.

ALT "On the threshold to a holier realm is but another example." The first panel showcases the top of a mountain, speckled by trees as three armored soldiers surround a woman kneeling on the ground. The commander, a maskless man with partially slicked back hair and a facial scar, barks at her, "You brought this plague upon us, witch. This is your last chance to give us a cure. Otherwise, our only option left is to try and cleanse it with your blood. What do you say?" The next panel is a close-up of the woman's face, "It wasn't me. It was that other woman with white hair. Go tell it to her." The next go back and forth between the two. "You're wasting your last words on this again?" "You asked." "Whatever!" "Tell that excuse to the gods, Sasha."

ALT He whips his head to the side, "Oi what's-" he's cut off by a SHRRRK of a sword hitting his throat as a mask figure appears beside him. He tries to pull out his sword in vein. Sasha looks back in shock to the masked figure meeting her gaze. The general chokes on void. The only color in the comic is the red of the mask's scar.

ALT A 9 panel grid of nonstop action. The general fwoops to the ground. A masked soldier swings as the masked figure as it dodges with ease. Sasha tries to stand up as the headsman raises his axe and an arrow shoots for his neck. The masked figure and the soldier duel. Sasha cuts her bindings on the axe and slinks away down the mountain. The masked figure duels with ease and looks onwards. The general, with his face burned, awakens and clenches his fist.