Shadow Slave is going to come to life in a webcomic very soon.
WEBNOVEL teased on their Instagram page that the webcomic adaptation of Shadow Slave will debut in the summer. A teaser image was released, which is the webcomic-ification of the cover of the webnovel. Author Guiltythree had previously teased the webcomic adaptation on his Discord channel before although a release date had not yet been announced. A firm release date for the webcomic will arrive at a later point in time.
Shadow Slave debuted on WEBNOVEL in 2021 and is currently ongoing with 11 volumes and 3,001 chapters. The fantasy/action story has amassed 101.8 million views and counting.
In October 2025, Aethon announced that the webnovel would be released in a hardcover print edition with a scheduled release for October 6, 2026. In its announcement, the publisher also announced that it will be working with Laurel Pursuit (Dungeon Crawler Crawl) on the webcomic adaptation. It is not clear whether the publisher will release the webcomic in print edition as well.
The synopsis from WEBNOVEL is as follows:
Growing up in poverty, Sunny never expected anything good from life. However, even he did not anticipate being chosen by the Nightmare Spell and becoming one of the Awakened – an elite group of people gifted with supernatural powers. Transported into a ruined magical world, he found himself facing against terrible monsters – and other Awakened – in a deadly battle of survival.
What’s worse, the divine power he received happened to possess a small, but potentially fatal side effect…
The story can be read on WEBNOVEL.
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