Is he anxious?
Of course he is!
The shadow appearing here is none other than the very darkness threatened moment by moment!
More specifically, the shadow is an illusion left by the darkness in Orus, akin to a consciousness-projection avatar, but this avatar is very fragile, lacking any magic power or combat capability, unable to form a complete human body, its role much like the intelligence magic such as [Eye of the God], helping the darkness to investigate something.
Originally, the darkness left such an avatar in Orus just to monitor Yarad.
In his plan, even though Yarad had mostly lost his usefulness, he could still be used to arrange a blood sacrifice ceremony, offering up the entire Libion Duchy as a sacrifice to the Abyss, which would bring numerous benefits.
If Yarad carried out a blood sacrifice ceremony in the Libion Duchy as he envisioned, the final outcome of this blood sacrifice ceremony would be his.
