We are so excited to announce that we and Laurel Pursuit have agreed with Guiltythree to bring his Webnovel original series, SHADOW SLAVE, to shelves around the world in print format, in addition to a webcomic adaptation.
Known for its mix of dark fantasy, action, adventure, and LitRPG elements, SHADOW SLAVE is one of the most-read web serials ever written with over 75 million views on Webnovel.
Bringing beloved digital-first series to retail print is the mission of our Aethon & Vault imprint, and this is one we knew readers would devour.
Expect to see volume 1 release in Fall 2026 in Hardcover format, with incredible new cover art developed alongside the author.
Oh, and did you see us mention that it’s going to be getting a webcomic adaptation from Aethon together with Laurel Pursuit? The same team behind the hit Dungeon Crawler Carl Webcomic! More on that to come!
About the Series: 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 shadow powers he received happened to possess a small, but potentially fatal side effect…
I CAN FINALLY READ SHADOW SLAVE WITHOUT SELLING MY KIDNEYS TO WEBNOVEL🥳
What’s the timeline for additional volumes looking like?
IM SK HAPPY HARDCOVER YAYAHAHAHA
Hello, can we hope had a delivery in France ?
Finally!
PLEASE get @amandakourtakous working on this!!!! Her fanart is by far the best in the shadow slave community, would love to see an official design from her on the cover
Is there a possibility of deliveries to Brazil? Who knows a Brazilian Portuguese translation haha?
Please let me know when I can preorder via my email!!!! I’ve followed this series for years and would love to support G3 and his publishing team more directly!!
Peak fiction
OMG!!! I’m really excited about it.
Hi there, great news!
Any chance to see translated version (French here) of the hardbooks? Or will it be only English?
Thanks a lot
Rayne
I’m so excited.. will it be in Italian too? Or just English?
OMGG THATS GREAT NEWSSS I WANTED PHYSICAL COPIES OF SHADOW SLAVE FOR SO LONG, WILL IT BE STILL NOVEL OR IS IT GONNA BE LIKE A MANHWA? OR BOTH?
OMGG THATS GREAT NEWSSS I WANTED PHYSICAL COPIES OF SHADOW SLAVE FOR SO LONG, WILL IT BE STILL NOVEL OR IS IT GONNA BE LIKE A MANHWA? OR BOTH?
We will be waiting for the book’s arrival.
There’s a small possibility I’m crying tears of joy over this. Just a small one.
Finally, I hope they can ship to Brazil.
Will it come to Australia? In specific NSW?
shadow peak
I am really excited to hear that its a hardcover release! I hope to see something artistic and more low key for the cover art you mentioned. Please don’t go with a generic fantasy man cover art for the cover sleeve that I will be embarrassed to put on my shelf.
Who the hell is the guy with the white on the right?
Really interested to get my hands on the hardbooks
I own no Novel, but the first piece literature i wanna own is SHADOW SLAVE
Will it be only in English? i would love to see it in Spanish too
If it’s not possible, no problem, i will buy it anyway
thanks for your work <3
Extremely excited to have shadow slave in my book shelves!
Can I get it Nigeria
This could be a chance for shadow slave to rise even further into the mainstream imo. I’m curious as to if they will follow the “book “ format that kind of already exists within the webNovel
I hope it has decent drawings inside and at least cloth-bound cover. Because The paper hardcovers both less durable and ugly.
Lets’goooooo
Lets’goooooo