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Traces of Shadow are an essential recourse that is necessary for you to strengthen your army of shadows inSolo Leveling: Arise. You can only acquire it after you’ve completed chapter nine of story the mode and also changed your job to ‘Monarch of Shadows.’
Once you become the ‘Monarch of Shadows,’ you’ll unlock Igris the Red Knight as your first shadow troop in your army of shadows. to strengthen your shadow troops, you’ll require a lot of this resource. So, here’s how you may gather tons of Traces of Shadow in Solo Leveling: Arise.

How To Get Traces Of Shadow
After youcomplete chapter nine of the Story Mode, you’ll have access to the Traces of Shadow. But even after you unlock it, there aren’t many ways to farm this resource.You can only get Traces of Shadow from one of the two following sources.
Clearing Story Mode Stages
The first and the easiest way tohorde a lot of Traces of Shadow quicklyis by clearing lots of Story Mode Stages. Both Normal and Hard mode stages will provide you withTraces of Shadow as a reward for completing the stages.
Even though you may get substantial amounts of Traces of Shadow from clearing Story Mode stages,you can only obtain it from stages that come after chapter nine. This applies to both Normal as well as Hard mode.

Completing Gates And Dungeon Breaks
The amount of Traces of Shadow you can farm from Story mode becomes limited after a few chapters because of the drastic increase in the stage difficulty. However, aguaranteed method of farming Traces of Shadow regularlyis by clearing gates and dungeon breaks.
The higher the gate’s rank and difficulty, the more Traces of Shadow you may obtain from clearing it.Even though you can get it from clearing low D-rank gates as well, the amount would be quite less. Whereas, it would bemuch more if you cleared an S-rank red gate.
What Is The Use Of Traces Of Shadow
Traces of Shadow serve two important purposes in Solo Leveling Arise. Firstly, they areessential for summoning new shadows in your army of shadows, which are locked till you clear a certain chapter in Story Mode. Secondly, they are alsoused to promote your existing shadows which you’ve already unlocked.
Promoting a shadow increases the shades required to summon it in combat while granting additional skills that boost its effectiveness and make it much more powerful.