Release #1 - Link 1 - The Fist

Umbral Chains is a shonen, action horror story about a trio of kids attending a monster hunting school where students armed with dark gifts learn how to identify, handle and neutralize creatures of the night. Follow Jino, Adam and Bell in this exciting and dark story of mystery and self-discovery.

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Issue 1

Link 1 - The Fist

48.4K views • Dec 12, 2025

In a world where monsters, creatures, beasts and legends of the night secretly inhabit the land of the living, Jino is a young man living his life one day at a time and always ready to help but one day he offers his hand to the wrong person.

Kaldervallry 1 month ago

The art is absolutely gorgeous, I can't wait for more

macky07 1 month ago

This blew my mind! I can’t wait for more!

ZacDozier 1 month ago

I enjoyed this a lot!

NikolaCizmesija 1 month ago

@Kaldervallry: Thank you! Hopefuly there is more in the future!

NikolaCizmesija 1 month ago

@macky07: Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it! Fingers crossed for more haha

NikolaCizmesija 1 month ago

@ZacDozier: Thank you!!!

ArtCrumbs admin 1 month ago

Admin here. Banger of a first chapter! I'd love to highlight this, is it ok if I reach out to you over your GC email to talk about it?

NikolaCizmesija 1 month ago

Hi! Sure!

NikolaCizmesija 1 month ago

@ArtCrumbs: Hi! Sure!

ArtCrumbs admin 1 month ago

@NikolaCizmesija: Excellent! I'll get back to you before the end of thr workday today. Thank you!

Ahsan-124 1 month ago

Loved this first chapter! As a fan/follower on Twitter it was cool seeing the development of this and your passion put into it! Hopefully we can see more from this soon!

SparklingVibrantProtector 1 month ago

Always a fan of your art dude, hope to see more of this

SupaDan91 1 month ago

Been following you since the Way of the Spider days and this did not disappoint! super excited for the next issue

Seven1178 1 month ago

This was so good, hope you get around to make more!

DracoAzure98 1 month ago

OH MY GOD I can’t believe it’s finally out I’ve been loving your work ever since I found your way of the spider art and I’ve been so hyped about this! it’s amazing

GlimmeringThunderousAlchemist898 4 weeks ago

Tremendous art and story 👍

MrBayless 3 weeks ago

Always love Nikola’s work, super cool to see him let loose. Can’t wait for
more!

TheJohnGill 3 weeks ago

Great start! Looooved the art style.

extra-fat 2 weeks ago

amazing! may I ask how long it took to make this?

PaintingAncientMummy 2 weeks ago

awesome

subt1e 2 weeks ago

Super cool! Would love it more if it was in color.

TimeScapedDutchman 1 week ago

This was awesome.
The art looks gourgeous.
And the ending is pretty intriguing.
If I where to critisise something, I didn’t really get a good impression of the main character's inner conflict or motivation, but that could be expanded later.

Melikebooks 1 week ago

I remembered you from the Sword of Azrael comic and I had to check this out, love your Iron Fist drawings

Excalibear 3 days ago

The paneling and charecter movement here is so amazing! No to mention how interesting everything seems here