Dr. Zayn Al-Masry is an ambitious archaeologist who has staked his dwindling budget and reputation on a "less desirable" tomb in the Saqqara necropolis. He believes it's a decoy for something much older, and he's right.When his team breaks through a false wall, Zayn finds a suffocating black room containing a heretical statue and a simple limestone tablet. It reads: Here sleeps the Forgotten. His name is a plague, his whisper a madness. Speak not his name...Driven by the "logical, scientific explanation", Zayn whispers the name etched on the statue: "Nekh-set".This single word doesn't just wake the entity-it binds it to him. The "Shadow that Eats" is a 4,000-year-old parasite, and Zayn has just become its "bridge" to the modern world. As the entity's "plague" drains his camp's equipment and its "madness" turns his crew violent, Zayn is marked by three vicious scratches and haunted by terrifying hallucinations.His only hope lies with a "charlatan" professor and a desperate quest for the "Codex of the Shadow", a heretical "prison manual" hidden in a remote monastery.But the ancient text reveals a horrifying truth: The entity cannot be expelled. It can only be transferred. To save the world, Zayn must perform the final ritual and make the ultimate sacrifice-he must become the lock, a living prison for the god in his own mind.