Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Master, where are we going?" The nameless host while sitting on the back of the Bone Dragon.

"Astrate City," Evan said while taking out all the A and A+ rank cores that were inside his shadow storage.

"Oh," The nameless host nodded his head hearing Evan and didn't ask anything else.

Evan also ignored the Nameless Host and focused on the cores that were in front of him.

'I have one hundred and twenty seven A rank and eighty two A+ rank cores,' Evan said to himself after taking out the cores. 'These cores should be enough to take my Monarch Core to 90%.'

After counting the cores, Evan started to throw them inside his mouth in order to increase the rank of his Monarch Core.

'Without increasing the rank of my Monarch Core it will be extremely difficult for me to beat a Rank One Core Evolver' Evan thought while guiding the energy of the A rank core towards his Monarch Core.

Once someone becomes a core evolver, their bodies will receive the refinement of the World Essence and will be strengthened greatly. Even by using an A rank sword, it would be difficult for a person to harm the body of a Rank One Core Evolver because of this refinement process.

Although Evan also had the world essence inside his body, it was different from the Core Evolvers. Unlike Evan, who had world essence in his core, the Core Evolver's world essence flows inside their bodies.

Due to this flowing world essence, even the power of skills performed by hunters using mana will lose approximately thirty percent of their power upon coming in contact with the Core Evolver's body.

Evan can solve this problem by using shadow energy instead of mana to cast skills, but the amount of shadow energy that he has inside his Monarch Core is way lower than the amount of Mana he has.

He is afraid that while fighting against the Core Evolver summoned by Nate he will run out of shadow energy and will fall into a disadvantage which is why he decided to increase the rank of his Monarch Core.

Once he increases the rank of his monarch core, the amount of shadow energy he has inside his core will be increased by another level.

Moreover, his physical strength and the power of his skills will also increase once he reaches S rank.

'Although his powerful body and skills will be difficult to deal with, I am more concerned about the fact that that Demon may have already created his Zone,'

There wasn't much information about the Zone in the dream that Evan had seen, but he knew the fact that what makes an Evolver different from an S Rank Hunter is the Zone.

Zone is created by using conceptual energy and its power depends on the user's understanding of the conceptual energy that he used in order to create the Zone.

'I only have surface knowledge about the core evolvers,' Evan sighed and put another A rank core inside his mouth, 'There might be other things that I didn't see in my dreams so I need to do everything that I can before facing that bastard.'

Evan continued to absorb the cores one after another. The nameless host's mouth was wide open seeing how fast Evan was absorbing the A rank cores. Moreover, it was his first time seeing someone absorbing the cores by swallowing them.

'Is there a black hole inside Master's mouth?' The nameless host thought and continued to look at him.

Around three hours later when Evan finished absorbing his 30th core, he felt a very small amount of energy that he had just absorbed from the core went inside his energy veins and started to move on its own.

In less than two seconds after the energy started to move, a notification flashed before Evan's eyes.

(You have learned the skill 'Arcane Embrace')

---) Arcane Embrace: A rare skill that allows the user to merge with the elemental energies, forming an ethereal cocoon around them. This barrier adapts to incoming threats, absorbing and converting magical attacks into a source of empowerment. However, the caster must maintain a delicate balance, as overloading the barrier risks a volatile release of all the absorbed energies.

"A barrier type skill, huh," Evan muttered and activated the Arcane Embrace skill.

Just as he activated the skill, a barrier made of water, fire, wind, earth, lightning and many other different kinds of elemental energies covered an area of two meters around him.

Evan inspected the barrier using his spiritual senses and found the defence of the barrier was quite good.

After checking the power of the barrier, Evan continued to absorb more cores.

By the time he reached Astarte City, Evan had absorbed all the A rank cores and about half of the A+ rank cores. Now his Monarch Core was at 87%.

After absorbing so many cores Evan received three more skills other than the Arcane Embrace.

Evan was very satisfied after receiving those three skills because among those three skills, one was actually a spiritual skill.

---) Soul Severance: After activating this skill, the user can sever the connection between a person's body and soul for one second using their spiritual power, rendering them unconscious or temporarily incapacitated. The skill won't work against people who are two ranks above you. Cool Down Time: Five Hours.

Although the effective time of the skill was just one second, it was a skill that he could use in a critical moment to catch his enemy by surprise.

"I still have forty three A+ rank cores left," Evan said to himself and jumped down from the back of the Bone Dragon.

The Nameless Host followed after Evan and he also jumped down from the top of Bone Dragon's back.

After the Nameless Host jumped down, Evan summoned back Bone Dragon into his shadow storage and looked at the city walls of Astrate City in front of him.

"Let's hope I will be able to fight against that bastard after I finish my business here," He said and walked towards the entrance of the city.