Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Damn it, it's not enough," Evan said as he emerged from the Essence Formation Room. It had been one month since he started cultivating in the Essence Formation Room. The aura surrounding him was slightly stronger than it was a month ago, but he was still far from reaching mid-level Rank One.

"I thought I would reach mid-level Rank One in one month, but I'm still at the 68% mark and need to fill the remaining 32% before I can advance," Evan muttered and sighed after leaving the room.

Initially, Evan's core progressed smoothly. But once his core crossed the 50% mark of the Beginner Level Rank One, its progress slowed down considerably. After reaching the fifty percent mark, the energy that his core required for further advancement nearly tripled.

This sudden increase in required energy slowed down his core's progress, even though he was cultivating in the Essence Formation Room.

"I don't know the level of this formation, but it can't keep up with the amount of World Essence that my core needs," Evan muttered to himself as he took out a crystal from his storage ring. Using the crystal, he contacted Cedar.

After a few hours, Cedar arrived at Evan's house, and Evan noticed that his aura was significantly stronger than before.

He wasn't surprised to see the improvement in Cedar's power. The law formation had been completed around twenty days ago, and Cedar had been cultivating using it during all this time.

Although he was still a mid-level Rank Two Core Evolver, the power of his Zone had greatly increased after cultivating in the Law Formation for nearly one month.

"You are finally out," Cedar said with a smile on his face seeing Evan. He was in a good mood because his Zone had progressed quite a bit due to the Law Formation.

Evan nodded his head upon hearing Cedar and sighed. "Hey Cedar, what is the Rank of the Essence Gathering Formation in my house?"

Cedar was taken aback when he heard Evan's question, and only now did he notice that Evan was still a Beginner Level Rank One Core Evolver even after a month.

"It's a peak Rank Two formation. Is it broken?" he asked while raising an eyebrow. In his opinion, there shouldn't be any problem for Evan to reach mid-level in a month using that formation unless it was broken.

"It's not broken, but..." Evan said and smiled warily. "That peak Rank Two formation is not enough for me."

"Not enough for you?" Cedar was dumbfounded when he heard Evan.

"What do you mean it's not en—" Cedar suddenly stopped mid-way as a possibility came into his mind.

"Don't tell me..." He muttered and looked at Evan with a shocked expression on his face.

"What?" Evan asked in a confused voice, not understanding why Cedar was reacting like this.

Cedar took some deep breaths to calm down and asked after a moment, "Don't tell me the amount of World Essence that the formation gathers can't keep up with the absorption rate of your core?"

Evan raised an eyebrow in surprise upon hearing Cedar and nodded his head.

"You are right, my core absorbs the world essence faster than the formation can gather, and even though it is absorbing the world essence like a black hole, its progress is very slow," Evan said and rubbed his eyebrows in frustration. "If I continue to cultivate like this, it will take me around one more month to reach the mid-level of Rank One."

"You monster..." Cedar said with a twitching mouth when he heard Evan and felt like beating him.

Generally, people with high talent absorb the world essence faster than other evolvers, and they need more world essence to advance to the next rank. It is because of the high potential of their core that they need a large amount of world essence in order to progress.

When Cedar was a Beginner Level Rank One Core Evolver, he also needed a large amount of world essence compared to other normal core evolvers. While he was a Beginner Level Rank One Core Evolver, he could cultivate in a mid-level Rank Two Essence Gathering Formation.

Once, he tried to cultivate in a peak Rank Two Essence Gathering Formation, but his body almost exploded due to the high amount of Essence that the formation was gathering around him. His core wasn't able to absorb all the world essence that the formation was gathering, and it almost killed him.

He was already quite impressed with Evan after learning he could cultivate in a Peak Rank Two formation while being a Beginner Level Rank One Core Evolver, but now he is saying this formation is not enough for him.

'Is this guy trying to break my self-confidence?' Cedar thought with a twitching mouth and felt Sylvan had lied to him when he told him that he was a genius.

"Is there any other place where the density of the World Essence is higher? I don't want to spend another month cooped up in this room as I want to reach mid-level Rank One as soon as possible," Evan said to Cedar.

Cedar took some deep breaths to calm down and after a moment, his mind finally returned to normal.

"You can use the essence gathering rooms with high-level formations that are located in the Central Hall, but..." Cedar said and smiled slightly. "Do you remember in the auction house I told you I would show you a place once we returned to the closed world?"

Evan raised an eyebrow in surprise upon hearing Cedar and nodded his head. When Cedar bought the airship using three million high-level essence stones, Evan had asked him if he had gone insane. At that time, Cedar told him that he would show him a place once they returned to the closed world, and he would understand everything.

"Can this place help me advance faster?" Evan asked after a moment.

Cedar smiled when he heard Evan and flew out of his house. "You will understand when we get there."

Evan also left the house and followed after Cedar. After leaving the house, both of them turned into streaks of light and flew at lightning speed.

Around six hours later, Evan and Cedar were flying above a forest.

While flying, Evan noticed that the density of the World Essence in the surrounding area was decreasing, which surprised him greatly.

Evan had noticed that the density of the World Essence in the closed world of the Drayds was higher than the outside world. He was always curious because of this fact, but he never got a chance to ask why the density of the World Essence was higher in the closed world.

Now that he had nothing else to do other than follow Cedar, he finally asked him about this with a curious look on his face.

"The density of the World Essence is very high in the closed world because of the World Tree," Cedar said and explained. "This world was created using the power of the World Tree, and the World Tree can produce a large amount of pure world essence without any problem.

"Every day, the World Tree produces pure world essence and channels it throughout the closed world, which is why the density of world essence here never decreases and is actually increasing little by little every day."

'World Tree again, huh,' Evan said inwardly and felt this World Tree is an all-rounder. It can help core evolvers evolve their cores without the need for the Source Pill, it can create hidden world, and now it can even produce pure World Essence.

Seeing the surprised look on Evan's face, Cedar smiled bitterly.

"The World Tree can actually do many other things, but its powers are currently sealed."

"Sealed?" Evan was stunned when he heard Cedar and looked at him in shock. "What do you mean its powers are sealed?"

It is already quite absurd that the World Tree can create a hidden world and help the Drayds to this degree, but now Cedar is saying the powers of the World Tree are actually sealed.

'Don't tell me this World Tree is the real protagonist of this world?' Evan thought with a speechless look on his face.

Cedar sighed when he heard Evan's question and looked around him with a complicated expression.

"You will soon understand what I mean," He said and flew deeper into the forest.

Evan didn't ask anything seeing the gloomy look on Cedar's face, and followed him into the forest.

The deeper Evan flew into the forest, the more he noticed how the density of the World Essence was decreasing.

Two hours later, the trees of the forest started to disappear, and a barren land appeared in Evan's view. It was the first time Evan had seen barren land inside the closed world of Drayds, so he was quite surprised when he saw this. Additionally, Evan noticed that there was no World Essence in the surroundings of the barren land.

"What is this place?" Evan couldn't help but ask when he saw that the surroundings of the barren land were completely devoid of World Essence.

"Look there, that is our destination," Cedar said and pointed in front of them, where Evan could see the outline of a small structure.

The structure was not very far from Evan and Cedar, but the area around the structure was filled with a strange kind of power which obstructed their vision, making it difficult to see anything around it clearly.

Evan narrowed his eyes when he saw the outline of the structure, and for some reason, his heart, which was covered in the outline of the Rune Of Origin started to beat faster.