Necromancer Of The Shadows

Evan's fingernail-sized, diamond-shaped Primordial Monarch Core was beating like a heart and was absorbing the world essence from the surroundings like a black hole.

It was a good thing that the barrier that covered the entrance of the cave didn't block the flow of the world essence from the outside, otherwise; Evan was afraid that the evolution of his core might have failed due to the lack of a sufficient amount of world essence.

The deep blue-coloured vortex spinning above his head worked like a powerful magnet and continued to pull a large amount of world essence from outside of the cave.

Evan's core was at the absolute limit of Rank One, but it didn't mean just a small amount of world essence was enough to evolve it into a Rank Two core. Even though it was at the absolute limit of Rank One, it still needed a large amount of world essence to complete its evolution.

Normally, because of the large amount of world essence that his core needed to complete its evolution, the vortex that would have formed to attract the world essence would have definitely exceeded the diameter of a few kilometres.

But due to the special nature of the cave, the vortex wasn't able to reach its true size, and as a result, it wasn't able to pull a sufficient amount of world essence and the time Evan's core needed to complete its evolution increased greatly.

Generally, it wouldn't have taken his core more than half an hour to complete its evolution, but due to the low quantity of the world essence, even after ten hours, Evan's core did not finish its evolution.

Although the time his core needed to complete its evolution increased greatly due to the small size of the vortex, there was no other problem and this slow process wasn't affecting his core. Due to the smooth process, Evan could even use his spiritual senses to monitor other things.

'Just half an hour left before the effect of Time Watch ends...' He said inwardly while looking at the Time Watch. '... With the ratio of 1:20, it would be ten hours inside the time field. I hope the evolution of my core will finish in these ten hours as I don't want to waste too much time here.'

Time continued to pass, and just when there were five minutes left before the effect of the Time Watch ended, Evan noticed the world essence vortex above his head started to dissipate.

At the same time, the spinning speed of his core increased greatly.

'Finally...' Evan sighed in relief when he saw this and a small smile appeared on his face as he knew the evolution of his core was about to finish.

Around two minutes later, the vortex spinning above him completely disappeared.

The moment the vortex disappeared, the rotation speed of his Primordial Monarch Core increased even more. At the same time, the small white stars that filled his Void Energy Ring lit up.

Boom!

A small booming sound echoed out from Evan's body and the rapidly spinning Primordial Monarch Core released a large amount of energy to nourish his body.

But unlike the previous evolutions of his core where the energy released by his core would directly spread throughout his body, this time, the energy released by the core was instantly absorbed by the small shining stars inside the Void Energy Ring.

As the small stars absorbed the energy released by the Primordial Monarch Core, their size started to increase.

Although the size of Evan's Void Energy Ring was just a little bigger than his fingernail-sized core, it didn't mean the stars inside it were also small.

If someone looked at his Void Energy Ring using their spiritual senses, they would see an entire galaxy inside his small void energy ring, filled with thousands of stars.

As the size of stars inside his ring increased, Evan felt his Zone becoming more powerful.

At the same time, looking at the shining stars, he got a few hints about how to evolve his Zone into an Illusionary World.

'Hmmm... It seems it won't be easy to evolve my Void Zone into an Illusionary World...' Evan said to himself while looking at the shining stars inside his Void Energy Ring.

Around two minutes later, Evan's Primordial Monarch Core stopped releasing energy and the stars inside the energy ring stopped expanding.

When his core stopped releasing energy, Evan was a little confused because although he felt stronger than before, his stat points were still the same.

Other than increasing the power of his Zone by expanding the size of stars inside the void energy ring, the energy released by his Primordial Monarch Core didn't seem to do anything else.

'Did I do something wrong during the evolution process?'

Seeing the energy released by his core just increased the power of his Zone a bit, Evan thought with a frown on his face.

Just when Evan was thinking he might have done something wrong during the evolution process, the shining stars inside the Void Energy Ring released a burst of energy.

The energy released by the stars spread throughout Evan's body in an instant and started to strengthen every single cell of his body.

The energy released by stars seeped inside his internal organs, bones, and blood, greatly enhancing his physical abilities.

The world essence inside his body condensed and became denser than before.

The amount of Primordial Shadow Energy inside his core started to increase, and at the same time, he felt his other attributes, including World Essence, Strength, Agility, etc., break free from the limit of Rank One and begin to increase.

The energy released by the stars continued to nourish Evan's body for the next few minutes.

Around ten minutes later, the glow around the stars inside the void energy ring began to recede and in less than a minute, all the stars returned to their previous normal state.

As the stars inside the void energy ring returned to the normal stat, a notification flashed in front of Evan's eyes.

(Your Primordial Monarch Core successfully evolved into a Rank Two Core)