Necromancer Of The Shadows

According to what Elora had told Evan, the groups of monsters attack the pillar of light every few months in order to get inside it.

Only during the time of the monster attack does she stay near the pillar of light; otherwise, she spends most of her time in her cave abode, sleeping.

After learning that Elora usually stays in her cave and goes to the pillar of light only during the monster tide, Evan thought she might know a safe route that allows her to travel between her cave abode and the pillar of light.

After all, just looking at the hundreds of groups of monsters in the centre area of the first layer, Evan was sure that without a hidden or safe route, it would be impossible for her to go back and forth between her cave abode and the pillar of light without encountering the monsters.

But when he talked to her about this matter, Elora suddenly disappeared and came back after a few seconds.

After returning, she explained to him that she didn't need any safe or hidden route because she could directly teleport outside of the pillar of light.

Evan was stunned when she told him she could directly go to the pillar of light and asked if she could take him with her. Unfortunately, she told him she couldn't take anyone with her.

Knowing that Elora couldn't teleport him right outside the pillar of light, nor did she know a safe route to approach the pillar, Evan had no choice but to move forward on his own while trying his best to avoid the groups of monsters.

However, with hundreds of groups of monsters in the central area of the first layer, it was impossible for him to avoid the monsters forever.

About an hour after leaving the cave, he finally encountered a group of monsters that he couldn't avoid and had to fight against.

"Thirty-six rank one, twenty-seven rank two, and one mid-level Rank Three," Evan muttered in a low voice, looking at the group of monsters while hiding his presence.

Evan was currently in an area that looked like a desert. There was fine sand everywhere around him, and the chilling night breeze, filled with sharp sand particles was flowing without stopping. In the middle of the desert, he was hiding behind a small sand dune and was thinking about the best way to deal with the monsters.

"I have already turned all the peak Rank Two monsters I had collected into shadow undeads, so it wouldn't be difficult to clean this group of monsters, but the chaos caused by the fight would definitely attract the attention of the other groups of monsters."

If possible, Evan wanted to avoid the fight because he just had a few days left before the Tomb closed. He was still quite far away from the pillar of light and he didn't want to waste his time fighting against these monsters.

"I can use Shadow World to hide the energy fluctuations released by the fight..." He said after a minute of consideration. "Although it's a waste to use my Primordial Shadow Energy here, it shouldn't be a problem as long as I end the fight in less than three minutes."

Evan couldn't activate the Shadow World skill using the World Essence. Only by using the Primordial Shadow Energy could he activate it.

If possible, he wanted to avoid wasting his Primordial Shadow Energy because the recovery speed of Primordial Shadow Energy is very slow compared to world essence, and there isn't even a potion that can help him speed up the recovery of shadow energy.

He had planned to use the Shadow World only during emergencies to save his Primordial Shadow Energy, but in his current situation, if he wanted to avoid attracting the attention of other monsters, he had no choice but to use it to isolate the energy fluctuations of the fight.

Once Evan decided to use the Shadow World to isolate the energy fluctuations, he did not wait long and started to prepare other things that he needed to end the fight in just a few minutes.

"Shadow Clone."

He used his Shadow Clone skill and created a clone of himself.

---) Shadow Clone: Using the essence of shadow, you can create a clone of yourself. The clone will have fifty percent of your power and it will be able to use all of your skills except for class-specific, unique, and racial skills.

After creating his clone, Evan immediately activated the Shadow World skill.

The moment he used the shadow world skill, a black shadow stretched from his feet and instantly covered a large patch of desert.

The monsters not far away from Evan were stunned upon seeing a black shadow covering the ground beneath their feet and looked at it with dumbfounded expressions on their faces.

Before the monsters could understand what was happening, the shadow that covered the sandy ground rose towards the sky and engulfed all of them inside a black dome.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! - - - - - -

Seeing someone trapped them inside a dome, all the monsters, including the mid-level Rank Three one, who was a twenty-meter-long, deep yellow-coloured Sand Lizard started to roar while looking around warily.

Hidden within the walls of Shadow World, Evan and his clone looked at the group of monsters with narrowed eyes and activated the Shadow Puppeteer skill simultaneously.

The moment Evan and his clone activated the skill, all the Rank One and most of the Rank Two monsters stopped roaring.

One of the peak Rank Two monster, which looked like a lion was still roaring while looking at the black-coloured dome when suddenly...

Swish!

A mid-level Rank Two tiger who was standing beside it suddenly attacked, slashing at its eyes.

The peak Rank Two lion never thought its own gang member would attack it, so it wasn't able to react in time and one of its eyes was destroyed by the mid-level Rank Two tiger.

ROAR!

The peak Rank Two lion roared in pain and dropped to the ground as blood flowed out from its destroyed eye without stopping.

ROAR! ROAR! ROAR! - - - - -

Similar scenes happened everywhere within the Shadow World and all the monsters started to attack each other.

The mid-level Rank Three Sand Lizard was stunned when it saw this and couldn't understand why its gang members were fighting each other.

Seeing the black dome that trapped them, the lizard knew there was someone targeting them and in order to stop the attacker, the first thing that came into its mind was to bring its gang members back to their senses.

ROAR!

A domineering roar escaped the lizard's mouth, and the heavy aura of the mid-level Rank Three monster pressed down on all the monsters who were fighting against each other.

Feeling the lizard's aura, all the monsters who were fighting each other stiffened and couldn't move their bodies.

ROAR!

After stopping the monsters, the lizard roared once more and all the monsters quickly gathered around it.

The moment all the monsters gathered around the Sand Lizard, Evan's lips curled upwards and a cold smile appeared on his face.

"That's what I was waiting for..." He muttered in a low voice and by using the power of Shadow World, instantly appeared above the group of monsters.

After appearing above the monsters, he stretched out his hand downwards in the direction of the monsters and opened his mouth.

"Abyssal Vortex!"

The moment Evan spoke, a pitch-black vortex flashing with different colours of light opened in front of him.

---) Abyssal Vortex (Unique Skill): Upon activation, conjures a swirling vortex of darkness using the Primordial Shadow Energy that absorbs and nullifies incoming attacks. The user can store the nullified attacks inside the Abyssal Vortex and use them to attack their enemies.

Tens of attacks, each comparable to the full power attack of a Peak Rank Two Core Evolver shot out from it, heading straight towards the group of monsters that had gathered together.

When Evan appeared above the monster group and opened the Abyssal Vortex, the mid-level Rank Three Sand Lizard immediately noticed him.

Seeing tens of powerful attacks coming towards it and its group, the Sand Lizard's face changed and its eyes glowed with a deep yellow light.

The sand around the lizard started to move and rose above the group of monsters, forming a sand wall.

Seeing the sand wall, Evan just smirked and glanced towards his shadow clone.

Suddenly, some of the monsters who had gathered around the Sand Lizard moved and attacked it simultaneously.

The lizard was completely focused on the sand wall, so when its gang members attacked it, it wasn't able to react in time and was struck by their attacks.

Due to its high defence, the Sand Lizard was not heavily injured by the attacks of the monsters, but these attacks successfully interrupted its skill and the sand wall it created crumbled.

The moment the sand wall crumbled...

BooooooooooooooooooM!!!

The tens of attacks released by the Abyssal Vortex struck the monsters.

The entire Shadow World was lit up by different colours of lights and powerful energy waves spread outwards in all directions, shaking the entire Shadow World.

Evan used his control over the Shadow World to stop the energy waves from spreading so that they wouldn't alert the other monsters in the area.

The attacks that Evan released through the Abyssal Vortex were the attacks of more than ten peak Rank Two Shadow Undeads, so after being struck by all of them at the same time, there was no way ordinary monsters could survive.

Using his control over the Shadow World, Evan quickly checked the situation and noticed that other than him, there was only one life aura left inside the Shadow World.

"The endurance of a mid-level Rank Three monster is truly out of this world..." Evan muttered in a low voice as he looked at the Sand Lizard who was slowly sinking inside the sandy ground, probably thinking about running away using one of its skills.

Seeing the Sand Lizard trying to escape, Evan used the Shadow Forge skill, his shadow moved and a black-coloured spear appeared in his hand.

"Let's see if my guess about the Shadow Forge skill is right or not..." Evan said and the black spear was engulfed by the purple fire of the Prismatic Fire, increasing its sharpness and durability.

Evan held the black spear covered in fire in his hand and threw it towards the Sand Lizard, who was slowly sinking inside the sandy ground.

Due to its injuries, the Sand Lizard wasn't able to avoid the spear and the shadow spear struck it right on its back.

After being struck by the spear, the twenty-meter-long lizard did not react and continued to sink into the ground as if it didn't care about such a small injury... But just when the lizard's entire body was about to disappear into the ground...

ROAR!

The lizard suddenly roared in pain and jumped out, rolling on the ground in agony.