Necromancer Of The Shadows

598 Death Lich Emperor (Part 1)

Outside Silverwind Town, Two days after the Battle of Astrate City...

The land that was filled with the blood and flesh of demons and monsters returned to normal. Evan was still hovering a few meters above the ground and the devouring vines were sucking out the last drops of blood left on the ground.

A few seconds later, Evan cancelled the Energy Devouring skill and took a deep breath. He looked at the progress of his Monarch Core And nodded his head in satisfaction.

"Sixty-three percent, not bad," After absorbing the entire blood pool that formed after the death of Monsters and Demons, his Monarch Core progressed to 63% of the A rank and was now one step closer to S rank.

He released his shadow undeads after absorbing the entire blood pool and ordered them to collect the cores of the monsters that were scattered all over the place.

While his shadow undeads were collecting the cores, he looked around him and noticed the entire Silverwind Town turned into ruins. There was not a single building or house in the town that was still fine.

Even the wilderness outside Silverwind Town was in complete disarray. Due to the way he used his gravity manipulation skill, the land in an area of a few hundred kilometres was completely destroyed.

At many places, the ground caved in and deep trenches were formed at many places. Trees and rocks had already turned to dust and there was no sign of life in an area of a few hundred kilometers.

After half an hour, the shadow undeads collected all the cores of the monsters that were scattered in the area.

Looking at the cores inside his shadow storage, Evan thought about the things he had learned from his dreams.

This time, from the dreams he had, he learned that when absorbing a core using his Monarch Core, he can only receive skills from the core if the rank of the core he is absorbing is the same as the rank of his Monarch Core or greater than it.

After knowing this when Evan thought about all the skills that he had received till now after absorbing the cores, he found that this was completely true because he had never received skills from the cores that were lower than the rank of his Monarch Core.

"Now that my Monarch Core is at A rank, I will need to absorb A rank, A+ rank or S rank cores if I want to receive skills while absorbing the cores," Evan muttered and shook his head.

Although he had killed hundreds of thousands of Monsters in the past few months, the number of A and A+ rank cores he had did not exceed two hundred. Even if he absorbed all the A and A+ ranked cores he had, his chances of gaining many skills were not high.

"Let's go back and see what the situation is out there," Evan said and flew away from there.

While flying back towards Naphliam City, he used his shadow senses and contacted Elysia.

"Where are you?"

"Master, I will reach Naphliam City in one hour," Elysia replied hearing Evan.

"Alright, wait for me after reaching there. I am also coming back to Naphliam City," Evan said and stopped using shadow senses skill. 

Elysia already told him about the fight that had happened in Astrate City two days ago. After knowing his shadow undeads defeated the army of Demons and Monsters, he was honestly very surprised.

He knew his shadow undeads would give a tough fight to Demons and Monsters, but he didn't expect them to completely wipe them out. Although he understands the biggest reason they were able to win was because of the advantage that his Shadow Undeads had against the Blood Demons and the help that Hunters provided, Evan still felt quite good knowing his shadow undeads were able to win against such a big army without his help.

"Seems like my shadow undeads are stronger than I thought," Evan said to himself and used the gravity manipulation skill that he took from Adam.

After using the Gravity Manipulation skill, he closely monitored mana flow in his energy veins. Evan wanted to learn the Gravity Manipulation skill just like how he had learned the Ice Spear skill. 

But learning the Gravity Manipulation skill was thousands of times more difficult than the ice spear skill.

He was currently able to use the Gravity Manipulation skill because of the effect of the Growth Link skill. But If he wanted to learn and use the Gravity Manipulation skill without the growth link skill, he would have to properly channel the mana through the required energy veins.

He studied the mana flow of gravity manipulation skill while absorbing the blood of Monsters and Demons and noticed that in order to learn the gravity manipulation skill, he would have to make the mana flow through more than fifty thousand energy veins. During this entire process, if he made even a single mistake his energy veins would be destroyed and he would have to use the Death Transfer skill to heal his energy veins.

"Although I can learn the mana flow of different kinds of skills because of the growth link skill, I can't replicate them with my current understanding," Evan sighed and continued to look at the Mana Flow of the Gravity Manipulation skill while flying towards the Naphliam City.

Although it was impossible for the current him to properly make his mana flow through more than fifty thousand energy veins on his own, he still wanted to engrave the mana path into his mind so that he could learn Gravity Manipulation skill in the future.

"I wonder what kind of face the guy I saw in my dream would have made if he knew I could learn the mana flow of new skills without any efforts using the growth link skill," Evan said in a strange voice and felt pity for the guy he had seen his dreams. In order to learn new skills that guy had to find the mana flow of different skills on his own but he could learn the mana flows of new skills just by using the second effect of the growth link skill.

Around one and a half hours later, Evan arrived outside of Naphliam City. When he arrived there, Elysia was already waiting for him outside of the city.

"Master," Seeing Evan, Elysia immediately flew towards him.

Evan nodded his head seeing Elysia and smiled.

"You guys did a great job in the fight," He said after Elysia stopped in front of him.

"They were just some puny demons. How could I lose against them," Elysia said in a smug voice and puffed out her chest.

Evan shook his head seeing Elysia's childlike behaviour and smiled lightly.

"So, where is that thing you told me about?" He asked after a moment.

Hearing Evan, Elysia's storage ring flashed and she took out a black book with a skeleton skull engraved on it. It was the same book that she received after clearing the ruins of Skeleton Graveyard Dungeon.

Evan took the book from Elysia and looked at its details. The book was a skill book so when Evan looked at its details, the details of skill appeared in front of him.

---)Summon Lich: Using your energy as a medium, you can create a magic circle and summon a Skeleton Lich similar to your rank to serve you for ten minutes. Cool down time: Two hours.