Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Damn it, I can't even sleep..." Evan groaned in pain and took out a painkiller potion from his shadow storage. The pain in his soul was continuously increasing and he was going mad because of it.

The pain he was feeling reduced a lot after taking pain killer potion, but its effect didn't last long and just after ten minutes he once again started to feel pain.

"I need something to distract myself" Evan muttered, feeling he would go insane if he didn't find anything to distract himself.

It had been two hours since he left for the city of Naphliam and these two hours were the worst torture of his life. Although he already knew that the injuries of souls were the most troublesome to deal with, he did not expect it to be so serious.

He looked inside his shadow storage to find something to distract himself.

"I can't turn Amara and Volac into shadow undeads for the time being as my shadow energy is still recovering..." Evan said while looking at Amara and Volac's dead bodies.

"I have enough cores and bodies to push my prime core to S rank but...." Evan furrowed his eyebrows thinking about the rank of his Prime Core.

He wanted to advance his it to S rank, but he was hesitating because of his monarch core.

His Monarch Core was still at A rank and if the rank of his Prime Core exceeded his Monarch Core, his Prime Core would immediately become unstable.

Until now he was able to increase the rank of his Prime Core without any worries because most of the time his Monarch Core was always ranked higher than his Prime Core.

But currently, things are different.

If he increases the rank of his Prime Core it will reach S rank, surpassing the rank of his Monarch Core.

The moment it surpasses the rank of his Monarch Core, his Prime Core will definitely become unstable, just like what happened when it advanced to A rank.

When his Prime Core reached A rank, his Monarch Core was at B rank. At that time his unstable A rank Prime Core didn't affect him much, but he couldn't be careless in his current condition.

His soul is already damaged and if he increases the rank of his Prime Core, he will have to deal with its instability while taking care of his damaged soul.

"Instead of Prime Core, I should focus on increasing the rank of Monarch Core first..." Evan decided after some time and took out the body of an A rank monster from his shadow storage.

He used Energy Devouring on the body and started to refine its energy through his Monarch Core. When Evan absorbed the energy through his Monarch Core, the pain he was feeling in his soul subsided slightly.

Evan's eyes immediately lit up when the pain he was feeling decreased a little and he sighed in relief.

Although his soul was not healing as he was refining the energy through his Monarch Core instead of his soul, he still felt relieved that he could at least get rid of pain while absorbing the energy.

As the pain he was feeling decreased while absorbing the energy, Evan took out Amara's storage ring.

While still absorbing the energy, he connected the ring with himself and looked inside it.

When he looked inside the ring, his eyes shined like stars. Amara was not proficient in fighting so there was no high class weapon or anything inside her ring. But the things that he saw were enough to make anyone drool.

There were hundreds of high level potions and alchemy materials inside her ring. All the potions had different kinds of effects and could help him in a crucial moment.

"I will give back these alchemy materials to Amara after turning her into a shadow undead so that she can refine them for me..." Evan muttered when he saw he was not able to recognise most of the herbs that were inside the ring.

Other than potions, there were different kinds of Chrams as well. The charms that were inside Amara's ring were higher level than the Charms that he found in Olivia's ring. Without any hesitation, he put away all the Charms in his shadow storage. Although he did not use many of the Charms that he got from Olivia because of his high power, he was not going to say no to free items that might help him in a crucial moment.

After Charms, Evan found some research papers but he did not bother to look at them. Instead of reading those papers, he decides to just ask Amara about her research after turning her into a shadow undead.

There were many Escape Scrolls as well in her storage ring and Evan happily put them away in his shadow storage as well.

The most powerful Escape Scroll that he found in her storage ring could teleport him three thousand kilometres away in an instant.

"It's a good thing I got Sonic Bats' Shadow Undeads that can prevent my enemies from using the Escape Scrolls.." Evan muttered to himself after putting away the Escape Scrolls.

There were some formation plates as well in the storage ring but Evan was completely clueless about their usage. He put them away and decided to ask Amara about them later on.

After the formation plates, Even did not find anything useful in her storage ring. He was about to put away her ring when a strange purple-coloured formation plate that was different from other formation plates caught his eye.

He took out the purple-coloured formation plate and its details appeared in front of him.

----) Moon Howling Army Formation: --

Evan read the details of Moon howling army formation and his eyes lit up.

"All of my shadow undeads are A+ rank and S rank if they use this Moon Howling Army Formation..." Evan said to himself and gulped down his saliva. "I am sure even in my best condition I will not be able to defeat them if they use this formation."

Evan was very excited after seeing the details of the formation and wanted to try it immediately but he knew it was not the time for that.

He put away Amara's storage ring and took out Volac's ring. He was still absorbing the bodies of the monsters using the energy-devouring skill and was slowly increasing the rank of his Monarch Core.

Time continued to pass by and Evan's Monarch Core was steadily approaching S rank. Just like this, twenty hours passed by in a blink of an eye and Evan was about to reach Naphliam City.