Necromancer Of The Shadows

'What the fu*k is this place?' Evan thought to himself as he walked around the city with an astonished look on his face.

"Fresh purple dew grass for those who are seeking a vibrant escape. Quality purple dew grass, my friends! Quality purple dew grass! Come and take ten stalks of purple dew grass for the price of only one essence stone."

"Freshly harvested profound cherry fruits. Limited stocks---"

"Make your night more colourful. Buy this rising worm pill and you - - - -"

After entering the city, Evan noticed that people were selling strange things. Although the items people were selling were strange, what shocked Evan the most was not the items but the people who were selling them.

'Are these people monsters who took human forms?' Evan thought when he saw a man with wolf ears selling rising worm pills.

Other than the wolf eared man, he also noticed some people with the features of birds, some people with the features of dogs and many more. Other than them, he noticed a few humans as well and just like these people, they were also selling different kinds of things.

The only thing Evan saw in common with all of them was that they were all S Rankers.

'Is this some kind of market?' Evan thought as he moved around the city.

After wandering around the city for about an hour, Evan came across a café-like place and noticed that most of the people inside the café were actually humans.

'Should I go there to get some information?' Evan thought and hesitated a little. After wandering around the city, he learns that the currency the people here use is called Essence Stone and currently, he does not have any Essence Stone.

'With my current abilities doing a dine and dash should be a piece of cake' Evan said to himself after a moment and dropped a Soul Beacon far away from the cafe so that he could use Soul Beacon skill in order to perform a dine and dash act.

After dropping the Soul Beacon, Evan walked towards the café with a confident look on his face. When he opened the door, the bell hanging outside the café rang, making a cool and pleasant sound.

It was noon time so the cafe was mostly full. Evan looked around for a bit and finally found an empty seat.

After finding the seat Evan sat down and glanced at the people who were present in the cafe.

'All of these people are also S rankers' Evan thought and picked up the menu. He did not bother to look at the names of the dishes and directly decided to order the most expensive dish that was present on the menu.

'Since I am not going to pay, I might as well try the most expensive dish'

This is what Evan thought after looking at the menu.

Soon a male waiter who looks to be in his mid twenties came to take Evan's order.

"Two Inferno Harpy sandwiches please."

The hands of the waiter shook for a moment when he heard Evan's order and he nearly dropped the handbook he was holding.

Even the people who were sitting around Evan stopped eating and looked at him with their eyes wide open.

'Why are they looking at me like that?' Evan's expression remained indifferent on the outside but inside he started sweating buckets when he noticed the strange reactions of the people.

"Ri..right away. Please wait for a moment." The waiter finally came back to his senses after a few seconds and swiftly moved in the direction of the kitchen.

"Who is this guy?"

"I don't know. But since he ordered two inferno harpy sandwiches that cost two hundred essence stones he must be someone from the four great clans."

"Even people from the four great clans wouldn't spend two hundred essence stones on a meal."

"He's quite handsome, so he might be Moon Spider's boy toy."

"Shhhh! Keep your mouth shut, if anyone hears you'll lose your head."

'What the fu*k are these bastard talking about?' Evan was baffled when he heard people calling him a boy toy. Although they were talking in a very low voice, he was still able to hear them because of his excellent hearing.

'They just said something about four great clans. What the hell are these four great clans and most importantly...' Evan narrowed his eyes and rubbed his chin. 'Who is this moon spider?'

Evan continued to hear people's conversation while waiting for his order.

'It seems the sandwiches I ordered are not normal' He thought when the waiter did not bring his order even after twenty minutes.

Finally, half an hour later, Evan saw the waiter coming towards him with two medium size sandwiches. The sandwiches were dark red in colour and small particles of fire were swirling around them, giving them a unique look.

When the waiter placed the sandwiches in front of him and Evan looked at them more closely, he couldn't help but feel shocked.

'I can feel faint traces of conceptual energy coming out from these sandwiches.'

"Please enjoy your meal," The waiter left from there after placing the sandwiches.

The people who were present in the cafe were all looking at the sandwiches with eyes full of desire. Evan could feel their passionate gazes on the sandwiches but he did not care about them and picked up one sandwich.

After picking up the sandwich he took a bite from it and the moment he took a bite from the sandwich and its taste exploded into his mouth, Evan's eyes widened in disbelief.

'This taste... This taste is so fu*king ordinary' Evan thought with a baffled look on his face. The taste of the sandwich was actually similar to a normal chicken sandwich.

Just when he was about to show a middle finger to the chef of the cafe, some broken pieces of knowledge appeared in his mind.

Evan was stunned when felt this and tried to focus his mind on the pieces of knowledge that were coming into his mind.

After a few seconds, Evan sorted out the knowledge that appeared in his mind and he was quite shocked.

'This sandwich can actually help people understand the mysteries of the fire element and allows them to turn their world essence into the conceptual energy of fire' Evan thought inwardly and looked at the sandwich with a completely different look on his face.

He took another bite of the sandwich and fell into deep thought.

'Now that I look at these people closely, I can feel that similar to me, some of them also have a small amount of World Essence inside their bodies' Evan thought and glanced at the people who were sitting in the cafe from the corner of his eye. 'Since there are people with the world essence inside their bodies, I am sure there must be some Core Evolers as well in this place'

Evan gulped down the sandwich and started sweating.

'If there are really Core Evolvers in this place then it won't be easy for me to carry out my dine and dash plan.'

Evan looked at the people who were sitting around him and his eyes flashed.

Most of the people were still looking at his sandwich with greed filled eyes and many of them were definitely thinking about robbing his sandwich.

'It is time to start my real plan' Seeing their greed filled eyes Evan smirked inwardly and his eyes stopped on a middle aged man who was sitting alone just two tables away from him.