Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Why are there so many people here?" Anastasia asked herself as she flew deeper into the Dark Forest.

Above the palm of her hand, a drop of deep red blood was floating. The blood was covered with a small black barrier, which prevented the aura of the blood from leaking out.

"The drop of blood is showing that he is somewhere in the Dark Forest, but for some reason, it can't determine his exact location..." Anastasia muttered as she looked at the drop of blood.

"It seems I will really have to meet that annoying bastard if I want to find Master," Anastasia said and placed the drop of blood back into her storage ring.

After putting away the drop of blood, she increased her flying speed and flew towards the central area of the Dark Forest.

While flying, she noticed thousands of people who were moving in the Dark Forest, as if all of them were looking for something.

"Just what the hell are these people searching for?" Anastasia muttered with a deep frown on her face and continued to fly forward.

As she was flying, she suddenly felt something and looked behind her. When she looked behind, she saw four people following her. All four people were male, and among them, one was a Beginner Level Rank Two Core Evolver, two were mid-level, and one was at the peak of Rank Two.

"It seems even after thousands of years, people still act like ignorant fools..." Anastasia said as she felt the naked lust of the four people following her.

The world essence inside her body moved, and she was about to kill all four of them, but suddenly, she thought about something and stopped.

"I should ask them why there are so many people in the Dark Forest before killing them," She muttered and stopped flying. In just a few seconds, the four people following her got close to her and stopped some distance away from her.

After stopping, all four of them looked at Anastasia's beautiful appearance and their eyes lit up. Because of transferring more than half of her power to her essence clone, the aura around Anastasia was a little chaotic, so the four people were not able to determine her rank.

The reason all four of them still decided to follow her even after not being able to determine her rank was because of the chaotic aura around her.

After feeling her chaotic aura, all four of them thought that Anastasia was seriously injured and it wouldn't be difficult for them to run away from her even if something happened.

"Miss, are you al_" The peak Rank Two Core Evolver of the group looked at Anastasia's body with shining eyes and tried to speak, but before he could finish speaking, he felt his world turn upside down.

The peak Rank Two Core Evolver was confused as to what happened, but suddenly, he started to fall down from the sky. While falling down, the evolver noticed his headless body still hovering in the sky beside the other three core evolvers.

Only after seeing the headless body did the peak Rank Two Core Evolver realize that he had been beheaded by someone. His head spun in the sky a few times and with a loud thud, it dropped to the ground.

When his head spun a few times, the peak Rank Two Core Evolver noticed Anastasia looking at him with an indifferent look on her face, and her left hand was stained with blood.

Before his mind could process all the things that he had seen in the last second, the vision of the peak Rank Two Core Evolver turned black and his life force completely disappeared.

His headless body, still hovering in the sky started to fall down and with a loud bang, dropped to the ground.

The three other core evolvers were still unaware of what just happened, and only after hearing the loud sound that the headless body created upon fall, did all of them come back to their senses.

The smile on their faces disappeared, and all of them looked at Anastasia with horror-filled eyes. Without thinking about anything, all three of them turned around and tried to run away. But before they could take even a single step forward, a mountain-like pressure came bearing down on them, and all three of them were smashed to the ground from the sky.

Anastasia also came down from the sky, and with a single move, beheaded both of the mid-level rank two core evolvers as well.

The beginner-level Rank Two core evolver was terrified to his bones seeing what happened to his companions and looked at Anastasia with horror-filled eyes.

Earlier, when he saw her, he felt as if she was an angel in a white dress, but now looking at her piercing black eyes, he felt as if he was looking at a devil. Anastasia didn't care how the beginner-

level core evolver was looking at her, and her black eyes glowed with a yellow light.

A faint image of a black dragon that was thousands of meters long appeared behind her, and she asked in a cold voice. "Speak, why are there so many people in the Dark Forest?"

When the core evolver saw the faint image of the black dragon behind Anastasia, his mind buzzed, and a deep fear that he had never felt during his entire life engulfed his body.

"W-we came here because of the bounty..." Because of the fear that the core evolver was feeling, he told Anastasia everything without concealing anything. He even told her about the secret realm and other things that he heard about.

"A beginner-level Rank One core evolver..." Anastasia's heart quickened when she heard that one of the people who stole the Enlightenment Stone was a beginner-level Rank One evolver.

'Master arrived in Utopia not long ago, so he should also be a beginner-level Rank One core evolver...' She thought and looked at the beginner-level Rank Two core evolver who was trembling in fear with a piercing gaze.

"Do you have the photo of the people who stole the Enlightenment Stone?" She asked in a voice filled with urgency.

"I-I have..." The beginner-level core evolver said in a trembling voice and took out a crystal from his storage ring. After taking out the crystal, he projected two images in front of Anastasia. One image was of Cedar, who was in the disguise of a brown-

skinned elf, meanwhile, the second image was of Evan when he left the Dark Forest along with him.

Seeing Evan's image, Anastasia's eyes opened wide in shock, and she muttered while trying to touch the holographic image with her hand.

"Found you!"