Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Fu*king hell," Evan muttered as he lay on the ground without moving. The muscles of both of his hands were torn apart, and blood was oozing out of them without stopping. His face was completely pale white, and he was out of both world essence and spiritual energy.

Slowly, he looked sideways and saw Carnage lying some distance away from him. Smoke was coming out of its muzzle, but despite shooting an overloaded bullet that could even destroy a normal peak Rank one artefact, there wasn't even a scratch on it due to the indestructible effect of the Growth Link skill.

He lifted his head a little to look ahead and found, due to the recoil, he had slid nearly five hundred meters backwards.

"Elysia..." Evan called Elysia and looked towards the sky with a pondering look on his face.

Hearing Evan, Elysia came out of his shadow storage and started to heal him without him saying anything.

"The power of the bullet was higher than I expected..." He said to himself as he thought about how both of the Vampires turned into ash the moment they were hit by the fire bullet.

But when Evan thought about how the Vampires were weak against the fire element, he found it natural that both of the Vampires were not able to face the power of the bullet that was overcharged by 500 thousand souls.

Under Elysia's healing, Evan's torn muscles started to heal, and he slowly started to recover his world essence and spiritual energy.

"I think overcharging the bullet with five hundred thousand souls is my current limit. If I try to go beyond that, I don't think I would be able to control it with my current powers..." Evan said after a moment and sat down.

Earlier, he realized that it was very difficult for him to control the fire bullet that was overcharged by five hundred thousand souls.

Even though his current spiritual power is comparable to that of a normal Rank Two Core Evolver, he still ran out of it just because he had to control the fire bullet.

If he had used more than five hundred thousand souls to overcharge the bullet, he was sure that he wouldn't have been able to control it using his current spiritual power, and the bullet would have shot out of Carnage on its own in a random direction.

"Luckily, I didn't use one million souls to overcharge the bullet; otherwise..." Evan said with a sigh and noticed Elysia had healed both of his arms and was now healing the rest of his injuries that he received due to the recoil of firing the bullet.

While she was healing him, Evan suddenly felt something and looked ahead of him. When he looked ahead, he saw Carla coming in his direction.

He wasn't surprised when he saw her, as anyone would have noticed his location because of the loud sound that Carnage made when he fired the bullet. Moreover, Carla was a Rank Two Core Evolver, so finding him, who wasn't hiding his location, was quite easy for her.

"Are you all right?" Carla soon stopped some distance away from him and immediately asked upon seeing his blood-soaked body.

After Blake and the mid-level Rank Two Vampire turned into ash, she used her spiritual senses to look for the person who killed them and found Evan lying on the ground.

She was honestly quite shocked when she saw him and found out it was Evan who killed the Vampires because although she knew he was strong, she did not expect him to kill even a mid-level Rank Two Vampire despite being a mid-level Rank One Core Evolver.

"I am fine... It's just a little backlash because of using too much of my power," Evan said when he heard Carla and stood up from the ground.

Under Elysia's strong healing, all the injuries of his body had already recovered, and he just had to recover his world essence and spiritual energy to return to his peak condition.

Carla sighed in relief when she heard he was fine and bowed to him.

"Thank you for helping me. If not for you, I would have been in serious trouble," She said in a sincere voice.

"Don't worry about it; it was just a small problem," Evan said in a light voice and picked up Carnage from the ground.

Carla was speechless when she heard Evan and received emotional damage when he said it was just a small problem.

'They were beginner-level and mid-level Rank Two Vampires for God's sake. Even I don't have enough confidence facing a mid and beginner-level Rank Two Vampire at the same time, but this guy is saying it was just a small problem...' Carla screamed inwardly, feeling her mind going blank for a moment.

Evan didn't care about Carla's shocked expression and, after confirming Carnage was really not damaged, he put it back inside his shadow storage.

"Are you heading towards the second layer?" He asked after putting away Carnage.

"Yes," Carla nodded her head, hearing Evan.

Evan looked at the crystal that could track the locations of other Dryads and could also be used as a communication tool and noticed other than Carla, he couldn't see anyone else's location in it.

'Since I can't see their location, it means the distance between us is more than five million kilometres...' Evan said inwardly and shook his head.

In the outside world, these communication devices could easily be used even if people were hundreds of millions of distances away from each other, but in the Tomb Of The Ancient, the range of these devices was limited.

After seeing what happened with Carla, he was thinking about sending some of his Rank Two shadow undead to protect the other three Dryads who were just Rank One Core Evolvers, but since he can't track their locations using the crystal, it was impossible for him to send his shadow undeads.

'Well, considering their ranks, they will most likely stay in the third layer and they shouldn't encounter any danger as long as they stay cautious...' Evan said inwardly and put away the crystal.

The moment Evan put away the crystal, he received a message from team black and his expressions changed for a moment, but they returned to normal in an instant as if nothing had happened.

"Well, since you are out of danger, I will be going," Evan said and turned around to leave.

"Wait..." Seeing Evan was leaving, Carla stopped him and threw four storage rings towards him.

"These are the storage rings of the vampires that I killed before you came here. The storage rings of the vampires you killed were destroyed by the fire so..." Carla said with a shake of her head and didn't continue.

She was a little disappointed thinking about the rings that were destroyed by the fire, especially the ring of the mid-level Rank Two Vampire.

Evan caught the rings that Carla threw towards him and put them away with a nod of his head. He had no reason to reject the freebies.

After putting away the rings, he seemed to think about something and asked, "Do you need a ride to go to the second layer?"

"Huh?" Carla was taken aback when she heard Evan's question and looked at him in confusion.

Seeing Carla's confusion, Evan summoned a wind and lightning sheep and said in a light voice, "If you want, you can take it with you. Although it might not be as fast as you, you can save your energy if you travel using it."

Carla looked at the wind and lightning sheep and after thinking for a moment, she accepted Evan's offer without rejecting it. She already knew that Evan had more than five wind and lightning sheep, so she knew that it wouldn't affect him even if he gave her one shadow undead.

Seeing Carla accept the wind and lightning sheep, Evan smiled and turned around to leave.

"If you encounter danger, don't hesitate to use the sheep as bait to get away. I can easily summon it once again even if it gets destroyed," Evan advised before disappearing.

"Well... It's definitely a broken summoning skill if he can summon them back even after they get destroyed..." Carla muttered with a blank look on her face when she heard Evan and sat down at the back of the sheep. After sitting down, she pointed in the direction of the second layer, and the wind and lightning sheep bolted away from there.

From a distance, Evan watched Carla moving towards the second layer with a thoughtful look.

"An unusual gathering of people, huh..." Evan muttered, thinking about the news that he received from Team Black earlier.

"It seems something interesting is going on in the second layer..." He muttered with a small smile on his face and summoned another wind and lightning sheep.

After summoning the sheep, he sat down on its back and ordered it to head towards the location that he received from the team black.