Necromancer Of The Shadows

While Walter, Momon, and the others chased after the Wind and Lightning sheep who was carrying Evan, a man the size of a mosquito hid atop a tree within the forest.

The man's body was transparent as if he was invisible, and upon seeing Walter and the others flying away, he sighed in relief.

The small man had sharp elf-like ears and a handsome face which was still a bit stiff due to using a certain skill earlier.

After Walter and the others disappeared from his sight, the man immediately flew in the opposite direction.

Despite being the size of a mosquito, the speed at which the man flew was no lower than that of a normal beginner-level Rank Two Core Evolver.

The man who was running away was obviously Evan, and as for his body size, he changed it using Nekros's unique skill, Size Manipulation.

Just as this skill could increase body size, it could also be used in the opposite way; after all, the name of the skill was Size Manipulation, not Gigantification.

However, Evan didn't enjoy the feeling of reducing his size to that of a mosquito. After all, no one in their right mind would want to shrink their body size to that of a mosquito.

Moreover, reducing his body size was quite taxing; even using all of his world essence, he couldn't maintain this size for more than three minutes. And in order to hide his presence, he was even using the invisibility effect of the Shadow Walk skill, so this time was reduced even more.

Normally, Walter and Momon would have easily seen through the invisibility effect of Shadow Walk with their high spiritual power.

But because of the distraction Evan caused by using his shadow clone and reducing his size to that of a mosquito, he successfully hid himself from Walter and Momon.

As he fled, Evan even used Temporal Velocity to increase his agility because he knew that it wouldn't take long for Walter and Momon to catch his clone.

Once they caught his clone, they would immediately realize the truth and before they found out the truth, he wanted to get as far away as possible.

He could have used a Wind and Lightning sheep, which was a lot faster than him, but if he used a shadow undead, Walter and Momon would immediately notice it through their spiritual senses. So, the best course of action for him was to run using his own powers.

Evan ran for around one minute when he suddenly received a message from his clone, and the next second, he lost his connection with it.

'That was fast...' Evan thought inwardly when Walter caught his clone in just one minute.

Through the last location of his clone, he could tell that he was nearly fifteen thousand kilometres away from Walter and Momon and this distance was still within the range of their spiritual senses.

"I am about to run out of world essence..." Evan pushed his body to its limit as he tried to run even faster to increase the distance.

A few more seconds passed, and suddenly Evan felt two powerful spiritual senses spreading in the surroundings.

"They already realized it was a clone, huh..." Evan narrowed his eyes when he felt Momon and Walter's spiritual senses and hoped that the invisibility effect of the Shadow Walk skill, his small size, and the large distance between them would work, and Walter and Momon would not be able to find him.

The spiritual senses of the giant and the elf continued to spread outwards, and Evan sighed in relief when he noticed they were not trying to scan him.

"20 percent..." Evan looked at his remaining world essence and considering all the skills that he was using, he realized that he would run out of it in less than a minute.

He can use the Primordial Shadow Energy if he runs out of the world essence, but shadow energy is way more intense than the world essence, and the chances of Momon and Walter being able to feel the energy fluctuations of Primordial Shadow Energy are very high.

'It's good that they are using their spiritual senses without moving from their location. If they searched for me while moving in the direction I am running, it would have been impossible for me to run away from them...' Evan thought as he noticed he was just a few hundred kilometres away from getting out of the range of Momon and Walter's spiritual senses.

Just before he ran out of his World Essence, Evan successfully escaped from the range of their spiritual senses, and the moment he left the range, he immediately summoned a Wind and Lightning sheep who carried him on its back and bolted away from there.

Evan's body returned to its original size, and he glanced back with a pale face as the sheep continued to move away.

"That was fu*king dangerous..." Evan said in a tired voice as he realized how dangerous his situation would have been if he couldn't have escaped from Walter and Momon. Even with the help of his shadow undeads, his skills, and authorities, he would not have been able to beat them.

"It's all because my rank is too low..." Evan clenched his fists tightly as he realized his weakness.

If his rank was high enough, he could have created higher-

ranked shadow undeads. But because of the limitations of his rank, he can't create shadow undeads higher than the beginner-level rank two.

"Although my core is progressing at very fast speed, it is not enough. I need to reach the peak of Rank One as soon as possible so that I can create higher-level shadow undeads..." Evan said in a determined voice as his eyes glowed ominously.

Soon, he took a deep breath to calm down and started to recover his world essence.

"I just need to collect one more herb..." He said in a deep voice and looked at the far distance. "Let's finish this trial as soon as possible and get out of here."