Necromancer Of The Shadows

"Now this sh*t is getting on my nerves..." Evan's irritated voice resounded in a completely dark space where not even a speck of light could be seen. He was sitting on the ground with an emotionless look on his face, but the aura emanating from his body was screaming that he was royally pissed.

"I think it's been more than eight hours already," Evan said to himself as he calculated the time he had been trapped in the dark space.

After being teleported away from the reward room, he found himself in this dark space. At first, he was on very high alert as, according to the voice he heard inside his head, it was the last trial, and he thought it would be quite dangerous. But even after waiting for one hour, nothing happened.

Evan was quite confused because of this situation, so he started to explore the dark space, but to his disappointment, even after looking around for more than three hours, he did not find anything.

It was as if he was thrown inside an endless world filled with nothing else but darkness.

After not finding anything even after hours of searching, Evan sent some of his shadow undeads to look around, and the result was the same and even his shadow undeads didn't find anything.

"According to the voice, I should have been teleported to the place of the last trial, so what the fu*k is going on here?" Evan grumbled in annoyance, getting irritated because of not being able to understand his situation.

He took deep breaths to calm down his nerves and closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes and exhaled deeply.

"I just hope I won't be trapped in this shitty place for a long time as I still want to explore other places of the tomb..." Evan said with a sigh and took out a storage ring from his pocket.

The storage ring he took out was the ring that he received in the reward room and despite being trapped inside the dark space for more than eight hours already, he hadn't checked out its contents because he was focused on finding a way to leave the place.

"Let's hope the things inside the ring will improve my mood and compensate me for the time I am wasting here," Evan said and looked inside the ring using his spiritual senses.

Upon looking inside the ring, Evan was taken aback because he was expecting the ring to be filled to the brim with rare things, but there were only three things inside it.

"Ha! I just hope these three things are not useless..." Evan said while looking at a wooden chest, a small transparent glass ball flickering with purple light, and a dusty paper that looked like a map.

Using his spiritual senses, Evan first took out the wooden chest from the ring.

"It looks like a treasure chest," Evan said with a weird look on his face as he looked at the silver-coloured chest in front of him. Upon closer inspection, he noticed two runes engraved on the front side of the chest, both of which looked quite complex.

Evan touched the chest and tried to open it, but to his surprise, the chest was locked and he couldn't open it.

Evan raised an eyebrow when he wasn't able to open the chest, and before he could do anything further, the information about the chest flashed in front of his eyes.

---) Ancient Alchemy Chest: A chest that can only be opened by using Ancient Alchemy. If you try to forcefully open the chest, the chest and the things inside it will self-destruct.

"Ancient Alchemy again..." Evan narrowed his eyes when he saw the information about the chest and rubbed his chin.

Just an hour ago, he had asked Amara if she found anything about Ancient Alchemy through the books, but she said it would take her a few days to understand the content of the books as there were hundreds of books and she first had to sort them out.

"So this chest is useless to me until Amara learns something about Ancient Alchemy, huh," Evan said with a twitching mouth and his mood turned even worse.

He looked at the two other things inside the ring and took a deep breath.

"I swear if these two also turn out to be something similar to this chest that I can't use, I will definitely beat the sh*t out of the person who placed these things inside the ring..." Evan said in a venomous voice as if he were talking about his worst enemy and took out the glass ball, which was five centimetres in diameter.

The moment he took out the glass ball, the entire dark place flashed with deep purple light for a second, forcing Evan to close his eyes.

After a second, when he opened his eyes and saw the information about the glass ball, Evan's eyes opened wide in shock.

---) Destruction Lightning Ball (Mid-Level Rank Three): A lethal artefact that can shoot destructive lightning projectiles with a piercing effect.

"Th-this_" Looking at the rank of the small glass ball, Evan stuttered a little and his breathing became heavy.

Just a few hours ago, he was feeling disappointed because of getting a Rank Four cauldron instead of something useful, so receiving a Rank Three artefact that he could use was making him very excited.

He felt the power emitting from the small destruction lightning ball, and his body shuddered because of the heavy aura around it.

Evan immediately wanted to try the power of the lightning ball, but he knew that in his current situation trying out the power of a mid-level Rank Three artifact was sheer foolishness.

He was sure that even by using all of his world essence, he wouldn't be able to use even ten percent of the artefact's power. Moreover, he was still unaware of his current situation, so he needed to preserve his world essence just in case someone attacked him.

"Damn, I really want to get out of here and try this baby..." Evan said and looked at the dark space around him with irritated eyes.

After a few seconds, he shook his head and put down the lightning ball.

After putting down the rank three artefact, he looked at the last thing that was inside the ring.

"Let's hope this thing is also something awesome," Evan said in a low voice and took out the dusty paper from the ring.