Necromancer Of The Shadows

Thud -!

The giant body of the sand serpent fall to the ground and Evan sat down on its head while exhaling a deep breath.

'Sand serpents is just an above average B+ rank monster, but it still took some effort for me to kill it. If I consider all the things my power should be around the peak of B+ rank' Evan stood up and looked at the dead serpent. 

'Once my prime core also advanced to C rank, I shouldn't have any problem dealing with any B+ rank monster' Evan thought and smiled a little. 

He was quite pleased with his current power, especially with his spiritual strength. 

Earlier he used mind suppression on the sand serpent, and the result was surprising. 

Previously his spiritual power was even weaker than a D rank hamster, but now it is already on par or even higher than a B+ rank monster. 

'I wonder what was the thing that I absorbed after passing out that made my soul so powerful' Evan thought while drinking a healing potion to stop the bleeding of his shoulder.

'I should create a shadow undead that can use healing magic, it will be very helpful for me' Evan thought and jumped down from the head of the serpent.

"Eclipse," Evan called Eclipse and asked it to look for the core.

With its sharp claw, it was quite easy for it to slash the scales of the serpent and look for the core.

After one minute Eclipse took out a core and handed it to Evan who put it inside his shadow storage.

" Now" after putting away the core Evan looked at the serpent and smiled.

"Shadow Resurrection" Evan used shadow resurrection skill, he felt shadow energy coming out from his monarch core and going into the body of the sand serpent.

He carefully looked at how much energy was being used since the last time he wasn't able to pay attention to it.

'The energy consumption is not much' Evan thought after seeing his monarch core was still full of shadow energy.

Now his shadow energy is at C rank and he can use it to create a large amount of shadow undead before it runs out.

The shadow resurrection did not fail and soon a black serpent rose in front of him. 

Seeing the serpent Evan was pleased since it will be quite useful for him in this desert. 

Evan used shadow storage and put away the body of the sand serpent to sell it later. 

Then he once again set down on Eclipse's back. 

"Move through the underground, and bring out any monster who is hiding to ambush us" Evan said to the serpent who immediately dove inside the ground. 

Eclipse also started to move forward while Nekros and Aqua followed from behind. 

Evan used share senses and saw the sand serpent moving underground just a little far away from them. 

Suddenly through the sand serpent, he saw a worm like monster who was hiding within the ground waiting for prey. 

"Sandworm" Evan recognized the monster and saw the sand serpent rushing towards it. 

The sandworm was startled after seeing a black-coloured serpent coming toward it because it never saw a serpent like this before. 

Boom-! 

  Suddenly some distance away from Evan, sand burst forth and the serpent came out from the ground along with the sandworm.

The sandworm was also a B+ rank monster, and its fighting power was similar to the sand serpent. 

Both of them were attacking each other trying to gain advantage. 

But it was clear that the sandworm was having difficulty because sand serpent can completely ignore the injuries but worm can't. 

But Evan doesn't want to waste too much time so he signaled Aqua to help the sand serpent. 

Aqua opened its mouth and used one of its skills 'Hydro Cannon' 

A concentrated beam of pressurized water with tremendous force came out from its mouth going straight towards the sandworm.

Some sand dunes that came in the way of the beam were blasted away as the beam directly struck the sandworm. 

The worm was thrown away from the sand serpent as a large hole appeared on its body and red blood gushed out. 

The sand serpent took advantage of it and shot a sand vortex towards the worm who wasn't able to avoid it. 

Soon the sandworm died and Evan moved toward its body while still sitting on Eclipse's back. 

He looked for the core but didn't find anything. 

After not finding the core Evan used shadow resurrection once again and a black sandworm appeared in front of him. 

Even though he can only save five shadow undead, there is no limit to how many shadow undead he can create. 

The shadow undead which are not saved will disappear in one hour but Evan did not care about it. 

"Now let's create my temporary army," Evan said and Eclipse once again moved forward.

Shadow Sandworm and Serpent once again went into the underground keeping an eye on other monsters.

Five hours later...

Hiss-!!

Around ten poison sand scorpions hissed in painful voices as their face was filled with despair.

Black coloured sand serpents, sand worms, desert crawlers, sun fire cacti and many different kinds of monsters attacked on them at the same time.

There were around thirty black coloured monsters who were attacking at the group of the scorpions.

Poison sand scorpions are one of the most dangerous predators of the VWD desert.

Because of being able to use poison and sand element at the same time, they are more powerful than the monsters who are at the same rank as them.

Most of the time, if a team of hunter encounter a group of sand scorpions they can just run away from them because dealing with them is not easy.

But in front of those thirty black coloured monsters, the group of sand scorpions was not able to last long before all of them were bombarded to death by different kinds of attacks.

"It ended earlier than I expected" Evan muttered and walked towards the dead group of the scorpions.

He first looked for the cores and found three cores. One B+ rank and two B rank from the ten scorpions.

Suddenly Evan saw one of the sandworms who was standing near him disappear.

"Its one hour is over huh" Evan muttered but did not care about the worm who disappeared.

He looked at the ten poison sand scorpions and used shadow resurrection.

Soon seven black scorpions rose in front of him while three failed. Evan once again used shadow resurrection on the remaining three scorpions and successfully tuned them into shadow undead as well.

"Let's move forward" Evan nodded his head in satisfaction and sat down on Eclipse's back once again.

A small army of thirty nine shadow undead stood behind him as he once again started to move.

Hummm~~~ 

Just as Evan started to move he heard a mesmerizing voice and his eyes turned hazy.