Necromancer Of The Shadows

'Damn, what the hell is wrong with my luck? I did not sign up for this sh*t...' Evan cursed inwardly as he looked at the black metal cage in front of him.

Inside the cage, there was a one-meter-tall grey creature. The creature was entirely made of stone, with cracks running all over its body, including its face, hands, and legs, making it look like a cracked stone statue.

If it weren't for the two round eyes on its face that were constantly blinking, Evan would have thought it was just a broken stone statue trapped in a cage.

The small creature trapped inside the cage was obviously a stone man and upon seeing it, Evan immediately remembered the conversation he had overheard in the Fragile End.

'Don't tell me the Stone Tribe is attacking everyone because this guy was kidnapped by someone...' He thought, feeling a headache.

He knew that the Forbidden Land was a strange place where people would be thrown to a random location upon entering, but he never thought he would end up in a place like this.

Just by looking at the stone man, it wasn't difficult for Evan to guess that it was beaten and kidnapped by someone, and since he appeared in front of the stone man, there was a very high chance the people who kidnapped him were nearby.

'I should fu*king leave before trouble comes looking for me...' Evan thought to himself and was about to flee. Unfortunately, it wasn't his day, and as soon as he thought about running away, three individuals suddenly surrounded him.

The sandstorm raged and the fierce wind, filled with sharp sand particles moved forward like a tsunami. Evan stood in the middle of the sandstorm, surrounded by three individuals and rubbed his forehead.

'I should have seen a fortune teller before leaving the closed world of Dryads,' He took a deep breath and looked at the three individuals who were eyeing him suspiciously.

"Who are you?" A six-foot-tall creature with green skin, yellow dots all over its body and the head of a lizard asked in a cold voice. A long tail extended from his back, and he held a sharp spear in his claw-like hands.

'A lizardman,' Evan recognized the creature and narrowed his eyes. He looked at the other two individuals and saw that one was a Beastkin with tiger-like features, and the last one was an elf.

'I can't perceive their ranks...' The main problem Evan was facing was that, like him, the three individuals were using some kind of artefact to hide their ranks, so he wasn't sure about their power levels.

'Let's test the waters first...' He took a deep breath and was about to speak, but before he could...

"Please sa-save me," The stone man trapped in the black cage said in a weak voice.

Evan's face turned ugly when he heard the stone man and he noticed the expressions of the Lizardman and the others turned extremely cold towards him.

The only reason the Lizardman and the others hadn't attacked Evan was that, like him, they also couldn't see his rank.

Feeling the murderous aura coming from the Lizardman and the others, Evan felt like killing the Stone Man. But he tried to stay calm.

"Look, I don't have any intentions of meddling in your business. I came here by accident, so I would appreciate it if you stopped releasing your killing intent towards me and we can all go our own ways," He said in a calm voice, neither sounding nervous, which would make him look weak, nor arrogant, which would infuriate the Lizardman and others.

Seeing Evan's calm demeanour, the three individuals narrowed their eyes.

'Boss, we can't let him leave. If we let him go and he informs others about us, we will be in trouble,' The Beastkin with tiger features sent a sound transmission to the Lizardman and the elf.

'He is right, boss. Once the Stone Tribe finds out about us, we will be hunted down by them,' The elf also agreed with the Beastkin and said in a serious voice.

Hearing his minions, the Lizardman didn't speak and looked at Evan with a thoughtful expression.

Although they weren't saying anything, their expressions told Evan they were using sound transmission to communicate.

'It doesn't look like this matter is going to end easily,' he thought to himself and activated the Reality Mirror, creating a field that covered the Lizardman and the others.

The moment the field covered them, the artefacts that were hiding their ranks stopped working, and Evan was able to discern their ranks.

(A/N: Just to clarify, the person who activates the Reality Mirror won't be affected by it, so Evan's Abyssal Shroud is still working.)

'The Lizardman is a mid-level Rank Four, the elf is a beginner-level Rank Four, and the Beastkin is at the peak of Rank Three,' Evan sighed inwardly, feeling that the Forbidden Land was really a dangerous place.

It's rare to see even a single Rank Four Core Evolver outside, but he had encountered two of them the moment he entered the Forbidden Land.

'Fortunately, they are not Rank Five and I can still handle them,' He thought and sighed in relief.

Similar to how Evan couldn't sense the effect of the Reality Mirror when it affected his Abyssal Shroud, the Lizardman and the others were the same and didn't realize that Evan already knew their ranks.

'Boss, what are you thinking about? Let's kill him and change our location. If he was a Rank Five Core Evolver, he wouldn't have acted like this and would have attacked us long ago,' The Beastkin said seriously as he tightly held his axe.

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When the Lizardman heard the Beastkin, his eyes flashed and he thought the Beastkin was right. Although the Forbidden Land was filled with many high-ranking Core Evolvers, Rank Five people were still rare, and they usually didn't behave timidly like Evan.

''So, can I go?'' Although Evan already knew their ranks, he still wanted to avoid conflict if possible, so he asked again.

'You are right. Let's kill him and change our position, but be careful. If you find anything strange, just run away. Our life is more important,' The Lizardman sent his voice transmission and took a deep breath.

The moment the Lizardman sent the message, the Beastkin's eyes flashed with a beastly light, and he instantly dashed towards Evan.

Evan was already prepared for the sudden attack, so the moment the Beastkin dashed towards him...

"Elora," His eyes turned cold and he called out softly.

The moment he spoke, a jet black halberd, glowing with a golden aura of destruction appeared in his left hand.

He quickly turned his body to the left side and swung the halberd with all his strength.

At the same time, he poured his Primordial Shadow Energy into it, making the power of destruction within the Halberd even stronger.

Seeing the jet-black halberd coming towards him, the Beastkin felt a deep sense of crisis and used his axe to meet the halberd.

The sharp blade of the halberd collided against the heavy blade of the axe, and the next second...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

A gigantic explosion blasted away the sandstorm from the surrounding area, and the ground cracked open within a radius of hundreds of kilometres.

Evan felt an immense force transmitted to his body through the halberd, and he was blasted hundreds of meters away. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

Although he was blasted away, Evan regained control of his body mid-air due to the halberd that had absorbed most of the force and he safely landed a few hundred meters away.

The Beastkin, on the other hand, slid only a few meters backwards, but his expression was filled with fear as he looked at the blade of his axe.

On the blade of his axe, golden lines, similar to veins, were spreading rapidly and before the Beastkin could do anything...

Crack... Crack... Crack!

The cracking sound echoed throughout the surroundings, and the mid-level Rank Three axe shattered into small pieces.