Necromancer Of The Shadows

Evan put the matter of the hidden dimension to the back of his mind for now, as he didn't have any solution to open it without causing irreversible damage to the earth.

Instead of focusing on the hidden dimension, he decided to investigate the S+ rank hunters because he felt there was something off about this rank.

Even in the books he read in the closed world of the Dryads, he had never encountered anything related to the S+ rank.

After reaching S rank, the only way to continue improving was to evolve one's core, either by entering the Tower of Ascension or by using the Source Pill.

Obviously, the Tower of Ascension could only be used by the people of the lower world, so the people of Utopia had to rely on the Source Pill to evolve their core and become Rank One Core Evolvers.

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"In that guy's memory, Valery was also one of the S+ rank hunters..." Evan muttered while rubbing his chin. "Should I meet her?"

He used the internet to see if he could find where Valery lived. Although he could scan the entire earth using his spiritual senses, it wasn't easy to search for a single person among the nearly four and a half billion people currently living on the planet.

Since Valery was quite famous, he soon found some clues about her whereabouts.

"Now that I have some clues about her location, it won't be difficult to find her using my spiritual senses..." Evan muttered and was about to close the holographic screen when he noticed something interesting.

"An S-rank dungeon breakout." He looked at the news and upon seeing that there was an S-rank dungeon breakout not far from Base City Three, built near the shore of the Pacific Ocean, he couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"A dungeon breakout doesn't happen overnight. If they had cleared the dungeon before the breakout, they could have easily avoided this situation..." Evan said to himself, feeling confused as to why they hadn't cleared the dungeon and had let the breakout happen.

If the dungeon had been in an isolated place where people couldn't monitor it, it would have been understandable for a breakout to occur. However, since the dungeon was just a little far from the base city, hunters must have been aware of it, but didn't clear it and let the monsters flood out of it.

"Well, they must have their reasons..." Evan shrugged, not caring too much about the matter.

The reason he even showed interest in the news was because he saw that the leader of the hunters handling the breakout was one of the S+ rank hunters.

He had been planning to meet Valery to learn more about this so-called S+ rank, but now that he knew the exact location of another S+ rank hunter, he decided to check him out first to see if there was anything amiss.

Although with his current strength it was almost impossible for anyone on earth to harm him, he was still a little cautious about the woman whom he suspected to be Valery, as it seemed too much of a coincidence that she had appeared on earth.

It was possible that she wasn't Valery but someone related to the black figure he had seen in his memories. So before meeting her, he decided to check out this S+ rank hunter first.

Using his high speed, it took Evan only a few seconds to reach the skies above the Pacific Ocean where Base City Three was located.

Base City Three was similar to Base City Five but larger in size. Evan ignored the fortress city below him, and his gaze landed on a location about twenty kilometres away from the base city, where many hunters were fighting against the ugly-looking black and purple monsters.

Seeing the monsters, Evan immediately understood why the hunters hadn't entered the dungeon to clear it, allowing the breakout to happen.

"Eldritch monsters, huh..." He muttered with narrowed eyes, keenly aware that since the Eldritch monsters had come out of the dungeon, the entire dungeon must be filled with Eldritch Energy, making it very difficult for hunters to enter the dungeon and clear it.

'I didn't expect to see Eldritch Monsters here,' Evan thought inwardly, recalling the true source of the Eldritch Energy that Azroth had spoken of in the Tomb of the Ancient.

"Although these monsters are difficult to deal with, the hunters made full preparations before the breakout, so it shouldn't be too hard for them to handle these monsters." freēnovelkiss.com

Evan's spiritual senses scanned the entire battlefield where the hunters were fighting the monsters, and soon, he found the person he was looking for.

At the edge of the battlefield, he saw a nearly two-meter-tall man with short spiky hair, green eyes, and a muscular build, clad in crimson armor.

The man was monitoring the battlefield and issuing commands to the hunters and the aura emanating from him was far stronger than that of the S-rank hunters.

"So that's Daniel, the S+ rank hunter," Evan muttered to himself, narrowing his eyes as he sensed something unusual about Daniel's body.

Although the power emanating from Daniel was almost comparable to a beginner-level Rank One Core Evolver, the power fluctuations Evan detected from him were a bit unstable.

If not for his high spiritual power, he might not have noticed the anomaly, but since his spiritual power was nearly equivalent to that of a Peak Rank Three Core Evolver, it was easy for him to detect the irregularity in Daniel's body.

"Logically speaking, the lifespan of an S-rank hunter is nearly 300 years, but this guy... Although his life force is strong, it's like a burning candle that is slowly melting."

According to Evan's estimates, the lifespan of the S+ rank hunter in front of him was no more than 80 or 90 years, which wasn't even one-third of an S-rank hunter's expected lifespan.

"As I suspected, there is definitely something wrong here," Evan muttered after noticing the anomaly and his spiritual senses enveloped Daniel's body.

Since Daniel's spiritual power was very low, he didn't even realize that Evan was using his spiritual senses to examine his body.

When Evan's spiritual senses enveloped Daniel and he sensed the condition of his core, he couldn't help but take a sharp breath because he realized that Daniel's core was siphoning off his lifeforce and burning it to produce power far greater than that of an S-rank hunter, turning him into so called S+ rank hunter.

The worst part was that Daniel's core was doing this silently, and he was completely unaware of his impending doom.

'Damn, now I'm one hundred percent sure there's something wrong with this S+ rank. The only question is, how did these guys become S+ rank hunters?' Evan frowned as he remembered that Valery was also an S+ rank hunter, which meant she was in the same situation as Daniel.

"It's highly possible that instead of natural advancement, someone actually helped them reach the S+ rank without informing them of the danger it poses," Evan said with a shake of his head and sighed.

He recalled the request he made to Leon earlier, and a serious look appeared on his face.

"I hope that guy fulfils my request. Otherwise, I'll have to take some serious action to solve the mystery of this place as soon as possible so that I can find a way back."