Necromancer of The Shadows

Using the invisibility effect of Shadow Walk, Evan's clone easily arrived in the underground basement of the Federation building.

As he walked through the basement, even Evan was surprised by the numerous formations and barriers designed to protect the area. However, all of these barriers and formations were useless in front of him and without alerting anyone, he finally passed through all the barriers and arrived in a slightly open area of the basement.

The open area of the basement was filled with iron shelves, each holding various strange items.

Evan took a look around and found that most of the items on shelves were high-end, rare materials extracted from monsters, such as the horn of an S-rank monster which could be used to create a high-level artifact.

There were also rare herbs, ranging from B to S rank, placed in glass cases to preserve their medicinal properties, as well as potions, pills, skill scrolls, and other artefacts.

All in all, the area looked like the Federation's treasury. If anyone else besides Evan, including an S+ Rank hunter came here, they would definitely be shocked by the abundance of valuable items. However, when Evan looked at them, his eyes remained indifferent because none of these things were of any use to him.

After taking a brief look around, he spread his spiritual senses and tried to locate the portal that Valery had mentioned. However, once just like before, he once again found nothing.

Evan's expression didn't change when he wasn't able to find the portal as he had already anticipated this.

His shadow flickered slightly, and suddenly, Eclipse, Kazil, and a few other shadow undeads who were skilled at hiding appeared.

Once the shadow undeads appeared, they didn't need Evan to say anything; they already knew what they had to do and silently dispersed, searching the basement.

Evan also moved deeper into the basement and discovered that it was far larger than he had expected, covering nearly ten square kilometres.

"The concentration of mana in this place is normal and it doesn't seem like there is a dungeon anywhere near this area..." Evan muttered with a frown on his face as he ventured further into the basement.

The chaotic energy of a dungeon usually causes the surrounding mana to be in great turmoil, but upon sensing the mana in the underground basement, Evan didn't detect anything unusual, which made him wonder if something had happened to the dungeon Valery had talked about.

While Evan continued his search for the dungeon, his shadow undeads were also carefully searching other directions, trying to find any concealed formations or hidden objects in the surroundings.

Evan had only been walking for about five minutes when suddenly, he sensed something and his gaze shifted toward one of the iron shelves not far from him.

"What's there..." He muttered quietly, walking toward the shelf as he felt something calling to him.

Soon, Evan arrived in front of the iron shelf and saw a glass box containing a small purple-coloured orb, which seemed to be made from a monster's bone.

The orb was just five centimetres in diameter, with some small, strange lines engraved on one-fourth of its surface. There was nothing visibly special about it—no energy fluctuations or light emanated from the orb, as if it were an ordinary object.

But when Evan looked at the ordinary-looking orb, particularly the part covered in strange lines, he felt an inexplicable urge to pick it up and devour it as if something inside him wanted to consume the orb.

"Is this orb a monster core?" Evan wondered aloud because until now, the only thing that had given him this kind of feeling was monster cores when he was a low-level hunter.

When he had just awakened his Monarch Physique a few years ago, he would often feel the urge to devour cores whenever he saw them because they could increase his strength. This small orb was giving him the same sensation.

Sensing that this item might be useful to him, Evan didn't hesitate and after confirming there were no formations around the glass box that would alert anyone, he lightly tapped the glass.

Crack... Crack... Crack!

Cracks spread across the glass box, and it instantly shattered into small fragments. Evan looked down at the small orb lying among the shattered glass and picked it up.

Because Evan and his clone were connected, the moment his clone picked up the orb, the real Evan felt a strong urge to summon his clone back and consume the small orb. However, since he was still engaged in a conversation with Boris and the others, he suppressed his urge and first tried to examine the orb to understand what it was.

As Evan's clone inspected the small orb in his hand, a series of transparent texts appeared before him, revealing the orb's information:

---) Fragment of The Origin Rune Essence: One of the four fragments of a broken Origin Rune Essence. Gathering all four Origin Rune Essence fragments can form a complete Origin Rune Essence. The complete Origin Rune Essence can be used to evolve a Primordial Rune into an Origin Rune.

Typically, the expression of Evan's clone remained indifferent all the time, but when he saw the information about the small orb he was holding, his eyes widened in shock.

"Something that can evolve a Primordial Rune into an Origin Rune..." He muttered in a shocked voice, instantly thinking of the Rune of Evolution.

When Evan had met Azroth in the Tomb of the Ancient, Azroth had told him that the Rune of Evolution was one of the strongest Primordial Runes, and the information from the small orb indicated that it could evolve a Primordial Rune into an Origin Rune.

"If I can gather all four parts of this Origin Rune Essence..." Evan muttered quietly, his eyes beginning to shine with anticipation.

Just as he was thinking about the Origin Rune Essence, he received a message from Eclipse and his lips curved upwards

."Found it."

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