Necromancer Of The Shadows

Chapter 1075  I Shouldn't Have Left Them Alone (Part 1)

Earlier, when Evan saw Valery in Base City Five, he noticed some abnormalities in her core.

Similar to Daniel, her core was also at the S+ Rank, but unlike Daniel's core, which was consuming his life force to forcefully increase his power beyond S rank, Valery's core was in a natural state.

Although it seemed as if someone had forcefully increased the rank of her core beyond S rank, this alteration didn't negatively affect her in any way.

Initially, Evan was confused when he observed this and couldn't understand why she was not affected just like Daniel, but soon, he detected a faint aura of a Monarch Core emanating from her core.

The aura was very faint as if it was missing something crucial to fully develop into a Monarch Core, but even this faint aura had increased the limit of her core beyond S rank.

The reason Daniel's core was continuously absorbing his life force to maintain the rank of his core beyond S was due to the lack of World Essence on Earth.

Without World Essence, it is impossible for a core to surpass S rank. However, since someone had forcefully elevated the rank of Daniel and other hunters' cores beyond S, their cores began to absorb their life force to compensate for the lack of World Essence.

In Valery's case, her core didn't absorb her life force because the faint aura of the Monarch Core had enhanced the power of her core to the point that even without World Essence, just by using the mana, her core was able to maintain its power level at S+ Rank.

Although Evan was puzzled upon sensing the aura of a Monarch Core in Valery's core, he didn't have time to dwell on it because, shortly after noticing the aura, he discovered a strand of a soul hidden deep inside her core.

Moreover, this soul strand felt strangely familiar. It reminded him of the feeling he had when encountering Azroth's soul strand in his soul space while he was in the Tomb of the Ancient.

Of course, the comparison in power levels between these soul strands was vast; Azroth's soul strand was like a vast ocean, while the soul strand within Valery was like a small puddle of water by the roadside.

Upon seeing the soul strand, Evan realized that although Valery's core wasn't harming her, this soul strand was actually slowly absorbing her soul power and mana.

If it had only been mana, it wouldn't have been a problem, but the soul strand was gradually absorbing Valery's soul power, slowly consuming her soul and replacing her will with its own.

If the soul strand had successfully consumed all of Valery's soul power, it would have succeeded in taking over her body, replacing her soul.

The changes in Valery's appearance were also related to that soul strand. Her original light blue hair had turned silver-white, and her expressions were ice-cold due to the influence of the soul strand, which was gradually taking control of her body. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Initially, when Evan noticed the soul strand, he thought about destroying it using his spiritual power, but he refrained because the soul strand was inside Valery's core, and it was possible that sensing danger, it might have destroyed her core.

So, in order to lure the soul strand out of Valery's core, Evan brought her far away from Base City Five, where no one was around and displayed his killing intent towards her.

Since the soul strand was slowly consuming Valery's power, Evan was certain that upon sensing he was about to kill the person whose body it wanted to take over, it would definitely react... And just as he expected, the moment he was about to kill Valery, the soul strand left the core and used the control it had gained over Valery's body after absorbing her soul power to try to defeat him.

Evan was genuinely surprised by the full outburst of the soul strand's power at that time because he didn't expect it to unleash a force that was even threatening for a beginner-level Rank Two core evolver.

After witnessing its power, Evan guessed that the woman whose soul strand was in Valery's body must have been quite terrifying at her peak—perhaps she had been at the peak of Rank Six.

Although he couldn't understand how such a soul strand appeared in Valery's core, he couldn't care less about this matter for the time being because he was currently communicating with Elora about the last words the soul strand had said before it was swallowed by the Halberd of Destruction.

"Elora, don't refine her soul," Evan immediately said to Elora the moment the soul strand was absorbed by her.

"Huh?" Elora was stunned when she heard Evan and her nervous voice rang inside his head. "Father, that soul disappeared."

"Disappeared?" Evan raised an eyebrow when he heard Elora, but soon something clicked in his mind.

"Was it because it was just a soul strand, not a complete soul?" He asked in a low voice.

"Yes, the source of that soul strand was connected with this woman," Elora said as the tip of the Halberd pointed towards Valery on its own. "The moment it was swallowed by me, it lost its source power and turned into pure energy."

Evan fell silent upon hearing Elora, thinking over what had just happened as the events flashed through his mind.

"From the reaction of that soul strand, it seems that woman knew Azroth and was even beaten by him in the past..." He muttered to himself, looking at the Halberd in his hands. "Even the reaction she showed when I took out the Halberd of Destruction was not normal as if she was aware of its nature and was extremely afraid of it."

As Evan spoke, his gaze shifted towards Valery, who was lying unconscious on the top of the ice mountain.

"Maybe this dumb woman knows something about that soul strand," He said in a low voice and walked towards her.