Necromancer Of The Shadows - Chapter 1017

Chapter 1017: How Is This Possible? (Part 1)
As Evan and Anastasia followed Searoth deep into the cave, the temperature of their surroundings continued to increase.

While walking, they were moving in a downward direction, indicating they were going underground. As they moved downward, the stones of the walls started to take on a deeper shade of black, looking as if someone had scorched them with fire.

‘I am getting closer to the thing that is attracting the Prismatic Fire,’ Evan thought inwardly as he felt the restlessness of his fire.

Anastasia also noticed the change in temperature, but her focus was on something entirely different.

‘There are more than one hundred lava demons living here,’ She thought inwardly without any expression on her face.

Now that she was already inside the cave, the concealment formation that had been stopping her spiritual senses earlier couldn’t stop them anymore, so it was very easy for her to see the situation inside the cave.

The layout of the cave was like an underground base, with hundreds of rooms created by digging out the stones.

Each room created in the underground base was made according to the needs of lava demons, and the temperature of the rooms was very high as lava demons liked to live in high-temperature areas.

“You brought some of the lava demons here when other demons tried to enslave you all after Valtair’s disappearance?” Anastasia suddenly asked in a low voice as she followed Searoth.

Searoth stopped walking when he heard Anastasia, but continued to move after a second and replied with a sigh.

“Yes, I was just a Peak Rank Four Core Evolver at that time, so even if I wanted to, I couldn’t stop the other demons who attacked Magmara. All I could do was bring some of the lava demons here to save ourselves.”

Anastasia nodded her head hearing Searoth since she thought the same.

If possible, Searoth didn’t want to let anyone know that lava demons were living here, but after seeing Anastasia, he knew it would be impossible for him to hide these things from her since she had already entered the cave hidden by the formation.

Earlier, when she used the Soul Resonance skill for a split second, Searoth felt the terrifying aura she released, and he knew he wouldn’t be able to do anything against her if she decided to kill all the lava demons here.

‘Luckily, it doesn’t look like she is here to fight,’ He thought while sighing in relief and soon they reached a spacious open area deep underground.

There wasn’t a single soul in the open area, just some simple-looking iron chairs and strange materials scattered everywhere.

Evan looked around and noticed there was a black iron door at the end of the open area, and the thing that was attracting his Prismatic Fire was behind that door.

Although he was curious about what was attracting his fire, he didn’t rush over since he also understood he first needed to get the permission of the lava demon in front of him to go there.

“I am curious about something,” Anastasia suddenly asked Searoth. “Now you are a mid-level Rank Five Core Evolver, and with your racial advantage, you should be able to face a Peak Rank Five Core Evolver. So why are you still hiding here? I don’t think in the Gehenna Empire there are many demons who can face you.”

Searoth nodded his head when he heard Anastasia and said with a sigh.

“You are right, but the current Gehenna Empire is very different from what it used to be thousands of years ago. Previously, there was no absolute ruler of the demons, but now that Baphomet has united all the demons, it is impossible for me to reclaim the Magmara Kingdom that is under his control even with my strength.”

“Reclaim the Magmara Kingdom?” Anastasia looked at Searoth with a weird look on her face. “Why do you want to get back the Magmara Kingdom? Can’t you just become Baphomet’s underling? I am sure he will gladly accept you under him and will even provide enough support for other lava demons to become strong.”

Searoth snorted when he heard Anastasia and said in a cold voice, “Who wants to become that bastard’s underling?”

“Huh?” Evan and Anastasia were surprised when they saw Searoth’s cold expression and immediately guessed something must have happened between the lava demons and Baphomet in the past.

Seeing their surprised expressions, Searoth explained to them why he didn’t like Baphomet as it was not a secret.

“After Master’s disappearance, although the situation of the lava demons started to change, it was still not to the point where we had to run away. But everything changed with the appearance of that bastard Baphomet. In his early years of rise, in order to unite all the demons, he needed many people who could work for him… And the lava demons, who were already struggling because of the attacks from other demons were the perfect target for him. So he attacked the Magmara kingdom along with his other subordinates and the lava demons, who were already struggling, could not handle the pressure anymore. In the end, to avoid becoming frontline slaves of that bastard some of us escaped from Magmara and came here.”

Searoth sighed at this point and spoke in a bitter voice.

“Although we escaped, most of the lava demons living in Magmara were captured by them and were used in the frontline battle to unite the other demons. In the end, that bastard united all the demons and created the Gehenna Empire, but by then, most of the lava demons who were captured had died in battle. The remaining lava demons were all low-level, and with the passage of time, they were not able to survive, leading people to believe that lava demons had gone extinct.”

Evan and Anastasia were quite shocked when they heard Searoth as both of them didn’t know anything about it.

Evan had come to Utopia not long ago, while Anastasia was in the Shadow Realm, so this was really new information for them.

“I see, no wonder you don’t want to leave here even with your current rank,” Anastasia said with a look of understanding on her face.

She glanced at Evan from the corner of her eye and noticed he was looking at her. Their eyes met for a brief second, and they immediately understood that both of them had the same idea after hearing Searoth’s story.

Anastasia cleared her throat to attract Searoth’s attention and after seeing he was looking at her, she spoke with a serious look on her face.

“Actually, we were able to find this place because someone told us about it,” She said and took out an object from her storage ring.

The moment Anastasia took out the object, Searoth’s expression changed and his big red eyes widened in shock.