Monarch of Darkness

"I have always thought this planet as a remotely located planet in some distant corner of a starfield.But it seems like it is not the case",Evan pondered inside his mind after listening to the middle aged guard.

Elemental manifestation realm warriors were on a completely different league than other lower realm experts as they had some acheivemets in comprehending laws of heaven and earth.Now that there were chances of existence of such experts in Northpeak empire,Evan couldn't take Northpeak empire lightly.

"I will use this chance of going into Northeast mountain as the means of my escape.I can only develope myself properly in the wild.It will be more convenient to build my power there.I can send a secret message to Sylvia clan which can lessen their worry",Evan only took a moment to take the decision.Then he resumed his conversation with the middle aged guard again.

The middle aged guard who went to fetch roasted meat returned after some time.Evan received his share and went inside his small room.He wolfed down the roasted meat quickly and patted his belly in satisfaction after finishing his portion.

Evan sat down again after doing a bit of stretching exercise.He very much wanted to know if he had gained anything from the state of enlightenment.

Evan closed his eyes and calmed his mind.He could feel his soul more clearly than before.He spread his soul conciousness to outside.He saw the two guards eating leisurely while talking to each other.Then he moved past them.His soul conciousness rapidly expanded outward.

Evan was incomparably excited in his heart when his conciousness moved toward the round building which was the main official building of Imperial academy.He could observe the registration elder who was still sitting there in the place of registration.His soul conciousness moved past the old registration elder and covered the water mountain.Then he tried to observe further and he couldn't expand his soul conciousness beyond the water fountain.He tried again but failed to see any farther than the fountain.

Evan retrieved his soul conciousness and opened his eyes.A wide grin appeared on his  face.He was never so much excited before.His soul conciousness could cover three times of more area than his previous capacity.Only by increasing cultivation realm,one could raise his ability of soul conciousness.For example,Aaron who was in core formation realm could only feel the changes around three metre of his body.Using the soul to observe the surrounding could only be achieved in Nascent soul formation realm.More over,no cultivator of nascent soul formation realm could match the current distance that Evan could cover with his soul conciousness.So,Evan was incomparably excited because it was a qualitative leap in his ability.

Evan noticed a strange fact when he used his soul consciousness earlier,he could observe glowing white light in the body of every living organisms when his soul conciousness covered them.He felt thrilled by this newfound ability.He was very much eager to explore this newfound ability.

Actually noone even in his Hendrickson family knew the true abilities of royal devil soul.They all knew royal devil soul was very powerful but to what extent noone knew.Evan was gradually discovering the true power of royal devil soul.He focused his mind again and spread his soul conciousness to the surrounding.

He found numerous white glows in his vision.Some were glowing weakly and some were glowing strongly.There were also different sized white glow.The larger mass of white glow belonged to two guards who were outside the small room.Evan tried to focus on the weakly glowing small sized white dots.

He carefully observed the weakly glowing dots.He saw a army of ants who were moving in a single line.Evan could never have noticed such tiny organisms before,but now with the help of his newfound ability,he could observe even such tiny organisms.His heart boiled with excitement.

Evan had already knew what the tiny glowing dots were.These were the souls of ants.Evan guessed the reason behind different sized white glows.According to difference in cultivation realms,size of white glows may vary.Because stronger organisms possessed stronger souls compared to organisms weaker than them.The two middle-aged guards had bigger glowing mass compared to the tiny glowing dots of ants.Their soul level had such a disparity as ants had no cultivation strength where as two middle-aged guards were in profound transformation realm.

While observing the small army of ants,Evan thought up a idea.He had already possessed the ability to kill his opponents who were in same realm as him by confusing their minds.But there was a distance limit in his soul attacking capacity.

Previously he could only separate a tiny strand of his soul which could confuse the mind of enemy.But as his compatibility with his soul grew now,Evan wanted to test out a soul attack now which could directly injure the soul of enemies.

Evan focused his mind on his soul.He could feel the existence of his soul more clearly now.He tried to separate a small shard from his vast soul.Previously,he could only separate a tiny shard of his soul to confuse the mind of enemies and it was very taxing to his body.

He focused all his attention on his soul and tried separating a small part of his soul.He felt a little pain in his mind but he gritted his teeth and endured it.A small part of his soul got separated and Evan could felt a sharp pain in his mind.Such a small loss of soul was negligible to Evan as such small amount could be recovered after resting properly.

He tried to change the shape of the divided soul part.He envelopes the divided part of his soul with his powerful soul conciousness and molded it into the shape of a tiny spear.Then he pushed it at the glowing dots which belonged to the army of ants.The spear shaped soul part collided with some of the glowing dots.Soon,two of those glowing dots disappeared from his vision and Evan focused his eyes on the army of ants.

Two of the ants were not moving now as they lie on the ground motionlessly.There was nothing wrong with their physical appearance but their soul completely vanished.A smile crept up to the lips of Evan."Soul attack successfull",he murmured.