While absorbing the world essence from the essence spring, Evan felt something and used Shadow Senses to connect his vision with Aqua, whom he had released inside the essence spring pond earlier.
The essence spring pond was a few thousand meters deep, and the deeper one goes, the more chaotic the world essence inside it becomes.
The chaotic world essence deep inside the pond was harmful to the core evolvers, as their bodies and cores couldn't handle the impurities inside it.
Evan knew about the chaotic nature of the world essence that was deep inside the pond even before he sent Aqua inside it, but he wasn't worried about him because, unlike normal core evolvers, Aqua was a shadow undead, and he could heal him using his world essence even if his body were to get damaged by the chaotic energies of the pond.
Upon connecting his vision with Aqua using Shadow Senses, Evan saw that Aqua was already quite deep inside the pond, and the world essence around him was muddy brown in colour instead of its usual blue.
"So this is the unrefined chaotic world essence that will slowly get purified and replenish the world essence of the essence spring pond that we are absorbing..." Evan said to himself as he looked at the muddy world essence around Aqua.
After observing the unrefined world essence for a bit, he inspected Aqua's body and noticed that it was filled with cracks due to the vast amount of unrefined world essence inside the pond. Moreover, Aqua was still far from reaching the bottom of the pond.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"So that's why he contacted me even though he is still far from reaching the bottom of the pond..." Evan muttered in a low voice and used his world essence to heal Aqua's body. As Evan healed him, the cracks on Aqua's body started to disappear, and he once again dived deeper into the pond.
Because Evan was constantly healing him, Aqua's diving speed was very fast as he did not have to worry about his body getting destroyed by the chaotic world essence.
'This pond is really quite deep...' Evan thought to himself when even after diving five thousand meters, Aqua didn't reach the bottom of the pond.
The amount of chaotic world essence in the deeper area of the pond was even higher, and even though Evan was constantly healing him, small cracks started to appear on Aqua's body.
A few minutes later, Evan suddenly noticed something and his eyes lit up.
"Finally..." He said and sighed in relief as he noticed the bottom of the pond.
Upon reaching the bottom of the pond, Evan saw that the chaotic world essence was coming out from the small cracks, and the concentration of the chaotic world essence was at least two times higher at the bottom compared to other areas. Unlike the surface of the pond, which was fifty meters in diameter, the bottom of the pond was much larger in area.
"Even though I am constantly healing him, Aqua can stay here for fifteen minutes at best..." Evan muttered, looking at the cracks that were appearing on Aqua's body despite the fact that he was healing him without stopping.
"Aqua, search every nook and cranny of the pond as fast as possible and see if you can find this so-called evolution essence drop," Evan ordered Aqua using his Shadow Senses, and Aqua started to search everywhere inside the pond.
While Aqua was searching at the bottom of the pond, the amount of the refined world essence that was at the surface of the essence spring was constantly depleting as all the evolvers who entered the pond were absorbing it to the best of their abilities.
Other than the power of his core, Evan was even using Energy Devouring to increase the speed at which he was absorbing the world essence, because of this, his core had already reached the 45% mark of mid-level Rank One, and it was still increasing at a rapid speed.
"From the way things are progressing, I think this essence spring will run out of steam in about half an hour..." Evan said, looking at the pond.
"Hmmm..." Suddenly, he received a signal from Aqua, and immediately used the Shadow Senses once again.
"Did you find something?" Evan asked after connecting his vision with Aqua.
Hearing Evan, Aqua pointed towards a small crack that was present at the bottom of the pond.
Evan looked at the crack Aqua was pointing at and noticed something shining inside it like a diamond.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm"What's that?" He muttered with a frown on his face and told Aqua to take it out.
Aqua complied with Evan's order and dug out the shining thing from the crack. Once Aqua dug it out, Evan saw that it was a small palm-sized stone that was shining with dark blue light.
"It looks like an essence stone..." Evan muttered in a low voice as he looked at the stone through Aqua's eyes.
Although the stone looked like an essence stone, Evan was sure that it was definitely something else, as even the Peak Level essence stones couldn't be compared with the stone that Aqua found.
"Put it away Aqua, and continue your search..." Evan decided to look at the stone once Aqua came out of the pond and asked him to continue to look for the evolution essence drop that Blaze and Voidscar were talking about.
Aqua continued his search, and in just five minutes, he found two more shining stones at the bottom of the pond. Similar to before, he put away the stones in his storage ring and kept looking for the evolution essence drop.
Evan was also absorbing the world essence to the best of his ability, and because of his high absorption speed, his core reached the fifty percent mark of the mid-level Rank One.
Even after reaching the fifty percent mark, he didn't stop and continued to absorb more world essence. While absorbing the essence, he suddenly received a message from Aqua.
Upon receiving Aqua's message, he stopped absorbing the world essence and used Shadow Senses.
The moment Evan's vision connected with Aqua, he noticed something in front of him, and a weird look appeared on his face.