Primordial Monarch: Apocalyptic Evolution

Raven and Nyct walked into the greenhouse and saw Zen whose back was against the wall, a baby sized cocoon floated in front of him.

Seeming to have heard them approaching, Zen opened his eyes weakly, he felt extremely tired and he understood why after he had unmuted his system notifications.

Seeing Raven and Nyct who looked at him with worry, made him feel conflicted. He was about to apologise but Raven stopped him.

"There's no need for apologies, besides we were able to eradicate the surroundings and stopping a hidden threat... I just hope you do not use that skill unless necessary"

Zen noddded in agreement as he yawned, Raven rose an eyebrow as she looked at him properly, his aura looked weak. "What happened to you?"

"It's the side effect of the skill, I'll be in a weakened state for 1 day..." Zen answered with another yawn, "... I'm not really useless though, it's just that my stats has reduced temporarily to 10%"

"Fair enough... So what's this?" Raven asked as she gestured to the floating cocoon.

"Well, I don't know... It was what the plant lifeform gave me before it died... "Zen said before he checked the system prompt at the top corner of his vision.

[Lifeform binding to host]

[Binding successful!]

[Due to Host lineage, lifeform evolving...]

[Evolution sequence - 1%... 10%..... 50%....]

"Milord" Nyct called out to Zen who moved his eyes from the prompt and looked at his summon. He noticed how apologetic Nyct was and he just shook his head.

"There's no need to be so down, you're strong doesn't mean you can't afford to make mistakes" he said as he struggled to stand to his feet.

He patted Nyct on his shoulder while convincing him not to worry too much. Nyct sighed with relief befofe he turned around to look at Zen who was walking towards the entrance.

"Milord... "Nyct said causing Zen to pause in his steps as he turned to look at the former.

"What is it?"

"I just wanted to remind you that, you can use the nether summoning now, since you have reached level 20" Nyct said.

Raven who was on the side shot a surprised look at Zen, the apocalypse had just started and he was already in level 20. She looked at her level which had increased to 15,and the sudden excitement she felt at advancing instantly died. Comparing herself to Zen, made her feel worse when she thought of how young he was.

Meanwhile, Zen was oblivious as he looked at his nether summoning skill.

[Nether Summoning (SS) - Summon an entity from the nether realm, they could be natives or entities tainted by nether energy]

[Number of Summon: 2]

[Next summoning opportunity: Level 50]

"More hands to gain free experience points" Zen muttered as he rubbed his hands in anticipation. He paused and looked at Nyct as he frowned. "Why have you not advanced in your level?"

"Milord, the experience points obtained from killing the aberrants are negligible since I am far motr stronger than they are..." Nyct said but he noticed that Zen was still frowning, "I may be a third order Asura, but due to your planet just awakening, my strength had been restricted to level 50 First Order"

"So you're saying if we advance to first order, your strength would return to it's peak?" Raven asks to which Nyct just nodded.

"I might even advance a level, since my experience points would be accumulating " Nyct added, causing Zen and Raven to nod.

Zen decided to start his summoning, he closed his eyes and stretched his right palm forward. A swirl of black and purple energy appeared in the air around Zen and a pressure formed as a gate appeared on the ground as the pressure intensified.

Due to the pressure, the greenhouse broke apart revealing the brighr clouds and the surrounding buildings.

A black circle appeared on the gate, Zen looked at it and mouthed the word 'open' and the gate opened with a bang. A colossal black fox with ten tails, climbed out of the gate before a huge white titanboa slightered out and the gate disappeared followed by the pressure.

Raven could finally breathe while Zen immediately sat on his butt as the side effect of his bloodlust skill was still in effect, his head was throbbing and he massages it while looking down.

The ten-tailed fox and the titanboa immediately burst into flames as two beautiful women appeared. One of the women was dressed in a black kimono which seem about to fall off, her face was covered in a veil but that didn't stop anyone from knowing she was beautiful, the kimono added to her charm as the part around the waist showed off her figure. Her blood red eyes carried a hint of charm and cunning in them as a slight smile graced her lips.

The other woman was dressed in a red cheongsam, she had white hair which she did not tie compared to the other woman who had her black hair tied to a bun. Her gaze was cold and she released killing intent unconsciously. She didn't have any veil on her face.

The two women ignored Zen who was looking at the floor and turned to look at Nyct who gazed at them coldly.

"Why did it have to be you two?"

"Nyct... I did not expect to see you... It would be a lie to say I missed you" the veiled woman said with a chuckle but one could feel the cold intent in them.

"I could say likewise, Daji" Nyct retorted apathetically before he turned towards the ice cold woman and his face became solemn. "Yun... "

"Why did you summon us here?" The ice cold woman asked.

Nyct sighed, "It was milord that summoned you guys..." his gaze shifted to Zen. He did not notice the change in the women's expression as soon as they heard the word milord.

They both looked at Zen who at this point had raised his head to look at the women, he was suddenly dazed while the women were also equally dazed.

"Daji?... Yun?... " He had not checked their names from the prompts the names just rolled off his tongue as soon as they appeared in his head. It was as if he knew who they were as soon as he laid his eyes on them.

"Master?"

"Lord?"

Daji and Yun called out at the same time and immediately rushed into his embrace, which confused Zen.

'what's going on? '

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