Abyss Descension: I Perform Rituals to Evolve In The Apocalyps-Chapter 27: Training before a big fight

Kev was walking at a brisk pace.

Soon, he came across the Revenants he'd killed but couldn't extract the runes from because of the intervention of the evolved Revenant with half a face.

He manipulated shadows to search inside their bodies, extracting their runes.

One of them was an evolved Revenant, while the other was semi-evolved.

He benefited immensely as he absorbed their runes.

He stole their shadows to increase the volume of shadows in his possession.

Next, he was about to collect their corpses when his guide shot out of his hand and began floating before his eyes.

It opened up, revealing its first page.

Words began to form on the revealed page.

"Just so you know, you can pay me in advance for my services."

Natasha wanted to make her pet grow as fast as possible.

That's why she suddenly proposed such a deal.

"Why are you telling me that?" Kev asked.

"I'm just trying to introduce an efficient way that'll benefit us both," Natasha replied.

Kev agreed with his guide.

He wouldn't need to scrounge around for corpses every time he summoned his guide to have his questions answered and doubts cleared if he paid in advance for its services.

On the other hand, if he started making payments in advance, Natasha would be able to grow her corpse spider much faster, securing her survival and future

Kev pointed at the undeniably disgusting corpse of the evolved revenant who had trapped him in an illusion, showed him something it shouldn't have, and got brutally killed for it, "This corpse is massive, like a small mountain of flesh and meat. And it's the corpse of a powerful evolved Revenant. How many times can I summon you to have my questions answered for it?"

Natasha thought about it for a moment before saying,

"Three."

Kev raised an eyebrow.

Natasha felt like she had said something wrong.

"Fine... four."

"Four times?"

Kev felt genuinely surprised.

His guide's greed for corpses was more immense than he had thought.

It was willing to shortchange itself for a corpse that would grant him only one corpse collection point. One corpse collection point was not worth the amount of crucial information he could extract from summoning her even once—much less five times.

Kev felt like he was winning big in this trade and decided to seal the deal before she could change her mind.

But before he could open his mouth to express his intention, his guide proposed something even better.

"Five. That's my final offer for you." Mistaking his surprise for dissatisfaction, Natasha quickly revised her offer, fearing he might lose interest in trading the corpse for her services.

Kev didn't dare hesitate, "Okay, deal. Now move out of my way, we got company."

Gah!

Emitting low growls from their throats, a group of Revenants approached Kev with jerky movements.

There were four of them.

Their forms were simple, looking similar to rotting corpses.

There was no sign of mutation or evolution.

They were ordinary Revenants.

Kev had grown strong enough to end them in a flash.

But he didn't do that.

He used them to train.

He wanted to understand the full extent of the benefits brought by his growth-type trait.

He was already experiencing one of its benefits.

He wasn't using a flashlight or relying on any other source of illumination, but he was still able to see in complete and utter darkness.

But according to his guide, its uses didn't end there.

There was something about this trait that could save his life.

His guide didn't tell him what it was, probably wanting him to figure it out on his own.

He aimed to discover it in his fight against the four Revenants.

A revenant opened its mouth and lunged forward.

Kev remained perfectly still, intentionally putting himself in danger, hoping to force his trait to reveal its life-saving effect.

Just as its rotten teeth were an instant away from piercing his flesh, he felt it.

An itch.

Right in his throat.

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It appeared on the exact same spot the revenant was about to bite.

"I understand," Kev muttered, slapping the revenant's ugly mug away.

The revenant was hit with such force it flew out like a cannonball and crashed heavily into a wall, suffering bone breaking injuries.

A shadow rose from the ground, piercing into its head, coiling around its runes before yanking them out.

The revenant truly died then.

"Since I understand what it does, I have to thoroughly master it."

Kev closed his eyes as the other three revenants rushed at him.

His trait, besides letting him see in pitch-black darkness, also granted him the ability to detect danger in advance.

It didn't matter if he could see it or not, he would still be able to detect it.

The warning manifested in the form of a sensation just an instant before the real threat emerged.

The intensity of the sensation determined the danger level.

The more intense the sensation, the greater the danger he was in.

Kev relied on that subtle signal to anticipate the exact spots the revenants were targeting.

He combined it with his predictive ability to respond perfectly.

In the end, a strange scene unfolded.

A man with his eyes closed danced through a pitch-black tunnel.

Three revenants attacked him relentlessly.

But none of them managed to land a single hit until the bitter end.

Their nucleus was drained of energy, and they dropped dead.

Hearing the sound of bodies collapsing to the ground, Kev opened his eyes and smiled in satisfaction.

"I'm done training."

He looked at the recently dead revenants.

Their runes did little to strengthen him. After all, they were just ordinary revenants.

But stealing their shadows and collecting their corpses added to his already stretched out stockpile.

"I didn't expect you to use such a reckless method to uncover the strongest effect of your growth-type trait." Natasha was amazed by his willingness to put his life at risk just to grow a little stronger.

The words she spoke in front of the mirror appeared on the book.

Kev read them and replied, "It was effective. And I wasn't harmed, so it's all good."

Suddenly.

He asked, "Did I pass your test?"

The reason Natasha hadn't told him about the greatest aspect of his trait was simple.

She wanted to test him.

To see how competent and capable he was.

Kev knew that.

That's why he hadn't pestered or pressed her to reveal the life saving aspect of his trait.

He depended on his own actions to discover it, passing her test in the process.

He didn't know why his guide wanted to test him, but reasons told him passing his guide test could only bring him benefit, not harm.

"Yes."

He had passed her test and she had no desire to deny it.

It was unclear how far she truly was from Kev, but her reply instantly manifested on the pages of the book he had been fooled into believing was her true form.

"How did I do?" Kev asked curiously.

"You did far better than I expected, passing my test with flying marks," Natasha was genuinely impressed by the way Kev chose to discover the true potential of his trait, and she made sure he knew it. "Not many dare to risk death just to understand themselves better. You're different. I like that."

"Are there any rewards?" Kev asked, half-joking.

A moment later, the book revealed Natasha's reply.

"I'll act as your guide for a long time to come."

"Not a bad reward," Kev replied, genuinely pleased.

A question appeared in the revealed page of the open and floating book.

"Do you blame me for testing you?"

"If a person is spoon-fed his entire life, when would he learn to grow and depend on himself?" Kev shook his head. "No. I don't blame you."

"Thank God," Natasha muttered under her breath after looking away from the magical mirror in her hands, an inexplicable emotion flashing in her eyes.

For some reason, she didn't want Kev to hate her.

As she let her true feelings out after breaking eye contact with the mirror and looking away from it, they didn't appear in the book by Kev's side.

He remained unaware of the fact that he meant more to his guide than just a business partner.