novelraw Chapter 657 - 442: Death Elf, Double Casting and Strong Magic! (Part 2)
Chapter 657 - 442: Death Elf, Double Casting and Strong Magic! (Part 2)
This would better facilitate her growth and development, something Fang Zhou naturally welcomed.
In the following days, Fang Zhou returned to his laid-back state of rest and recuperation in the Queen’s Tribe. The difference was that this time, he was accompanied by the Death Elf, Vigus, who clung to him with the attachment of a human child.
Fang Zhou didn’t go out to perform various tasks like the other Sea City Military Academy students, partly due to his eagerness to reap the rewards from the Undead Tomb expedition, and partly because he needed to accompany Vigus to familiarize themselves with each other’s coordination.
After all, Vigus was a living being with her own thoughts and will. Although the contract and attribute panel ensured her absolute loyalty and trust in Fang Zhou, achieving an effect in battle where 1+1 was far greater than 2 still required persistent training.
Fortunately, over the past few days, Fang Zhou and Vigus had developed a good rapport. He had already felt the power of the Double Casting and Strong Magic buffs that Vigus currently possessed.
Additionally, leveraging the resources of the Flower Elf Queen’s tribe and with Gu Yueyuan’s help, Fang Zhou successfully refined the Bone-Eroding Blood Spring and Breath of Decay into Black Iron Tier Undead Attribute Potential Potions. After consuming them, just as when he had consumed Nether Amber during the Apprentice Stage, the quality of his Death Mana, its recovery speed, and his affinity with Death Energy were all significantly enhanced.
If compared to Silvanas, a fellow Black Iron Lower Rank Undead Mage, Fang Zhou’s Death Mana quality alone surpassed hers by several times.
Stepping out of his tent, Fang Zhou gazed at the bright and clear moonlight and stretched contentedly. He looked at his attribute panel.
[Name] Fang Zhou
[Profession] Undead Mage
[Sub-profession] Basic Alchemist, Basic Blacksmith
[Tier] Black Iron · Lower Rank
[Title] Enemy of the Kobolds, Sea City Military Academy’s Number One Seed, Undead Chessmaster, King of New Recruits, Skeleton Tutor
[Attributes] Strength 38, Agility 35, Constitution 38, Spirit 49.99
[Status] Soul Split, World Will’s Attention
[Rune] Harvest Festival (Night Watcher I, Heart Steel II, Gallows I)
[Spirit Pet]
Vigus (Black Iron, Death Elf)
[Equipment]
Dusk Robe (Green Armor, Refinement +2, Level 2 Ruby *2)
Undead Magic Ball (White Equipment, Refinement +2, Level 2 Nether Stone *2)
Ember Mage Hat (White Equipment, Refinement +2, Level 2 Sapphire *2)
Embers Boots (White Equipment, Refinement +2, Level 2 Wind Crystal Stone *2)
New Star Mage Set (White Equipment, Cultivation 4-piece set, Refinement +2, Level 2 Gemstone *2)
[Marvel] Black Gem Dragon Egg (Orange), Berserker Heroic Spirit Mark (Purple), Moon Orchid Fragrance (Blue), Heroic Spirit Battle Banner (Blue), Small Space Storage Capsule (Blue), Contract·Longxia Blade Medal (Blue), Transcendent·Sea City Military Academy’s Number One Seed Medal (Green), Guardian Bronze Bell (Green), Soul Guardian Bronze Crown (Green), Whip of Suffering (White), Celestial Curtain Magic Bottle (White), Charging Scroll (White), Bone Armor Phylactery (White), Flash Bracelet (White), Ring of Shock (White), Mirror of the Heart (White), Flower of Sighs (White), Flower Elf Dance (White)
[Specialization] Magic Conductor, Strong Undead Summoning
[Skills]
[Summoning Series]: Summon Undead Creatures (Talent, Skeleton, Skeleton Warriors, Zombie, Skeleton Bat)
[Skeleton Series]: Skeleton Heart-Piercing Flying Spear (Mastery), Skeleton Armor (Mastery), Skeleton Cage (Mastery), Skeleton Flash (Mastery), Skeleton Armory (Mastery), Skeleton Shock Wave (Mastery)
[Corrosive Poison Series]: Corpse Explosion Skill (Mastery), Rotting Aura (Mastery), Poison Cloud Skill (Mastery), Poison Nova (Mastery)
[Enhancement Series]: Domination Skeleton (Mastery), Undead Resurgence (Mastery), Undead Coronation (Mastery), Brutal Aura (Mastery), Iron Wall Aura (Mastery), Horror Aura (Mastery)
[Soul Series]: Soul Eagle Eye (Mastery), Soul Enemy (Skilled), Soul Struggle (Beginner), Soul Link (Beginner)
[Universal Series]: Summoned Undead Mount (Skilled), Friend of Life (Skilled), Language Mastery (Skilled), Strong Calmness (Mastery)
[Other]: Corpse Commander Meditation Method (Perfection), Artificial Undead (Skeleton, Skeleton Warrior, Zombie)
Fang Zhou’s Spirit Attribute was stuck at 49.99, temporarily unable to increase. This was naturally due to the energy concentration limit of the Forest of Nature’s Spatial Fragment. According to the instructors at Sea City Military Academy, given his current state, as soon as he left the Forest of Nature, there was an extremely high probability he would directly break through the bottleneck and advance to Black Iron Middle Rank.
Everything was ready; all that was missing was the final push.
The main objectives for his training trip to the Forest of Nature had all been completed. The gains in various resources had far exceeded his initial expectations. Now that his cultivation had hit a bottleneck, it was time to return to Sea City Military Academy and start digesting his recent harvest.
Besides, the Black Gem Dragon Egg, which had been developing in the undead mage project laboratory, was still waiting to be hatched. All of these things filled Fang Zhou’s heart with anticipation.
Turning back into the tent, Fang Zhou opened his portable Meditation Array and focused his mind on his Corpse Clone. While his main body had been reaping all sorts of rewards, his clone had been just as busy.
「A blood moon hung in the sky over the Corpse Hills.」
As the Corpse Essence hunted by his skeleton minions continuously pushed his clone’s evolution forward, Fang Zhou found it hard to sit still. His body had grown twice more. He could now easily defeat Olaf and a dozen other Mutated Skeleton minions combined. Such combat prowess reignited the impulse in Fang Zhou’s heart: to challenge the Skeleton Lord!
After all, having accumulated a large amount of Soul Power and Skill Materials, Fang Zhou had lavishly enhanced all of his Corpse Clone’s universal Combat Professional Skills, transforming them into Death Attribute skills. Heroic Charge, in particular, had mutated into Death Charge, becoming more powerful than he could have imagined.
With his current four-dimensional attributes and a divine escape skill like Death Charge, Fang Zhou felt he was now qualified to challenge the Skeleton Lord.
Even if I can’t win... if I want to leave, the Skeleton Lord won’t be able to stop me.
With this reassurance, the idea of raiding the Skeleton Castle became extremely appealing. Not to mention the Skeleton Lord itself, just the vast number of Mutated Skeletons in the Skeleton Castle, and the Corpse Essence they represented, was enough to make Fang Zhou’s heart race!
He was a man of action.
After checking his attribute panel once more, Fang Zhou let his Mutated Skeleton Servants hunt on their own while he immediately set off towards the Skeleton Castle.
More than ten days had passed since he last left the Skeleton Castle, but the Skeleton Lord’s five great Skeleton Battle Groups were still encamped outside. For the undead, time was meaningless. They did not experience emotions like boredom or monotony. As long as the Skeleton Lord didn’t issue a new order to resume patrols, these five Skeleton Battle Groups would maintain their positions indefinitely.
As for the Skeleton Lord, it was naturally in the castle’s great hall, upon its throne.
The five Skeleton Battle Groups were stationed in five different directions around the Skeleton Castle. Perhaps due to the threat Fang Zhou posed, or perhaps due to the buffs from being near the Skeleton Lord, the numbers in these five battle groups were even greater than when Fang Zhou had last seen them. The larger groups contained over ten thousand skeletons, while the smaller ones had seven or eight thousand.
Furthermore, aside from the Skeleton Centurions serving as commanders, new types of Mutated Skeletons like Skeleton Snipers and Skeleton Assaulters had appeared in every battle group. The fact that all five battle groups were stationed outside the castle, combined with the appearance of these new mutated units... it was clear this was a trap set by the Skeleton Lord.