prynovel Chapter 25 Advanced Black Iron, Attributes Increased drastically
Chapter 25 Advanced Black Iron, Attributes Increased drastically
The breeze was warm, the flowers were fragrant, the sun was shining brightly, and the family was enjoying a happy time together.
Unbeknownst to him, Fang Zhou's tense nerves gradually relaxed.
For the past two weeks, he has been eagerly absorbing knowledge from the Haicheng Military Academy while simultaneously controlling his skeletal clone to explore and kill in the Netherworld.
The mental pressure is just too much.
He stole a few hours of leisure from his busy schedule and vaguely felt that his soul seemed to have become much more resilient.
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In the afternoon, after seeing that the training equipment had been installed at the welfare home, Fangzhou said goodbye to Grandma Yun and the two little girls who were reluctant to part with him, and returned to the Haicheng Military Academy.
He sat cross-legged on his bed in the dormitory, focusing his attention on the skeleton clone.
He fought continuously for more than an hour before he began to feel tired.
Fangzhou secretly estimated that his continuous combat time had increased by one-fifth compared to the previous hour.
A balance between tension and relaxation is the way of both civil and military affairs.
The ancients were right, Fang Zhou thought to himself.
Having accumulated another batch of soul power, Ark decisively exchanged it for the necromancer's apprentice-level skill, [Touch of Corrosion].
As skill projections appeared on the personal terminal, the skill bar in the attribute panel changed again.
"Sufficient skill materials have been detected to improve the skill. It is estimated that 10 points of soul power will be consumed."
"Should it be improved?"
Fangzhou immediately confirmed it.
In a burst of inspiration, Ark quickly grasped the casting principle of the [Touch of Corrosion] skill.
Both Corrosive Touch and Bone Spear are products of necromancy, so there is a possibility that they can complement each other.
Since that's the case, show me the attribute panel!
"Skill [Bone Spear] successfully upgraded!"
【Bone Spear】(Apprentice Level, Proficient): Condenses bone spears and throws them at the enemy, dealing armor-piercing physical damage, corrosive poison damage, and death energy damage. The number, power, and range are determined by the spirit attribute and skill proficiency.
The White Skeleton Spear, with its triple damage attribute, is estimated to have an attack power exceeding 100 if tested with a test puppet.
Fangzhou nodded in satisfaction, his offensive capabilities having made another small leap forward.
He reviewed his knowledge and developed a relatively complete combat system for both his clone and his main body, making his combat capabilities sufficient for the present.
Next, the main body needs to work hard to increase its mental attribute, break through the apprentice level, and raise the [Summon Skeleton] skill to the [Instinct] proficiency level.
Meanwhile, the clones must hunt frantically to quickly reach the Black Iron rank, thus providing the main body with more attribute boosts.
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Ten days later, their bones were buried in the wilderness.
Spirit +0.01, Soul Power +0.2.
In the vast white fog, the jaw of the Ark's skeletal doppelganger twitched slightly, emitting a grating grinding sound.
These days, he has been hunting in the burial grounds day after day.
With its superior four-dimensional attributes compared to ordinary skeletons, powerful skills, and the devastating weapon of the Bone Spear, Ark was invincible even when facing countless strong skeletons that had reached the mid-level of the Apprentice rank.
Each time the skeletal spear thrusts out, the immense force it contains is enough to tear a mid-level apprentice skeleton to shreds, turning it into a pile of bones.
After hunting down hundreds of strong skeletons, Ark finally raised all four of its attributes to 10.
"Your four-dimensional attributes have reached the limit for the Skeleton race; you have received the blessing of the Underworld!"
Suddenly, a dense ray of blood moonlight was drawn down and condensed on the skeleton clone.
As Fangzhou was filled with doubt and uncertainty, a notification came from the attribute panel.
A blessing from the underworld? He looked at the attribute panel and saw that there were indeed new changes in the skills section.
[Skeleton King] (Apprentice Level, Instinct): A blessing bestowed upon the strong by the will of the undead realm; only the most powerful individuals of the skeleton race have the opportunity to receive it. Slightly increases damage dealt to skeletons and their evolved forms, and slightly reduces damage taken.
"My attributes have reached the racial limit? No wonder my strength has remained at 10 points for so long."
Fangzhou carefully read the description of this skill and was very excited.
He is about to evolve from a skeleton into a skeleton warrior, and his future hunting targets will naturally become black iron-level skeleton warriors.
Both the Skeleton Warrior and the Skeleton Archer are evolved forms of skeletons, and thus will be affected by the [Skeleton King].
This will undoubtedly be very helpful for him to improve his efficiency in leveling up by fighting monsters later on.
More importantly, this is another skill that has reached the level of "instinct" proficiency.
Based on the experience of the skeletal armor, the Ark can deduce it into a skill that can be used by the main body by only consuming a small amount of soul power.
As Fang Zhou pondered the deduction direction of this [Skeleton King] skill, a surge of pleasure from the depths of his soul almost made him lose himself.
"Detected that the four-dimensional attributes have reached the racial limit, you can consume soul power to initiate racial evolution."
"Currently, the race is at the Apprentice level [Skeleton], with the evolution path being the Iron level [Skeleton Warrior]. It is estimated to consume 100 points of Soul Power."
"Has the evolution begun?"
The Ark looked up at the blood moon; the auspicious time had arrived. Evolution would begin!
As the soul power was consumed, countless streams of essence that had settled in the bones surged within the Ark's body.
His mind raced with the hunting and growth he had experienced over the past twenty days, and a realization dawned on him.
The way of death is the way of killing.
The way of killing is the way of evolution.
"[Skeleton Warrior] has successfully evolved, and its four-dimensional attributes have achieved a leap."
A few minutes later, the Ark's soul fire trembled, finally snapping it out of its euphoria of evolution.
He looked at the attribute panel and saw that the four attributes of strength, constitution, agility, and spirit were no longer limited to the apprentice level's limit of 10 points and had all made significant leaps.
The current attributes of the skeleton clone are Strength 30, Constitution 30, Agility 30, and Spirit 30.
According to Ark's estimation, even among all the lower-tier Black Iron Skeleton Warriors, the newly broken-through Skeleton Clone's attributes are considered to be in the upper-middle range.
Not to mention, the increased attributes of the clone will also benefit the original body.
Fangzhou was about to check the character's attribute panel when he heard another pleasant notification.
"Racial evolution, talent enhancement, and the acquisition of new skeletal weapons."
Fangzhou looked at the clone's skill bar and saw that the skill [Skeleton Armament] had indeed been upgraded from Apprentice level to Iron level.
He had a sudden realization: with each major advancement, he could condense a unique piece of equipment of his own through the Skeleton Armor.
So, what kind of equipment should we craft?
Shields, javelins, bows and arrows, daggers...
Fangzhou pondered for a moment before making his choice.
He wants to forge his own set of skeletal armor!
In terms of attack, with the skeletal spear and various powerful combat skills from human civilization, it should be more than enough to crush a black iron-level skeleton with a blank set.
On the contrary, in terms of defense, the Ark's skeleton clones still have shortcomings when facing skeleton warriors or skeleton archers who also have [skeleton armor].
Once the thought was made up, Ark activated the [Skeleton Armament] skill.