Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

In terms of the Flesh and Blood Series Skill Tree, the endless stream of ideas also allowed Fang Zhou to gain quite a lot.

The first Flesh and Blood Series Skill is [Blood Pool].

This is a Defensive Skill that allows Fang Zhou to turn into a pool of blood when facing an attack.

It clears all control effects and negative statuses on himself, and grants immunity to the vast majority of Physical Attacks and Energy Attacks for a short period of time.

After avoiding lethal damage through Blood Pool, Fang Zhou can completely rely on False Life, Skeleton Flash, Death Protection, and various other Defensive Skills and Displacement Skills to extricate himself from danger.

For any fragile Mage, a skill like Blood Pool is a guaranteed life-saving Divine Skill.

Being the first to develop Blood Pool also fits Fang Zhou’s cautious way of doing things.

The second Flesh and Blood Series Skill is called [Vampire Transformation]. As the name suggests, it allows allied Summoned Creatures or teammates to gain a Vampire-like Blood Suction ability.

They can extract the enemy’s life Energy while attacking to repair their own damage.

Whether for Fang Zhou’s Undead Summoned Creatures or for the living beings who will team up and fight alongside him in the future, this skill will greatly increase their sustained combat capability.

Moreover, it consumes very little Mana and has a long duration, making it a veritable party-wide buff Divine Artifact.

Placed in the skill system of any Support Professional, [Vampire Transformation] would absolutely be worthy of being called a core Skill.

Yet to Fang Zhou, this is just an ordinary Skill he casually created for the Undead Mage Profession.

The [Blood Suction] Skill is the innate Skill of Vampires, allowing Fang Zhou’s Magic attacks to gain Life Absorption.

He draws Life Essence from the enemy’s flesh to heal Fang Zhou’s injuries.

Of course, under the tight protection of the Undead Creatures, Fang Zhou basically won’t be getting hurt.

In that case, the life Energy he obtains through Blood Suction can be used to provide a buff to his Four-dimensional Attributes.

Although this buff cannot break through his current level limit like Harvest Festival Rune Resonance, it is still a significant enhancement in battle.

[Flesh and Blood Demon Touch] and [Flesh Burst] form a combo.

Flesh and Blood Demon Touch allows Fang Zhou to plant fleshy tentacles into the enemy’s tiny wounds, where they secretly proliferate and grow inside the enemy’s body without being noticed.

Once they grow to a certain extent, these Flesh and Blood Demon Touch tentacles can inflict extreme pain and damage on the enemy.

At the same time, they disrupt the enemy’s internal Energy circuits, severely interfering with the enemy’s ability to cast various Skills or to move, attack, and defend.

Against enemies with weak Constitution Attributes, there’s even a chance their hearts will be directly attacked and they’ll die from Flesh and Blood Demon Touch alone.

[Flesh Burst], on the other hand, detonates all the fleshy tentacles lurking inside the enemy, dealing massive damage from within.

Overall, Flesh and Blood Demon Touch leans toward control and parasitism, while Flesh Burst is a finisher Attack Skill similar to Poison Nova.

The last Skill, [Flesh Sewing], differs somewhat from the several Flesh and Blood Series Skills above.

It can be used in conjunction with Resurrection of the Dead to provide Flesh Armor for allied Undead Creatures, or to siphon Flesh Energy from the surroundings and enhance the effect of Resurrection of the Dead.

Furthermore, after the battle, when facing large numbers of Low Tier enemy corpses, Fang Zhou can simultaneously use Resurrection of the Dead and Flesh Sewing to Summon them, making them serve as combat servants.

These temporarily resurrected Flesh Servants only last for a short time, and their combat strength is not very high; they can only be used as expendable cannon fodder.

This is of course far inferior to the Artificial Undead Creatures that Fang Zhou carefully manufactures himself.

Their advantage lies in the fact that they require only a trivial amount of Mana to raise large-scale Low Tier Flesh Servants.

This can play a huge role in large-scale, prolonged battles.

Of course, the potential of the Flesh and Blood Series Skill Tree is still immense and needs to be further mined.

Right now Fang Zhou, first, has no Contribution Points to exchange for Skill Materials, and second, lacks sufficient Soul Power to perfect and deduce new Skills.

He’s only just begun developing it and already has six major Flesh and Blood Series Skills that dramatically enhance his Silver-level combat power, so Fang Zhou is already very satisfied.

Next, before going to the front lines to serve in battle, Fang Zhou needs to thoroughly familiarize himself with his brand-new Skill loadout and internalize these newly deduced Flesh and Blood Series Skills into his own combat system.

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Wasteland of Strife, the Blood Moon hangs across the sky.

After two months of effort, Fang Zhou finally managed to fully digest and absorb the generous legacy left behind by the Vampire Lord.

Units of the Spiritual Remains Series such as Spiritual Remains Knight, Spiritual Remains Warrior, Spiritual Remains Archer, Spiritual Remains Mage, and Spiritual Remains Giant Bat all advanced into Blood Spirit Series breeds modeled after Fang Zhou.

The racial Combat Power Coefficient was greatly increased compared to before.

In addition to urgently refitting and upgrading the Tombyard Undead Army—whose numbers had already reached a staggering eight hundred thousand—Fang Zhou also ordered Tidamia to scatter countless reconnaissance team units around the Tomb Territory like a goddess sowing flowers.

The goal, naturally, was to locate more high level Undead Lord territories, conquer them, and collect their Undead Blood Moon authorities.

Anyway, given Fang Zhou’s current terrifying strength as a Silver Upper Rank, he should already be in an invincible state across the entire Wasteland of Strife.

And now, the two months of solid development time were finally coming to an end.

Tidamia sent word to Fang Zhou that a canyon filled with massive Undead graveyards had been discovered to the northwest of the territory.

The Energy Concentration and Blood Moon Rule at this location differed from the vast majority of the Wasteland of Strife, suggesting it might be a boundary with other Undead Realm fragments.

This aroused Fang Zhou’s curiosity.

Just in time, with Undead Mage Spirit Bodies and Blood Spirit Mages working for him lately, the various scientific research tasks in the Tomb Territory were all proceeding in an orderly fashion, so Fang Zhou didn’t need to pour all of his attention into internal affairs.

He simply ordered the Blood Spirit Mage leader Karsas, his [Scientific Research Officer], and the Resentful Spirit leader Leblanc, his [Civil Affairs Officer], to manage territorial affairs in his stead, then followed Tidamia to the newly discovered canyon.

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After crossing ridge after ridge, wiping out group after group of Undead Creatures, Fang Zhou finally emerged into a deep canyon—his destination for this trip was finally in sight!

"Tidamia really outdid himself."

"He managed to find a place this well hidden."

Crash!

His blood-colored Shin Guards came down, and the rock surface, weathered by countless years of wind and rain, crumbled layer by layer.

Amid that crisp sound, Fang Zhou and Tidamia arrived at the end of the canyon.

Two half-closed Stone Gates appeared in his line of sight.

The canyon tomb—that was Fang Zhou’s destination for this trip.

At the same time, this was also a gathering place for Ghosts!

Under the protection of the Blood Spirit Knight Guard, Ghosts from the ancient tomb would often be blasted apart the instant they appeared, before they had any chance to reach Fang Zhou.

His Blood Spirit Long Spear was only of some use when blasting open tomb doors; at other times he had no opportunity to use it at all.

These Blood Spirit Knights possessed the innate Skills of the Ghost Race’s Death Spirit Body, and on top of that had reached the lofty Tier of Silver.

These Bronze-level Ghosts couldn’t stir up any waves at all before being easily slaughtered by them.

They rampaged all the way through.

By the time they had passed from the ancient tomb’s entrance to its core burial chamber, the Blood Spirit Knight Guard had already annihilated more than a hundred Ghosts, including several Silver-level Resentful Spirits that appeared one after another.

According to the sensing of the Undead Blood Moon authority, there was something in the core burial chamber ahead that would be greatly beneficial to the authority’s evolution.

It was also the objective of Fang Zhou’s trip.

Boom!

Once again he swung his spear, blasting apart the massive stone burial gate of the core chamber, and Fang Zhou stepped inside in long strides, arriving at the center of the ancient tomb.

It was a spacious chamber.

A series of stone pillars held up the burial chamber, making it quite empty.

Aside from the two massive mounds placed in the center of the chamber, the only eye-catching thing was a strange structure in the corner of the burial chamber.

Similar to an altar, yet not quite the same.