Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Fang Zhou was as enthusiastic as a squirrel, gathering corpses with great joy.

It wasn’t until the Beastmen discovered the Flesh Servants coming down from the mountain to collect corpses that they dispatched soldiers to rush up and kill these Flesh Servants, ending the profitable activity for Fang Zhou.

Once the charred corpses had completely absorbed the bodies at the bottom of the city, Fang Zhou ordered these Flesh Servants to return to the city.

Feeling his forces through Mana, a smile inadvertently appeared on his face.

Despite the long battle, his Undead Legion had not diminished but rather increased.

While organizing the battlefield just now, he discovered 10 corpses of Silver-level Beastmen powerhouses.

Counting the dozen or so obtained just now and the original two or three dozen Silver-level Blood Spirit Undead he owned, once this wave of corpse resources is fully digested, Fang Zhou’s Blood Spirit Undead Guard could expand to over 50.

A Silver Lower Rank Undead Mage owning fifty or sixty Silver Lower Rank Undead Summoned Creatures is already an incredibly terrifying presence.

It is only because Fang Zhou is now in a large-scale battlefield, facing hundreds and thousands of enemy attacks at once, that the characteristic of Fang Zhou as an Undead Calamity and a one-man army is not very apparent.

If it were a one-on-one matchup, with Fang Zhou’s current Undead Legion size, no Silver-level powerhouse in the Beastman faction would be his opponent.

Even a Silver Upper Rank Beastman Chiliarch wouldn’t dare to boast when seeing Fang Zhou’s terrifying Undead Legion.

After all, besides Silver-level Blood Spirit Undead, Fang Zhou also had hundreds of Bronze-level Undead and an equal number of low-tier Flesh Servants.

Although due to immense Mana consumption, Fang Zhou could not summon them all to the battlefield for a long time.

But these are the foundation of an Undead Mage.

After so many days of fighting, Fang Zhou had already discovered that the low-tier Flesh Servants he casually produced using Resurrection of the Dead and Flesh Sewing skills were quite valuable.

These things may be useless against powerhouses, but they play a significant role in such a battlefield of thousands battling together.

Fang Zhou placed the Flesh Servants on the city wall as a defensive force.

He even dispatched quite a few of those low-tier Flesh Servants to other city walls for defense.

The continuous defensive battles over the past few days had caused significant losses to the original fortress garrison and those Silver Tier Professionals who came to support.

A brigade of fortress garrison, originally a thousand strong, now had only about five hundred left.

Several Silver Tier Combat Professionals had died, leaving only three remaining.

After setting up the defense line, Fang Zhou returned to the Central Tower.

He opened a warehouse door and poured out the bodies stored in the Space Storage Capsule, forming a small mountain.

For an Undead Mage, these are precious resources.

The bodies inside were all Silver-level Professionals in life, and Fang Zhou picked them up.

If Fang Zhou had these bodies earlier and made them into Silver-level Undead, the recent Beastman assault wouldn’t have been so difficult to defend against.

Fang Zhou checked the number of bodies inside; a total of thirty, including two caster Beastman bodies.

These bodies should belong to two unlucky Beastman Shamans who ran too slow and were struck by Thunder halfway up the mountain.

Fortunately, the damage to the bodies wasn’t too severe.

Fang Zhou simply cast the preservation magic from the Artificial Undead series on the bodies, not daring to rest, and hurriedly meditates to restore Mana to start tense work.

Making Artificial Undead is also a tiring task.

Taking advantage of the retreating Beastmen not yet reorganized for another attack, Fang Zhou began casting non-stop and meditating to restore Mana.

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What relieved Fang Zhou and Shen Zhongyun was that the Beastmen outside Tiger Suppression Fortress, suffering heavy losses, eventually decided to retreat.

The continuous battles over the days, coupled with the final attack of Glory Magic, caused them to lose close to half their soldiers.

Even with a military force of five thousand, they couldn’t capture Tiger Suppression Fortress in one go.

Now with fewer numbers, the chance of capturing this fortress is even lower.

Even if they were willing to use Silver Tier Professionals to attack and fill the gap, there would be no hope.

Although most of the fortress guards were middle and low tier, Shen Zhongyun and Fang Zhou’s Summoned Creatures Legion alone were enough to hold back thousands of troops.

Yale Centurion sat alone by the burned and extremely damaged army map, feeling heartbroken.

Now reassessing, if he had initially ordered the Silver-level Professionals among the Beastmen to rush the front line to launch an attack, before being suddenly attacked by human Glory Mage, there was still some hope to capture this turtle shell-like Tiger Suppression Fortress.

After all, with Silver Tier Professionals among the Beastmen attacking together, Shen Zhongyun would open the fortress shield and act like a shrinking turtle.

But as long as the Beastman powerhouses attack one or two at a time, Shen Zhongyun would let them enter the fortress for slaughter.

In this attrition, the middle and low tier fortress guard would eventually be overwhelmed and slaughtered completely.

Without the middle and low tier guards, the fortress shield would remain constantly open.

Once the Magic Stone within is all consumed, this fortress would be ripe for capture.

But the consequence of such action is needing more Beastman warriors and Silver Tier Professionals.

No matter how you calculate, it wasn’t profitable for the Beastmen.

Thus the army retreated the day after the Glory Magic attack.

Their retreat also brought a sigh of relief to the remaining fortress guards within Tiger Suppression Fortress.

Without the external enemy besieging, Fang Zhou’s work proceeded faster.

Before, while handling these bodies, Fang Zhou had to reserve enough intervals during casting, ensuring his Mana wasn’t overly consumed.

Finally, he could unleash his full potential and work wholeheartedly.

In the following half month, the fortress guards maintained their vigilant state.

Occasionally, Beastman Scout teams were detected at the bottom of the mountain.

However, no one wanted to go out.

Now, the fortress guards and garrison were already quite stretched thin.

The only ones capable of going out for battle were Shen Zhongyun and Fang Zhou.

But Shen Zhongyun wished for success without failure, focusing solely on guarding Tiger Suppression Fortress.

Fang Zhou was immersed in the busy work of handling corpses, not interested in doing anything else until the victory spoils from the previous battle were completely digested.

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In the fortress tower, the processing of over twenty Silver-level Combat Professional corpses was soon completed, followed by the processing of Beastman caster corpses.

Fang Zhou spent several days, carefully and cautiously conducting the resurrection, finally succeeding.

Thus, Fang Zhou gained two more Silver-level Blood Spirit Mages, one Blood Spirit Assassin, and three Blood Spirit Warriors under his command.

Feeling the power under his command, Fang Zhou couldn’t help but feel genuinely delighted.

Now he alone equated to a fairly powerful Silver-level combat team.

With seven Silver-level Blood Spirit Mages alone, what kind of large and powerful Adventurer Group would have such a high configuration?

The Soul Fire engraved in these Blood Spirit Mages contained attack and negative magic, able to exert excellent power in battlefield attacks and support.

Regarding other Silver-level corpses, expanding Fang Zhou’s Blood Spirit Guard was limited by Undead Attribute materials, not by magic or corpses.

For example, Nether Fire Ash can enhance Artificial Undead Creatures’ perception and conduction of Soul Energy, a key material to guide Blood Spirit Undead in awakening Ghost Talent Death Spirit Body.

For example, Flesh and Blood Ganoderma Lucidum can enhance the blood flesh vitality of Artificial Undead Creatures, prompting them to generate formidable Flesh Armor.

For example, Living Rot Heart is a key material for Fang Zhou to engrave Basic Combat Skills on these Blood Spirit Warriors.

Without these materials, even with corpses, Silver-level Blood Spirit Series Undead cannot be made.

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After dealing with these corpses, Fang Zhou was free.

Besides occasionally inspecting, Fang Zhou spent his days meditating in the tower.

The garrison on the city walls was handed over to their officers for command.

The Death Spirit Bodies under his command stood guard at various defense nodes, constantly poised for action.