Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

"Thank you so much, Lieutenant General Ning.

These two resources are extremely useful to me.

The Blood Moon Stone is one of the four essential ingredients for us Undead Mages to refine Silver level potential potions.

And the Leaf of the Ancient Tree of Life is also of great use to my Death Elf Vigus.

Ever since I broke through to Silver level, Vigus has been stuck at Bronze Upper Rank, unable to provide me with much benefit.

I originally planned to select a batch of resources useful to Vigus from the military resource library of the Longxia Federation after the Beastman rampage.

Unexpectedly, you just provided timely assistance and found them for me."

As Fang Zhou was about to express his gratitude, Ning Danxin generously pushed two resource boxes to Fang Zhou, straightforwardly saying, "Alright, don’t be coy.

These are what I, as a senior, can do for you.

You’re growing too fast, kid.

In the blink of an eye, you’ve grown from an apprentice to Silver.

I can’t do much to help you now, but I’ll assist where I can."

Just when Fang Zhou thought the conversation was about to end, Ning Danxin suddenly smiled brightly and said to Fang Zhou, "Although I can’t provide you further assistance in exclusive Undead Mage resources for now,

I do have some little insights in the area of World Runes."

As she spoke, Ning Danxin raised her right hand and tapped Fang Zhou’s forehead without waiting for his reaction.

In that instant, a warm and gentle energy surged into Fang Zhou’s body.

Under the influence of this energy, Fang Zhou felt as if the [Heart Steel II] World Rune deep within his energy core was awakened, starting to emit dazzling light.

At this moment, the attribute panel also sent a prompt:

"The [Heart Steel II] World Rune seed has been detected and can be absorbed; do you wish to start absorption?"

Another rune seed?

Lieutenant General Ning Danxin is so generous!

Fang Zhou did not hesitate and immediately chose to absorb it.

Then, the [Heart Steel] rune deep within his mana core merged with this warm-glowing rune seed.

Fang Zhou looked at the attribute panel and noticed new changes in the World Rune section:

[Heart Steel III]: Award from the world will, advanced world rune. The owner of this rune is immune to all mind control effects from Glory Champion Tier and below.

Thanks to Ning Danxin’s generous gift, this World Rune has been upgraded from Mid Level to high level.

Fang Zhou snapped back to reality, showing an expression of gratitude, and said to Ning Danxin, "Thank you, Lieutenant General Ning, for the gift.

You have pointed me in the right direction in my exploration of World Runes."

Ning Danxin waved her hand, smiled at Fang Zhou’s impressive physique, and said, "At your current rate of growth, you might soon ascend to Gold and even Glory Champion.

Then just slay a few demons as thanks to me.

Alright, with the battle imminent, I have a lot to prepare, so I won’t disturb you any longer.

Go ahead and process these resources carefully.

On the battlefield, be cautious, and don’t be arrogant or reckless."

Fang Zhou silently nodded, saluted Lieutenant General Ning, and watched her leave his tent.

After Ning Danxin left, Fang Zhou looked at the resources in his hands.

The Blood Moon Stone is indispensable; it will definitely be used in the upcoming potion refining, so he stored it directly into his Space Storage Capsule.

Without further prompting from Fang Zhou, Vigus the Death Elf emerged from his shoulder, looking at the Leaf of the Ancient Tree of Life with longing eyes.

Fang Zhou shook his head, tapped Vigus’ little head, and looked at her with an expression of exasperated affection.

"You really don’t make it easy for me.

Look at Tiamat, even though smaller than you, she’s already advanced to Silver Middle Rank.

Hurry and consume it; it was a struggle to acquire these resources for you.

Once you advance to Silver, you’ll have much to work on."

As he spoke, Fang Zhou handed the Leaves of the Ancient Tree of Life to Vigus.

Vigus, looking like she had obtained a treasure, held the leaves larger than her body, smiled ingratiatingly at Fang Zhou, and immediately began to digest and absorb them.

Fang Zhou shook his head slightly.

Seeing Vigus so excited, he wondered if she could break through to Silver Rank before the battle began.

He’d do his best and leave it to fate; with his current strength, he was already ready to fight.

That Tiamat had awakened before the battle delighted Fang Zhou.

Vigus joining in would merely be the icing on the cake.

..........

Half a month passed.

During this time, Fang Zhou the Ark Undead Mage’s combat power made rapid advances.

Upon Tiamat’s awakening from slumber, gaining the Death Radiation talent, and advancing as the Silver level Black Gem Young Dragon, Fang Zhou incorporated her into his combat system.

Taking advantage of the time before the final battle between humans and beastmen began, he spent time refining their coordination.

Significant progress has been made.

Adding joy was that, stimulated by the Leaf of the Ancient Tree of Life provided by Lieutenant General Ning Danxin and Tiamat’s presence, Death Elf Vigus quickly consumed those leaves, greatly enhancing her racial talents.

During this period, Fang Zhou did not give up nurturing Vigus by feeding her many resources beneficial to Spirit Creature’s growth and development.

Through accumulated efforts, Vigus finally broke through her bottleneck, advancing to Silver Lower Rank Death Elf.

The major breakthrough in rank also allowed her to awaken her fourth talent skill, [Magic Penetration].

As the name suggests, this talent greatly boosts the spell penetration of various undead magic released by contractor Fang Zhou and Vigus, largely ignoring the enemy’s magic resistance.

This not only enhances the damage effects of direct damage spells such as Calamity Flying Spear, Skeleton Storm, Poison Cloud Skill but also significantly increases the success rates of control magic and negative magic like Soul Stripping, Soul Shock, and Skeleton Prison.

Though not as powerful as Tiamat’s Death Radiation talent, it’s still a significant enhancement for Fang Zhou.

Successfully awakening the fourth talent skill invigorated Vigus, who had been a bit dishearteningly trailing behind Tiamat.

In fact, as the Flower Elf Queen reincarnated as a Death Elf, Vigus’ talents were already quite powerful.

Her awakened talents such as Double Casting, Strong Magic, Death Energy Tide, and Magic Penetration were all strong enhancements tailored for Magic Professionals.

For any Magic Professional, having a powerful Death Elf like Vigus would be a dream come true.

The reason Vigus was feeling frustrated was not her fault, really.

It’s just that both her master Fang Zhou and her competitor Tiamat had extraordinary talents.

It’s not a fault of war.

Meanwhile, as Fang Zhou was fully preparing for battle, his Blood Spirit Lord clone achieved a major breakthrough.

.............

In the center of the City of Strife, within the Death Energy Prism of the Blood Moon Observatory.

Since leading Vladimir to defeat the original leader and seize control over the entire Blood Banner Knight Order, Fang Zhou returned to the Death Energy Prism, silently accepting the surge of immense death energy.

Finally, with the last hint message sliding across the attribute panel, Fang Zhou’s Spirit Attribute reached its limit of 10,000 points.

This meant all of Fang Zhou’s Four-dimensional Attributes had reached 10,000 points, and at this stage, he could advance no further in the Silver Tier, remaining to seek ways to break through the Silver Tier.

When Fang Zhou was still a regular skeleton at the Apprentice Limit, he successfully broke through the racial bottleneck to become a Black Iron Skeleton Warrior, relying on the attribute panel and Blood Moon Blessing.

Upon reaching the Black Iron Limit during the Corpse Hill period, he successfully merged with the Corrosive Poison Incarnation talent of the Zombie Race, thereby advancing through his talent and efforts to Bronze level Corpse Commander.

Then he defeated the Skeleton Lord and, in the latter’s castle, devoured the power of the Undead Blood Moon, arriving at the Wasteland of Strife through the Tomb’s Undead Teleportation Gate.