Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

That’s right, it’s proactive nurturing, not passive plundering.

This is also why Fang Zhou painstakingly cultivated Vladimir.

Just like the highest of the Skeleton Race can evolve into Skeleton Warriors, within the Silver Tier vampire groups, usually only Vampire Lords have the opportunity to continue evolving in this way, becoming Golden Tier Vampire Nobles.

Vampires are indeed a peculiar undead species.

It seems the very purpose of the entire species is to continually gather the strength of all vampires to ultimately nurture a pinnacle powerhouse above all vampires!

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When Fang Zhou brought Vladimir into the canyon, this is what they saw.

Over a thousand giant bat wolves quietly stayed in a corner of the canyon, as if they were a group of stone-carved statues.

And those Blood Bat Knights were practicing in the open area of the canyon under their leader’s guidance!

Yes, they were cultivating!

Two Blood Bat Knights faced off in pairs, wielding their lances and longswords, fighting fiercely as if they were mortal enemies!

This practice would only end when one of the Blood Bat Knights was on the verge of death!

The victor would look for another Blood Bat Knight to continue dueling.

The loser would continually absorb the death aura, healing the wounds on their body, and once recovered, join the duels again!

The Blood Bat Knights fear no death; from birth till the end of life, they all spend their time in such life-and-death struggles.

After a long accumulation of time, almost every Blood Bat Knight had integrated their skills into their very bones, becoming bodily instincts.

Fang Zhou and Vladimir arrived.

Those Blood Bat Knights paid no heed and continued their life-and-death combat.

Only the Blood Bat Knight leader stopped fighting and turned his eyes, hidden under his helmet, towards Fang Zhou’s direction.

In terms of strength, at this moment, Fang Zhou was enough to overpower the Blood Bat Knight leader.

But there was no need to make a move.

Moreover, whether one is a living being or undead, as long as one attacks a Blood Bat Knight, they’ll certainly face the entire Blood Bat Knight Order!

Fang Zhou came here with Vladimir to issue a challenge, not a taunt.

When the Blood Bat Knight leader looked over, Fang Zhou stepped back, revealing Vladimir behind him.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

Riding the Blood Spirit Warhorse, Vladimir urged the horse forward.

The thick hooves struck the canyon rocks, making a series of crisp footsteps.

He gradually advanced, and when he reached the canyon center, just over a hundred meters from the Blood Bat Knight leader, Vladimir halted.

Riding the Blood Spirit Warhorse, Vladimir held the reins in one hand and his Blood-colored Knight Spear in the other.

When the Blood Bat Knight leader looked over, Vladimir pointed his Blood-colored Knight Spear at him.

Then, he withdrew the spear, keeping its point aimed at the sky, and made a slight bow to the Blood Bat Knight leader.

This was a challenge, as well as a tradition of the Blood Bat Knight race.

When the weaker side makes this gesture towards the stronger, it means Vladimir is challenging the Blood Bat Knight leader!

This was not a mere challenge.

If Vladimir won, he would replace the Blood Bat Knight leader, becoming the new leader of the Blood Bat Knight Order, possessing everything of the Blood Bat Knight Order.

If Vladimir lost, he would join the Knight Order and offer everything of himself!

Vladimir initiated the challenge.

The Blood Bat Knight leader paused slightly but did not refuse.

No need for an order.

The thousands of Blood Bat Knights in life-and-death struggles all paused, walking to the side of the canyon, lining up neatly and making space in the canyon center.

Challenging the leader is never just between the challenger and the leader but involves the entire Blood Bat Knight Order.

These Blood Bat Knights all were witnesses, overseers, and executors of this challenge.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

A slight soul wave spread.

Upon accepting Vladimir’s challenge, the Blood Bat Knight leader’s mount, the tallest giant bat wolf, also walked from the edge of the canyon to his side.

Mounting his steed, the Blood Bat Knight leader also wielded a blood-colored knight spear.

Two knights.

Both donned in complete blood armor, each holding a blood-colored knight spear.

Except one rode a Blood Spirit Warhorse and the other a giant bat wolf.

One was Silver Upper Rank, the other a Silver Limit.

Nobody felt this challenge was unfair, and Fang Zhou thought the same.

When Vladimir made that move and challenged the Blood Bat Knight leader’s position as a vampire, everything was judged by strength.

Vladimir would exert all his effort to defeat the Blood Bat Knight leader and seize his position.

The Blood Bat Knight leader would also fight with all his might to protect the dignity of the leader!

There would be no holding back, and no reservation of strength.

In such a challenge, both Vladimir and the Blood Bat Knight leader would give their best!

Victory or defeat.

No other possibility.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

The crisp footfall resounded once more.

After performing a knight’s salute to each other, Vladimir leveled his knight spear, urging the Blood Spirit Warhorse beneath him to charge.

At the same time, the Blood Bat Knight also leveled their knight spear, and the giant bat wolf beneath him neighed, initiating a charge!

A distance of over a hundred meters was already very close.

For ordinary human knights, this hundred-plus meters might barely be enough for them to start charging.

But Vladimir and the Blood Bat Knight leader were not ordinary.

The mounts beneath them were incomparable to ordinary warhorses.

The crisp and dense footfalls echoed through the canyon.

In almost just over twenty meters, Vladimir’s Blood Spirit Warhorse and the Blood Bat Knight leader’s giant bat wolf reached their peak speed!

Then, man and steed as one!

Knight Skill activated, Charge!!!

Two similarly blood-colored knights, like two blood-red bolts of lightning, began their duel challenge on this not-so-spacious field in the canyon center.

Standing at the canyon’s edge, Fang Zhou watched the battlefield intently, silently calculating Vladimir’s chances of victory in his heart.

After all, with such a long cultivation by Fang Zhou, Vladimir’s four-dimensional attributes had been elevated to a level not much inferior to the Blood Bat Knight leader.

Not to mention, Vladimir’s Blood Spirit Warhorse was manufactured by him using [Bone Armament].

When man and steed are as one, the attributes of the knight and the mount stack together, entirely compensating for the disparities in attributes and tiers between Vladimir and the Blood Bat Knight leader.

In such circumstances, possessing the talents of the four great undead races and mastering many Death Energy Combat Skills, Vladimir had no reason not to defeat the Blood Bat Knight leader!

While Fang Zhou pondered, the two blood-red lightning bolts on the battlefield converged together.

When the distance between the two knights was only four to five meters, a dense Power of Death surged from Vladimir’s body, injecting into the knight spear, dyeing the already blood-colored spear a deep red like blood.

The Blood Bat Knight leader did the same.

However, the Power of Death surging from him... was not as pure or profound as Vladimir’s!

Clang!

In an instant.

The two knights passed each other.

Vladimir’s spear strike missed.

The Blood Bat Knight leader’s strike, however, firmly pierced into Vladimir, leaving a deep mark on his blood-colored knight armor!

In the first round, Vladimir was slightly inferior.

Fang Zhou was not surprised.

After all, it has been only a few months since Vladimir’s creation.

His skills and combat techniques were still far from reaching their peak.

Whereas as the leader of a thousand-strong knight order, the Blood Bat Knight leader’s growth spanned decades or even hundreds of years.

Such a long time was enough for him to hone his skills and combat techniques to their zenith!

However, Vladimir was hit with the Blood Bat Knight leader’s full-on strike, and it only left a deep mark on his knight armor.

This already proved Fang Zhou’s strategy was correct.