leonardwarren Chapter 339 Enchantment [Contract], Mutant Skeleton Archer!
Chapter 339 Enchantment [Contract], Mutant Skeleton Archer!
Chapter 339 Enchantment [Contract], Mutant Skeleton Archer!
Even for dragon spirit pets with relatively strong bloodlines, such as the Black Gem Baby Dragon, the Dragon Soul Crystal is a better fit and has a stronger effect.
One Dragon Soul Crystal costs a total of 200 contribution points.
Therefore, Ark also added Dragon Soul Crystals to the exchange list.
Next, Fangzhou continued searching the resource library, but even after searching through the resource libraries of the ten military academies, he still could not find the last type of pure raw firewood material he needed.
Pure Firewood is mainly used to accelerate the absorption of other undead attribute hatching materials by the Black Gem Dragon Egg.
According to Instructor Su Xinyan's estimate, with the assistance of Pure Fire, a Black Gem Dragon of Black Iron grade would hatch from the dragon egg in less than half a year.
The lack of this material at the moment may greatly extend the hatching time of the Black Gem Dragon.
Fortunately, Ark can wait.
From another perspective, the three materials that Ark had prepared to exchange for together amounted to exactly 500 contribution points, completely negating the reward awarded to this recruit competition champion by the top ten military academies.
After the exchange is completed, these three materials will be delivered to Fangzhou through the confidential internal channels between the military academies.
It is estimated to take at least three days, and at most a week.
After dealing with this matter, Fangzhou chatted with the three female instructors, each with their own unique charm, for a few more days.
Soon after, a messenger robot from the logistics department of Haicheng Military Academy arrived at the necromancer research group with materials on contract enchantment affixes.
Under the guidance of Instructor Su Xinyan, Fangzhou began the enchanting process.
As the flames in the alchemy furnace gradually rose, Ark placed the Dragonsharp Blade Medal he had just acquired into it.
The temperature inside the alchemy furnace gradually rose, the materials gradually fused together, and emitted a faint glow.
Following Instructor Su Xinyan's guidance, Fang Zhou gently tapped the medal with a smelting hammer.
Each tap was accompanied by a slight sound, and the luster on the medal's surface flickered accordingly.
As time passed, the materials in the alchemy furnace gradually fused with the medal, radiating an increasingly intense light.
Under the astonished gazes of instructors Huang Qiuyue and Shen Hongyu, Fangzhou completed the final step of the enchanting process.
He took out the medal and set it aside to cool.
As time passed, the luster on the medal's surface gradually faded, eventually stabilizing.
Fang Zhou picked up the Dragon Summer Blade Medal, which had now cooled down, and looked at the description in the Oddities section of the attribute panel:
【Contract - Dragonxia Blade Medal】(Blue, Excellent, Rare): An honorary medal awarded by the Dragonxia Federation Military to elite warriors, slightly increasing the main attributes of Silver-rank and below professions. Can store up to three direct damage skills per day, not exceeding the user's rank. Enchanted with the 【Contract】 affix, slightly enhancing your summoning skills, increasing the quantity and quality of summoned creatures.
Fangzhou could feel a faint power amplifying his Summon Skeleton skill.
If we unleash our full potential in summoning now, the quantity and quality of the skeletons will likely increase significantly.
Su Xinyan took the enchanted Dragon Summer Blade Medal from Fang Zhou, examined it carefully, and then nodded in satisfaction, saying, "Not bad, you have successfully mastered the enchanting technique."
It seems your alchemy skills are already quite advanced.
If it weren't for your own limitations restricting your alchemy skills, I should now call you a novice alchemist.
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Instructor Shen Hongyu shook her head and sighed softly, "Fang Zhou, your talent is truly terrifying."
Not only does he excel in his primary profession of necromancer, but he is also quite remarkable in his secondary profession of alchemy.
When I reached your level, let alone have the energy for a side job, even meditating every day was extremely painful and progressed very slowly.
Fang Zhou smiled slightly, knowing that his extraordinary performance was based on the help of the attribute panel. He didn't dwell on the topic anymore, but looked at the two female instructors, Huang Qiuyue and Shen Hongyu, and said, "Now that the recruit competition has come to an end, my focus will return to daily training."
Besides completing our daily training, breaking through bottlenecks as soon as possible, and advancing to the Black Iron level, we can also restart our previous project on bone regeneration for our professions.
About a month ago, after the Haicheng Military Academy confirmed the participating team members, Instructor Shen Hongyu and Shen Ziwei took the initiative to propose to Fang Zhou that the experiment on bone regeneration be suspended.
The goal is to allow Fangzhou to focus his attention and give his all in the upcoming recruit competition, striving to secure a higher ranking for Haicheng Military Academy.
The new recruit skills competition has now successfully concluded.
Under Fang Zhou's leadership, Haicheng Military Academy directly took the top spot in the rankings.
Then, naturally, we can allocate some of our energy to the topic of bone regeneration.
Upon hearing this, Instructor Shen Hongyu looked somewhat excited and said, "Okay, no problem."
I will inform Ziwei to report to you after I get back.
Thank you so much, Ark.
It's no wonder that Instructor Shen Hongyu was so agitated.
After all, Ark had already made groundbreaking progress in its previous experiments on bone regeneration in low-level monsters such as trolls, goblins, and kobolds.
The bionic skeleton formed by the Ark using necromantic energy, nourished by the power of the life crystal, can now temporarily coexist with low-level monsters.
The next problem to solve is how to use life crystals to simulate the troll's innate regenerative ability over a long period of time, and resolve the energy rejection reaction within ordinary low-level monsters.
If this hurdle can be overcome, then the next step is to try experimenting on human professionals.
If successful, it would mean that the professional bone regeneration project led by Fangzhou has made unprecedented breakthrough progress.
This was naturally the best news for Shen Ziwei, who had lost her left arm and found it difficult to cultivate.
As Shen Ziwei's adoptive mother, Instructor Shen Hongyu naturally hoped that the Ark could make progress as soon as possible.
The group then chatted for a while about the upcoming schedule for the Ark.
Afterwards, instructors Huang Qiuyue and Shen Hongyu took their leave.
Fang Zhou saw the two female instructors out of the laboratory, then turned around and gave Instructor Su Xinyan a thorough massage.
The time was too tight before, and Ark's long-accumulated enthusiasm could not be fully released.
The long night ahead was going to be tough for Instructor Su Xinyan.
An hour later, Fang Zhou, supporting his back, slowly and contentedly walked towards the skills training ground. Tonight, Instructor Su Xinyan had been unusually open.
Her fiery and unrestrained demeanor contrasted sharply with her usual aloof and elegant image, creating an extreme contrast.
As he savored the pleasurable sensation of the massage, he began planning his upcoming itinerary.
The recruit skills competition has come to a successful conclusion, and he will now return to his busy and demanding daily training.
In addition to the daily morning and afternoon military academy classes, Ark also has to sweep through the Abyss difficulty of the Vault Defense War and maneuver in the sand table simulation of the all-out war to exterminate demons.
The various research projects in the necromancer research lab also take up a portion of Ark's energy.
Furthermore, the hatching of that gold-devouring Black Gem Dragon egg also required Ark's personal involvement, in order to create an innate bond with the young dragon in the embryo.
Besides that, the most important thing is that Ark controls his skeleton clones to fight monsters and level up in the meditation room every day, accumulating soul power and four-dimensional attributes.
This is the foundation for Ark's rapid progress, and it cannot be neglected for even a day.
Of course, for the next period of time, he will also need to work hard in the skills training room to improve some promising skills to an instinctive level of proficiency.
Senior Sister Liu Diewu had mentioned to him before that there was a chance to solidify one's innate skills when breaking through to a higher realm. Fang Zhou was very interested in this.
If possible, he also wants to solidify his first talent skill during the process of rising from apprentice to Iron rank.
Beneath the blood moon, a hill of corpses.
The previous Yinming Blood Mine resources had been completely devoured by the Ark. Even the only surviving mutated zombie wolf died after he dissected it several times, thus finding its release.
Fortunately, Ark already has a fairly comprehensive understanding of the zombie wolf, this mutated undead creature.
This also provided him with invaluable first-hand research data for creating his own skeletal mount.
Now, it's time for him and his army of skeletons to continue their exploration deeper into the world.
After exploring for more than an hour tonight, the Ark's movement gradually slowed down.
Just now, with the improvement of his four-dimensional attributes, he gained another slave slot!
Overjoyed, Fang Zhou sifted through the pile of bones brought by his skeleton minions, eventually choosing the skeleton archer with the strongest bones and the most vibrant soul fire as his 50th minion.
Looking up at the blood moon in the sky, Fang Zhou gripped the Corpse Spear in his hand with some disappointment.
Although the gains from the essence of corpses and the power of souls tonight were quite substantial, so far, he hasn't discovered anything that has truly caught his eye.
Just as Ark was preparing to press on, Team One transmitted intense soul fluctuations through the soul link of the [Skeleton King] skill.
Upon receiving the warning from Team One, Ark's previously weary spirits suddenly lifted, and his Soulfire began to pulsate violently.
He was not surprised but delighted, because he had found some great treasures in similar situations several times before.
For example, Tryndamere, who has now been promoted to mid-tier Black Iron, and the Bone Stone Crystal Cluster that was once occupied by mutated zombies.
In the Ark's perception, Archer One, a skeleton minion who was originally perfectly safe under the protection of several melee skeletons and only needed to draw his bow and shoot arrows for ranged firepower, was suddenly attacked by an unknown force. His soul fire dimmed and his thin skeleton collapsed to the ground with a thud.
The moment Arrow One fell, Ark immediately unleashed the secret technique of [Skeleton King].
An invisible soul connection, like a bridge to the underworld, instantly transferred his consciousness to the skeleton of Giant Shield One.
Through these empty eye sockets, the Ark was able to witness the entirety of this sudden battle.
The enemy was a giant skeleton warrior standing on a hill in the distance, nearly two meters tall.
Its bones are not ordinary dull white, but shimmer with a warm, jade-like luster, with distinct lines and a strong sense of power.
It held a huge skeletal longbow in its hand and was drawing the bow to shoot an arrow, aiming at Greatsword Number One Skeleton.
The Ark's soul flame leaped, filling it with even greater joy.
This is actually a mutated skeleton archer.
As a ranged mutated skeleton, this skeleton archer is naturally rarer than Tryndamere, the mutated decapitation greatsword skeleton warrior.
If the two were to face off, the Skeleton Archer, with its ranged advantage, would have a greater chance of winning.
Through the perspective of Giant Shield One, Ark stared intently at the mutated skeleton archer with the excitement of a predator, a thought rising in his mind to enslave it.
It's rare to encounter a mutated skeleton that can be subdued with the Skeleton King's skills, so Ark naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity.
Looking back, he had been fighting in the Netherworld for several months, and this was the second mutated skeleton he had encountered after Tryndamere.
At this moment, although Greatsword No. 1 fought desperately, it was ultimately nothing more than a fragile puppet under the terrifying long-range attacks of the mutated skeleton archer, and soon fell into the shattered bones.
Faced with such a powerful opponent, relying solely on the surviving Giant Shield One, a direct confrontation would be futile.
Ark made a quick decision, ordering Giant Shield One to withdraw from the battlefield, intending to create distance and find an opportunity to rejoin the main force for a counterattack.
However, the mutated skeleton archer's speed far exceeded expectations.
It was like the shadow of death, following closely behind, each step treading upon the despair of Giant Shield One.
Finally, after a short but intense chase, a barrage of skeletal arrows shattered the skeletal shield that Giant Shield One was holding up in front of it, and then accurately struck its soul fire.
At that moment, the skeleton clone's vision went completely black, and its connection with Team One was completely severed.
Clearly, Team One has been completely wiped out.
However, Fang Zhou was not surprised but delighted, and an unprecedented sense of excitement enveloped his soul fire.
Judging from his performance just now, this mutated skeleton marksman seems to be even stronger than Tryndamere. He'd be a perfect second-in-command for him.
Of course, besides wanting to subdue this skeleton archer into its servant, Ark also wanted to know its origin and purpose.
After all, there must be something fishy going on when things are out of the ordinary.
Based on our experience in Ark over this period, whether it's Tryndamere, the mutated giant zombie, or that pack of mutated zombie wolves, these mutated undead creatures have all occupied some rare undead attribute resource points.
Compared to ordinary undead creatures, they are extremely powerful in combat, which is inseparable from their acquisition and absorption of these undead attribute resources.
So, by the same token, what kind of undead attribute resource is behind this mutated skeleton archer?
Fangzhou felt a surge of excitement.
This mutated skeleton archer's combat power is so great that it completely overwhelms its peers.
Of course, if its strength were too great, the naturally cautious Ark would not act rashly.