Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Chapter 454: The Graveyard of Corpses Upgrades, Unlocking a New Undead Unit!

Fangzhou ignored them.

For him, the Tigers team was just a passing phase.

He only joined the team now to familiarize himself with the situation here.

As long as he was safe, he didn't care what the team members thought.

Next, Fangzhou cast a spell, aiming the magic at the birds in front of him. The birds' corpses quickly changed, and their flesh and blood gradually disappeared.

A dozen or so skeletal birds appeared at the foot of the ark.

This is naturally a new ability that Ark gained after mastering the skill of creating artificial undead.

These hastily crafted undead skeletons, while lacking any direct combat capabilities, are more than sufficient as sentry posts.

As undead creatures, they are naturally much more reliable than human teammates.

Dinner was quickly prepared. Fang Zhou quietly released a friend of life, and only after detecting that there were no toxins did he feel at ease eating it.

In this world, one must always be wary of others; this is Ark's life motto.

Even when resting in the forest at night, someone still needs to keep watch.

Of course, these things are irrelevant to the Ark.

The manpower was drawn from the forest rangers and wanderers, who were divided into three shifts to take turns keeping watch at night.

However, the Ark also summoned several skeleton warriors and skeletal bats, which stood around the camp from three angles.

When it comes to keeping watch, these undead creatures are the best.

They don't need to sleep, and they won't feel tired at all until the Ark's magic runs out.

If danger comes, they can be the first to step in.

Back in the tent of the Ark, he entered a shallow meditation to restore his magical power and slowly cultivated.

After walking for two days, the group officially began their hunt.

It was only here that the number of ferocious beasts truly increased.

The deeper you go into the mountains, the higher the concentration of magic, and the higher the level of the ferocious beasts that follow.

After traveling hundreds of miles, we arrived at the outer ring of the mountain range, where most of the ferocious beasts were of the Black Iron rank.

The Tiger Team has a well-balanced composition, so even hunting high-ranking Black Iron level beasts is not difficult for them.

They can kill some low-level, unintelligent beasts of the Bronze rank, but due to previous events, they have little desire to hunt Bronze beasts.

"Boss, there are several ferocious bears ahead, two adults and five cubs."

The wanderers are those who walk at the front of the group; they are responsible for clearing the way and searching for ferocious beasts to hunt.

The ferocious bears of the Beast Mountain Range are beasts that possess Black Iron level strength upon reaching adulthood.

They generally live in family groups, and are only driven away by their parents when the young ferocious bears grow into black iron.

"Let's go!" Qiu Xingyao led his men toward their target without hesitation.

The group stopped a few hundred meters away, where the rangers could already see the entire family of ferocious bears using their secret methods.

This ferocious bear family must have just finished hunting, as the whole family is feeding on the body of a dead deer.

Several forest rangers chose to stand on high ground, perched atop tree branches, their eyes already fixed on the ferocious bears that remained oblivious to the danger.

As their internal battle energy circulated, a dangerous fluctuation began to appear on their bodies.

This is a basic skill for Rangers, allowing them to utilize higher ground to increase damage when attached to weapons or arrows.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Several arrows pierced through the gaps in the trees, accurately striking the two adult, ferocious bears, the arrows entering their eyeballs.

"Aww!"

The ferocious bear's entire body is covered in keratinized scales, providing excellent defense. Unless you shoot its eyeballs, it probably won't cause fatal damage to them.

The ferocious bear, suddenly attacked, was struck in a vital spot, compounded by the explosive force of the arrow's energy.

These ferocious bears had no chance to fight back and died quickly.

Once the adult ferocious bear died, the juvenile ferocious bears had no chance of survival either, and soon, one by one, they died under the arrows.

The battle was over before Ark even had a chance to fight.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but admire the attack power of these forest rangers.

Rangers are also one of the classes that can damage mages, as they can launch attacks from extremely long distances.

Furthermore, these rangers also have advanced professions, such as Sniper, which are professions specifically designed to attack mages.

The Sniper class has arrows with anti-magic properties, making it easier to break through a mage's defensive shields and directly attack the mage.

The group arrived at the battlefield of the ferocious bear and left evidence using their personal terminals, which served as proof for earning contribution points.

The rangers had expended a lot of their battle energy and were now working hard to recover. Although they hadn't attacked many times, each arrow had been imbued with a large amount of their battle energy.

Ferocious bears are valuable, primarily because of the single horn that grows on their heads.

This is an energy organ, worth around thirty magic stones.

Their scales were also one of the materials used to make defensive armor.

But the hunt has only just begun, and carrying these scales is too heavy, so we'll just discard them.

Hunting time always flies.

Over the course of ten days, the members of the Fierce Tiger Team have hunted nearly a hundred ferocious beasts, most of which are of lower-tier Black Iron strength.

The black iron beasts in this area rarely move in large groups; at most, they are small families of about ten individuals.

This made hunting particularly easy for the Tiger Squad; they could even resolve most of the battles without Ark's intervention.

This left Fangzhou feeling somewhat idle, as he spent most of his time watching the other team members diligently hunt with their arrows.

Or they could lie in ambush for most of the day, search for some ferocious beasts, and then simply shoot them down before dividing the materials.

However, although Fangzhou didn't do any work, he took 30% of the team's profits, which made the team members somewhat unhappy.

Unlike other teams, the Tiger Team has a simple goal: to hunt down low-level Black Iron Beasts.

They were already very familiar with hunting ferocious beasts, including the coordination with their teammates. At this point, whether or not there was a mage, the effect was actually about the same.

The workload is still the same, but the amount of money I receive has decreased. Anyone would be unhappy about that.

This emotion reached its peak after returning to the Beast Arena to settle the score.

After receiving his hunt spoils, one of the wanderers muttered under his breath, "How come it's only this little?"

Another ranger overheard this, glanced at the ark, and casually remarked, "We've worked so hard to earn this little bit."

Look at them, they didn't do anything, and they're getting more than the two of us combined.

He said it quite loudly, and almost everyone in the team heard it.

The atmosphere at this moment is rather strange.

The other members of the team were well aware of the advantages of having a mage; at least they could relax a lot when keeping watch.

The dangers that are usually easy to encounter were fewer this time, but people only care about what is in front of them.

Their well-established team won't have any problems even without a mage.

Although the others didn't say anything, they actually thought the same thing and were all watching coldly as Qiu Xingyao prepared to handle the situation.

"you!"

Qiu Xingyao's expression was somewhat unpleasant, after all, recruiting Fang Zhou was his idea as the team leader, and he was also the one who set the salary terms.

"It seems like I'm not particularly welcomed by the team."

Fangzhou didn't care. After this hunt, he had a basic understanding of the situation in the Beast Mountain Range.

He has a large number of undead creatures that can be summoned at any time, and he is a team in himself.

Whether he has teammates or not is not particularly important to him.

Fang Zhou glanced at Qiu Xingyao, whose face looked grim, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Captain Qiu, I'll step down so you won't have to make things difficult."

Aside from the contribution points, I won't be distributing anything else from this hunt.

Then Fangzhou turned and left.

"Fangzhou!" Qiu Xingyao wanted to reach out and grab Fangzhou, but he didn't know how to stop him.

Someone put their arm around his shoulder and whispered, "Captain, let him go. Our small team can't keep him here."

Qiu Xingyao opened his mouth in vain, but couldn't say anything.

He wanted to expand his team, but the veteran players around him weren't enthusiastic about it.

Most of them aim to earn magic stones safely.

No matter how big the team expands, the money they receive won't increase; on the contrary, the risks might increase.

On one side was the mage he admired, and on the other was his old brother with whom he had a good working relationship. For a moment, Qiu Xingyao didn't know what to say.

Soon, Fangzhou packed his things and walked out of the Tiger Team's lobby with a calm expression.

Ark suffered no losses after the Tigers left.

To be honest, the team atmosphere became somewhat awkward after he joined.

This hunting trip of more than twenty days was also a way for Ark to go through the process and familiarize himself with the environment.

Given Ark's combat capabilities, which far surpass those of its peers and allow it to act as an army on its own, it should be able to go out on its own without much trouble in the future.

Although Fangzhou gave up the distribution of spoils, he could probably get two or three hundred magic stones, but it didn't matter.

He didn't do much work, yet he still received nearly two hundred contribution points.

After finding a hotel in the city, Fangzhou activated his portable meditation array and entered a deep meditation state.

It wasn't that he suddenly had some inspiration, but rather that he made a new discovery regarding the skeletal clone.

Taking advantage of the fact that his main body is currently in the very safe Beast Fighting City, Ark will first focus on dealing with and investigating the discovery there.

A blood moon hangs in the sky, amidst hills of corpses.

After gaining control of the corpses, Ark gained a deeper understanding of the nature of the Netherworld.

Therefore, he was already able to faintly sense that the blood moon overhead was just an illusory projection.

Shaking his head, Fangzhou looked at the clone's attribute panel.

[Clone] Corpse Knight Lord [Rank] Bronze Mid-Tier [Attributes] Strength 520, Constitution 500, Agility 480, Spirit 410

【装备】骸长枪+3（三级白骨石*3）、毒骸铠甲+3（三级白骨石*3）、黄泉梦魔+3

(Level 3 Nether Stone * 3)

[Oddity] Berserker's Mark (Purple)

[Skills] Corpse Lord (Bronze, Instinct), Corpse Armament (Bronze, Instinct), Corruption Avatar (Bronze, Instinct), Deadly Strike (Bronze, Mastery), Death Slash (Bronze, Mastery), Death Whirlwind (Bronze, Mastery), Death Charge (Bronze, Mastery), Death Weapon Specialization (Bronze, Mastery), Death Block (Bronze, Mastery), Death War Cry (Bronze, Mastery), Death Energy Shield (Bronze, Mastery), Death Stance (Bronze, Mastery), Death Roar (Bronze, Mastery), Death Stomp (Bronze, Mastery)

[Authority] Cemetery of Corpses (weak)

Core building: [Lord's Hall] *1

Resource Buildings: Soul Well*3, Flesh Mother Tree*3, Bone Mine*3

Unit Buildings: [Burial Ground] *1, [Corpse Pit] *1, [Corpse Warrior Conversion Pool] *1, [Corpse Rider Tomb] *1

Functional Buildings: [Military Seal Office] *1, [Royal Guard Camp] *1, [Corpse Modification Altar] *1, [Undead Teleportation Array]

*1

[Apostle] 56

【force】

Corpse Knights *100 (Mid-Bronze)

Corpse Guards *377 (Higher Black Iron Rank)

Corpse Commander*4

Corpse Centurion * 47

Corpse Centurion * 477

Corpse Warriors * 47700 (High Iron Rank)

Compared to before, after this period of hunting and digestion, Ark's strength attribute has officially broken through 500 points.

This also means that his rank has naturally been raised to the middle of the Bronze rank.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. Compared to the increase in attributes, what has made Ark's combat power so dramatically improved is more reflected in his skills.

Skills that originally involved various elements such as attack, defense, movement, control, and buffs have all been upgraded to the Bronze rank by Ark due to the massive consumption of resources during this period.

It can be said that Ark's individual strength has reached its current peak.

In addition, Ark has made significant progress in the area of ​​the skeletal graveyard.

The Ark has already scavenged a large amount of resources in the Corpse Hills to build and improve some of the initial buildings unlocked by the Corpse Authority.

Resource-producing buildings such as the Mother Tree of Flesh, Bone Mine, and Soul Well are all maxed out, needless to say.

This also brings the Ark a considerable amount of soul power and corpse resources every day.

After the farming buildings were fully constructed, the remaining troop production buildings, such as corpse pits and burial grounds, were naturally built by Ark as well.

With the addition of the Royal Guard Camp and the Military Seal Office, both blessed by the Blood Moon, it can be said that the Ark's Graveyard is now a small territory that can barely be self-sufficient.

As for the Corpse Guardians, Ark's current average four-dimensional attributes have exceeded 477 points.

Therefore, he has 477 enslaved Bronze-rank undead creatures.

However, one naturally cannot find such high-level undead creatures in the Hill of Corpses.

The Ark had no choice but to turn to the Undead Modification Altar, attempting to use itself as a template to synthesize and modify new advancement paths among skeletal and zombie undead.

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