Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Chapter 461 Bone Plains, Earthbound Demon Bear, Corpse Knight Warband!

Is there another trick to it?

Fangzhou felt a sense of excitement, like he had just found a prey.

The stronger these undead lords are, the greater the potential of this new undead world.

If one could wield the same power over this fragment of the Netherworld as he wielded the Hill of Corpses, the benefits that could be returned to the Ark would naturally be even greater.

This obvious truth needs no further explanation. Without hesitation, Fang Zhou spurred his horse, spear in hand, a burst of pure black light erupting from his body, and steered the Yellow Springs Nightmare beneath him toward the Zombie Lord's position!

Death Charge!

This powerful impact naturally knocked the zombie lord back down.

In this way, every time the zombie lord tried to charge forward, Ark would either swing his skeletal spear and stab him down in a few moves, or ride the Yellow Springs Nightmare and ram him down hard.

In this situation, what means did the zombie lord have to resist?

In the end, he never saw his loyal guards again. Under the cold gunfire of the Ark and its skeletal guards, he perished.

Having swallowed the slowly rising soul fire of the Zombie Lord, Ark began to inherit some of his fragmented memories and the Blood Moon's Blessing.

This zombie lord's soulfire was indeed much stronger than that of the skeleton lord who rose to power in the Black Iron faction. It took the Ark a considerable amount of time to digest this soulfire.

But after a short while, a ferocious smile appeared on Fangzhou's face.

Now, he finally has a place of his own in this new world of the dead.

Before consuming the soulfire of this zombie lord, Ark, despite possessing the blessing of the Blood Moon of the Undead and wielding authority over corpses, was still a stowaway in this fragmented new world of the undead.

Although he was granted the status of a lord thanks to the blessing of the Corpse Cemetery, he did not have any territory of his own in this world.

The most obvious difference is that the Ark cannot recklessly open the cemetery of corpses and teleport its undead army to this world without any cost.

But now, all of that has changed.

After consuming the zombie lord's soulfire, Ark officially inherited his identity as the undead lord, as well as this small undead territory.

For Ark, the size of the territory is not important; the status of the lord is the most important.

Having gained the status of a Necromancer and the approval of the Blood Moon in this new Necromancer world, Ark can now teleport his subordinates from his personal scavenger graveyard to this fragment of the Necromancer world without any cost.

This allowed Ark, who had been somewhat apprehensive since arriving in the new world, to breathe a heavy sigh of relief.

Ark jumped into the pit he had dug and began rummaging through the zombie lord's body.

The harvest was truly impressive. In addition to providing the Ark with a considerable amount of corpse essence and a pure soul power, this zombie lord also contributed nearly 5 low-level undead creatures.

Although these undead creatures fell into chaos after losing their lord, to the Ark, they were all his subjects and slaves.

With the addition of these new forces, the training of the stagnation-stricken corpse warriors can now proceed in full swing again.

Of course, these are secondary.

What excited Fang Zhou the most was that he found a place called [Bone-Riding Plains] in the soul fire memories of this zombie lord.

The place.

It is inhabited by a large number of skeletal warhorses and zombie beasts.

These skeletal beasts can all serve as mounts for the skeletal knights.

The biggest problem plaguing Ark right now is the size of the Bronze-ranked Corpse Knight Guards, which has been unable to increase due to the limited production of mounts.

Now that we have the coordinates of the Chigu Plain, this major problem may be easily solved.

In the Zombie Lord's memory, generally speaking, after the wild beasts, ferocious beasts, or spirit beasts in the living world die, their souls come to the Netherworld and attach themselves to the skeletons there, forming skeletal beasts.

However, some of them became zombie beasts for various reasons.

For this reason, mounts for undead creatures are generally divided into skeletal and zombie types.

Skeleton-type creatures are like the Ark's mount, the Yellow Springs Nightmare, whose entire body is basically composed of skeletons.

These mounts are generally quite fast, although they are somewhat lacking in power.

As skeletal creatures, without any special opportunities, the strength of these skeleton beasts will at most stagnate at the upper level of the Black Iron rank.

As for zombie beasts, because they retain some of their flesh and blood from their previous lives, they are often stronger than skeleton beasts of the same type, but they are less fast and agile.

Otherwise, they are not much different from skeleton beasts, except that their level cap can reach the upper bronze rank, which is the upper limit of zombie-type undead creatures.

While extracting the zombie lord's memories, Ark also gained a faint understanding of the Bone Plains.

However, he only had a very weak understanding of these things, since he learned them by absorbing the soul fire of other undead lords.

Absorbing the soul fire allows one to inherit the original owner's memories to a certain extent.

However, these memories inevitably contain signs of fragmentation and confusion, and are far less clear than those obtained through one's own understanding.

Now that he knows about the existence of the Chigu Plain, he will naturally try to find a way to get there.

He already possessed the Yellow Springs Nightmare Armor, a corpse weapon, so he didn't really need a mount.

However, if one could acquire a large number of mounts and transform all of one's skeletal guards into bronze-rank skeletal knights...

This would, at the very least, greatly enhance the combat capabilities and mobility of the troops.

The undead do not need to eat, drink, or rest, so they naturally do not have the various troubles that ordinary cavalrymen have.

Such a cavalry force could absolutely achieve the so-called "coming and going like the wind".

The thought of his undead cavalry sweeping across the battlefield made Fangzhou feel his blood boiling.

While subduing higher-ranking undead knights might be a more convenient approach, Ark doesn't believe it currently possesses that capability.

It's better to focus on developing our own capabilities in a down-to-earth manner.

Ark immediately decided that once the newly acquired troops were integrated, they would make a trip to the Bone Plains to try and bring back a large number of mounts.

Of course, the most important thing before all is to properly inherit the rich legacy of the nearly 5 undead left behind by the Zombie Lord.

They transformed their flesh and blood, and their souls and fire, into resources for their own and the Mori army's growth.

After all, the energy concentration in the new world of the dead is much higher than in the Hills of Corpses.

Within this vast sea of ​​bones in Hushan, there are numerous bronze-rank undead.

Although the vast majority of them are clumsy and slow-moving plague zombies that the Ark dislikes, killing them one by one and absorbing their corpse essence and soul power to improve one's own four-dimensional attributes, or throwing them into the undead modification altar to provide ample raw materials, is a very considerable profit.

Taking a deep breath, Fangzhou looked up at the blood moon overhead.

The road ahead is long and arduous, but we are ready to start anew!

Now that the Corpse Hills have been fully developed, and we've come to this new world by chance, we should give our place of residence for a long time to come a name.

It seems hopeless to rely on these undead lords who only possess basic intelligence. The Ark's soul fire flickered, and a flash of inspiration struck.

Since that's the case, let's call this place "Wasteland of Conflict".

A wasteland of conflict, an era of great strife!

Next, summon your army of skeletal warriors and explore the world!

At the Beast City Inn, Ark opened his eyes from his focused meditation array.

The development of the strife-ridden wasteland cannot be rushed; it must be carried out slowly and gradually.

While the clone explores and expands, the main body's progress cannot be neglected.

Standing up, Fang Zhou looked out the window at the bright moonlight, so different from the Blood Moon of the Dead, and took a deep breath of relief. He then made a precious holographic call to Su Xinyan, who was far away in another world.

It was already very late on Earth, but Instructor Su Xinyan had not gone home. Instead, she stayed in the laboratory of the necromancer research group.

For her, the laboratory is probably more like home.

After a moment of intimate communion, Instructor Su Xinyan, panting slightly, raised her head and carefully examined Fang Zhou's handsome face.

"I still find it unbelievable."

In less than a year, you've risen from Iron rank to the top!

Judging from your aura now, it seems you've made quite a killing in the Beast Mountain Range.

In her memory, the cultivation of the Black Iron Rank was not difficult.

If you're willing to spend money, you can significantly increase your cultivation speed.

For example, by holding a magic stone and drinking a potion that accelerates meditation, one can quickly increase their magical power.

But she had never seen anything as fast as the Ark.

Fang Zhou smiled slightly but did not reply.

His cultivation speed is indeed abnormal.

Compared to other first-year students like Bai Xiaochun, Meng Hongzhuang, and Ye Fan, who have already progressed to the apprentice level, his own speed is too fast.

Normally, students at Haicheng Military Academy would advance to Iron rank in their second year of enrollment, but Ark was already close to breaking through to Bronze rank before even finishing his first year.

This can no longer be explained by the term "genius".

No longer worrying about his cultivation speed, Fang Zhou chatted with Instructor Su Xinyan again, asking her about some of his pent-up questions. Then he bid farewell to the instructor and began preparing for the upcoming beast hunt.

The next day, Ark returned to the outpost, accepted the mission, and set off for the Beast Mountain Range.

He needs to accumulate more contribution points now in preparation for breaking through to the Bronze level.

According to Ark's estimation, the skeletal clones will likely experience a significant boost to their four-dimensional attributes after arriving in the Conflict Wasteland.

In this situation, the growth of one's cultivation level will also be unusually rapid.

It's time to plan ahead and build up some resources for the next phase.

As they ventured deeper into the mountains and felt the even more concentrated energy there, Fangzhou couldn't help but nod in approval.

In the mythological world, the concentration of energy varies from place to place, and some high-energy areas are occupied by more powerful races.

Within a radius of several hundred kilometers where the Beast Fighting City is located, the energy concentration is actually considered low to medium, even less than that in the mountains.

The reason for this is that there are too many things that consume energy.

Whether it's the many students cultivating within the city or the professionals in society, the large energy-absorbing devices specially built in the military academy, or the spiritual material plantations and ferocious beast breeding farms scattered outside the city.

These all require a significant amount of energy, so correspondingly, the energy concentration in this area becomes lower.

I've heard that many professional universities, led by Haicheng Military Academy, also have plans to further expand the territory of Beast Fighting City, since this area has already been largely developed.

Expanding into new territories will undoubtedly lead to the development of more industries and enable more people to become wealthy.

However, developing new territory also requires more manpower, which means competing with the indigenous people of the Beast Mountain Range.

Neither the relentlessly ferocious beasts nor the bloodthirsty wild men are easy to deal with.

Putting aside his thoughts, Fangzhou continued searching for traces of the ferocious beast.

In the mountains, each ferocious beast has its own territory.

After each successful hunt, the Ark needs to travel even further to find new ferocious beasts.

Sometimes he fantasized that he would encounter suitable ferocious beasts one after another, and maybe he could go back to rest soon.

After venturing deep into the mountains for several days, Fang Zhou finally got his wish and encountered a large group of ferocious beasts, the Earth Demon Bears.

This is a large clan of demon bears, who have occupied a treacherous mountain as their lair.

The Earth Demon Bear is about the same height as its distant relatives on Blue Star. Here, they are generally around two meters tall and have a robust build.

These are omnivorous ferocious beasts. They not only eat vegetables, but sometimes they also hunt other ferocious beasts and eat some flesh and blood to satisfy their hunger.

A top-tier Earth Demon Bear, possessing innate magical abilities, including the Earth Binding Technique.

This is a pretty good spell for the Black Iron tier, capable of grounding enemies with weak spell resistance and status ailment immunity.

Earthbound is a negative state controlled by the earth element, often manifesting as petrification, stagnation, pressure, inability to stand, and other states.

Moreover, these demonic bears will not spare enemies who have been bound by the earth; they can even devour the flesh and blood that are bound by the earth element and are as hard as stone.

Of course, not every demon bear possesses this ability to unleash innate magical spells; most are ordinary beasts.

However, their immense power and considerable intelligence made Ark consider whether or not to attack them.

If we take over this tribe and kill all these demon bears, we can at least provide him with tens of thousands of contribution points or magic stones.

After a moment's thought, Fangzhou decided to stay and observe to see how strong this Earth Demon Bear clan was.

After a day of observation, it was determined that this group consisted of about 120 Earth Demon Bears, including five demon bears with innate magical abilities.

These few demonic bears definitely possess magic crystals, and the other demonic bears are also ferocious beasts with powerful bodies.

After the battle, the Ark can choose some to revive and turn into Corpse Warriors.

For him, killing these kinds of ferocious beasts is relatively cost-effective.

"Maybe I can sneak up and kill all of these demonic bears."

, 7

Fangzhou suppressed his thoughts and began searching for a suitable battlefield.