Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Chapter 468 Huge Contribution Point Reward: Capturing a Zombie Bear!

For the next period of time, Ark entered a period of explosive growth and joy.

Taking advantage of the temporary calm period of the Blood Moon Tide and the absence of external enemies interfering with the territory, the clones diligently farmed and conducted research in the strife wasteland.

Both his own strength and the influence of the Mora Corpse Cemetery are growing day by day.

Meanwhile, the main body was digesting the attribute feedback from the clone while hunting in the outer area of ​​the ferocious beast mountain range, which it was already very familiar with.

Every night when he had nothing to do, Fangzhou would use his mental energy to wear down the spatial equipment left behind by the Foxtail Bandit Group.

These guys are pretty rich; six out of the eighteen have spatial equipment.

Even if the owner dies, it won't be easy to open this spatial equipment.

The Ark can only slowly use its magic to gradually erase the remaining spiritual imprints within it, like a gentle, persistent process.

It takes at least five days to erase the marks inside each piece of equipment and open it.

This is because Ark's mental attribute is already close to 100 points, and it's about to reach the bottleneck of a Bronze Mage.

For an ordinary Black Iron rank mage, the time required to erase the spiritual imprint would at least double.

If it's a combatant, then it goes without saying.

It's practically impossible for them to erase the mark on the spatial equipment. During this time, the Ark has also figured out the defensive magic circle.

This abridged version of the magic circle, when activated to its highest level, can generate a shield value at the upper limit of Black Iron, with a peak consumption of thirty magic stones per hour.

The minimum activation shield value is Black Iron Mid-tier, consuming ten magic stones per hour.

However, if a mage is present and relies on meditation to restore energy, this minimum consumption can be reduced to less than three magic stones.

Once the shield is broken, it takes several minutes to reactivate it.

Furthermore, each time the shield is broken, the runes on the portable protective array are damaged, so it's best to avoid breaking the shield altogether.

The maximum protective range of the magic circle is one hundred meters in radius. However, the larger the shield's range, the weaker the shield's defensive power will be, and the higher the energy consumption of the magic circle will be.

The defensive array in front of us is of unknown origin; it has passed through several hands and is extremely old.

The runes drawn on the magic circle have reached the stage where they need maintenance.

This made Fangzhou think that after he advanced to Bronze, he might be able to exchange knowledge of part-time array mastery from the Haicheng Military Academy.

I will personally take charge and repair this defensive formation.

After nearly a month of busy work, Fangzhou emerged from the mountains with a large harvest.

Hunting ferocious beasts is bringing him less and less profit now.

He's a little reluctant to join a stronger team now.

Working for someone else is out of the question; being a small business owner is the only interesting thing.

After submitting the task of clearing out the ferocious beasts and earning some contribution points and magic stones, Ark returned to the Beast Fighting City.

He now needs to sort out the beginning and the end.

All twenty members of the Fox Tail bandit gang died at his hands; it's unknown whether they still possess anything of value.

Even a mosquito bite is still meat, and Ark won't let it go.

They opened all the spatial equipment of those people, and after summarizing and counting the magic stones and various materials inside, the total value was about 30,000 magic stones.

The Ark also did not intend to keep the enchanted equipment they wore.

The Iron-tier equipment is useless to him now, so he might as well sell it for some money.

As for the channels for selling stolen goods, they were of course the official channels of the Beast City.

The stolen goods in Fangzhou's possession were all seized legitimately from the Fox Tail bandit gang. They were legally obtained under the witness of Lieutenant Colonel Shen Chongyun, and of course, they could be sold legitimately.

If it's the Foxtail Bandits, the only way to deal with the enchanted equipment they illegally looted is to sell it through the shady black market.

If stolen goods are sold in this way, the value of the equipment will definitely be greatly reduced.

As for leaving them for his friends, Fangzhou had no intention of doing so, since these equipment were stained with blood.

I don't know if this equipment will cause trouble later, so to be on the safe side, it's best to sell it.

Who knows, one of these pieces of equipment might have been taken from the corpses of other victims by the Fox Tail bandits.

If the original owner's relatives encounter this, they'll likely have some bad thoughts, which would be an undeserved disaster.

After returning to the Beast City, Fangzhou sold all the spoils of war and the enchanted equipment of the Fox Tail bandits.

If this type of equipment is sold on the black market, the price of the equipment itself will be reduced by half.

If the equipment is damaged, the price will be reduced even further.

Fortunately, Ark used the official recycling channels of the Beast City.

The eighteen people sold over thirty enchanted pieces of equipment, earning a total of 30,000 magic stones.

This is like finding some money on the street. No wonder these people like to rob; it's a quick way to make money.

Besides these equipment, the protective magic circle is also expensive; even this abridged version costs around 10,000 magic stones.

However, this magic array ark is not planned to be sold for the time being.

This item offers good value for money, and if Ark plans to manage its own team later on, the protective magic circle will be indispensable.

This portable protective array is something that array masters of the Black Iron, Bronze, and even Silver ranks cannot create.

Only gold-rank array masters who have learned higher-level array creation can produce it.

Therefore, most of the time there is a price but no market, and even when there is, the premium is relatively high.

After cleaning the materials from the ferocious beasts he had hunted, Fang Zhou received the bounty from the official wanted group of the Feral City. With all his spoils, Fang Zhou now had nearly 50,000 contribution points and magic stones.

Once you have money in your hands, you have to spend it.

Just now, Ark is about to break through the bottleneck and advance to Bronze, and the large sum of money he has saved up is just enough for his consumption after the breakthrough.

His current enchanted equipment is all of white, common quality, which is no longer keeping pace with his progress in strength.

Whether it's the various attribute boosts or the shields on the mage's robe, these things are quite useful at the Black Iron tier.

However, once you reach the Bronze tier, you're not qualified.

With money in his pocket, Fang Zhou confidently strolled through the trading market of the Beast Arena. But the result was disappointing.

The main force of hunting in Beast Fighting City is still composed of Black Iron Rank professionals.

A small number of bronze-tier professionals are the backbone and commanders of their respective hunting teams, and they are all well-off.

Things are rare.

The prices of high-quality, green equipment and rare items that meet their strength requirements are being driven very high.

Given Fang Zhou's current wealth and status, it's not that he can't afford it, but it's simply not worth it.

After learning about the market situation, he shook his head and decided to wait until he broke through to the Bronze rank, then use the contribution point system at the Haicheng Military Academy's base in Beast City to remotely purchase some suitable equipment to enhance his combat power in a timely manner.

With the huge discounts he received from his seed students and research project group, his current net worth should be enough for him to equip himself with a basic set of gear and rare items.

Then, invest your soul power into skill deduction, and upgrade all the necessary summoning, skeletal, poison, and soul skills to the bronze level.

Therefore, his four-dimensional attributes and combat power are definitely at a high level, even among lower-level Bronze professionals.

The blood moon, like a mist, shrouded the entire wasteland of conflict.

According to the Zombie Lord's memories, the next Blood Moon Tide will be some time away.

Taking advantage of this break, Fangzhou could finally explore the Bone Plains, which he had been looking forward to for a long time.

This is crucial to determining how many Corpse Knights he can convert next.

After arranging everything at the Corpse Cemetery, Ark left all the responsibility to Tryndamere and set off with Sion and hundreds of handpicked Corpse Knight guards.

There was a reason for bringing along such a corrupt and abhorrent leader as Thane.

Perhaps because he was the first graveyard zombie born in the Wasteland of Conflict, his Soulfire memories also clearly showed him the specific path to the Bone Plains.

The Land of the Dead is so vast that if you don't know the exact route to a location, you'll definitely get lost.

Another important point is that although Sion, this fat guy who looks like a human pig, is very fat, he is not slow at all when he runs.

Although they couldn't keep up with the speed of the Ark's horses, they weren't much slower than the Corpse Knights.

During a forced march, bringing Saine along won't be a burden.

Moreover, in crucial moments, Sion's strength can hold out for a while.

The blood moon rose and set, set and rose again.

The Ark's group traveled for a long time across the vast, bone-strewn land before finally reaching their destination, the Bone Plains.

This is because the dead are naturally immune to fatigue and exhaustion.

Although it was boring, some things happened along the way that helped pass the time.

For example, subduing some of the mutated undead that come to the Bone Plains.

Along the way, Ark encountered some undead creatures that had come to the Bone Plains in search of mounts. These were all mutated zombies with a high level of intelligence.

Upon encountering them, the Ark certainly wouldn't let them go.

As a born mutant Corruption Abomination, Sion possesses power far greater than that of evolved Corruption Abominations.

With hundreds of corpse knights protecting him, Sain's iron hook was no joke.

Whenever a mutated zombie tries to escape, it swings its iron hook and pulls it back with a whoosh.

This allowed Ark to fully understand the equally terrifying power hidden beneath Sion's terrifying physique.

And so, without Fang Zhou even lifting a finger, his army, consisting solely of his underlings and servants, began to expand.

The number gradually increased from the initial hundreds. Although the mutated zombies were highly intelligent and not easy to subdue, many died along the way. By the time they reached the Bone Plains, his army had grown to nearly 150 men.

These 150 people were not low-level skeletons or zombies, but genuine mutated undead.

Although they didn't encounter a Corrupted Abomination variant like Thane, these mutated zombies still played a role in expanding Ark's strength and knowledge.

As they drew closer to the Bone Plains, Sain had intended to seize a skeletal warhorse as a mount, but his enormous size simply made it impossible—

Anyway, Fangzhou saw it with his own eyes: when Sien hurriedly mounted a thin, skeletal warhorse, the horse's hooves immediately began to tremble.

Just as Sain was feeling smug, without any warning, the skeletal warhorse beneath him suddenly went limp, its hooves almost shattered, and it collapsed to the ground, completely broken.

And Sion—unsurprisingly, fell flat on his face.

It seems that his enormous size and weight were simply not something that a frail, skeletal warhorse could bear.

Fangzhou estimated that if Sion wanted a mount, his only option would be the giant zombie beast deep in the Bone Plains.

That thing was huge and powerful. Although Sain was heavy, it probably wouldn't have much of an impact on the giant zombie beast's immense strength.

Skipping over this minor incident, the Ark's journey proceeded smoothly.

The troop, now numbering over 150, continued its grand march towards the Chigu Plain.

This time it didn't take much time, and we arrived quickly.

The unclaimed skeleton beasts were scattered in groups across the vast plain.

Moreover, the deeper one goes into the Bone Plains, the more powerful the undead beasts that roam there become.

Some skeletal warhorses had already been discovered at the entrance ark.

Although they were extremely weak, all at the lower level of Black Iron, they were far inferior to even the Yellow Spring Nightmare that Ark rode, let alone the ordinary skeletal warhorses under the command of the skeletal knights.

It seems these skeletal warhorses weren't good enough, so they were used directly to synthesize a Corpse Knight.

However, Ark still used the Corpse Graveyard to enslave these skeletal beasts that were rarely seen in the outside world.

Although we don't need them for now, we can take them back and study them to see if there are any ways to improve their strength. They will definitely come in handy later.

After enslaving about ten skeletal warhorses, the Ark allowed them to roam freely outside the ranks.

These lower-ranking Black Iron skeletal warhorses are of no help in the battle for the time being.

The deeper the Ark ventured into the Bone Plains, the more powerful the undead beasts became.

After passing through this herd of skeletal warhorses, Ark conducted a simple search and found some targets.

Zombie Bear!

These zombie bears are generally around 1.6 meters tall, and when they stand up, they are definitely taller than most people.

These zombie bears, in particular, are incredibly robust, with every bone in their bodies as thick as steel pillars.

Just by looking at them, you can tell how terrifying their power is.

These zombie bears are all around the Bronze rank. Some are lower Bronze, and some are middle Bronze.

Fortunately, they were scattered around, which gave Ark an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Moreover, they all wandered aimlessly, seemingly indifferent to everything around them.

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