Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

On this day, after a long period of deep meditation, Lynn's mental strength improved once again.

After easing my tension, I decided to do something else to relax and change my mood.

He just happened to have created a few gadgets recently, let's see if they can work.

He strolled out of the training room and came to a relatively spacious "experimental area" that he had specially created behind the fortress.

The ground here is inscribed with runes for reinforcement and energy isolation, to prevent experimental fluctuations from affecting the main structure of the mine.

A thin, undead figure carrying a bone staff walked in from outside and went straight to the center of the test area.

It was Gu Erdan, the one who received the message from Lynn, the one who weaves the curse.

This undead, crafted from the remains of an ancient spellcaster and skilled in ranged curses and mental interference, has already reached the peak of level 3.

Gu Erdan's performance in the academy was not particularly outstanding, after all, his opponents were all black wizards or undead creatures who cultivated negative energy.

Its curse effect is greatly reduced, and its negative energy attack effect is not very good either, completely failing to demonstrate the strength of a "mage".

However, its enhancement is quite simple; just infuse it with enough knowledge to advance its level.

Lynn took out a crystal-clear soul crystal.

The main soul within this crystal was created by Hoy, who stole resources to forcibly advance to the rank of a formal wizard, and it also contains the souls of other wizard apprentices.

Hoy had forcibly advanced through "heretical cultivation" methods, and his soul contained many impurities.

But after all, it is a formal wizard rank, and having undergone the baptism of promotion, it is still a good material.

In addition, the crystal also contains some knowledge that Lynn collected from the skeletal archives regarding the principles of high-level curses, soul weaving techniques, and the deep application of negative energy.

This knowledge might be basic or an extension for a formal wizard, but for a ghost like Gu Erdan, it's nothing less than a key to unlocking a new world.

He channeled his spiritual power, transforming the flow of knowledge within the crystal into a condensed torrent of information, which he then poured directly into Gu Erdan's soul core!

In Gu Erdan's empty eye sockets, the ghostly blue soul fire suddenly burned and expanded violently, and his entire skeleton emitted a hum that could not bear the weight.

The sheer volume of knowledge assaults its relatively simple consciousness; this is both a pain and a sublimation.

The dim curse runes on its surface began to light up on their own, rearrange themselves, and become more complex and profound.

Lynn carefully observed the changes in the Soulfire, guiding the input of energy in a timely manner, and drawing in the dense death aura within the mine as "fuel" for its advancement.

The process lasted about half an hourglass.

Finally, Gu Erdan's soul fire suddenly contracted inward and then exploded!

A deep blue light illuminated the entire test area, and its skeleton became more solid in the light, its soul fluctuations steadily stepping into the threshold of the calamity level!

[Target: The Soul Weaver of Ju-on]

[Rank]: Level 4 Beginner (Calamity Level)

[Composition]: Remains of an ancient spellcaster, stable ghostly blue soulfire, runic bone staff, and the nascent core of the Curse Domain.

【ability】:

1. Curse Weaving Mastery: Can weave and maintain 3-5 different types of curses simultaneously, acting on single or multiple targets. The curse effects are more covert, longer-lasting, and harder to dispel.

2. Pain Resonance: A ranged mental field that inflicts continuous mental pressure and painful illusions on all enemy units within the area, and can convert some of the perceived pain into nutrients to temporarily enhance the power of its own curse.

3. Shadow Negative Energy Arrow Swarm: Can condense and launch multiple negative energy arrows at once, or guide a main arrow to split after hitting the target, forming a small-area coverage attack.

4. Knowledge Devourer: Its soul core has solidified into a small knowledge base, which can continuously absorb and analyze knowledge fragments related to curses and souls, and use this to slowly optimize its own ability model, possessing weak learning and evolutionary characteristics.

5. Wraith Domination: Summons and briefly commands up to 50 level 3 peak-strength [Wailing Wraiths], and can combine all the summoned wraiths into a powerful [Wraith Impact].

6. Ju-on Field Prototype: Unfolds a weak curse field with a radius of 50 meters. Enemy units within the field have reduced curse resistance, friendly undead have slightly increased stealth and regeneration, and the caster's spell consumption within the field is reduced, while the effect is enhanced.

[Potential]: High (Knowledge-driven evolution, the upper limit of growth is directly related to the quality and quantity of knowledge acquired, and there is a probability of deepening towards the direction of "Master of Curse Weaving" or "Soul Knowledge Base").

[Evaluation]: It has completed the transformation from an excellent support unit to a calamity-level strategic curse unit, becoming an indispensable ranged weakening core and mental warfare expert in the undead army. Its thirst for knowledge and ability to absorb knowledge give it a unique growth path.

...

Lynn nodded slightly.

It's alright, a fairly normal advancement and enhancement, nothing particularly surprising.

But what on earth is this "soul knowledge base" in the evolutionary direction? It seems similar to a "skeletal remains repository"?

Could it evolve into a construct organism?

Lynn was somewhat puzzled.

If I have the chance in the future, I can try this approach.

After successfully advancing to the next level and gradually stabilizing his aura, Gu Erdan was temporarily taken back to the Netherworld to recuperate, and Lynn summoned another pair of good buddies.

Soon, the skeletal earth dragon leader "Mountain" and the skeletal shieldbreaker "Big Hammer" arrived together.

Seeing these two kindred spirits, Lynn decided to pull off a crazy stunt this time and try to fuse with the undead.

This perfectly compensates for the hammer's clumsy speed and speeds up the mountain's attack rhythm.

Lynn's commands were clearly conveyed through the soul connection.

The mountain let out a low roar and lowered its massive body.

Somewhat bewildered, Big Hammer, carrying its exaggerated symbiotic bone hammer, clumsily climbed up the mountain's back, which was covered with petrified bone armor.

Immediately afterwards, Lynn formed a hand seal, and pure death energy mixed with a trace of earth elemental power drawn from the earth veins transformed into a grayish-yellow light that enveloped both of them.

He didn't simply let the hammer "ride" him; he performed a deeper, forced fusion!

Soon, under the erosion of the gray-yellow light, the two thick skeletal leg bones of the Great Hammer began to "melt" from the joint of the pelvis, turning into viscous bone fluid that slowly flowed down, contacting, penetrating, and fusing with the petrified bone armor on the back of the mountain!

Meanwhile, Lynn was also constantly adding various materials to the bone fluid.

Earth Vein Essence Crystal Powder, Nether Iron Essence Fragments, Giant Dragon Bone Powder, Earth Vein Resonance Stone Array...

These materials can improve the essence of both, increase various attributes, and increase the probability of advancement.

Lynn manipulated the energy to reshape a bone structure resembling a "fixing buckle" at a specific location on the mountain's back, firmly locking the hammer's pelvis and upper body to the mountain's back.

This process involves a forced connection at the soul level, altering the very essence of both souls.

The mountains let out a deep, muffled roar, and the soul fire of the great hammer trembled violently.

But when the fusion was complete and the gray-yellow light dissipated, what appeared in the original spot was a strange composite!

The front half of the mountain's originally thick and smooth back has disappeared.

The lower half of the hammer had completely disappeared, but the upper half seemed to have "grown" out from its back, forming a solid connection between the two on both physical and energy levels.

The hammer's consciousness did not disappear, but instead formed a peculiar "dual-core" system with the mountain's consciousness, sharing some perception and being able to perform basic collaboration.

This newly formed undead combination experienced a sudden surge in aura, steadily stepping into the Calamity level!

It possesses the heavy defense of mountains, the ability to manipulate the earth and charge, and can wield the terrifying armor-piercing giant hammer on its back at any time, combining the advantages of a "mobile fortress" and a "humanoid siege hammer".

Although the hammer lost its ability to act independently and became a true "knight who cannot dismount," its destructive power and synergy with its mount underwent a qualitative leap.