Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

As Lynn ventured deeper into the area, the surrounding environment became noticeably different.

The moss on the wall emitted an even richer, eerie light, and the air was filled not only with whispers but also with a tangible, cold resentment, as if an invisible hand was pulling at the soul.

Ordinary apprentices, relying solely on their own "resistance," are simply unable to withstand this constant pulling of the soul.

Occasionally, one might see one or two fresh apprentice corpses lying quietly in a corner or in the middle of a passageway.

Beneath them were slowly writhing shadows, gradually devouring them—the tomb was "reclaiming" its assets.

With the help of several undead minions, Lynn quickly arrived at the core area of ​​the middle zone.

The space here is more open, like a huge underground palace, with a high dome supported by countless pale white ribs.

[Mental Vision] was severely suppressed, and could only detect a range of about twenty meters around it.

Soon, Lynn detected a slightly powerful energy entity and some slightly weaker energy entities in his field of vision.

Lynn did not delay and released his entire undead squad to surround him.

After taking a few steps forward, getting closer and closer to the energy cluster, a dense, impenetrable gray-black mist was slowly rotating.

Within the mist, a vengeful spirit, its form elusive and radiating intense spiritual energy and icy chill, was wandering about; its rank had reached level 2.

It seemed to sense the intrusion of the living, and let out a silent shriek, leading several slightly weaker level 1 spirit-binding servants, and rushed straight towards Lynn!

"Spread out! MT at the front, Gu Erdan dealing damage, A-Ge flanking, Wu Liuqi preparing for backstab, Death Knight charging in to disrupt the enemy formation!"

Lynn's mind raced, and he quickly issued the orders, which the undead carried out immediately.

He chanted rapidly, and the [Soul Impact] skill was activated first, precisely piercing the core of the vengeful spirit.

The battle erupted instantly.

MT raised his bone shield, enduring the first wave of mental attacks and icy claw strikes from the vengeful spirits. White frost quickly condensed on the surface of the bone shield.

Gu Erdan swung his bone staff, and the ghostly blue rays of the [Slow Curse] struck the vengeful spirit, causing its movements to visibly falter.

At the same time, a murmur of pain rang out, attempting to disrupt his mental focus, but unfortunately, it had little effect.

The vengeful spirit never expected that the "three-dimensional surround sound" of painful whispers it listened to every day at 24:00 in the depths of this tomb would be used against it by another spirit.

It's absolutely hilarious!

But soon, it stopped laughing.

The undead on the other side are ridiculously strong!

The Death Knight charged forward, his bone sword slashing fiercely at the spirit-binding horde, forcing them to scatter and flee.

The giant hammer swung its heavy bone hammer with great force, creating a whistling sound, but unfortunately it was difficult to hit the agile spirit binder.

Brother A's arm surged with flesh and blood, transforming into a massive bone shield that blocked a spirit's attack. Then, the shield cracked open, revealing several barbed tentacles that bound and tore the spirit apart!

The vengeful spirit let out an angry shriek, its body enveloped in boiling gray mist, and an even stronger mental shock and frost nova spread outwards.

The MT's shield creaked under the strain, and Lynn also felt a fluctuation in [Soul Armor].

But he remained calm and launched a second [Soul Impact], while simultaneously ordering Gu Erdan to use [Negative Energy Arrow] to harass him.

Just as the vengeful spirit was shaken by the continuous attacks, Wu Liuqi leaped out from the shadows behind it like a ghost.

[Shadow Strike] activated!

Take this!

The pitch-black dagger, imbued with the power to interfere with the soul, pierced deeply into the back of the vengeful spirit!

"laugh--!"

After a faint hissing sound, the vengeful spirit let out an extremely mournful wail, its entire soul trembled violently, and then exploded with a bang!

A dense, dark gray energy dispersed, leaving a small pile of grayish-white dust where the vengeful spirit had died, along with a few pale blue crystals exuding a pure, sorrowful aura, which tinkled and fell to the ground.

Lynn stepped forward, his gaze sweeping over the area.

【Dust of Wraiths】: lv2 The remnant of an elite wraith after its death. It is a common material that can be used to cast curses, strengthen wraiths, craft items, and more.

...

【Tears of Mourning (Pure)】: lv2 Elite Wraith Core Formed from the core of a vengeful spirit, containing pure soul energy and pure sorrowful intent.

【Function】: 1. Enhances the strength and stability of the soulfire of undead creatures of the soul type.

2. As an auxiliary material for certain high-level soul magic.

3. Direct absorption to slightly enhance mental power (with the risk of mental pollution).

...

"Wow, this is good stuff!"

Lynn's eyes lit up, and he immediately put away the three [Tears of Mourning] along with the [Dust of Wraiths].

【Tears of Mourning】can directly increase the attributes of apprentices or undead, making it a pretty good item.

Of course, Lynn herself wouldn't take it.

There's no need to risk mental pollution for a little bit of mental energy.

Seeing Lin En put away [Tears of Mourning], Gu Erdan, who was floating nearby, felt an instinctive desire emanating from his ghostly blue soulfire.

It seems this thing is attractive to it.

Trying to hand a [Tear of Mourning] to Gu Erdan, it took it and instantly refined it.

His mental strength had increased, and the soul fire in his eyes seemed to have solidified a bit.

Seeing that it wouldn't take long for Gu Erdan to refine the pills, Lynn simply handed the other two to it as well.

We're all family, so we should still train each other.

In the following period, Lynn changed his strategy and focused on eliminating the vengeful spirits throughout the middle area.

With the reconnaissance advantage of [Mental Vision] and the high mobility of his undead squad, he transformed into a "vengeful spirit harvester" in the tomb.

Other apprentice teams that had also entered the middle level, attempting to form groups to kill vengeful spirits and obtain Tears of Mourning, quickly realized something was wrong.

They finally found a vengeful spirit and tried to wear it down by sheer numbers.

But often, halfway through the fight, a deadly assassin will leap out from the shadows, or a huge bone blade will sweep across, quickly stealing the final blow.

Then the expressionless black-robed apprentice, accompanied by a group of fierce undead, would appear, cleanly and efficiently taking away the spoils, leaving them standing there in a rage.

"Damn it! We found it first!"

"Stop! This is robbery!"

"You...you can't do this! The academy won't allow it..."

Lynn ignored these protests.

Competition within the tomb is tacitly permitted; as long as one doesn't intentionally kill, plundering spoils is perfectly normal.

Some apprentices, oblivious to their own mortality, attacked Lynn's spirit in an attempt to reclaim the [Tears of Mourning].

This gave Lynn a reason to act, and he naturally wouldn't tolerate it. The undead squad cleanly and efficiently killed the apprentice who made the move, and the inheritance went into their own pockets.

The number of tears of mourning shed by each vengeful spirit varies depending on its strength.

lv2的怨灵能够掉落2～3颗，lv1巅峰的怨灵只能掉落1颗。

Lynn's undead squad was extremely efficient at clearing out enemies.

A-Ge's [Flesh Aberration] adapts to various combat environments, Wu Liuqi's sneak attacks are hard to defend against, Gu Erdan's curse has a significant weakening effect, and MT and Death Knight provide a solid barrier.

In a short period of time, one "Tears of Mourning" after another was fed to Gu Erdan.

Gu Erdan's ghostly blue soul fire became increasingly solid and profound at a visible speed, and the soul fluctuations it emitted also steadily increased, making the effects of his curses stronger.