Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Beyond the huge contribution points gained from research, Fang Zhou receives substantial spoils every time he participates in battle.

If he accumulates significant military merit, he can also redeem various resources he desires from the resource vaults of Beast Fighting City or Sea City Military Academy.

This counts as a large fortune.

The rest is obtained by Fang Zhou through various means such as trading, working while studying, or looting, which only constitute a small portion.

Recalling his smooth development from Apprentice to Bronze due to spending lavishly and leveraging his advantages, Fang Zhou feels somewhat fortunate.

Now he has broken through to the Silver Tier and is about to leave Sea City Military Academy.

Without the resource bias towards new professionals, where should he acquire so many contribution points?

Although his combat power is strong, far surpassing other professionals of the same level, all this was attained through spending heavily.

To maintain his dominant combat strength at the Silver level, one-man army style, spending is even more essential.

Seeing his contribution points about to run out, Fang Zhou experiences rare anxiety.

Earning money is as difficult as climbing to heaven, but spending flows like water, the ancients did not deceive me!

Next, he plans to consult with Instructor Su Xinyan, Master Sandro, and others regarding whether there are better channels to acquire contribution points after graduating and joining the army.

He hopes to establish the basic combat framework for the Silver Level during this pre-graduation period.

Standing up and looking at the bright moon outside the window, Fang Zhou lets out a gentle breath.

Suddenly, he feels an itch in his palm, and as he turns around, Death Elf Vigus, who likes to maintain a symbiotic state with Fang Zhou and hide within his body for naps, crawls out of him.

She smooths her black dress and elegantly sits on Fang Zhou’s shoulder.

A pair of small jade-like feet dangled below Fang Zhou’s eyes.

She does not speak but merely stares at Fang Zhou with her big, shiny eyes, showing a shy and timid expression.

Fang Zhou pokes her little head, revealing a gentle smile.

"Get back to cultivating!

Once Tiamat reaches Silver, what use will I have for you?"

Vigus gazes at him blankly, tears soon pooling in her eyes.

Yet before she can utter anything, Fang Zhou presses her back into his body with a finger.

Shaking his head, Fang Zhou sighs inwardly.

Having too high a talent and advancing strength too quickly can also be unfavorable.

The spirit pet that helped him a lot now struggles to keep pace with his growth despite its utmost effort.

After just under two years of work, he could not allow Vigus to retire at such a young age.

That would be too much of a bargain for this little fellow.

Fang Zhou stretches and decides to deliver several recently completed array repair tasks to the Adventurer Association first thing tomorrow morning.

There are tens of thousands of Magic Stones in task earnings awaiting collection.

Following that, he plans to temporarily leave Beast Fighting City and return to Sea City Military Academy to discuss with Master Sandro and Instructor Su Xinyan whether he can reap any additional benefits from the academy before graduation.

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Wasteland of Strife, within the dilapidated territory of the Vampire Lord.

After completely devouring the Vampire Lord and clearing the battlefield of the million-undead Blood War, Fang Zhou leaves Tidamia to clean up the aftermath and leads the Spiritual Remains Knight Personal Guard to the Vampire Lord’s castle non-stop.

This is not Fang Zhou’s first time scavenging the legacy of an Undead Lord.

Since eliminating the Skeleton Lord in the Hill of Corpses and pillaging his Skeleton Castle, Fang Zhou has become addicted to the thrill of effortless reward.

Now, the Vampire Lord he encountered is the strongest undead yet, and it also has such a grand-looking castle.

Inside must be many riches waiting for him to harvest.

In the preceding battle, the Vampire Lord summoned all his undead underlings to gather an army of 600,000 undead.

After losing miserably on the battlefield, all these undead became corpses by the blades of the Tombyard Undead Army.

The Vampire Castle, once heavily guarded and deeply vigilant, has now been abandoned, with no defenses or resistance left.

The Vampire Lord’s castle stands at the battlefield’s edge, its towering gothic spires puncturing the clouds, and the obsidian outer walls creeping with blood-red vines.

Fang Zhou’s Blood Spirit Nightmare crushes the castle’s gate as the bone hoof sounds of the Spiritual Remains Knight’s Personal Guard echo through the corridors.

"Everything here is ours."

Fang Zhou’s blood-red bat wings unfurl beneath the castle’s dome, his pupils flickering with intertwined blue and crimson flames.

Apache’s group of Spiritual Remains Giant Bats hover in the air, their wingbeats casting down dust from the ceiling.

The castle is comprised of nine floors, Fang Zhou’s Spiritual Remains Long Spear points towards the stairs: "Search by squad, leave no resource unturned."

A Blood Spirit Long Spear pierces a secret door, releasing a rush of foul air.

Hundreds of Giant Bat Wolves hang suspended by chains above a Blood Pool, their scale armor reflecting a dark red glow as bat wings cast twisted shadows on the ground.

"Are those the mounts of the Blood Bat Knights?"

Fang Zhou’s blood-red claws tear open a Bat Wolf’s chest, dark red blood gushes forth.

"Their flesh energy concentration is a hundred times that of ordinary bats."

Sain’s Spiritual Remains Knight Order immediately mobilizes to capture these vicious Giant Bat Wolves and prepares to raise them in the Tombyard ranch.

Ascending another floor, Fang Zhou’s Bone Claw penetrates the ground, and a secret door opens with a boom.

In his sight is a massive Furnace Array, flames flickering with dark purple energy.

Next to the furnaces are heaps of unique minerals that Fang Zhou instantly recognizes as materials Blood Bat Knight Order uses to forge weapons.

On yet another floor is the Vampire Race’s flesh purification chamber.

Fang Zhou’s blood-red bat wings unfold above the Blood Pool, where the dark red liquid churns like magma.

This Blood Pool is used by the Vampire Lord to purify flesh energy, its base harboring countless undead residual souls.

Fang Zhou’s Blood Spirit Long Spear stirs the Blood Pool, extracting Pure Blood Essence.

This instantly enhances the regeneration rate of Flesh and Blood Series Undead.

Besides these resources, he also finds Spirit Crystals that increase the probability of advancing Ghosts to Resentful Spirits.

Bountiful Skeleton Essence refined from hundreds of Skeletons.

Corrosive Poison cores purified from the Zombie Race.

Wailing Bottles extracted from wandering Resentful Spirits.

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Observing the neatly arranged and diverse assortment of spoils compiled by the Spiritual Remains Knights before him, Fang Zhou feels satisfied yet slightly regretful.

These are the most exquisite resources from the Vampire Territory.

Given these outputs, it proves that there are more resources waiting for him to exploit within the Vampire Territory being absorbed by his Tomb Territory.

For Fang Zhou, who possesses an attribute panel and the Undead Blood Moon authority, with sufficient resources and time, his Tomb Territory can grow rapidly.

However, what leaves Fang Zhou slightly disappointed is that he didn’t find the Undead Blood Moon authority he most desired in the Vampire Lord’s castle, unlike the previous discovery in the Skeleton Lord’s castle in the Hill of Corpses.

This causes Fang Zhou to overturn his previous conjecture.

Could it be that this powerful Silver Upper Rank Vampire Lord is not the most formidable Undead Lord in the Wasteland of Strife?

Then he must proceed to swiftly digest the spoils of this battle.

On one hand, he needs a sufficient reserve of Soul Power for his own cultivation.

On the other hand, he must deploy a large number of scout teams around the Tomb Territory to gain a comprehensive understanding of the Wasteland of Strife soon.

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Several days later, Sea City Military Academy’s Undead Mage Research Task Force.

Although it’s late at night, the task force remains brightly lit.

The reason is simple; the task force of Undead Mages has recently received two great pieces of news.

The first is that the strongest among the Undead Mages, Sandro, has successfully broken through the bottleneck, condensing Champion’s Will and advancing to [Glory Champion].

The second, of course, is the brightest new star among the Undead Mages, the undisputable future leader Fang Zhou, has successfully advanced to Silver Lower Rank.

Less than 20 years old, he becomes the youngest Silver Tier professional in the Longxia Federation after driving Abyssal Demons out of Blue Star’s mainland.