Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

The blue gemstone embedded in the hat’s brim is slowly rotating, materializing the negative energy field into strands of starlight.

These strands of starlight climb up along his hair tips like living creatures, weaving a miniature starry vortex above his head.

Fang Zhou glanced at the description in the attribute panel’s equipment section.

[Polaris Mage Hat] (Blue Fine, Equipment): A mage hat specially crafted for negative energy professionals, possessing exceptional conductivity for negative energy.

1. Significantly increases the wearer’s negative energy mana cap.

2. Moderately reduces mana consumption when the wearer casts negative energy skills.

3. Moderately increases the casting speed of negative energy skills for the wearer.

4. Applies the "Polaris" effect to friendly negative energy summoned creatures within a medium range; the summoned creatures will explode upon death, causing a fierce negative energy shock in a small area nearby.

Yet another powerful blue fine equipment with four effect attributes.

Fang Zhou has now grown into an outstanding high-level blacksmith through his efforts and talent.

He naturally understands the greatest differences between various qualities of professional equipment.

Aside from differing levels of attribute enhancement for the wearer, equipment of different qualities also possess different numbers of enhancement effects.

Generally, apprentice-level professionals use gray inferior equipment, which usually has only one basic enhancement effect.

Black Iron-tier professionals use white ordinary equipment with two effects.

Bronze-tier professionals use green excellent equipment with three effects.

Blue fine equipment suitable for Silver-tier professionals like Fang Zhou has four enhancement effects.

With one piece of blue equipment having four enhancement effects, if Fang Zhou collects eight pieces of blue fine quality equipment, he can enjoy 32 enhancement effects.

Each enhancement effect may not look remarkable when viewed individually.

But when 32 enhancement effects accumulate, they can create a huge combat power gap among professionals of the same level.

Moreover, different qualities of professional equipment can support varying amounts of additional enchantments.

Enchantments are also classified by levels.

The same "Contract" enchantment affixed on a green quality Dusk Robe versus a blue quality Nether River Ferryman Robe will obviously have different effects.

Just as Fang Zhou silently calculated how many pieces of his equipment haven’t been updated, he suddenly felt a slight shock, with an indescribable ripple rising from deep within his heart.

Even the tiny dust particles in the air seemed to be endowed with life, happily dancing.

They sparkle in the sunlight, forming beams of light that illuminate every corner around.

Fang Zhou closed his eyes, allowing the warm energy to permeate every pore, deep into his bones.

His body and soul experienced an unprecedented baptism under this force.

Fang Zhou quickly realized that he had once again received the World Will’s Attention.

This represented an excellent opportunity for enlightening world runes.

Without having time to speak with Principal Su Tiankuo beside him, he immediately immersed himself in deep insight.

Under the stunned gaze of all the surrounding people, Fang Zhou entered that enviable state of enlightenment once more.

The attribute panel soon transmitted a notification:

"All glory converges here, receiving the World Will’s Attention."

"World Rune [Night Watcher II], level enhanced to [Night Watcher III]."

"[Night Watcher III]: Reward of the World Will, high-level world rune, can bind to a skill below the Glory Champion Level, greatly reducing its mana consumption. Can be unbound anytime, unbinding requires a 1-day cooldown."

Minutes later, this mysterious warm ripple slowly dispersed, and Fang Zhou finally opened his eyes.

Beside him, Su Tiankuo couldn’t help but ask, "Fang Zhou, have you gotten the World Will’s Attention again?"

Fang Zhou slightly nodded and replied, "Yes, Principal.

I don’t know how, but I’ve received the World Will’s Attention again."

Meanwhile, the envy of the other graduates behind Fang Zhou was already evident.

They were all seed students of the graduating class, who had undergone four years of rigorous cultivation, yet their levels remained between Black Iron upper rank and Bronze lower rank.

Though they were well-trained in combat experience and practical abilities, the World Will’s Attention was simply unheard of to them, a miracle only written in books.

They racked their brains, yet they couldn’t have imagined that at such an ordinary graduation ceremony, Fang Zhou would gloriously receive the World Will’s Attention.

That mysterious warm ripple, anyone who has witnessed it even once would never mistake it.

Seeing his classmates somewhat losing composure, Fang Zhou didn’t wish to dwell too much on this topic.

After all, everything depended on his efforts and talent, so there was no need to explain.

Even Su Tiankuo couldn’t help but shake his head, feeling speechless.

Recalling two years ago, when Fang Zhou’s cohort first underwent the Awakening Ceremony, the Undead Mage profession was indeed still considered the most worthless profession by the public.

Regarding his exceptionally talented daughter Su Xinyan mysteriously awakening this worthless profession, with her combat power always weak, he was filled with resentment.

This led him to have a poor opinion of the entire Undead Mage profession.

At that time, it seemed that Lu Hu even applied for the seed student quota on behalf of Fang Zhou, but he was ruthlessly rejected.

Who would have thought?

In just two years, Fang Zhou skyrocketed at a jaw-dropping speed from the apprentice tier, breaking through Black Iron, Bronze, all the way to Silver tier.

He also achieved various dazzling, incredible glorious feats along the way.

Even Su Tiankuo, usually hypocritical and scathing, had internally acknowledged Fang Zhou’s extraordinary talent.

It can be said that from the founding of Sea City Military Academy in the Era of Myth until now, solely based on his performance during his studies at the academy, no other student could compare to Fang Zhou.

Such a young genius, paired with his daughter, may indeed be a perfect match.

...........

Among the second-year student audience, Bai Xiaochan, Meng Hongzhuang, and Ye Fan sat silently, their expressions as complex as the sea before a storm.

Bai Xiaochan clenched the flowers in her hand, her knuckles white from the force of her grip.

She remembered when they first enrolled two years ago, Fang Zhou was just a "waste" lamented for having awakened the Undead Mage profession.

But now, the starlight above his head outshines anyone’s.

As Fang Zhou’s former classmate, she was once even Fang Zhou’s little research assistant, using her ability as a supporting profession of Chanting String to play various tunes to accelerate Fang Zhou’s cultivation.

She once thought such happy days could last at least four years.

But Fang Zhou’s growth was too fast, advancing rapidly; in less than half a year, he broke through the bottleneck and promoted to Black Iron, jumping to the second year, leaving her behind.

"Two years ago, we were still sweating together in the same training ground.

Now, he stands at the peak, and I..."

The usually carefree Bai Xiaochan felt quite affected at the moment.

Especially when she remembered the moments she truly fought side by side with Fang Zhou, which seemed to be only when they formed the Calamity Squad at Middle Rank Apprentice to clear the Horn Demon Outpost in the Simulation Battlefield.

Thinking of this made Bai Xiaochan feel even more sorrowful.

She tried to seek resonance from Ye Fan’s gaze, but only saw her friend’s lowered lashes casting trembling shadows under his eyes.

The Demon Hunter who always competed against Fang Zhou during first-year practical courses was now tightly gritting his teeth, staring at the Sea City Model Medal shining on Fang Zhou’s chest.

As Fang Zhou’s close friend, Ye Fan was both joyful for Fang Zhou’s achievements and ashamed of still being at the Black Iron tier himself.

"One day, I too will stand in that position."

He held the armrest tightly beside him, his expression no longer as arrogant and unruly as before.

"But the current me can’t even keep up with his shadow."

Meng Hongzhuang also wore a face full of complex emotions.

Under her Mage Robe, her fingers were unconsciously drawing runes.

As a Fang Zhou admirer, she was both proud of his glory and pained by her inability to stand beside him.

"Fang Zhou is like a star that never falls, while I..." she bit her lip, eyes slightly red, "may forever only be able to look up."