Chapter 16 The Remains of the Undead Mage

Fang Jie saw before him a Skull Soldier emitting a white light, slowly starting to split apart.

"Just as I thought, these cloned Skull Soldiers can indeed split again, and now that they have professions, the magic power consumed is much less." Fang Jie watched the scene in satisfaction.

Every time he used Undead Splitting, he could make ten Skull Soldiers split altogether.

And the magic power consumed was minimal. Splitting a hundred Skull Soldiers only required ten points of magic power. Before long, the Skull Soldier in front of him had become two hundred.

Incidentally, Fang Jie discovered that the ordinary Skeleton he had summoned could also split.

It seemed that even with the summoning skills brought by the professional system, his own talents could be fully utilized. In fact, Fang Jie found that when his Summoned creatures split, they did not consume any magic power at all.

As long as he wished, he could summon two at the same time when summoning.

"It takes more than an hour to recover a single point of magic power, huh? That's really too slow." Suddenly, Fang Jie noticed a change in his magic power on the panel. Calculating the time, it had been over an hour.

This was still with his Talent for Magic Recovery. Without this Talent, recovery would be even slower. He might not even be able to recover magic power at all.

He hesitated for a while, and as he did, the sky gradually darkened.

Fang Jie thought he might as well wait until night. If the Skull Soldiers moved during the day, people would immediately notice something amiss.

Fang Jie waited quietly, also contemplating how to deal with the Lord of this place. This area had a small town under the Lord's control. He did not know the exact strength of the forces, but coupled with the town's defenses, his two hundred Skeleton Soldiers might not necessarily be a match.

If he failed, he would have no chance to stop the enemy from summoning.

He did not believe the town's forces would be weak when facing a disaster-level trial.

Time passed slowly, and finally, night fell. "What is this?" Fang Jie suddenly looked up, for with the arrival of night, he sensed a special power in the woods where he was hiding.

The power was so familiar, no, should he say it was familiar because of frequent contact? It was a force of death.

"Let's go have a look and see what's going on." Fang Jie quickly walked over.

"This is the spot, dig it up and see what's inside." Fang Jie hid behind and directed the Skull Soldiers to dig up the ground. What seemed like an ordinary patch of earth revealed a Corpse buried beneath.

The Corpse was wrapped in a black cloth, its bones nearly rotting away, with no telling how many years it had been there.

However, left beside the Corpse were other items – a book, a gemstone, and a one-meter-long Magic Wand.

"Summon Skeleton Soldier, it's a Skill Book, learn it quickly," Fang Jie saw the name on the book and hurriedly made his selection. He then noticed the book contained another ability, Basic Meditation Skill.

Fang Jie did not dwell on it, choosing instead to learn it directly.

After a while, Fang Jie opened his eyes, a torrent of knowledge had already flooded into his mind, and the book had disappeared.

"So that's how it is," Fang Jie felt a bit relieved.

When he'd had no Profession, even though he had Talent, he actually used up his Physical Strength. If he'd used his Strength to exhaustion, he would've started to use up his Life Force.

Fang Jie did not use up Life Force but chose to absorb Death Aura from the Skeletons to recover.

The aura of death actually had a significant impact on oneself. If an ordinary person absorbed it like he did, they would've turned into an Undead long ago.

Fang Jie remembered that the reason he'd not become an Undead was probably thanks to the newbie protection of his Territory.

Without those three days of protection, he definitely would not have been unscathed. Even now that he was an Undead Mage, he shouldn't absorb recklessly, as doing too much could impact himself.

Undead Mages often gradually transform themselves into Undead Creatures because they are careless in certain aspects. Fang Jie did not want to become like that, so he had to be extremely cautious.

At the same time, Fang Jie also learned that his Summoned creatures had an upper limit in strength, but the Summoned creatures were not at their strongest when they had just been summoned.

This was influenced by his spiritual power; the stronger the Spirit, the stronger the Summoned creatures that could be brought forth.

Like Summoning Skeleton, although the strongest it could be was not possibly comparable to a level 3 Skeleton Laborer, matching a level 2 was not a problem. Of course, he would still need to find a solution for weapons.

As for the Skull Soldier, it was the type he had brought with him.

Summoning Skeleton Soldier: Summons a Skull Soldier, Apprentice level, consumes 10 points of magic power.

Looking at his mere twenty points of magic power, he clearly did not have enough.

Then he looked at the Magic Wand, which could add a point of Spirit, strengthening the Summoned Skeletons he brought forth. If he switched to other spells, it would also increase the strength of those spells.

And finally, there was a gemstone, a Magic Gem.

Magic Gem: Contains 10,000/10,000 magic power, a single-use item, stored magic power not recoverable.

"Now I understand, this is what was prepared for those participating in the test. Without this, an ordinary person coming in would definitely not pass the test."

It made sense, a common person without a Profession, merely relying on that little initial magic power plus Temporary Skills, to fight against a small town, that would be ludicrous.

Even if they went for help, there were always dangers on the road to stop them, not to mention the challenge of convincing others to believe them.

But with this Magic Gem, it was different. As long as he had enough materials, he could use it to summon a full thousand Skull Soldiers, a very formidable force in itself.

"Strange, when I look at it this way, that trial doesn't seem impossible to pass after all, is there something I've overlooked?"

Fang Jie didn't consider himself a child of destiny, but he couldn't think of anything deeper. Well, let it be. "Let's go, let's see if we can find some materials for summoning."

Fang Jie led his troops forward, starting with the burned-down village.

As soon as he entered, Fang Jie saw corpses everywhere on the ground, each one in a tragic state of death. When the Lord came to capture people, they would resist, and of course, deaths occurred.

The living were taken, and the dead, of course, were left in this place.

"Let's start here." A hint of pity flashed in Fang Jie's eyes, but still, he began his work. "I will take you with me to seek your vengeance."