With a series of skill projections appearing on the personal terminal, the skills bar of the attribute panel immediately changed.
"Detected sufficient skill materials to infer unknown skills, it is estimated to consume 10 points of soul power."
"Do you want to start inference?"
Fang Zhou immediately confirmed and then entered the familiar burst of inspiration state.
[Aging Beam]is an apprentice skill of an Undead Mage, the enemies hit by the beam will have their stamina, energy, and movement speed slightly reduced.
[Vine Entangle], grows solid wooden vines from the ground to entangle the enemy, making it difficult for them to move.
[Mire Skill]can create a mire that is difficult to traverse, greatly slowing down the enemy’s movement speed.
[Earth Wall Technique], constructs an earth wall that makes it difficult for enemies to cross.
[Spider Web Skill], mimics a mutated spider shooting webs, with strong adhesiveness, targets hit will be bound.
In Fang Zhou’s mind, these 5 control skills and the instinctive Bone Armament of the Skeleton Clone quickly fused together.
In an instant, he had a flash of inspiration.
"Inference skill [Skeleton Shackles] successful."
[Skeleton Shackles](Apprentice, Skilled): Condenses undead mana into solid skeleton shackles to bind the enemy, making it difficult for them to move or fight. The binding strength, duration, casting distance, etc., are determined by the spirit attribute and skill proficiency.
A powerful control skill! Fang Zhou excitedly clenched his fists.
With the Skeleton Shackles, another shortcoming of the combat system has finally been filled.
Ye Fan, that kid, will absolutely not be able to use Fallen Heaven Strike in front of him anymore.
Fang Zhou exhaled lightly.
Having made progress in strength, it’s time to kill some skeletons for fun.
Clone, activate!
...
Fulfilling times always pass quickly.
A few more days passed.
Under the Blood Moon in Burial Wilderness, as a pile of skeletons turned to ashes, the Skeleton Clone howled toward the sky.
After listening to Bai Xiaochan’s [Lullaby] once every day, Fang Zhou’s speed in controlling the Skeleton Clone to level up has further increased.
Finally, it advanced from middle-tier apprentice to upper-tier apprentice.
This advancement not only enlarged the Skeleton Clone significantly, but its skeletal structure also became more solid and powerful, exuding a sense of undeniable strength.
The originally pale bones now emit a cold glow, as if every bone is infused with an invisible power, becoming more resilient and durable.
[Clone] Skeleton
[Tier] Apprentice·Upper
[Attributes] Strength 8, Constitution 7, Agility 7, Spirit 6
[Equipment] Skeleton Long Spear (Gray Inferior)
[Skills] Bone Armament (Instinct), Brutal Strike (Mastery), Charge (Skilled), Weapon Specialization (Skilled), Block (Mastery), Battle Cry (Mastery)
[Soul Power] 50
[Block] and [Battle Cry] are skills Fang Zhou taught the Skeleton Clone in these recent days.
[Block](Apprentice, Mastery): Adopts a defensive stance to block the next incoming attack, reducing the damage taken. Block success rate and damage reduction depend on constitution attribute and skill proficiency.
[Battle Cry](Apprentice, Mastery): Lets out an inspiring battle cry, temporarily increasing strength, constitution, and agility attributes. The duration and attribute growth rate depend on the strength attribute and skill proficiency.
The current Skeleton Clone, possessing five combat professional skills, can definitely stand proudly among all apprentice-level skeletons.
Therefore, it’s time to explore deeper.
As the Skeleton Clone advanced, the skeletons it encountered were generally at the middle-tier apprentice level.
The skeletal texture of these skeletons became tougher, and in the originally dim bone marrow cavities, there occasionally flickers a faint blue light, symbolizing the fusion of strength and undead energy.
However, no matter how tough their bones are, they couldn’t withstand the sudden attacks of the Skeleton Clone.
Not far ahead, a burly skeleton noticed the Skeleton Clone.
It roared and charged at Fang Zhou, waving sharp bone claws.
Fang Zhou remained unfazed, gently raised his hand, and the Skeleton Long Spear instantly sliced through the air with a sharp whistling sound.
Brutal Strike!
He flicked his wrist, and the spear shot out like an arrow leaving the string, accurately piercing the chest of the approaching Skeleton Warrior.
The bone claws hadn’t even touched Fang Zhou before this Thunder Strike utterly shattered its attack attempt.
The Skeleton Long Spear punctured the enemy and then withdrew immediately.
The whole process was clean and efficient, as fluid and free as an artist wielding a brush.
The struck Skeleton Warrior exploded in an instant, scattering into a pile of powder, and the contained Skeleton Essence was immediately absorbed by the Skeleton Clone.
Strength +0.1, Soul Power +0.5.
Fang Zhou’s soul fire flickered with a familiar sense of fullness once again.
At this rate, the next target is to advance to Black Iron and evolve into a Skeleton Warrior! This is about to be achieved soon.
...
Another fulfilling day.
Demon Hunter research project group, training ground.
Ye Fan was once again tightly bound by Skeleton Shackles, lying flat on the floor like a salted fish.
In these few days of duels, he basically ends each day in this state.
Therefore, Chen Qingshan and Bai Xiaochan, the onlookers, were not surprised at all.
Although Ye Fan is one in ten thousand as a Demon Hunter, the opponent Fang Zhou is a peerless prodigy.
To be humiliated like this by Fang Zhou is Ye Fan’s good fortune.
Seeing the duel end, Chen Qingshan motioned for the researchers to retract the test equipment, smiling as he asked, "Tomorrow is the Sea City Military Academy’s bi-monthly rest day, are you going back home?"
Bai Xiaochan replied without hesitation, "My home is in Sea City, of course, I want to go back and take a breather after half a month of training."
Ye Fan slowly crawled up from the ground, his eyes seemed to be spitting fire: "Not going back!
Instructor, I want more training!"
Fang Zhou was slightly taken aback.
His days had been so fulfilling, like a tightly wound spring, that he had already forgotten the rest day was approaching.
Thinking it over, he smiled and nodded: "I probably should go back, there are two little ones waiting to hear my school stories."
Having interacted with Fang Zhou for half a month, everyone present knew that he was an orphan of a martyr, growing up from a welfare institute in Sea City.
Bai Xiaochan pursed her lips, she actually wanted to ask where the address of Fang Zhou’s welfare institute was.
But before she could ask, Fang Zhou snapped his fingers to send away the skeleton soldiers, and departed the lab nonchalantly.
In the dormitory, Fang Zhou sorted the materials inventory.
The welfare institute where he was raised is called Cloud Welfare Institute, which is small in scale, currently housing only a few children.
The director is an elderly lady named Wen Yun, whom the children all call Grandma Yun.
After developing the Skeleton Chains skill, Fang Zhou uploaded it to the Federation Skill Library. As a result, he received another 100 contribution points as a reward, now having 200 contribution points in total.
He thought for a moment, then exchanged 10 contribution points for 100,000 Longxia yuan.