The first bottle of attribute secret medicine at each stage is the only effective one.
For the vast majority of military school students, they can only afford these expensive apprentice-level attribute secret medicines once they break through Black Iron and have more ways to earn contribution points.
Generally, they selectively enhance their main attributes.
Like Fang Zhou, who awakened just a month ago and aggressively consumed four bottles of attribute secret medicine, totally playing like a pay-to-win tycoon.
The most critical point is that contribution points rely solely on personal effort; there is no way to buy them with money.
Fang Zhou calmed his slightly boiling blood and tightly clenched his fists with satisfaction.
The attributes of strength, constitution, and agility have all reached five points, barely entering the level of a middle-rank apprentice professional, far surpassing Ye Fan, Zhao Yuan, and other lower-rank combat professionals.
With Fang Zhou’s relentless effort and the little help of the Skeleton Clone, his attribute crushing advantage has begun to take shape.
But since Fang Zhou is an Undead Mage, he cannot learn combat professional skills; otherwise, with just his bare fists, he could knock Ye Fan to the ground, giving Ye Fan a small shock from a Muscle Mage.
Fang Zhou collected his emotions and looked at the resource box before him, extracting seven pieces of [Level 1 Refining Stone] and seven differently colored [Level 1 Gemstones].
His apprentice outfit is gray inferior equipment, which can be refined once and inlaid with one [Level 1 Gemstone].
Ever since discovering the enhancement use of Soul Power for equipment, Fang Zhou has been eager to refine his apprentice outfit to the extreme.
Today, at last, he’s exchanged enough materials.
"Detected resources available for enhancement, ten points of Soul Power can be consumed for enhancement."
"Would you like to start the enhancement?"
Fang Zhou removed his equipment one by one, "Attribute panel, enhance for me!"
[Apprentice Magic Staff] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Moonlight Stone], slightly enhances magic effect.
[Apprentice Mage Hat] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Blue Sapphire], slightly enhances maximum Spiritual Power.
[Apprentice Gloves] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Green Jade], slightly enhances casting speed.
[Apprentice Rings] *2 refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Obsidian], slightly reduces skill cooldown time.
[Apprentice Necklace] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Purple Agate], slightly enhances Spiritual Power recovery speed.
[Apprentice Magic Robe] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Ruby], slightly enhances defense power.
[Apprentice Shoes] refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Wind Crystal Stone], slightly enhances movement speed.
After consuming 140 points of Soul Power, Fang Zhou reequipped himself with a refined +1 and inlaid Level 1 Gemstone apprentice outfit, immediately feeling as if he had swapped a musket for a cannon.
He waved the Magic Staff, casually conjuring a Skeleton Flying Spear, noticeably feeling his overall combat ability has at least increased by 20% compared to before.
Is this the allure of money power? Delightful!
If no accidents occur, this set of apprentice outfit refined to the extreme can be used until he breaks through Black Iron.
It’s a pity that the [Moon Orchid Fragrance] given by Instructor Su Xinyan belongs to a marvel class item, which cannot be refined or inlaid.
Fang Zhou exhaled lightly, his expression gradually calming down, it’s time to practice skills now.
He accessed his personal terminal, the six previously exchanged [Skill Insights] have already been stored in the database.
These Skill Insights, once used, forcibly inscribe themselves into the user’s mind like an initiation, effective only the first time.
However, how much proficiency improvement can be gained specifically depends on personal talent.
In terms of talent, Fang Zhou was supremely confident in himself.
Attribute panel, show me your limit!
"Detected material available for skill proficiency enhancement, estimated consumption of ten points of Soul Power for perfect absorption."
"Would you like to start absorption?"
With the consumption of six [Skill Insights], Fang Zhou expended 60 points of Soul Power, enhancing skills - the main body’s [Summon Skeleton] and [Calm and Relaxed], clone’s [Charge], [Weapon Specialization], [Block], and [Battle Cry] - all to [Perfection] level proficiency.
Pay-to-win, delightful!
Fang Zhou was exhilarated, taking a light breath, controlling his slightly excitable feelings slowly.
These [Skill Insights] were so effective also because they were based on his meticulous practice beforehand.
Next, if he wants to elevate these skills from [Perfection] to [Instinct] level proficiency, he’d either need to accumulate a massive amount of Soul Power for direct point allocation or persist with consistent long-term practice.
In Fang Zhou’s dormitory area, there was a dedicated Skill Training Room.
Practicing in these Skill Training Rooms results in skill proficiency growth at an accelerated pace, absolutely worth the hourly usage fee of one contribution point.
Thinking about this, Fang Zhou didn’t hesitate.
He brought a bottle of [Low-Level Spiritual Recovery Potion], unlocked the Skill Training Room door with his personal terminal.
It was empty at the moment.
Other first-year students, without authority and unable to afford the exorbitant price, naturally kept away from there.
After subtracting one hour of usage time, the special array of the Skill Training Room began to operate.
Fang Zhou wielded his Magic Staff, quickly casting the [Summon Skeleton] skill.
After the skeleton clone’s [Brutal Strike] skill rose to [Instinct] level proficiency, it fed back a powerful beneficial skill [Group Brutality Skill] to the main body.
Fang Zhou was looking forward to what kind of skill feedback the main body’s [Summon Skeleton] would provide upon reaching [Instinct] level?
The training focus for the next period will be to enhance the [Summon Skeleton] skill from [Perfection] to [Instinct].
This undoubtedly requires substantial practice time, but now Fang Zhou, having purchased access to the Skill Training Room and Spiritual Recovery Potion through pay-to-win, will significantly improve his practice efficiency.
He devoted all his Spiritual Power to summoning skeletons, summoning 60 skeletons all at once.
When his Spiritual Power was exhausted, Fang Zhou unscrewed the cap and downed the prepared [Low-Level Spiritual Recovery Potion], then decisively activated the Perfection level [Calm and Relaxed] skill, restoring his Spiritual Power to about 30%.
It’s not that Fang Zhou was unwilling to drink more potion; rather, apprentice-level professionals can only consume one potion a day.
Drinking more would not only harm the body but also produce negligible effect.
Fang Zhou again depleted his Spiritual Power, summoning 20 more skeletons.
Afterward, he controlled these 80 skeletons to divide into two teams and engage in brutal combat, practicing his ability to command the Skeleton Army through this method.
Quickly, an hour passed, Fang Zhou’s Spiritual Power was fully depleted.
He snapped his fingers, dispersing the remaining few skeletons, contentedly looking at the attribute panel.
At this pace, [Summon Skeleton] should be raised to [Instinct] level proficiency in less than half a month.
By then, his strength will experience another small leap.