Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Chapter 56 Lu Hu, you have already chosen your own death!

This was the first time Ark had encountered a high-level undead creature other than a skeleton.

According to the necromancer guides I've read before, vampires are silver-tier undead creatures, extremely rare, and possess the ability to regenerate flesh and blood.

Only highly talented necromancers can successfully summon vampires.

Fangzhou couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation.

He should have some talent. If he can learn [Summon Vampire], I wonder if he can deduce flesh-based skills from it?

With Fang Zhou's mere apprentice-level strength, he naturally couldn't discern exactly how strong this vampire was; he only vaguely sensed that its aura was somewhat weaker than Instructor Lu Hu's.

However, this is Su Xinyan's summoned creature.

Having just spoken ill of someone, Lu Hu was caught red-handed and felt guilty and short of breath.

Even if they could defeat this vampire, how could they dare to act recklessly?

Under the watchful eyes of the vampire, he unconsciously quickened his pace and dejectedly led the Ark to the entrance of a building.

"Ark, this vampire will take you to our research group."

I suddenly remembered I had something to do, so I decided not to go in yet.

After saying that, Lu Hu ran away without looking back.

Fang Zhou shook his head helplessly; Instructor Lu had betrayed him again.

He looked up at the vampire flying in mid-air, and under its guidance, he quickly entered the building and arrived at a laboratory.

This is Ark's exclusive necromancer research group.

Inside the room, Su Xinyan, dressed in a black mage's robe, was staring at Fang Zhou with murderous intent in her phoenix eyes.

Seeing this, Fang Zhou obediently moved closer and greeted, "Hello, Instructor Su."

Su Xinyan stretched out her finger and pointed at the ark, as if she wanted to say something.

But seeing Fang Zhou's innocent eyes, like those of a little white rabbit, on his handsome face with its sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, she forced herself to hold back, but still made a big fuss about Lu Hu.

Lu Hu, you've already chosen your own path to death!

Sensing that the atmosphere had eased, Fang Zhou took the initiative to ask, "Instructor Su, what can I do in this research group?"

When it came to serious matters, Su Xinyan forgot about the unpleasantness from earlier.

She snapped her fingers, dismissing the vampire who was leading the way, and then gestured for Ark to sit down.

Beneath the close-fitting mage robe, Su Xinyan's fair and slender legs were crossed.

With a hint of excitement, she introduced the research group to Fang Zhou.

"Generally speaking, military academies only set up research groups for extremely rare professions with huge growth potential and a lot of untapped potential."

For example, your classmate Ye Fan, he received federal funding to establish a research group because he successfully broke through from a Demon Hunter to become a Legendary King and demonstrated extremely strong combat power.

At this point, Su Xinyan wrinkled her nose unhappily and continued, "Hmph!"

Although our necromancer class is very rare, it is generally believed that our growth potential is extremely limited due to the separation between life and death.

Therefore, it was impossible for them to receive this treatment before.

Fortunately, Ark appeared out of nowhere and delivered an incredibly dazzling report card, proving the immense potential of necromancers. This finally forced my old-fashioned father to make the decision to establish a research project team.

Su Xinyan gave Fang Zhou an approving look and continued, "Normally, a new apprentice like you in a research group only needs to be a research subject."

However, Ark, you have fully demonstrated your research and deduction capabilities by independently developing a series of skeletal skills.

Therefore, the military academy made an exception and decided that, in addition to serving as a research subject, you are also qualified to serve as a principal investigator in the research group.

Principal researcher? Me researching myself?

Sounds good, Fangzhou nodded to himself.

He then asked, "Instructor Su, what exactly do I need to do?"

Su Xinyan changed her posture and said, "Our research group's overall goal is to gradually improve the necromancer class's skill system by studying and recording your cultivation process and growth changes at each stage, so as to enhance the class's cultivation speed and combat power as much as possible."

As a research subject, you will need to undergo various assessments by the research team regularly, such as mental strength level, cultivation speed, skill proficiency, specific combat indicators, and so on.

As the principal investigator, you need to list feasible research topics based on your inspiration and ideas, and do your best to achieve research results.

For example, the skeletal skill tree you developed could easily serve as a sub-project for you.

At this point, Su Xinyan winked meaningfully at Fang Zhou.

"Once you become a principal researcher, you will receive generous research grants for every research achievement you make, which are far more generous than the contribution points you would receive for uploading new skills directly to the Human Union skill library."

In addition, a certain percentage of your research expenses can be reimbursed by the government.

Research grant award? Publicly funded reimbursement?

Upon hearing these two points, Fangzhou immediately understood.

This must be the biggest perk of joining a research group.

Su Xinyan took a sip of the beautifully colored otherworldly juice, looked at Fang Zhou who seemed lost in thought, and asked with interest, "So, Fang Zhou, do you have any thoughts on the project?"

Fang Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Instructor Su, there are three main difficulties that we necromancers face."

First, due to the separation of life and death, the visualization diagram is misaligned and blurry, resulting in low quality of meditation and slow practice speed.

Secondly, the lack of skill inheritance leads to weak combat strength.

Third, their bodies are corrupted by the magic of the undead, making them physically weak and unable to adapt to the intense and fierce battlefield environment.

If we can resolve these three difficulties, the combat power of our necromancer class will definitely see a dramatic improvement.

Therefore, I think the direction of research projects should also start from these three aspects.

While drinking her juice, Su Xinyan kept her eyes glued to Fang Zhou, who was speaking eloquently and with a clear mind, her eyes sparkling with admiration.

"That's so true! I didn't even... cough cough, it's pretty much what I thought too."

Fangzhou continued, "Regarding the issue of meditation techniques, the visualization diagrams for our necromancers' current meditation techniques are all copied from undead creatures of various ranks."

For example, the apprentice level visualizes a skeleton, the iron level visualizes a zombie, and the bronze level visualizes a ghost.

I'd like to try a different approach, starting with my modified "Skeleton King Meditation Method," to see if I can further refine it.

Su Xinyan rested her chin on her hand and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Not bad. Compared to your improved [Skeleton King] imagery, the skeleton imagery from the previous meditation method is simply garbage."

Furthermore, when I was visualizing the image of the Skeleton King, it seemed that I was connected to the will of the Netherworld, and had a fixed anchor point in the Netherworld.

After that, when I used the apprentice-level necromancer skills, the mental energy consumption was significantly reduced, and the spell effects were greatly improved.

This might prove that your thinking is correct, Ark.

Upon hearing this, Fangzhou immediately understood.

It seems that visualizing one's own skeletal clone as an "apostle" can bring many benefits to ordinary necromancers.

Limited by Ark's own strength, the [Skeleton King Meditation Technique] is currently only an apprentice-level skill, and the buffs it provides to Su Xinyan are limited to apprentice-level necromancer skills.

If Ark can push the [Skeleton King Meditation Method] to the Gold level, Su Xinyan will also receive a large boost when using Gold-level skills, which will undoubtedly greatly enhance her combat power.