Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Chapter 43 [Skeleton Wings] Deduction Successful

[Mana Dash] skill book? Fang Zhou raised an eyebrow.

This is the only movement-oriented skill among the general skills of magic users, which can consume mental energy to slightly increase movement speed.

Its effect is quite useful for ordinary magic users, but it is not that important for Ark, which is determined to deduce skeletal movement skills. It is just a skill material.

After two days of simulated battlefield experience, Ark has discovered a small pattern.

The first time you clear a certain difficulty level, you'll always get a loot drop, which is probably a small perk that the Haicheng Military Academy gives to its students.

If you're lucky, like in Ark, you can get pretty good rewards like skill books and gems.

Those with bad luck might only get ordinary rewards like contribution points or potions.

Fangzhou summarized his gains: after deducting the cost of tickets and skill books, the net profit was 36 contribution points, which was quite considerable.

......

At this moment, in the training ground, the first-year students were closely watching the progress of the Ark's strategy.

Seeing Ark achieve a perfect clear once again, they couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, even though they had become somewhat numb to it.

"He was only one minute slower on Normal difficulty than on Easy? And he moved up five places in the historical speedrun rankings? I watched the Arknights livestream battle footage, and the difficulty was clearly much higher! How can he get stronger as the battle goes on?"

"Didn't you see that area-of-effect skill? It killed five lesser demons in one hit. The damage was amazing, saving the Ark a lot of time."

"I really can't accept this! In just a few minutes, Fang Zhou has deduced another incredibly useful area-of-effect skill! If only he had half my brainpower!"

Seeing Fang Zhou's amazing performance at the Horned Demon Outpost, even someone as confident as Gu Zhi Qiu felt a sense of confusion.

Such a prodigy, can I really catch up with him?

Meng Hongzhuang kept comforting herself in her heart.

She is a summoner, and she only competes with Ark in summoning, not with anyone else.

She would be content as long as she could surpass Ark in summoning.

Fang Zhou had already left the simulated battlefield. He lay in the simulation pod, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.

Now that we've got the [Mana Dash] skill book, let's figure out the movement skills of the Bone faction.

The difficulty of [Horned Demon Outpost] is increasing, and we may need to use it soon.

Without hesitation, Ark spent 40 contribution points to exchange for 4 movement skills, which are the hallmarks of the mage class.

Over the past month, he has learned from various guides that mage-class practitioners do not have many practical movement skills during the apprentice stage, only a handful.

Last night, during his conversation with Su Xinyan, he specifically asked her for advice, and Su Xinyan gave him full affirmation of these movement skills.

【Swift as the Wind】 is the Storm Mage's apprentice movement skill, which summons wind elements to make the user as light as a swallow, allowing for quick and agile maneuvers.

【Flame Leap】 is a movement skill for fire mages. It can compress the explosive power of fire into the legs, thereby generating a powerful jump. This skill has high requirements for the mage's constitution attribute.

【Ripples of the Path】 is a movement skill for water-type mages at the apprentice level, which can create a body of water. Within this water, the user's movement speed is increased.

【Shadow Cloak】is a movement skill for shadow mages, allowing them to manipulate the power of shadows for short-distance, rapid movement.

Ark focused its attention on the attribute panel, where the skill bar already displayed prompts.

"Sufficient skill materials have been detected to deduce an unknown skill. It is estimated that 10 Soul Power will be consumed."

"Shall we begin the simulation?"

Fangzhou made a decisive decision.

Countless sparks of inspiration flashed through his mind, and he immediately absorbed the essence of these five movement skills.

Combining the instinct-level [Skeleton Armament], Ark had a flash of inspiration.

"Successfully deduced the skill [Skeleton Wings]".

【Skeleton Wings】(Apprentice Level, Proficient): Uses necromantic power to condense skeletal wings, making the body as light as a feather, allowing for rapid gliding through the air for a short distance. Duration and gliding distance depend on Spirit attribute, Constitution attribute, and skill proficiency.

The movement skill is complete!

Fang Zhou clenched his fists, a slight excitement welling up inside him.

Ever since he witnessed Ye Fan's [Fallen Heaven Strike] skill, he had longed for it.

Unfortunately, he lacked both soul power and contribution points at the time, and he also lacked skill materials for reference, so he had to put it aside for the time being.

After consulting with Su Xinyan yesterday, his ideas were fully affirmed.

Today, taking advantage of the opportunity to obtain the [Mana Dash] skill book from a dungeon, I finally managed to deduce the movement skill I've been longing for.

【Skeleton Wings】Compared to the five movement skills such as Mana Rush and Flame Leap, it can be said to have combined the strengths of many and surpassed them.

The most crucial point is that it allows the ark to glide in mid-air for a period of time.

The ability to briefly remain airborne during the apprentice stage undoubtedly greatly enhances the Ark's three-dimensional maneuverability.

In comparison, Ye Fan's Fallen Strike is far inferior to the Skeleton Wings in terms of displacement functionality.

Fang Zhou let out a soft breath, his eyes shining brightly.

Despite having fought two challenging battles, he felt no fatigue whatsoever; on the contrary, he was full of energy and high spirits.

Hard difficulty, start!

After paying 6 contribution points as an entrance fee, Ark once again found itself in the familiar thick fog.

Mission: Slay all demons and recapture the riverside outpost.

Bone Shield, summons skeletons, surveys the environment.

Fang Zhou moved even faster, leading his skeleton army stealthily toward the outpost with practiced ease.

Sure enough, compared to the normal difficulty, there were two more minor demons guarding the outpost.

The three sentries were scattered in different locations, wielding steel forks and pacing back and forth, their eyes constantly scanning the surroundings, clearly very vigilant.

If we disturb them, we might have to face all the demons in the outpost at once, including the Horned Demon Boss.

However, this was no challenge for Ark.

He commanded his skeleton army to remain still, while he himself slowly crept to an excellent position to cast a spell.

After practicing for a period of time, his proficiency in the skills [Bone Spear] and [Bone Shackles] has reached mastery.

Launching three things at once simultaneously is not difficult for him.

After observing the movement patterns of the three lesser demon sentinels, Ark had a plan in mind.

He controlled a skeleton, which emerged from the woods in another direction.

The sound of the skeleton rubbing against the trees immediately attracted the attention of the three little demon sentinels.

They both remained still, turning their heads toward the skull.

Just as the three lesser demons' attention was drawn to the skeleton, Ark activated its skill.

Skeletal Shackles!

Three bone chains tightly surrounded the lesser demon sentinels, and under the Ark's close watch, they were effectively gagged.

Then, three incredibly sharp skeletal spears shot out.