fynovel Chapter 53 The Undead Saint, [Group Brutality Technique]!
Chapter 53 The Undead Saint, [Group Brutality Technique]!
During the charge, both sides' skeletal weapons were already in place, ready to deliver a fatal blow at any moment.
The Ark's weapon is a skeletal spear.
This skeleton warrior's weapon is a giant bone axe.
As the distance between the two drew closer, the skeletal warrior raised his giant bone axe and, using the momentum of his charge, slashed fiercely down at the ark!
Clang!
A dull thud resounded.
[Parry] Skill activated!
Ark blocked the skeleton warrior's attack with its skeletal spear.
Both are skeletal weapons, both formed from the user's own bones. When the skeletal spear and the skeletal giant axe clashed, the skeletal spear remained undamaged at the point of impact, while the skeletal giant axe broke in two.
The giant axe skeleton stared blankly at the broken skeletal axe in its hand, unsure of how to react.
With its extremely limited combat instincts, it couldn't understand why the skeleton warrior on the other side was so much stronger than itself.
Suddenly, a sense of doubt and resentment arose in the giant axe skeleton's heart.
Shouldn't such powerful creatures stay in deeper areas?
Why would someone come here to stage an accident?!
Fang Zhou didn't care what his prey was thinking. He twitched his jaw slightly, as if he were smiling, and then thrust out the skeletal spear in his hand with fluid grace.
Brutal blow!
Clang!
In an instant, Fangzhou channeled all his power into the skeletal spear and thrust it at the skeleton warrior with a thunderous and lightning-fast strike!
As the skeleton warrior instinctively raised his massive skeletal axe, broken in two, to block Ark's thunderous strike, Ark's skeletal spear subtly shifted, avoiding the axe.
It slashed across its skull like a venomous snake.
Click!
A crisp sound.
The giant axe-wielding skeleton warrior's head flew off and fell to the ground.
However, this skeleton warrior is not dead yet; its vitality is several times stronger than that of an apprentice-level skeleton.
As long as the soul fire is not extinguished, even the most severe injuries can slowly heal.
The giant axe skeleton's skull struggled to move, trying to rejoin its body.
Putting away the skeletal spear, Ark walked up to the head of the giant axe-wielding skeleton warrior.
Even through its dark eye sockets, the Ark could still clearly see its blazing soul fire.
To grow from a weak, newly hatched skeleton to its current state, this giant axe skeleton must have gone through countless battles.
But now, it's all over!
Fangzhou lifted his foot and gently stepped on it.
As the skull shattered, the giant axe skeleton's soul fire gradually died out, and its body scattered into a pile of bones not far away.
After absorbing its skeletal essence, Ark stretched its body and looked at its attribute panel with satisfaction.
After a night of slaughter and devouring, the skeleton clone's four-dimensional attributes increased by a few points, and its previously depleted soul power also accumulated considerably.
With his soul at its limit, Ark controlled the skeleton clone to find a safe corner, then turned his attention back to his main body.
......
In the dormitory of Haicheng Military Academy.
Fangzhou sat up in bed, looking at his character's attribute panel with some anticipation.
The skeleton clone's [Brutal Strike] skill has been successfully upgraded to the [Instinct] level of proficiency. Following the pattern, it should be able to deduce another skill for the main body.
He focused his attention on the skills panel and, sure enough, received a notification.
"The clone skill has been detected to have reached the [Instinct] proficiency level. It can be used as skill material to deduce unknown skills for the main body. It is estimated that it will consume 10 points of soul power."
"Shall we begin the simulation?"
As he expected, Fangzhou immediately confirmed.
As 10 points of soul power were consumed, memories of the skeleton clones using Brutal Strike countless times flooded Ark's mind.
A thought suddenly occurred to him: what a wonderful sight it would be if his summoned skeleton army could all learn this brutal attack.
A flash of inspiration struck Fangzhou, and he immediately had an idea.
"Skill [Group Brutality] successfully activated!"
[Group Brutality] (Apprentice Level, Proficient): For a certain period of time, inflicts necromancy damage on your undead creatures, increasing their attack power. The magnitude, duration, and coverage of this increase depend on your Spirit attribute and skill proficiency.
Looking at the skill description, Ark's eyes lit up.
It appears that this [Mass Brutality] is a support skill similar to [Resurrection of the Dead], which can buff the undead summons under your command with death energy attributes, thereby increasing their combat power.
Now that a new skill has been deduced, Ark naturally wants to test its actual effectiveness.
So he summoned two skeletons of similar strength and cast the Mass Brutality spell on one of them.
Afterwards, Ark ordered the two skeletons to fight each other.
Amidst the sickening grinding of bones, the skeleton, imbued with the Mass Brutality spell, shimmered with a dark, eerie light.
In less than a minute, it easily severed the arm bone of another white skeleton with its bone claws, and then neatly twisted off its skull.
Fangzhou nodded slightly. This [Group Brutality] spell could increase the attack power of skeletons by at least 20%.
For his army of forty or fifty skeletons, this was a significant boost to his combat strength.
At least in the future, dealing with those minor demons will be much easier in the Abyss difficulty [Horned Demon Outpost].
Satisfied with the success of deriving another practical new skill, Fangzhou quickly washed up and drifted off to sleep.
......
The second day was still an incredibly fulfilling one.
Fangzhou arrived at the training ground early in the morning and started the Abyss difficulty [Horned Demon Outpost].
Just as he expected, with the boost from [Group Brutality], his clear time was reduced by another three minutes, and his historical speedrun ranking also improved by one place.
The other trainees who were silently watching Fangzhou on the training field could also see that Fangzhou had deduced another unknown auxiliary skill.
Despite being numb to Ark's extraordinary talent, his incredible performance still made one of the female students exclaim, "It's true what they say, comparisons are odious!"
I haven't even fully mastered my third skill yet, while Ark has already independently developed five or six brand new skills, right?
"Yes, Bone Spears, Bone Shields, Bone Shackles, Dominate Skeletons, and the Ark's area-of-effect skills, movement skills, and this time's buff skills that it once showed in the simulated battlefield."
"To be able to deduce so many skills in just one month, and with such high proficiency, the difference is truly disheartening."
Their friends comforted them, saying, "Don't be too discouraged. I heard some instructors say that Ark may have gathered all the essence of the necromancer profession, and was born to be a necromancer. Only in this way can we explain why he has such a strong professional talent."
Some people took it easy and said nonchalantly, "No matter what, Fang Zhou is a member of the Human Alliance just like us. The higher his talent, the greater his chances of becoming a top-tier powerhouse in the future."
As his classmates, we should feel proud of this.