Undead Mage: I Have a Skeleton Clone

Chapter 827 - 525: Corpse Giant Bat, Resentful Soul Cannon Platform, Spirit Pet Advancement!

While the members of the research group were discussing animatedly with envy in their eyes, Fang Zhou felt somewhat dazed despite his joy.

Major rank, Silver Tier, unknowingly he had grown to this point.

Now the various resources at Sea City Military Academy’s logistics department were no longer useful for Fang Zhou’s growth.

Who knows how much longer he could stay at Sea City Military Academy?

Counting the days, he might graduate from here in just a few months and become a grassroots officer.

Turning to look at Instructor Su Xinyan beside him, Fang Zhou’s heart suddenly surged with ambition.

The journey is arduous and long, I shall seek it above and below.

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Amidst the Wasteland of Strife, the blood moon above the Tomb Territory was slightly stronger than elsewhere.

Fang Zhou walked out of the Personal Guard Camp and looked up at the blood moon in the sky.

In more than a month of tireless effort, he finally researched the correct path to transform Corpse Knights into Spiritual Remains Knights.

During this period, Tidamia, Sain, and other Corpse Knight Guards had all successfully advanced to Silver Lower Rank Spiritual Remains Knights.

Among the other tens of thousands of ordinary Corpse Knights, 2000 were transformed into Bronze Upper Rank Spiritual Remains Knights.

Nearly 100 successfully advanced to Silver Lower Rank Spiritual Remains Knights.

This wasn’t because Fang Zhou couldn’t advance them all, but because advancing from Bronze Upper Rank to Silver Lower Rank required the undead creature itself to possess extraordinary talent and spirituality.

Generally, only naturally mutated Undead Creatures have the talent to advance to Silver level.

Moreover, advancing Bronze-level Spiritual Remains Knights to Silver requires too much spiritual and soul power.

Even with the months of stockpiled resources at the Tomb Territory, they could only upgrade 100 Spiritual Remains Knights in the short term.

He stretched out his hand to catch a wisp of seemingly tangible blood moonlight and sighed lightly.

This wasn’t because the Tomb Territory absorbs spiritual resources too slowly, but because of the energy concentration influence from this Wasteland of Strife fragment in the Undead Realm.

With Fang Zhou breaking through the barrier and advancing to Silver-level Undead Creatures, he already discovered that just as the energy ceiling of Corpse Hill is stuck at Black Iron Upper, this Wasteland of Strife’s energy ceiling is stuck at Silver Upper.

Any Undead Creatures at Silver level in this Wasteland of Strife are undoubted overlords.

For Fang Zhou, this is both good and bad.

The good part obviously being that he doesn’t have to worry about his spiritual remains clone encountering overly powerful enemies, causing him to abandon this well-managed foundation.

The bad part naturally being the near ceiling of energy concentration limiting the development and expansion speed of the Tomb Territory, thus limiting Fang Zhou’s growth and evolution speed.

But with Fang Zhou’s calm nature, he was certainly not in a hurry.

He quietly organized scout teams to explore resource points around his territory while continuously transforming his Tomb Undead.

As his average four-dimensional attributes increased to 3000 points, the number of tomb commander’s seals he could produce also exceeded 3000.

This meant that his Tomb Undead Army surged to over 300,000 in number.

Faced with the sharply increasing undead army limit, Fang Zhou was no longer eager to improve the quality of his Tomb Undead as before.

The first priority was to fill the Tomb Undead Army to its capacity, then cull the inferior and elevate the quality.

Fang Zhou sensed his vast Tomb Undead Army through his spiritual remains authority.

Elite Spirit Corpse Knight*100 (Silver Lower Rank)

Spiritual Remains Knight Guard*2900 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Spiritual Remains Commander*3000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Corpse Knight*10000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Ghost*2000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Corpse Giant Bat*2000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Corrupt Hatred*2000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Corpse Warrior*10000 (Bronze Upper Rank)

Corpse Warrior*280000 (Black Iron Upper Rank)

Apart from those newly transformed upgraded Spiritual Remains series undead units, Fang Zhou also added a new air combat unit, the Corpse Giant Bat.

As the name suggests, this is a giant bat formed from twisted corpses.

The inspiration for its creation obviously came from the Naraku Civilization’s exclusive flying undead creature, the Giant Bat Wolf.

Though Fang Zhou didn’t know the specific crafting method of the Giant Bat Wolf, he could infer some details from the related information.

Furthermore, his Tomb Undead Army had always lacked air combat flying units.

Even after absorbing the Ghost Lord and decoding the Death Spirit Body talent, the Spirit Tomb, a unit building he developed to produce Ghosts only temporarily alleviated the urgent need.

After all, the flying height of Ghosts isn’t very high, and producing them consumes a lot of spiritual resources, unable to quickly produce in quantity to form a large-scale air combat force like the Corpse Knight.

Upon receiving information on the outstanding air combat undead unit Giant Bat Wolf, Fang Zhou immediately used his spiritual remains authority to analyze based on the Skeleton Bat.

Ultimately, he successfully developed the Corpse Giant Bat, a usable Bronze-level flying undead creature.

The appearance of the Corpse Giant Bat enlarged multiple times from the Skeleton Bat, except it has aggregates of various flesh and blood besides the originally thin pale bones.

Its power rank also rose from Black Iron Tier to Bronze Tier.

Compared to the rare spirit type undead, the production cost of Corpse Giant Bats is lower, using ordinary bones and flesh-blood resources.

This led to a substantial accumulation in the Tomb Undead Army, sufficient to serve as a regular air combat force for the Tomb Undead.

As for the Undead Mage itself, it added a new flying undead unit, the Corpse Giant Bat, to its artificial undead, completing the strength puzzle of the Undead Summoned Army more perfectly.

Beyond the changes in Tomb Undead units, Fang Zhou also developed another undead war machine during this period, named [Resentful Soul Cannon Platform].

This war machine appears as a cannon platform made of obsidian and bones, with old undead runes etched all over the barrel, and a ghostly green resentful soul energy sphere hovering at the muzzle.

The platform can shoot resentful soul energy bombs to cause widespread soul damage to the target area and adds a "soul burning" effect.

Upon impact, the resentful soul energy bomb releases numerous miniature Ghosts to continuously attack the enemy.

From the damage attributes of this undead war machine, it is evident that it was successfully forged by Fang Zhou’s fusion of spiritual remains authority and Death Spirit Body talent.

While possessing terrifying destructive power, each shot from the Resentful Soul Cannon Platform needs to consume a large amount of spiritual energy and corpse flesh and blood essence.

Additionally, the cannon platform requires periodic supplementation of Ghosts as precision guidance devices to maintain its full destructive capability.

It can be said that a single shot costs a thousand gold.

Besides these research projects showing initial success, Fang Zhou has several projects with promising beginnings in progress.

For instance, special enchantments for Tomb Undead units.

This idea came from the inspiration of the Soul Silence Brand and Soul Silence War Drum series.

If different enchantments could be granted based on the combat attributes of front-line tanks, rear archers, side cavalry, airborne units, etc., highlighting their strengths.

Then undoubtedly, it could significantly enhance the overall combat capability of the Tomb Undead Army.

Unfortunately, this idea hasn’t been fully implemented.

Also, like the creation of undead units with casting abilities, this is temporarily stalled at a bottleneck.

Although the Undead Mage itself successfully made the first undead creature Ryze with casting ability, that was because Ryze retained the broken soul box of Naraku Civilization’s Skeleton Mage.

After the blood battle at the tower, Fang Zhou once researched using the collected bodies of Fire-Throwing Demons, Mad Eagle Demons, and other casting demons to make caster undead but hasn’t succeeded yet.

Based on Fang Zhou’s conjecture, the hope for success might still lie in mastering the spiritual remains authority.