ebookslot Chapter 392 Corpse Explosion Technique, the Necromancer's Romance!
Chapter 392 Corpse Explosion Technique, the Necromancer's Romance!
Chapter 392 Corpse Explosion Technique, the Necromancer's Romance!
Li Buyun said, "Our trade fair will last for seven consecutive days, with an auction for elite students every evening."
Anyone who is at Haicheng Military Academy can participate in person or remotely via online projection.
Of course, the common currency used in these auctions is still a contribution point.
Upon hearing this, Fang Zhou's heart stirred, and he asked, "An auction sounds very appealing. How exactly does it work?"
Li Buyun explained, "It's very simple. You just need to log in to the auction system through your personal terminal, select the item you want to auction, and fill in the relevant information, including the starting price and reserve price."
The system will automatically review your application, and once approved, your item will appear in the auction.
Each evening features a different theme, attracting participants with diverse needs.
Fangzhou nodded.
Li Buyun continued, "If you don't want to simply contribute points, in addition to the auction, we will also hold a special barter and treasure appraisal session on the last night of this trade fair."
As long as you entrust the resources you wish to trade with others to the military academy for appraisal beforehand, ensuring they have some value, you can go to the appraisal platform and request to barter with everyone.
Fang Zhou became even more interested and asked, "Is the threshold for the Treasure Appraisal Meeting very high?"
Li Buyun nodded and said, "That's true."
The threshold for the Treasure Appraisal Association is very high, divided into three levels: Apprentice, Iron, and Bronze.
To participate in the appraisal meeting, one must pass the verification of personal assets by the Haicheng Military Academy.
Alternatively, only those who possess rare, universal, scarce, and practical resources, or those who are top students in their respective grade levels, are eligible to participate.
Fang Zhou secretly pondered that although he didn't have a lot of resources, he did have some rare items that might give him a chance to participate in the treasure appraisal event.
He asked with some curiosity, "Senior Brother Li, I have heard of auctions and the final treasure appraisal meeting before."
However, because my access to information is limited, I haven't looked into it in detail yet.
If it's convenient for you, could you tell me more about it?
Li Buyun smiled and nodded, saying, "No problem, my shop is practically deserted, it's incredibly quiet."
If you have time, feel free to sit here. Whatever you'd like to drink, I can let you try it for free.
Fang Zhou checked the time. He had been browsing the trading market for a long time today and had bought many items he liked. So he simply pulled out a sofa and sat down, saying with a smile, "Since Senior Brother Li has so kindly invited me, I will accept."
Li Buyun gestured to the waiter to pour Fang Zhou another glass of fresh fruit wine, then sat down on the sofa opposite Fang Zhou and said with a smile, "My wines are very good, but they are all very expensive."
Generally, only students at the Bronze rank have the ability and wealth to buy the wine from me.
However, the ordinary quality drinks I brew have no effect on bronze-level professionals.
So generally speaking, my beverage shop doesn't have many customers at all.
I was just going on an adventure recently, and it was really exhausting. I wanted to take a good rest in my last semester before graduation.
At this point, Li Buyun looked around with some emotion, sighed, and said, "After graduation, when I arrive at the Human-Demon Battlefield, I won't have such peaceful and tranquil days to enjoy."
These were Li Buyun's genuine feelings as a graduate, but Fang Zhou, a military academy recruit who had only been awakened for half a year, didn't have many feelings about them.
However, he was quite interested in the adventure experience that Li Buyun had just mentioned.
"Senior Brother Li, could you elaborate on the adventure you mentioned earlier?" Fang Zhou asked curiously.
Li Buyun was also a talkative person, and he and Fang Zhou chatted for a long time, sharing drinks and conversation.
Their topics ranged from alchemy and mana restoration resources to adventure experiences and military academy life, covering everything.
It wasn't until another customer walked into the wine shop that Li Buyun suddenly realized what was going on. He slapped his thigh, opened his personal terminal, and sent Fang Zhou a string of identity tokens, saying, "Junior Brother Fang Zhou, I almost forgot about the important matter."
As a graduate of the Bronze level, I am honored to be invited as an appraiser for this auction and appraisal event.
Therefore, I am qualified to issue qualification certificates to some students who have the capital and wealth to participate in auctions and appraisal events.
With your abilities, talent, and accumulated wealth, junior, there's naturally no need for any further verification procedures.
I just sent you a string of identity tokens.
You can use it to attend the nightly auctions and the final appraisal event.
Fangzhou nodded and smiled, "Then I'll have the advantage of being in a good position."
Thank you, Senior Brother Li. We'll talk again another time.
During their conversation, Fangzhou learned a lot about the gourmet side profession from Li Buyun.
Although Fangzhou didn't have much interest in the Gourmet profession itself, he was very envious of the various wines and spirits that the Gourmet sub-profession could brew, as well as the delicacies that were not only delicious but also had various health benefits.
If you have extra spiritual energy, you could consider working part-time as a gourmet.
After saying goodbye to Li Buyun, Fangzhou took a short stroll around the nearby bronze trading area.
He was secretly amazed.
The resources here have only one characteristic: they are expensive.
Although Fang Zhou's wealth was considerable among all the Iron-level students, it paled in comparison to the graduates who had reached the Bronze rank and honed their skills through four years of battles.
In particular, many of the resources here are bronze-tier resources, which the Ark cannot currently use.
He walked around and saw all sorts of rare materials, advanced equipment, and special potions, each with an astonishing price tag.
Some of the resources were even ones he had never seen before, but just by reading the descriptions, he knew how precious they were.
After broadening his horizons a bit, Fang Zhou left the trading area with satisfaction, planning to return later to attend tonight's auction.
The stalls and resources available at the trade fair are updated daily.
Although he had already made quite a bit of money today, he was even more looking forward to the auction that evening and the market stalls tomorrow.
Of course, Fangzhou would need to further increase his net worth before participating in the auction.
Regarding resources from barter, Ark plans to use this time to refine all the resources it has into skeletal warhorse reins.
He calculated his remaining resources and estimated that he would have enough reins for about 10 skeletal warhorses by evening.
As for contribution points, after today's purchases and gambling on stones, Ark doesn't have many truly usable contribution points.
Fortunately, he converted a large amount of soul power through gambling on stones, and now he can start to deduce the Corruption and Poison skill tree.
As long as you can successfully deduce a suitable and useful Corruption-type skill, not to mention the boost to the Ark's combat power, even if you directly exchange it for the Human Rights skill library, you can still get at least 1000 contribution points as a reward.
After returning to the necromancer research project, Fangzhou handed over the various resources he had exchanged to his assistant for processing, while he dashed into the alchemy workshop.
With his current alchemy skills, crafting a few skeletal warhorse reins would be a piece of cake.
He skillfully prepared the necessary materials and began refining the product according to the established steps.
An hour later, Fangzhou neatly placed the 10 skeletal warhorse reins into his spatial storage capsule, and then looked at his attribute panel.
Looking at the soul power that reached several thousand points, Fang Zhou felt an irresistible itch, a sense of fulfillment like that of a wealthy landlord.
He opened the various skill materials and new skill deduction plans that Sylvanas had previously provided him, looking somewhat hesitant.
Which skill should we analyze first?
Fangzhou carefully reviewed the skill materials, weighing the pros and cons of each skill in his mind.
Soon, Fangzhou made up his mind.
The first Corruption skill was, of course, the Corpse Explosion he had been eyeing for a long time.
In his deduction, Corpse Explosion should be a composite skill of the Corruption and Bone types, and it is enough to become a signature skill of the necromancer class.
The only regrettable thing is that Master Sandru has been focusing his energy on the deduction of artificial undead and the personal undead space during this period.
He only occasionally guided his apprentice Sylvanas in helping the Ark collect data and accumulate materials.
Now, Fangzhou's skill deduction strategy is quite complete, and he only needs a flash of inspiration to successfully deduce it.
For Ark, the so-called sparks of inspiration were nothing more than a consumption of soul power.
The auspicious time has arrived!
Attribute panel, show me the deduction!
For the Corpse Explosion skill, Sylvanas prepared nearly 10 skill materials for the Ark.
These materials cover a variety of professions and skill types, including the explosive devices of the Bomb Sorcerer, the fire traps of the Fire Mage, the puppeteer's control threads, and the Necromancer's original Corruption skill, Corruption Explosion.
The wide variety of skill materials covers all the elements of casting Corpse Explosion.
Now, what Ark needs to do is to use the burst of inspiration brought about by the consumption of soul power to fuse these skill materials together and successfully launch the Corpse Explosion skill he needs.
With a total of 1600 points of soul power consumed, nearly a thousand skill materials and corresponding skill insights wove into a complex network in Ark's mind.
Each node represents a key element of spellcasting.
Driven by the power of his soul, Fang Zhou's inspiration kept flashing, and he began to try to integrate these elements to form a new skill model.
With the Corpse Clone skill having reached an instinctive level, all the skill materials finally fused together perfectly, forming the Corpse Explosion skill he had been dreaming of.
Ark opened its eyes, and a detailed skill description appeared before it:
[Corpse Explosion] (Black Iron, Mastery): Select a corpse of Black Iron rank or lower, infuse it with necromantic power to cause a violent explosion, dealing mixed damage to all enemies within a certain radius. The damage types include physical, necromantic, and corrosive attributes. The casting range and damage effects are determined by Spirit attribute, skill proficiency, and the energy contained in the corpse itself.
The simple and crude description, however, represents an exceptionally terrifying effect.
Fangzhou repeatedly browsed the descriptions on the skill bar, feeling incredibly excited.
He spent a full 1600 points of soul power to deduce this skill, and the effect it brought was naturally far beyond his expectations.
In the Black Iron stage, the Corpse Explosion skill, thanks to the various skill materials he used and the instinctive putrefactive poison transformation skill achieved by the corpse clones, has been perfected to its limit.
For a long time, Corpse Explosion was his Ark's unique skill and signature ability.
Imagine a battlefield strewn with blood and gore, where Ark issues a single command that causes the demon corpses to explode violently.
The resulting chain reaction of damage is enough to turn the Ark into a killing machine in the entire small-scale battlefield.
The terrifying effect of Corpse Explosion is definitely no less than that of the undead army summoned by the Ark.
Taking a few deep breaths, Fangzhou looked at the less than 2000 points of soul power remaining.
Filled with fighting spirit, he decided to press on and use the same trick again.
Based on the skill deduction ideas provided by Sylvanas and Willow Dance, he combined them with the skills of the Black Iron-level mage and successfully deduced yet another extremely enhanced version of the Corruption Poison skill.
[Rotting Aura] (Black Iron, Mastery): Unleashes necromantic power to form a rotting aura that envelops enemies within a certain range. Enemies under the aura will have their defense reduced to a certain extent, take increased damage from the corrosive attribute, and have a chance to be afflicted with negative status effects such as Weakness, Plague, and Poison. The casting range and skill effects are determined by Spirit attribute and skill proficiency.
The Rot Aura is different from the previous Explosion; it is an aura-type skill used to inflict negative status effects on enemies.
During his training in the Ark, he has acquired two buffing abilities for his undead creatures: Brutal Aura and Iron Wall Aura.
However, the only debuffing skill against enemies is a terrifying aura that has a decisive effect, specifically designed to weaken the enemy's will to resist.
Fortunately, the Rot Aura deduced this time can effectively weaken the enemy's defenses, thereby greatly increasing our own damage output.
For Fangzhou, this is also an important part of his own combat strength.
Fangzhou looked at the attribute panel again. The accumulation of soul power was no longer enough for him to deduce another ultimate enhanced Corrosive Poison skill.
He didn't press the matter further and instead uploaded the Corpse Explosion and Rot Aura techniques he had just deduced to the Human Alliance skill library.
Thanks to the generous rewards from the Human Alliance for the new deduction skills, as well as the research grants from the Necromancer Research Group, these two skills have brought Ark nearly 4000 contribution points.
That's not surprising.
After all, the skill materials and skill insights that Ark used to deduce these two skills cost nearly 2000 contribution points each.
After roughly estimating his assets, he had nearly 5000 contribution points and 10 newly crafted skeleton warhorse reins, which should be enough to handle the upcoming trade fair and treasure appraisal event.
Fang Zhou stood up with satisfaction and turned to walk towards the skills training field.