Necromancer: Becoming a God Starting with Skeleton Clone

Only the first potion of each stage's attribute-enhancing potion is effective.

For the vast majority of military academy cadets, these expensive apprentice-level attribute potions will only be affordable once they break through the Iron level and have more ways to acquire contribution points.

Furthermore, they generally only strengthen their main attributes in a targeted manner.

Players like Ark, who have only been awakened for a month, have already guzzled four attribute potions – this is definitely the playstyle of a whale (a player who spends a lot of money on in-game purchases).

The most crucial thing is that contribution points are entirely based on your own efforts; there's no way to get them by spending money.

Fang Zhou calmed his somewhat agitated blood and clenched his fists with satisfaction.

Strength, physique, and agility all reached 5 points, barely reaching the level of a mid-level apprentice professional, and far surpassing lower-level apprentice combat professionals such as Ye Fan and Zhao Yuan.

With Ark's relentless efforts and the small help of the Skeleton clone, his overwhelming advantage in attributes has begun to take shape.

In other words, Fang Zhou, being a necromancer, was unable to learn the skills of a warrior. Otherwise, he could have easily knocked Ye Fan to the ground with his bare fists, giving Ye Fan a small shock of a muscular mage.

Fangzhou composed himself and looked at the resource box in front of him, taking out 7 Level 1 Refinement Stones and 7 Level 1 Gems of different colors.

His apprentice set was a gray, low-quality piece of equipment that could be refined once and inlaid with a [Level 1 Gem].

Ever since discovering the use of Soul Power to enhance equipment, Ark has been obsessed with pushing his Apprentice Set to its limit.

Today, I've finally managed to exchange for enough materials.

"A resource that can be enhanced has been detected. You can consume 10 points of soul power to enhance it."

"Shall we begin the enhancement?"

Fangzhou removed all his equipment. "Attribute panel, enhance it!"

[Apprentice Staff] Refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Moonstone], spell effect slightly improved.

[Apprentice Mage Hat] Refinement +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Sapphire], slightly increases maximum mental power.

[Apprentice Gloves] Refined +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Green Jade], slightly increases casting speed.

Apprentice Rings*2, Refined to +1, Inlaid with Level 1 Obsidian, slightly reduces skill cooldown time.

[Apprentice Necklace] Refined +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Purple Jadeite], slightly increases mental energy recovery speed.

[Apprentice Robe] Refined +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Ruby], slightly increases defense.

[Apprentice Cloth Shoes] Refined +1, inlaid with [Level 1 Wind Crystal], movement speed slightly increased.

After consuming 140 points of soul power, Ark re-equipped with a full set of Apprentice Set refined to +1 and inlaid with level 1 gems, instantly feeling like he had upgraded from a slingshot to a cannon.

He waved his staff, casually conjuring a skeletal spear. He could clearly feel that his overall combat ability had increased by at least 20% compared to before.

Is this the allure of money? Awesome!

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Ark can use this apprentice set, which has been upgraded to its maximum, until it breaks through to the Black Iron level.

Unfortunately, the [Moon Orchid Incense] that Instructor Su Xinyan gave him is a rare item and cannot be refined or socketed.

Fangzhou breathed a sigh of relief, his expression gradually calming down. Now it was time to practice his skills.

He opened his personal terminal, and the six [Skill Insights] he had previously redeemed were already stored in his database.

These skills and insights will be forcibly imprinted into the user's mind in a kind of empowerment after use, and will only have an effect on the first use.

However, the specific level of proficiency improvement one can achieve depends on individual talent.

As for his talent, Fangzhou was absolutely confident in himself.

Attribute panel, let me see your limits!

"Skill proficiency enhancement material detected. It is estimated that it will consume 10 points of soul power to be perfectly absorbed."

"Shall we begin absorption?"

With the consumption of 6 [Skill Insights], Ark spent another 60 Soul Power to upgrade all 6 skills of its main body, namely [Summon Skeletons] and [Calm Mind], and its clones, namely [Charge], [Weapon Mastery], [Parry], and [Battle Cry], to the [Perfect] proficiency level.

Spending money on in-game purchases is awesome!

Fang Zhou looked excited, took a deep breath, and slowly suppressed his slightly excited emotions.

The reason these "skill tips" are so effective is because they are based on his hard work and constant practice in the early stages.

Next, if you want to upgrade these skills from the [Perfect] level to the [Instinct] level of proficiency, you either need to accumulate a large amount of soul power and add points directly, or you can only persevere and practice slowly.

In the dormitory area where Fangzhou is located, there is a dedicated skills training room.

Practicing skills in these skill training rooms will significantly increase your skill proficiency, making it well worth the 1 contribution point per hour usage fee.

With this in mind, Fang Zhou did not hesitate.

He took a bottle of [Low-Level Mental Energy Restoration Potion] and used his personal terminal to open the door to the skill training room.

There was no one here at the moment.

Other first-year students, lacking both the necessary privileges and the inability to afford the exorbitant prices, naturally kept their distance from this place.

After deducting one hour of usage time, the special magic circle in the skill training room began to operate.

Fangzhou brandished his staff and swiftly cast the [Summon Skeleton] skill.

After the skeleton clone's [Brutal Strike] skill was upgraded to the [Instinct] level of proficiency, it fed back the main body with the powerful buff skill [Group Brutal Spell].

Ark is very much looking forward to seeing what kind of skill the clone will receive if the main body's [Summon Skeleton] skill is upgraded to the [Instinct] level.

For the next period of time, his training focused on improving his proficiency in the [Summon Skeleton] skill from [Perfect] to [Instinct].

This undoubtedly requires a lot of practice time, but now that Ark has spent money to exchange for the skill training room and mental energy recovery potion, the practice efficiency will definitely increase significantly.

He used all his mental energy to summon skeletons, summoning a total of 60 skeletons at once.

After exhausting his mental energy, Fang Zhou unscrewed the bottle cap and gulped down the prepared [Low-level Mental Energy Recovery Potion]. He then decisively activated the perfect-level [Calm and Composed] skill, and his mental energy quickly recovered to about 30%.

It's not that Fang Zhou is unwilling to drink more potions, it's just that an apprentice-level professional can only drink one bottle of potion per day.

Even if you drink a lot, it will damage your body and have almost no effect.

The Ark once again expended its mental energy to summon 20 more skeletons.

Afterwards, Ark controlled the 80 skeletons to split them into two teams for a brutal battle, practicing his ability to command a skeleton army in this way.

Soon, an hour passed, and Fangzhou's mental energy was completely exhausted.

He snapped his fingers, dismissing the few remaining skeletons, and looked at his attribute panel with satisfaction.

At this rate, in less than half a month, the [Summon Skeleton] skill should be able to reach the [Instinct] level of proficiency.

At that time, my strength will experience another small leap.