Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

Of course, Lynn didn't use all his magic stones for cultivation; his undead minions also received significant enhancements.

When feeding the little stone, Lynn tried feeding it many different kinds of minerals, and finally chose "Earth Crystal Minerals" which had the best cost performance.

This stuff is found in many earth-rich mineral veins, with high yields, wide applications, and moderate prices.

Most importantly, it suits Xiaoshitou's taste perfectly and greatly replenishes his natural nutrients.

And his intermediate earth-type talent, nurtured by Little Stone's tireless earth-type essence, reached advanced level...

During this year, Lynn also resonated with the "Sorrowful Mist Spirit" and formed the "Trinity Realm" with Little Stone.

When the three release their power in concert, they can form a [Stone Heart Mist Domain] within an area centered on Lynn (currently with a radius of about 100 meters).

This area possesses features such as fog interference, illusion resistance, undead enhancement, and energy neutralization.

Furthermore, Lynn's perception within the domain has been greatly enhanced, allowing him to sense everything within it and harmonize the power within it with his own will.

Little Stone's various enhancement abilities are strengthened, and it can manipulate the terrain to trap and attack enemies. Mist Spirit can create realistic illusions within the mist domain.

【Stone Heart Mist Domain】Although Lynn was an apprentice, he possessed some of the rudimentary abilities of a "domain" that only a formal wizard could have, allowing him to experience in advance the process of "harmonizing multiple forces with his own will and influencing local rules".

This provided him with some experience in building his own "Stigmata Domain" later on.

As for the other undead minions...

Under such a comfortable life, Lynn's other undead minions rarely showed themselves, let alone went to war.

However, Lynn still invested a lot of magic stones, using [Analysis] to purchase the corresponding materials to strengthen it.

After all, they were raised by me, and I hope they can accompany me to the top.

With such a good master, the main undead were all strengthened to the limit of level 3, reaching a point where they could not be improved further.

Unless Lynn undergoes a fundamental enhancement after becoming a full-fledged wizard, or if there is some special opportunity, they will remain at this stage forever.

Of course, Megatron is an exception...

This guy has been at the peak of level 3 for quite a while, and the [Analysis] also provides a plan to enhance him to level 4, and the materials have been prepared well in advance.

As soon as Lynn becomes a full wizard, we can immediately begin the process of promoting it...

Due to the significant increase in mental strength, the multiple improvements and optimizations to [Undead Domination], and the massive expansion of the mental vortex, Lynn now has more "pet slots".

Since he had no chance to go out and "catch babies," he didn't really like the low-potential undead Lynn sold at the Apprentice Market.

Since you can grab them directly, why waste magic stones to buy them?

He then took control of the random undead he had captured during his previous missions.

骸骨卫士x3、骨犬x8、幽魂x2、缝合怪x1、硬皮殭尸x1、毒涎蛇人骸骨x3，沼泽巨蜥殭尸x2...

Now that Lynn's undead minions have all been released, their sheer number is enough to frighten anyone, let alone anything else.

During that year, Lynn also learned some very useful side jobs.

Such as potions, runes, witchcraft spells, undead alteration and restoration, golem construction...

After gaining a basic understanding of potion-making, Lynn used [Analysis] to create his own formulas and exchanged for many medicinal herbs that were most compatible with him to refine potions.

With the optimized dosage plan, his originally relatively weak physical body was strengthened to a level close to that of a bloodline apprentice of the same rank, making up for his physical shortcomings.

This is already an extremely remarkable achievement, considering that he achieved this level with a 100% human body.

Achieving a powerful physique through optimized potion routes is fundamentally different from that of a true bloodline wizard.

The latter is not the orthodox path of wizards, but a wrong path for the desperate.

Bloodline wizards represent a poignant group in the Bone Spire and throughout the entire wizarding world.

They were apprentices whose path to advancement was nearly cut off, or low-ranking formal wizards whose talents had been exhausted and who had no hope of advancing any further in their lives.

In the midst of a long and desperate stagnation, they chose a shortcut that cut off their future.

The essence of this path is the desecration and pollution of one's own bloodline.

They extract the essence of bloodlines from powerful magical beasts and integrate it into themselves; some even directly transplant the most powerful organs of those creatures to gain magical abilities.

The Cyclops's single eye, the Thunderhawk's wings, the dragon's heart, the succubus's thunder...

Through witchcraft rituals and physical modifications, they forcibly incorporate the power of other species into themselves.

Success comes at a great cost, but it brings immediate and significant power, with explosive growth in physical strength, power, speed, and even certain special talents.

It is enough for an ordinary third-class apprentice to crush his peers in terms of pure physical strength, and some with strong physiques can even withstand several spells of the same level.

However, while granting power, the alien bloodline will irreversibly pollute the wizard's own life essence and the absorption of elements.

Every time he uses power that doesn't belong to him, he deepens this pollution, causing his temperament to become increasingly biased towards the source creature of the bloodline he has merged with.

Even more fatally, this path completely blocks the door to a higher realm!

If a third-ring wizard chooses to become a bloodline wizard, he will be unable to reach the level of a stigma wizard.

The Stigmata Wizard requires the wizard's life form to transform into a pure elemental and rule-based form, and requires absolute and pure control over one's own power and existence.

Life forms deeply corrupted by alien bloodlines are simply unable to withstand the rule reshaping during the construction of "Holy Marks," and the only result of a forced impact is the dual collapse of body and soul.

Even if some exceptional individuals manage to achieve the Saint Mark by sheer luck, their powerful bloodline and physical body will completely vanish in the face of the rules, leaving them no choice but to return to the path of orthodox wizards.

Therefore, although bloodline wizards appear powerful, their future is actually cut off, and they are seen by mainstream wizards as a helpless choice that "ruins their own future".

That is why it seems so incredible that Lynn could strengthen his physical body to a level close to that of a bloodline apprentice, simply by relying on his extremely optimized knowledge of pharmacology, precise dosage plans, and his own hard work.

This means that without polluting his own origins or sacrificing any future potential, he has gained physical defense and survivability close to that of a "Wrong Pather"!

Based on this, Lynn specially purchased a one-handed sword and a round shield with "anti-magic" effects and practiced melee skills.

The purpose of practicing combat skills is not to kill enemies in close combat, but to delay them for a while when the enemy gets close, so as not to be caught off guard.

A noble mage will never put himself in danger.