Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

The wizards didn't come here as guests.

One of the wizards had the children in the mansion line up in the courtyard, and then took out a crystal ball to examine them one by one.

Dozens of children in the yard stepped forward with trepidation, and the crystal ball occasionally emitted light.

They're all just not very qualified.

When it was Marfa's turn, her palm began to glow as she placed it on the crystal ball, and the glow lasted longer than that of the other children.

The light from the crystal ball lingered for several breaths after Marfa's hand left before slowly dimming.

"Advanced Soul Talent!"

The wizard glanced down at the crystal ball, then at Malfa, and pinned a gray badge directly to her chest.

The edges of the badge gleamed dimly in the afternoon sunlight; it was the lowest-ranking bone plaque from the "Bone Spire Academy".

Marfa didn't know the meaning of the nameplate, but seeing the envious and jealous looks from her "friends" around her, she still felt a sense of joy.

She reached out and touched the badge to make sure it was real, then withdrew her hand and stood in line, waiting for the others to finish their tests.

From then on, her treatment in the family improved significantly. The clansmen who used to treat her like a plague god now fawned over her.

Even the usually indifferent "father" rarely smiled, allowing her to dine with her so-called "brothers and sisters" at the main table.

A few days later, the mysterious wizards were about to take her away, and her "father" gave her a small cloth bag containing several black stones.

Although Marfa did not know the purpose of these stones, he still accepted them solemnly.

Later, she followed those wizards into the Bone Spire School.

At that time, the academy was booming, there weren't many wizards, and most of them were out expanding their territory.

Marfa followed the school's arrangements, took a mentor, and began the arduous path of spiritual practice.

The tasks assigned by the academy at that time were exceptionally difficult, like selecting the true "elites" from bloodshed.

As time passed, many of her fellow apprentices disappeared without a trace.

She gradually came to understand her own "way of survival".

Marfa discovered that this place had many similarities to that mansion.

But the rules are more direct; both winning over and betraying are out in the open. There's no need to guess; you just need to make a choice.

Her mentor treated her coldly, like a tool, neither carefully crafting her nor casually discarding her.

Marfa cherished this hard-won opportunity to change her fate and began to study hard and work diligently on her tasks.

She relied on completing tasks assigned by her mentor to acquire fragmented pieces of knowledge, piecing together a complete picture and filling in the gaps and gaps.

She used the notes and annotations left by her mentor to reconstruct the parts she hadn't been able to learn.

During one mission, she was tasked with clearing a mine pit overrun by undead, but her mentor did not tell her the true situation deep inside the pit.

She suffered heavy losses on that mission.

She lost most of her life-saving items during that mission, only bringing back a few soul crystals from the depths of the mine.

She used those soul crystals to gain access to a higher-level area and began her own path of resource gathering.

She never reveals all her achievements in public assignments, submitting only a portion and keeping the rest for herself, using that accumulated knowledge to gain more time and space.

Through his own survival skills and superior soul talent, Marfa gradually improved himself.

From an ordinary person, he gradually embarked on the path to becoming a formal wizard!

After becoming a formal wizard, she successfully "graduated" from her mentor and began to take control of her own destiny.

As the years went by, Marfa gradually gained a reputation within the academy and gathered a number of apprentices.

Of course, while doing tasks, the competition for resources inevitably leads to the accumulation of some adversaries.

During one mission, her adversaries set a trap specifically for her, and she was trapped in an abandoned ancient training ground.

It was an ancient structure built underground, with most of the runes on the walls worn away, like an old object repeatedly washed by time.

When she was first tricked and teleported in, she didn't think there was anything of value there; she only thought about escaping.

On the first day, she explored every visible corner but found no exit, no passage, and no way to connect with the outside world.

That was the seventh day she had been trapped there.

She sat against a wall, her back against it, looking at a rune that hadn't been completely worn away on the opposite wall.

Although the lines of the rune were blurred, their direction still maintained a certain pattern.

The pattern was different from what she knew, as well as some of the witchcraft models circulating in the Bone Spire.

Marfa took out his tools and spent two days retracing the rune along its path.

When she painted the third layer, a thin crack appeared on the wall, like a layer of dried paint slowly peeling away to reveal a darker inner layer underneath.

As the paint peeled off the walls, she saw the old structures that had been worn away and covered up by time.

That trial site wasn't just one trial site; there was another, even deeper trial site inside!

That trial site had never been abandoned; it was merely dormant. Now, Marfa had accidentally activated it!

Those runes worn down by time are themselves part of it.

Its surface is covered with specially treated shallow textures, which are more like a camouflage layer covering the deeper underlying structure.

It will unfold and reveal its original form only after it comes into contact with the correct excitation sequence.

After activating that layer, she saw fragments of information flow.

Those fragments are incomplete and do not form a complete narrative structure; they are more like disassembled pieces.

She spent several days identifying each fragment one by one, rearranging them in logical order, and gaining some knowledge from ancient traditions.

That wasn't all; after completing the trial, Marfa actually activated the trial rewards.

Among them was the greatest adventure of her life—a complete vessel of soul rules!

The vessel containing the soul rules was discovered in the deepest part of the trial site; it was a stone token.

It floated in the center of the stone platform, its body was dark gray, its surface had no patterns, and there were no obvious traces of energy flow inside.

Marfa was unaware of the object's value and encountered no resistance when she removed it.

After being removed, the stone platform automatically separated, revealing a passage to leave the trial site.

She left the trial site with the token, walked up the passage for a long time, and finally returned to the ground through a sealed exit.