Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

Since the last attack, Lynn has been more cautious in his actions.

He packed up all the apprentice corpses and weakling ghosts he had captured and sold them, making a fortune.

A total of six second-class apprentice corpses, two first-class apprentice corpses, plus a level 2 Bone Hunter, a level 1 Bone Guardian, a level 1 Ghoul + two level 2 Ghouls, a level 1 Bone Archer, a level 1 Wraith, a level 2 Rotting Zombie, and level 2 + level 1 Skeleton Warriors...

Lynn looked down on these undead, and his mental strength was insufficient to control the excess undead.

Leaving it in the Soul Sealing Bag takes up space, and if it's stored for a long time, the Soul Fire will gradually dim, and its value will be greatly reduced.

lv1亡灵的价格在5～15魔石之间，lv2亡灵的价格在30～50魔石之间。

Including the six apprentice corpses, a total of 480 magic stones were sold, greatly filling Lynn's pockets.

With money in his pocket, Lynn immediately used his mentor Gregor's connections to spend a huge sum of five hundred magic stones to obtain a deep black undead ring.

The ring was carved from the bones of some unknown undead creature, and it was cold to the touch, with subtle spatial ripples naturally flowing across its surface.

Its interior has a volume of twenty cubic meters!

More importantly, it is constantly filled with a strong negative energy environment. When the dead are placed in it, their soul fire and torso will not dim, but will instead be nourished.

For the next month or so, Lynn continued to shuttle between the laboratory, the mission hall, and the ossuary.

However, they are more selective in accepting missions, their routes are more unpredictable, and they are extremely wary of any strangers who try to approach them.

They were attacked several times during this period, but Lynn successfully fought back and killed them all, greatly replenishing his pockets.

If it weren't for the fact that the "Solve Problems & Optimize" task was simple, easy, quick, and risk-free, Lynn would have wanted to become a professional "robber."

With his solid knowledge and efficient problem-solving skills, he steadily earned contribution points, and his reputation as the "Problem Solver" grew among the lower-level apprentices.

After all, it takes a lot of magic stones to find a qualified wizard to answer your questions, while Lynn's fees seem exceptionally low, yet the results are just as good.

Lynn gradually expanded his "business scope" and began to take on optimization tasks for apprentice-level witchcraft.

The selected students remain first-class and second-class apprentices.

After all, some third-class apprentices have been cultivating for countless years. Although they have not been able to cross the threshold of becoming formal wizards, they have developed a variety of methods.

Even Lynn wasn't confident he could take them down, so he simply refused to accept their missions.

Um...

If I could defeat them, they would naturally think, "You ant, I need your help in my cultivation!"

We can't win... but we're all still fellow disciples who respect and love each other...

When not on a mission, Lynn would enter the first floor of the skeletal remains repository and continuously use the panel to analyze the complex restrictions protecting high-level knowledge, slowly progressing to 30%.

Over the course of more than a month, Lynn squandered a lot of magic stones on cultivation, and his mental strength reached 27 points, which was not far from the level of a third-class apprentice.

This speed is already very fast; an average apprentice might not even improve their mental strength by a little bit in a month.

Keep in mind that his senior apprentice, Field, had been enrolled for two years and was still only at the second-class apprentice level, with the third-class apprentice level a long way off.

Of course, this is also largely due to his carefree and unrestrained lifestyle.

As his mental strength increased, Lynn successively inscribed several apprentice-level sorcery spells, including [Mental Vision], [Shadow Weaving], [Bone Wall], and [Soul Armor], as well as several practical level zero tricks.

...

That day, Lynn had just stepped into the mission hall when he noticed something was wrong.

It was noisier than usual, and an unusual commotion was spreading among the crowd.

Lynn looked slightly puzzled and pulled aside a seasoned veteran who frequented the mission hall to ask about the situation.

The seasoned veteran, familiar with Lynn, lowered his voice and said, "Don't you know?! Something terrible has happened!"

Lynn shook his head in confusion.

"Those bastards from the 'Grey Tower' and 'Crimson Hall' have found out about our academy's 'illegal recruitment of apprentices'!"

Lynn suddenly realized what was going on and wanted to ask for more details, but the old hand only had a vague understanding and couldn't explain it clearly.

Just then, another apprentice barged into the mission hall.

"Breaking news! Fighting has broken out! Fighting has broken out!"

His words silenced the entire mission hall, and then more eyes turned to him.

"What fight? Explain clearly!"

A burly apprentice who was handing over his duties immediately squeezed over, his brow furrowed.

The apprentice who brought the news caught his breath, his voice still trembling:

"The Bone Ship! Our Bone Ship has been ambushed on its return journey! The ship has been intercepted!"

"Hiss—!" A collective gasp of astonishment rippled through the crowd.

For many apprentices, the Bone of the Underworld is their only memory of coming to this haunted place.

"Aren't there official wizards stationed on the ship? How could it be intercepted so easily?" a female apprentice asked anxiously.

The messenger apprentice's face paled, and he managed to utter a few words with difficulty: "Master Maurice, who was stationed on the ship... has been killed in battle."

"What?!"

"How is this possible?!"

Exclamations and incredulous skepticism erupted instantly.

That was a formal wizard, a figure of great stature in the eyes of most apprentices, and yet he died just like that.

"Is the news accurate? Where did you get this information from?" a third-class apprentice who looked older asked in a deep voice.

"It's absolutely true! It's all over the deacon's office! They say that after the fierce battle, the Netherbone was so badly damaged that it...it sank!"

The apprentice who delivered the message swallowed hard, his face filled with lingering fear.

"All the newly recruited apprentices on the ship are gone; not a single one made it out!"

A brief silence fell over the hall, which was then engulfed by an even louder roar.

"They're all dead?! The whole ship full of people?!"

"Thank goodness, I enrolled early. If I had been in this batch, I probably would have already been fed to the fish."

"Damn it! What are those academies trying to do? Are they trying to start a war?!"

"War? What about us? What will happen to us apprentices...?"

A young first-class apprentice's voice began to tremble, and he didn't dare to continue speaking, but fear was written all over his face.

Many apprentices shared the same worry: once the war officially began, they would be cannon fodder on the front lines.

"What did the academy say? Is that all they're going to do?" Someone angrily pounded on the bone pillar next to them, clearly having a strong sense of belonging to the academy.

"Forget it? I heard the higher-ups are furious! But it's a joint pressure from several colleges demanding an explanation from us..."

The well-informed apprentice whispered the news.

A more intense discussion erupted in the hall, with worry, fear, anger, and confusion all mingling among the crowd.

After listening quietly, Lynn was deeply moved.

"Professor Morris..."

The image of a wizard with compound eyes and bone-bladed arms flashed through my mind.

It's a pity. If it weren't for his help back then, I probably wouldn't be able to stand firm like I am now.

He might already be one of Victor's "Earth Skeleton Golems" by now.

This was the first officially recognized wizard he knew of who had died, and one of the few benevolent people in this dark wizarding academy.

And now he's just died so simply.

In this world, even powerful sorcerers can die so suddenly and easily.

Only by striving upwards and reaching the highest peak can one truly control one's own destiny.