Dark Wizard: Rise! My undead army!

After reading about the glorious breakthroughs of the academy's "seniors," Lynn put the stone slab back and looked at the black door at the deepest part, which was bound by chains.

He walked over and saw a line of words engraved on the door:

"Behind this door lies a forbidden area at the True Spirit level. To open it, one must use the soul of a True Spirit as the key, or collect all seven Chief Badges."

This prompted Lynn to exclaim, "What? Is there a part where you collect all seven Dragon Balls to summon Shenron?"

If the Sacred Mark level forbidden technique is this powerful, what about the True Spirit level forbidden technique? Could there be an even higher level of breakthrough?

Lynn reached out and tried it.

As soon as he affixed the Soul Chief Badge, one of the chains automatically loosened.

But the remaining six stripes remain stationary.

They tried to analyze it again, but the restriction was clearly at the True Spirit level and could not be shaken.

Lynn withdrew his hand, not pressuring him further.

With his current strength, it's not time for him to pry into that door yet.

He turned around and circled around the fourth floor again.

Besides what we saw before, there are some scattered small areas in the corner.

The "Secret Intelligence" section contains information about other academies, True Spirit level figures, and otherworldly evil gods.

Lynn caught a glimpse of a stone slab inscribed with "Records of the Sealed Bottom of the Eternal Night Graveyard," but didn't have time to examine it closely.

The "Special Resources" section contains many void coordinate spheres.

Some are planes that have already been conquered, some are marked as "extremely dangerous," and a few are demiplanes that the Academy plundered from the Abyss.

Lynn saw a very old wooden plaque in the corner that read: "The Former Chief's Notes".

He went inside and flipped through it, discovering that these were experimental notes and cultivation insights left by the chief scholars of each department throughout the ages.

This thing is a real gem; any one of it would be worth a fortune.

Lynn spent some time writing down everything here.

...

For the next two days, Lynn stayed on the fourth floor of the ossuary.

He entered the contents of various banned books into the memory library in batches, while simultaneously allowing his analytical abilities to analyze them.

There are quite a few forbidden techniques, most of which have extremely severe side effects, and some even require the caster to pay an irreversible price.

Lynn didn't rush to learn; instead, she mentally selected students.

He only truly valued a few.

The first one is "Conceptual Curse: Existential Stripping".

The curse was peculiar to him.

It doesn't kill people directly, but it can make the target "forgotten" by the world. For some people who are good at hiding and assassination, this is not like a "curse", but rather like a "blessing".

Forgotten and ignored, you walk openly and honestly in front of the enemy, and then swiftly and skillfully kill them.

But upon closer analysis, it becomes clear that calling it a curse is indeed justified.

The curse will backfire and erode the person under its spell; the person under its spell will first lose the external recognition of themselves.

He began to have no idea if he existed, his voice was silent, he felt no response when he touched objects, and he couldn't even see his reflection in the mirror.

This can cause a severe collapse of self-awareness in the victim.

Even more fatally, all his attacks and witchcraft will lose their "existence".

The sword struck the enemy like a shadow skimming across water; the magic, once unleashed, vanished into thin air the moment it left the body.

He was unable to connect with anything, not even to commit suicide.

The knife would pierce through his own neck, as if piercing through nothingness, as if everything were just an illusion.

This is a gradual process of dissolving.

Those who are affected by the spell will not die immediately, but will be slowly "excluded" from the world.

His soul grew lighter and lighter until it was squeezed into the rift between the world and reality, where it endured eternal nothingness.

Lynn focused his analysis on the operational structure of the curse and discovered that the strength of the curse is not absolute.

The stronger a wizard's soul and the deeper their connection to the world's rules, the higher their resistance. If the difference in mental strength is too great, the curse may be dispelled in the opposite direction.

This curse is indeed powerful, but the conditions for using it are also quite demanding.

Lynn plans to break it down into two sub-modules: "Presence Concealment" and "Mental Anchoring," which will be used for assassination and tracking, respectively.

Combined with his analysis to lock onto the target's soul fluctuations, the success rate of casting spells is significantly higher than the original version.

As for the full version, it cannot be used easily for the time being.

Besides this curse, another curse—"Bloodline Soul Chaser: Nine Generations of Annihilation Curse"—is also quite good.

After the analysis was probed, the entire model of the curse unfolded in his mind.

This curse uses the caster's own lifespan as a guide and the soul imprint in their bloodline as a signpost, and can kill the target and their nine generations of blood relatives across dimensions.

It's no use for the target to escape anywhere; neither spatial distance nor dimensional barriers can stop them.

The curse will travel up and down the bloodline.

Parents, children, grandchildren, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandchildren—as long as they are still alive, will all be cursed to death.

Even if the target has long severed ties with their family, the soul mark in their bloodline will still reveal their location.

"The Nine Clans Elimination Game," Lynn couldn't help but say.

But he soon realized a real problem.

For an ordinary wizarding family, this curse was indeed terrifying, wiping out the entire family in an instant.

But for a true dark wizard, kinship is not a weakness at all.

These people have lived for hundreds or even thousands of years, with their parents, sisters, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren dying one generation after another.

Over the long years, family ties have been worn down to the point of being thinner than paper; some people don't even know the names of their own descendants.

For most dark wizards, this curse is like a painless dismemberment; you kill their entire family, and they might even thank you for cleaning up their house.

Lynn continued analyzing the curse structure.

It was discovered that the area of ​​damage caused by this curse is directly related to the lifespan paid by the caster.

To cover nine generations, the caster would have to burn off at least several hundred years of their lifespan, which is an outrageously high price for wizards whose lifespans are already limited.

Moreover, the curse also has a rebound mechanism.

If the target's soul strength is higher than the caster's, the curse will be pushed back, and the caster will suffer a backlash.

Lynn made separate notes about the curse's "tracking structure" and "plane penetration structure".

These two parts are very useful; in the future, chasing someone won't necessarily require killing them.

Then, he naturally thought of himself.

He has no relatives; the only people he is related to by blood are his two children, Lin Chen and Lin Shu.

Lin Shu is perfectly safe at the Earth Pulse Academy.

Lin Chen... was adopted by the Bone Lord in the Underworld, and he is also his next target.

As Lynn looked at the stone slab, a dark thought suddenly popped into his mind.

If he casts this curse on himself, using his own bloodline as a guide, could he directly curse and kill Lin Chen along the bloodline?

The curse ignores dimensional distance; even the underworld, no matter how far away, cannot stop it.

After killing the body, he used his Saint Mark to cross the Underworld, find the corpse, and obtain the "Starry Sky Beast Essence Blood" to strengthen his own bloodline.

Lynn thought about it more and more and it seemed feasible.

His soul strength far exceeded Lin Chen's, so the backlash from the curse was negligible.

The bloodline tracking feature can solve the problem of Lin Chen's slippery nature.

He stared at the stone slab, his fingers unconsciously tapping the edge, calculating the gains and losses.

However... to kill a mere Lin Chen, one would need to expend hundreds of years of their own lifespan.

A hundred years isn't a particularly long time for him; given his current level of life experience, he can certainly afford it.

It just feels a bit silly.

He himself was a Saintly Wizard, the chief soul of the Bone Spire, who used curses against his own lowly "son".

It has a sense of absurdity, like bombing your own home with a nuclear bomb just to kill a fly.

Moreover, the subsequent effects of the curse are described very clearly.

The caster's bloodline will enter a state of "extinction mark", and the connection between their soul and bloodline will be corrupted by the curse.

Any future attempts to use bloodline-based witchcraft will be marked with a backlash.

Moreover, the soul of the cursed person will carry a strong residual curse.

If the target is oneself, then one is the true embodiment of the curse, and the damage suffered would be far greater than that suffered by Lin Chen.

"Let's forget about it." Lynn looked away from the stone slab. "It's safer to go directly to the Underworld to catch them after we've dealt with things here."