Wizard: I Have a World of the Dead

Faced with the open door, Lin Qi did not enter immediately. Instead, he first adjusted the undead army around him.

Four elite skeleton warriors wielding shields were drawn out and positioned in front of, behind, to the left and right of him, forming four moving shield walls that firmly protected him in the middle.

The remaining six elite skeleton warriors were arranged in an arc formation at the front as the vanguard fighting force.

Three liches and three skeleton archers were positioned at the rear to deal damage.

Diego remained on the flank as a roaming unit capable of both offense and defense.

After making all the necessary arrangements, Lin Qi led his army into the dungeon.

The moment he stepped across the threshold, he immediately felt the temperature around him plummet, and a chilling coldness quickly swept over his body, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Lin Qi looked up and stared ahead...

That's way too dark!

The area ahead was pitch black, so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. You could only vaguely see a few thumb-sized, eerie green dots floating in the darkness in the distance. These were probably the soul flames emanating from the skulls of wandering undead.

Lin Qi reached out and touched the stone wall beside him.

After groping around on the stone wall for a while, they soon came across a metal ring, which was the torch holder.

He reached up along the bracket and found a long wooden stick, which he pulled off forcefully, just as if he had found a torch.

Lin Qi's furrowed brows suddenly relaxed.

Fortunately, this thing is still here, and it's quite in line with the original work.

Holding the torch in his left hand, Lin Qi raised his right hand, his thumb and middle finger touching.

"Snap." A crisp snap of his fingers echoed in the empty dungeon, and a cluster of orange-red flames burst forth from his fingertips.

Ignition technique!

This was the first spell he learned while flipping through that wizard's journal in his study.

Once his meditation reached LV1, he was basically ready to learn magic, so he naturally didn't waste the opportunity.

With the help of the study, he mastered the two spells recorded in the notes in just a few days: ignition and fireball.

The former is a spell used in daily life, capable of igniting a cluster of flames. It consumes very little mental energy, almost negligible, but it has little practical combat ability.

The latter is a proper offensive spell, with power similar to the fireballs released by the liches, as clearly demonstrated by the Asdok shaman.

The downside is that it consumes a lot of mental energy, and at his current level, he can only release it two or three times at most.

"Bang." The cloth strip on the torch head was lit and sizzled as it burned.

The orange-red flames flickered, illuminating an area of ​​about ten meters in radius. Lin Qi was then able to see the scene in front of him clearly.

This is a deep and narrow corridor. It is about three meters wide, but quite high, at least four or five meters high, and the walls on all sides are bare stone.

The corridor extended forward for about twenty meters, then forked: one to the left, one to the right, and one directly in front. The three corridors intersected and crisscrossed at the end of the field of vision, like a dismantled maze.

Both sides of each corridor are lined with a dense array of doorways, some open, some half-closed, and some sealed off by iron railings.

And in those corridors, doorways, and crossroads, wandered the dead.

"Click, click, click—"

As Lin Qi was observing, he heard the sound of bones grinding together coming from ahead.

Attracted by the firelight, the four wandering skeletons turned around and charged towards them.

Their movements were much faster and more coordinated than the skeletons on the Bone Wasteland, each step steady and ruthless, their short swords drawing dim arcs in the firelight.

The skeleton was noticeably thicker and more robust than those of Lynch's elite skeletons, with a wider frame, thicker bone walls, and a faint ivory-colored sheen on the surface.

Those are marks left by long-term tempering.

Elite soldiers of the Campbell Empire.

It is true in life, and it is true in death.

Lynch retreated to the edge of the dungeon, ready to run away at any moment, and at the same time issued the attack order.

"Whoosh—"

The Blizzard Lich was the first to act. He raised his staff, the icy blue stone at its tip suddenly glowing, and a cloud of white mist exploded above the four skulls. The next second, a blizzard descended.

The cold wind howled, ice crystals danced in the air, and the movements of the four skeletons visibly slowed down.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two fireballs flew out from the center of the formation, trailing scorching flames, and landed precisely in the middle of the skeleton horde.

This is where the uniqueness of these skeletons becomes truly apparent.

On the Bone Wasteland, a single fireball can bring down a large number of skeletons, and even those merely affected by the blast will be annihilated into fragments.

Even the one that exploded most violently in the center of the dungeon only shook violently a few times, with a few bone fragments blown off its skeleton; it was not significantly affected at all.

The next second, four dungeon skeletons broke through the blizzard's coverage area and officially engaged Lynch's skeleton army in close combat.

"when--!"

A loud clang of metal clashing echoed through the corridor.

There are no fancy fighting styles; it's just a pure battle of numbers. You strike me with your sword, and I strike you back.

In this respect, the dungeon skeletons are clearly much stronger.

Lynch's skull could only create tiny cracks when it struck the opponent's bones, while each of the opponent's sword strikes could inflict enormous damage.

After the three sword strikes, the shield-wielding skeleton's shield cracked.

Four swords, the shield shattered in two.

Five swords, the entire left arm of the shield-wielding skeleton was ripped off, and the skeleton shattered.

Even with an equipment advantage, they are still no match for their opponent.

That's how terrifying numbers can be!

Fortunately, Lynch's side had a large number of people, and the stats of these dungeon skeletons were not yet at a level that made them impossible to break through.

Under the lich's relentless bombardment, the skeletons of the dungeon skeletons were constantly loosening and collapsing.

After a few minutes of back-and-forth fighting, the last dungeon skeleton was also scattered into bones by Diego's attack.

Meanwhile, only one of Lynch's vanguard units remained.

Six elite skeletons, and five of them were wiped out just as they entered the gate. This is truly...

"Phew~"

Lin Qi pinched the bridge of his nose and suddenly felt a headache coming on.

I managed to get in using the bug, but exploring this place at my current level is still a bit of a stretch.

Come to think of it, the torture dungeon is a later level, and the skeletons stationed here were all elite troops of the Campbell Empire in their lifetimes.

In the normal progression, players usually return to explore after acquiring later equipment and leveling up.

After all, the game developers hadn't anticipated anyone rushing in at this time...

Composing himself, Lin Qi stepped forward.

He walked up to the four piles of scattered bones, stopped, and then raised his right foot and took a step forward.

Dominate the skeletons, activate!

An invisible spiritual energy emanated from his toes, spreading outwards like ripples across the four piles of scattered bones.

The skeleton began to tremble. Shattered bones leaped from the ground, reassembling themselves in mid-air...

In a moment, the four dungeon skeletons staggered to their feet, their eerie green flames rekindling in their eye sockets. They stood quietly, awaiting orders.

The level 6 Domination of Undead not only increases the number of undead, but also has two special effects.

Effect 1 [Multiple Domination]: Can revive up to five undead at once.

Effect 2 [Resurrection of the Undead]: Undead that are resurrected for the first time are restored to their initial state.

The Dominate the Undead skill works like this: each upgrade brings different effects, such as increasing the number of beings that can be dominated, extending the range of dominion, increasing the dominion level, and dominating higher-level life forms.

It is undoubtedly a god-tier skill for players.

It is also the only divine skill in the entire game.

It's important to know that normal skill upgrades have a limit; generally, they reach the maximum at level three, and even the best ones only reach around level ten.

Skills that can be upgraded dozens of levels are already devastating.

How many levels the skill "Dominate the Undead" can be upgraded to is completely unknown.

Lin Qi leveled up to level 90 and still didn't see the top. There were even supposedly some high-level players on the forum who reached level 100 or higher.

He eagerly opened the data panel and glanced at it.

[Dominate Undead: Dungeon Skeletons (Elite Soldiers)]

[Level: LV11. Attributes: Strength 16.3, Agility 16.8, Constitution 16.2.]

[Skills Mastered: Heavy Slash LV3, Parry LV2, Imperial Basic Swordsmanship MAX.]

Goodness. Level 11, with average attributes exceeding 16 points—that's definitely at the level of a mid-level knight.

No wonder he's so good at fighting!

Thankfully, the level cap for Domination increased to 15 when Domination reached level 4, otherwise I might not have been able to achieve Domination at all.

Lin Qi nodded in satisfaction. Although the losses were significant, the gains were also substantial.

That's the advantage of necromancy: as long as the spell itself doesn't die, it can increase in value indefinitely, making its endurance incredibly powerful.

After closing the panel, Lynch led the newly strengthened team forward.

He hadn't walked more than twenty steps when his gaze was instantly drawn to something that appeared on his left.

To the left was a spacious cell, probably over two hundred square meters. The floor was paved with neat stone slabs, much smoother than those in the corridor. The walls were covered with densely packed magical runes.

There were a few skeletons wandering around the cell, only about five or six in number.

What caught Lynch's eye was the center of the cell.

There, a magic wand was stuck in the ground!

Lin Qi's eyes lit up; he instantly recognized the wand: "The Wisdom and Thunder Wand!"