Wizard: I Have a World of the Dead

Chapter 98: Conquering the Wizard Tower

Now it's time to collect the loot!

At this time of day, Lin Qi felt full of energy, and all his fatigue would vanish in an instant.

He closed the book and led his necromancer team on a massive sweep.

The procession marched through the hall, past the still-burning embers, and headed towards the stairs.

Instead of going upstairs first, Lynch turned into a side corridor next to the stairs.

He remembered the layout of the wizard tower in the game: the first floor was the lobby and reception area, the second floor was the library, the third floor was the laboratory, and the fourth floor was the living area.

The basement level houses storage rooms and material warehouses.

The best stuff is down below.

The staircase extends downwards, its steps riddled with cracks and covered in a thick layer of dust, like a grayish-white carpet, making a soft, thumping sound when stepped on.

Reaching the top of the stairs, Lin Qi pushed open the iron gate and entered the wizard tower's storage room without any trouble.

There are three storage rooms: the potion storage room on the left, the material storage room in the middle, and the ore storage room on the right. The three doors are arranged side by side, and each door is engraved with a rune.

Lin Qi first pushed open the door on the left, the one representing the magic potion runes.

The potion storage room wasn't large, about twenty square meters. The four walls were covered with wooden shelves, on which various glass bottles and ceramic jars were neatly arranged.

Most of the bottles and jars were covered with a thick layer of dust, but the mouths were sealed with wax, and the wax seals were intact.

Lynch had the skeletons take down the bottles and jars from the shelf one by one for inspection.

The first bottle is labeled "Basic Strength Potion - Recipe No. 3". As the name suggests, it's a magic potion that increases strength.

There are also "Basic Agility Potion" and "Basic Constitution Potion" nearby.

Tulip Territory places great emphasis on the cultivation of military human resources, which naturally includes providing support for extraordinary powers, and these magical potions are prepared for the talents within the territory.

It's just that now it all benefits Lin Qi.

Lin Qi looked through the bottles one by one, his smile growing wider. These potions weren't high-grade, all apprentice-level, but they were plentiful and varied.

He roughly counted that there were seventeen or eighteen bottles of magic potions that could improve physical attributes, in three main categories: strength, agility, and constitution, with five or six bottles in each category.

With these things, his promotion to high-ranking knight is not just "possible," but "a certainty."

Lynch carefully wrapped the potions, stuffed them into his backpack, and then turned and walked toward the middle door—the materials storage room.

Pushing open the door, a musty smell hit me—not rotten, but dry, like a mixture of wood and herbs that had been sealed for too long.

This room is even larger than the potion storage room, occupying the main space on the first basement level.

Wooden shelves, extending from the floor to the ceiling, were nailed to the four walls, each shelf filled with various bottles, jars, and burlap sacks.

In the center of the room was a long stone workbench, with some unfinished materials scattered on its surface.

Lin Qi walked to the first row of wooden shelves, his gaze sweeping over the bottles and jars one by one. Moonlight Grass powder, Screaming Fruit, Stone Scale Flower scales, Troll Blood, Fragments of Frost Crystal—

All kinds of magical materials are available.

If he hadn't learned a lot about materials science in the torture dungeon, he wouldn't even know the names of many of them.

Even so, more than half of them were still strangers.

Lin Qi smirked: "Now the resources for magic training are secured."

Magical training resources are being consumed rapidly; the few materials scavenged from the dungeon have long been used up during these days of training.

If he doesn't get any more supplies, Lin Qi will probably have no choice but to meditate and run around naked.

Command the skeletons to sort the items into categories, picking out the urgently needed materials separately, and leaving the rest sealed away untouched for the time being.

Then, Lin Qi pushed open the last door.

It wasn't very big, only half the size of the potion storage room, but it was packed full.

There were more than a dozen burlap sacks stacked neatly against the wall. Each sack was about half a person's height, bulging and tightly tied at the top.

The pocket was made of coarse linen, and in some places it was worn, revealing a corner of the dark stone inside.

Shadow Stone.

He directed the skeletons to open the burlap sacks one by one, each sack filled to the brim with Shadowstone ore. When the last sack was opened, the system notification sounded: "Shadowstone +8362".

More than 8000!

Lin Qi couldn't suppress the upturned corners of his mouth.

Keep in mind that after exploring the entire Bone Wasteland, he only obtained a little over 30,000 Shadow Stone Ore.

Aside from the portion consumed during the Rabble raid, I now have less than 10,000 Shadowstone Ore in my pocket.

With just one wizard tower, they've already amassed over 8000 items; it's hard not to be excited.

"It's true that a man can't get rich without unexpected wealth, and a horse can't get fat without wild grass."

Without this world of the dead, Lin Qi would probably still be like the other apprentices, struggling to find quests to earn magic stones, spending the whole day running around for just a few.

It can only be said that people's fates are truly different.

After thoroughly inventorying all three warehouses, Lin Qi returned to the door of the storage room and stroked his chin: "Let's upgrade this place into a warehouse first!"

Once the warehouse is set up, it will be interconnected with the player's inventory space. Items in the warehouse can then be accessed and retrieved from the inventory at any time, making things much more convenient.

After making the decision, Lynch proceeded with the next phase of the sweep.

This time, however, it went up instead of down.

The storage room was just an appetizer for this massive cleanup; the real show was about to begin—completely bringing this wizard tower under their control!

Lynch climbed the broken steps and arrived at the top floor of the Wizard Tower.

This is the core central hub of the Wizard Tower, the Wizard Lord's Chamber.

What remains is a wide circular hall, about two hundred meters in diameter, with its high dome completely collapsed, revealing the scarlet night sky outside.

The floor was paved with black and white marble, which was cracked, with cracks spreading from the base of the wall towards the center, like a torn net.

The remains of various pieces of furniture were scattered all around. There was an overturned desk, several broken chairs, and a few portraits hanging on the wall, their frames askew and the portraits incomplete.

There is a magic circle in the very center of the hall.

Lin Qi knelt down in front of the magic circle and used his hands to brush away the rubble and dust, revealing the remaining runes underneath.

This is a circular array consisting of three concentric circles, with a palm-sized groove at the center.

This is the control center of the Wizard Tower; whoever controls this place controls the entire Wizard Tower.

Lin Qi placed his right hand on the groove and channeled his mental energy into it.

As mental energy seeped in, the runes in the grooves lit up, then the first ring, then the second, and then the third.

Light seeped from the patterns on the ring, growing brighter and brighter. When the last rune of the magic circle was fully lit, the entire magic circle erupted with a dazzling beam of light that shot into the sky.

The blinding light completely enveloped the entire space, and all that could be seen was a white light.

Then, the light and shadow began to distort.

In this distorted interplay of light and shadow, time seems to flow backward.

The overturned desk stood up from the ground, the broken legs were reattached, and the cracks on the tabletop, like stitched-up wounds, gradually closed up, even aligning the wood grain.

The picture frames on the wall straightened themselves, the broken glass reformed, the torn canvases were mended, and the incomplete portraits became whole again.

The figures in the painting are an elderly man in a long robe and a young girl holding a bouquet of flowers.

In just over ten seconds, the entire shaman's chamber transformed from ruins back to its original state.

Then, a scene appeared before Lin Qi's eyes.

An old man was sitting upright at his desk, engrossed in writing something.

His brows were furrowed into a deep frown, his lips were pressed into a thin line, and his face was ashen, as if he hadn't slept in a long time. His face was full of fatigue and anxiety.

"Pat! Pat—"

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Just then, a crow flew in through the open window and landed on the desk.

The old man immediately stopped writing, looked up, and asked, "How is it? Has Annie left?"

The raven opened its sharp beak and said, "Let's go. Knight Gris will lead the team to provide close protection; there won't be any problems."

The old man's furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and he murmured, "That's good, that's good..."

A raven hopped from the edge of the desk onto the parchment in front of the old man, tilting its head in confusion. "Wester, is it really necessary to be so nervous? It's just a few undead calamities, isn't it? It's happened before."

"It's probably just something created by some dark wizard. It will dissipate on its own after the energy is depleted."

The old man shook his head: "No! This time is different."

"Those undead do not belong to any necromancy system we know of now, and they are not things that black wizards could create."

"I've studied them. They don't need any energy to sustain themselves—no mental power, no magic element, no energy as we know it. They are truly immortal!"

The crow scoffed, "No energy consumption? A perpetual motion machine? Does that mean these corpses have found eternity? Are they the truth?"

The old man sighed, "I don't know... This is beyond all the magical knowledge I know, and it has overturned all the magical theories I have ever studied."

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"But I'm sure..."

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"A force unknown to us is spreading throughout our world..."

"This world is heading towards destruction..."