Wizard: Grinding experience starting with Knight's Breathing Technique

Chapter 118 Seventh-Order Dharma Seal, Hell Apostle! (1st update! 5000 words, please subscribe!)

Inside Ice Valley City.

On the street, Knight Kader was leading his team to kill a Snow Demon. His vice-captain, Bray, worked perfectly with him and successfully killed a Snow Demon that had been mutated from a low-ranking knight.

"Brey, have you noticed that the number of snow demons in Ice Valley City seems to have decreased visibly lately?"

"Knight Kader said."

Upon hearing this, Bray nodded: "Indeed, at first it seemed like we could encounter snow fairies just by walking a few steps, without needing to actively search for them. But now, we actually need to actively search to encounter snow fairies, which doesn't make sense. Could it be that all the snow fairies in this city have gathered at Blue Feather Castle?"

Kader frowned slightly: "That's possible."

However, the image of the white wolf flashed through his mind.

For the next ten days, they did not encounter the white wolf again.

He felt that the decrease in the number of snow demons in this outlying urban area might also be related to the white wolf.

Two fully armed knights, equipped with mithril swords of extremely high purity, might be just as efficient as their demon-hunting team.

After ten days of cleanup, they have basically eradicated the snow demons from the outskirts and saved many survivors.

The rescue operation went much more smoothly than Kader had imagined.

Because the number of snow monsters in the entire outlying city was far lower than he had expected.

This is good news for Knight Kadel.

But for many wandering riders, this is a bad thing.

Many wandering knights have not killed a single snow demon since they set out, partly because they are too weak, and partly because they have hardly encountered any snow demons along the way.

They encountered a few scattered individuals, but they were quickly killed by the stronger members of the team, such as Vice Captain Bray.

The Heart of Frost is not for them at all.

"Captain, why don't we go further in?" someone complained.

"If you want to die, you can go in yourself. The dangers deep inside the city are far beyond your imagination. Even a great knight could perish if he went in. Who gave you the confidence to go in?" Kader rebuked the wandering knight, who then shut his mouth.

Kader sneered inwardly. If it weren't for those two great knights helping them clear out a large portion of the snow demons on the edge of the city, this team of two hundred men would have suffered far more than just twenty deaths in the past ten days.

His primary goal now is to bring back as many survivors as possible, so he doesn't want to cause any unnecessary trouble by venturing deeper into the city.

The chances of finding survivors deep within the city are slim; there's no need to take the risk.

"Such a powerful figure has appeared in the Eternal Night Kingdom. I must report this to the Queen when I return," Knight Kader thought to himself.

The Queen of the Eternal Night Kingdom is a female Grand Knight rarely seen in the world. She likes to recruit strong people to her cause and befriend heroes from all walks of life.

Kader sensed that the Queen would be very interested in the White Wolf and the great knight beside him.

I hope they don't die in this Ice Valley City.

……

Deep within the city, the armored demon shark, like a war machine, charged towards several snow demons rushing towards it.

Although the Demon Shark's sword is not as good as Li Wei's Frostmourne, it still contains one-tenth the amount of mithril, far exceeding the swords of those demon hunters.

Therefore, the efficiency of the Demon Shark in hunting Snow Demons is extremely high.

In order to conserve his energy, Li Wei has not done anything these past few days.

Although he had stored three months' worth of food and energy in his whale pouch, due to the previous battles and the resulting consumption, ten days have passed, and now only one and a half months' worth remains.

If there were a major battle, they wouldn't be able to hold out for even a month and a half.

He had long since run out of food, so after reaching level 5 of the Hell's Mark, he stopped fighting on his own and instead used the Demon Shark to farm monsters, acting as its accessory and collecting Undead Cores from behind.

[Hell's Mark Proficiency +1]

[Hell's Mark Proficiency +1]

……

Li Wei————

Mark of Hell: Tier 5 (2456/20000)

……

By now, Li Wei has killed more than four hundred snow demons.

According to the intelligence he had previously obtained, he reduced the number of snow demons in the city by about one-tenth in ten days.

This efficiency is simply terrifying.

I am truly an army all by myself.

"That was awesome!"

"Unrivaled mowing of the grass, the ultimate thrill!"

However, it differs from Li Wei's plan in that...

The fifth-order Hell Seal is not the limit.

He originally planned to kill some more snow demons after reaching the fifth rank and then go back.

Now all I can do is continue grinding for experience here.

Fortunately, we have a great knight like the Demon Shark, so the efficiency is not bad.

"Once we reach deeper into the city, if we can find some food to replenish our supplies, I can continue fighting."

"It feels great to be a necromancer, even though I'm just a half-baked one," Li Wei thought to himself, feeling quite pleased with himself.

His favorite playstyle in games is the armor-stacking build.

Secondly, there's the summoner build; those who play Diablo-like games especially enjoy classes like necromancers.

Summoning style, the key word is: awesome.

"What a pity, I still have three summoning slots, but I don't have the Great Knight's corpse." Levi said with some regret.

"After I kill the Duke of Black Mountain, I'll turn him into my living dead and make him do the dirtiest and hardest work every day."

"And the Pale Shadow won't escape either. Sooner or later, I'll turn him into a living dead too."

Li Wei wanted to make his enemies serve him like slaves for eternity, so they could experience the "blessings" of being corporate slaves!

The summoning slot that Li Wei left vacant was reserved for his enemies.

"Keep grinding! No matter what, I'm going to grind the Mark of Hell to the limit! If I miss this opportunity, I won't get another one."

Li Wei thought to himself, "I've finally come all the way to the Kingdom of Eternal Night, so I can't waste this opportunity."

Five days later.

"298".

"299".

"300".

Li Wei's expression remained calm as he followed closely behind Demon Shark, watching him wreak havoc with his Frostmourne.

After equipping the Demon Shark with its own weapon, the Demon Shark's efficiency increased significantly, by at least three times.

Beside the giant shark in front, there are three newly formed "living dead".

These three undead are very weak; they're just following behind the Demon Shark and doing nothing else.

These three undead were all wandering knights who had been recklessly causing trouble for Li Wei during this period.

Li Wei summoned them purely to quickly increase his proficiency with the Hell Seal.

He now has a large number of undead cores, but if it's just Magic Shark alone, the amount he consumes is far less than the amount Li Wei has acquired.

This also means that the speed at which Hell's Mark proficiency is gained is too slow, since only Demon Shark is earning proficiency for Li Wei.

Therefore, Li Wei could only turn the corpses of these few strongest, who were only at the mid-level knight level, into living dead, using them to increase the speed of grinding proficiency.

The effect is immediate.

Don't let their weakness fool you; they still provide a significant amount of proficiency.

Therefore, Li Wei's liver speed increased several times over.

The three hundredth snow demon, killed by the magic shark, appeared.

Livy's Mark of Hell has been upgraded once again.

Li Wei————

Hell's Mark: Tier 6 (1/40000)

……

"This isn't even the limit? It's already at rank six..."

"Unbelievable, my current level of Hell's Mark even surpasses that of the ancestors of the Constantine family..."

"To be honest, the difficulty of practicing the Dharma Seals is much less than that of the Breathing Technique. It's just that the materials for casting the spells are too few. Otherwise, practicing the Dharma Seals is really not difficult."

Li Wei remained calm, since the sixth rank was not the limit.

He'll keep working on it, he just won't believe it.

Can I keep grinding this seal indefinitely?

That would be incredible, if this seal could be leveled up to 10,000.

Summoning ten thousand undead, even a wizard would shake his head in disbelief.

Therefore, he felt that there was still an upper limit to this seal.

"Perhaps the seventh rank is the upper limit."

"I'll work on it for a while longer. I gave myself a month, and only half a month has passed so far."

Li Wei thought to himself.

He upgraded the Mark of Hell to level six, gaining six summoning slots.

Now we can add another cannon fodder.

Therefore, he paid special attention to whether there were any undead corpses along the way that could be used even if they were barely usable.

Unbeknownst to him, Li Wei had already ventured deep into the inner city.

"As long as we don't go into that castle for the time being, we should still be safe."

Li Wei felt the danger emanating from his spider-sense and muttered to himself.

Ultimately, Li Wei did not find the body of a knight.

We had no choice but to temporarily use ordinary human corpses to make up the numbers.

Anyway, I don't expect them to fight; they're just there to give me experience points.

Moreover, to be honest, even if Li Wei were given six undead warriors at the level of Great Knights, he felt he might not be able to control them.

Controlling the living dead is not entirely effortless for the master; it consumes mental energy.

Spiritual power is ethereal and intangible, but it does exist.

Wizards cultivate spiritual power, but Li Wei is no longer a wizard.

However, given his Grand Knight level, his mental strength is definitely above that of ordinary people.

He made a rough estimate based on his current mental strength.

At most, he can only command five undead at the level of a great knight.

To fully control the six-headed undead knights, one would need to be at least at the level of a top-tier knight.

Time flies, and another ten days have passed.

Li Wei has been in Ice Valley City for twenty-five days.

The demon hunter team had already led the rescued citizens of the kingdom back home, and because Li Wei was constantly clearing monsters ahead, the rescue operation of the Knights of Kadel went very smoothly.

The only ones who are unhappy are probably those wandering knights.

They originally came to collect some Frosthearts in exchange for bounties.

As a result, many people ended up failing to kill even a single snow demon.

Although they talked a big game, none of them dared to actually venture deep into the city.

After witnessing several skeptical wandering knights being torn apart in seconds by dozens of snow demons that suddenly appeared, they became completely obedient.

Li Wei had already arrived at the outskirts of Blue Feather Castle.

He looked at his proficiency panel.

Li Wei————

Hell's Mark: Tier 6 (30000/40000)

……

"Damn it, we were so close! But in the huge Ice Valley City, apart from a few scattered snow demons in various districts, we couldn't find any at all."

To date, over a thousand snow demons have died at Li Wei's hands.

According to the intelligence Li Wei obtained, there are at most three or four thousand snow demons in this Ice Valley City.

"We're still short 100. It's too slow to look for them one by one in other places. How about we try our luck inside the castle?" Levi gazed at the majestic ancient castle.

As the duke's castle, Blue Feather Castle is very grand.

The buildings inside are densely packed, making it essentially a small city within a city.

The black castle, like a slumbering beast, lies dormant in the distance.

Inside, you can hear the roars of numerous snow demons.

Li Wei extracted all the undead cores from the bodies of those cannon fodder undead.

"We don't need them anymore; keeping them might actually cause problems."

With the Demon Shark by his side, Li Wei moved nimbly to the edge of the Blue Feather Castle's walls.

Then he gently touched the wall with his palm.

Using its advanced vibration perception, it sensed the movements within the ancient castle.

His current advanced vibration perception range is a radius of thirty meters.

So he wanted to see how many snow demons were within a 30-meter radius of himself, in order to estimate the snow demon density and decide whether or not to go in.

5.

"Not high, but not low either."

"We could give it a try, or we could send a few cannon fodder to lure some out of the castle."

"I'm afraid I might accidentally lure all the snow demons out of the castle, then I'll have no choice but to run away."

Li Wei was making a decision.

In the end, I decided to give it a try.

He reinserted the undead core into the body of a mid-level knight-level undead.

The undead man slipped through the castle's broken gate.

Not long after, Li Wei sensed that a snow demon was attacking the undead, so he quickly controlled the undead to slip away.

Then Li Wei saw a group of snow demons chasing the undead. When they reached the door, they stopped, lingered for a while, and then went back.

"What's going on?"

Li Wei was puzzled as to why these snow demons didn't leave the castle.

He refused to believe it and tried again with other undead.

Even the Demon Shark tried it out and found that the undead would only chase them to the door and then stop coming out.

After pondering for a moment, Li Wei used a grappling hook to climb onto the city wall, cautiously peeking his head inside.

Inside the castle, snow demons were everywhere, and the deeper one went into the castle, the more densely they were swarming.

No wonder we can't find any snow demons outside; they've all gathered here.

Beneath the tallest building in the castle, possibly the Duke's mansion, hundreds of snow demons gathered, all clad in pale blue feathered armor.

"This appears to be a mutated snow demon from the army under Duke Bluefeather."

Li Wei also discovered that there were more than a dozen knight-level snow demons whose aura and clothing were clearly different from ordinary snow demons, and they were wandering around.

"The twelve snow demons range from the weakest to the strongest, all of whom are at the mid-level knight level."

"No, there's another one." Li Wei suddenly saw a huge snow demon whose size was no less than that of a demon shark. His body had rotted away and only bones remained, but he was still diligently patrolling the castle.

"Thirteen snow demons at the knight level, and even one at the great knight level, no wonder no one dares to come here."

Li Wei knew that ordinary Grand Knights, unless they possessed a high-purity mithril sword like his and extraordinary stamina, would find it difficult to be a match for a Grand Knight-level Snow Demon.

Because the Snow Demon not only possesses physical attributes comparable to the Great Knight, but also has no weaknesses, is immortal and indestructible, fearless of death, and has mastered the combat techniques previously used by the Great Knight, making her exceptionally terrifying.

Only I can deal with such a monster.

"If it's just this Grand Knight, he shouldn't be giving me that spider-sense of danger. Could there be other dangers inside this castle?" Levi observed the situation, hesitating whether to charge in.

He is currently one hundred more Undead Cores needed to upgrade the Hell Seal to level seven. In addition, he needs to stockpile several hundred more Undead Cores for his future use.

It seems that most of the remaining snow demons in the city are inside this castle. It would be a waste of time to search for the scattered ones elsewhere if we didn't go in.

"Once you've farmed enough Undead Cores, quit and don't linger in battle."

Li Wei finally made a decision.

"I possess extraordinary defense, extraordinary endurance, top-tier strength, top-tier speed, advanced perception, and divine artifacts like the Frost Giant Armor and Frostmourne made of pure mithril. Not to mention the four Signs as trump cards. Although there is some danger, I should be able to protect myself without any problem. I don't need to go too deep," Li Wei analyzed.

Having prepared the spellcasting materials, he then took the magic shark and sneaked into the castle.

He had the Demon Shark stand in front of him as a shield, and if there was an enemy he couldn't defeat, he would have the Demon Shark sacrifice itself so that he could escape.

As soon as he entered, a snow demon noticed Li Wei.

At least dozens of snow demons charged toward Li Wei.

Li Wei, accompanied by the Demon Shark, arrived at the foot of a city wall.

This way, he wouldn't have to worry about enemies behind him.

"bring it on."

Li Wei was ready.

The Demon Shark transformed into a killing machine, standing in front of Li Wei and unleashing Frostmourne to slaughter everyone in its path. Occasionally, a few stragglers would slip through the Demon Shark's defenses, but Li Wei would crush them with his black hand and extract their undead cores.

[Hell's Mark Proficiency +1]

[Hell's Mark Proficiency +1]

……

While fighting, Li Wei also estimated the remaining battery power of the Demon Shark based on his proficiency.

Once the battery was almost depleted, he slipped out of the castle with the magic shark.

Equip the Demon Shark with a new Undead Core.

None of those snow fairies left the castle.

This puzzled Li Wei even more; he couldn't understand why these snow demons would act this way.

Logically speaking, snow demons have no sense of territory; they roam freely, searching for any living creature, much like locusts.

But the snow demon inside Blue Feather Castle seems to never leave the castle.

"Could there be some kind of rare treasure inside this castle?" Li Wei wondered.

"But I'm not interested. I just want to max out the Mark of Hell, get the Core of the Undead, and leave this hellhole."

Li Wei resisted his curiosity and greed, knowing that doing so would only plunge him into danger.

It's best to just focus on maxing out the Hell's Mark.

In this way, relying on this method, Li Wei kept going in and out of the castle, using the magic shark to wear down these snow demons.

In just one day, the Demon Shark killed over a hundred Snow Demons, several times more efficiently than those outside.

On the third day, Li Wei's Hell Seal was finally broken through once again.

Li Wei————

Mark of Hell: Tier 7 (Limit), Special Effect: Hell Apostle

……

"Damn it, I've finally reached my limit!"

(End of this chapter)