Meditation Methods are the foundation of a Magic Professional's combat power, determining their growth rate and power limit.
A few days ago, when Fang Zhou first came into contact with the [Skeleton Meditation Method], he felt that the accompanying skeleton visualization image was somewhat off.
After entering the beginner stage, Fang Zhou could clearly sense that the Skeleton Meditation Method wasn't entirely harmonious and had areas that could be improved and refined.
With the rampant slaughter by his skeleton clones over these days, his understanding of the skeleton imagery deepened, and finally, a "modifiable" symbol appeared in the skills bar of his attribute panel.
In Fang Zhou's exploration, he discovered that improving or inferring skills from the attribute panel wasn't spontaneous but required him to have corresponding knowledge.
According to the degree of knowledge completeness, the soul power consumed would also vary.
Improving the Skeleton Meditation Method required the consumption of 100 points of soul power, which certainly needed days of accumulation.
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In the following days, Fang Zhou lived a busy and fulfilling life.
Besides the basic courses arranged by the Sea City Military Academy, he would intermittently control the skeleton clones for two hours of skeleton leveling each day, significantly increasing the four-dimensional attributes of both his main body and the clones.
Main Body [Attributes] Strength 1.6, Constitution 1.5, Agility 1.4, Spirit 3.5
Clones [Attributes] Strength 7, Constitution 6, Agility 5, Spirit 5
[Soul Power] 110
While enhancing the four-dimensional attributes and accumulating soul power, Fang Zhou also increased the skill proficiency of his main body's [Skeleton Meditation Method] and [Summon Skeleton] to [Skilled], while [Calm and Relaxed] was elevated to [Master].
Further, through continuous practice, he also advanced the skill proficiency of the clones' [Brutal Strike] and [Charge] to [Skilled], greatly increasing combat power.
For Fang Zhou, the most crucial achievement was accumulating 100 points of soul power.
Late at night, in the dormitory.
Fang Zhou sat cross-legged on the bed, focusing his attention on the plus sign in the skills section of the attribute panel.
"Detected a skill that can be improved, estimated to require 100 points of soul power."
"Proceed with improvement?"
Fang Zhou calmed his mind, solemnly said: "Begin improvement."
With the rapid consumption of 100 points of soul power, Fang Zhou once again entered an inspiration burst state.
In a haze, Fang Zhou seemed to return to the perspective of the skeleton clone once more.
Under the Blood Moon, he walked on a vast land covered in bone-white skeletons.
Skeletons are the lowest form of undead, the most humble existence.
The growth limit of a skeleton is limited, but it is the necessary path for an Undead Mage to contact the Undead Realm.
Imitate it, play the role of it, learn from it, become it.
Suddenly, Fang Zhou had a flash of inspiration, and the awkward skeleton visualization image in his mind was completely changed to his own skeleton clone.
I am the strongest skeleton; rather than going out of my way, I should directly visualize myself.
No one understands skeletons better than I do!
"Improvement of [Skeleton Meditation Method] succeeded, please name it."
Fang Zhou regained his senses and raised an eyebrow, saying: "Name it [Skeleton Monarch Meditation Method]."
At this moment, the skeleton imagery in his mind was precisely his most familiar skeleton clone holding a bone spear.
Fang Zhou was confident that his skeleton clone would step by step ascend the throne of the Skeleton Monarch, and that would certainly not be his end goal.
He looked at his skill panel—[Skeleton Meditation Method] had successfully been replaced with [Skeleton Monarch Meditation Method].
Fang Zhou carefully comprehended the new method.
The new [Skeleton Monarch Meditation Method] had at least 30% more efficiency than the previous one.
This also meant that the growth rate of Fang Zhou's spirit attribute was 30% faster than before.
Perhaps before the simulation battlefield opened, he could advance to the Middle Rank of the Apprentice Tier.
Feeling satisfied, he started planning his future growth paths.
Firstly, his main body needed to infer a suitable, effective skeleton-series control skill.
Thus, with attacks covered by Summon Skeleton and Skeleton Flying Spear, defense by Skeleton Shield, the control skills would be complemented too.
During the Apprentice Stage, Fang Zhou's combat system was basically formed.
For the clones, they needed to master more combat skills and quickly raise their level to the Upper Rank of the Apprentice Tier.
By then, Fang Zhou could confidently and boldly control the skeleton clones to explore deeper into the Burial Wilderness.
As soul power was still in surplus, Fang Zhou closed his eyes, attempting to infer a skeleton-series control skill.
However, the attribute panel prompted, "Missing essential skill materials."
Fang Zhou was slightly taken aback, then immediately realized.
Perhaps the knowledge he possessed wasn't sufficient to infer all skeleton-series skills merely through bone armament.
Seeing that this was the case, Fang Zhou didn't force it.
He stood up, stretched lightly.
The skill materials required by the attribute panel should refer to control skills from other professions in the Human Alliance skill library.
And to exchange for skills from other professions naturally required a large number of contribution points.
It seemed necessary to prioritize tasks for obtaining contribution points.
Currently, the most practical channel for acquiring a large number of contribution points was his newly inferred skeleton-series skills.
Skeleton Flying Spear and Skeleton Shield!
After all, Fang Zhou hadn't planned on hiding them, just wanted to report to the military academy after some time to make it seem more reasonable.
The new skills he inferred through his own effort—should the academy inquire, he could even explain the principles.
Recall that when Earth Knight Zhao Yuan awakened and obtained the Rock Will skill, he uploaded it to the Human Alliance skill library and received a reward of 100 contribution points.
Then at the very least, his two new skills should also fetch 200 contribution points.
Fang Zhou thought, somewhat uncertainly.
...
Early the next morning, Fang Zhou arrived at Company One's classroom.
In the corner, Bai Xiaochan eagerly waved at him as soon as he entered.
Fang Zhou ambled over, asking: "What's up?"
Bai Xiaochan gave Ye Fan a thumbs-up beside her, cheerfully saying: "Fang Zhou, our Lord Ye sent you a boon.
You remember he got pulled into a Demon Hunter research group, right?
Lately, this research group needs some combat sparring partners—preferably ones at the same level as Ye Fan.
Sparing resources within the family, Ye Fan thought of you.
And there's a rich contribution point reward for this!
"Oh?" Fang Zhou's eyes lit up.
Just when he needed contribution points, Ye Fan, the dude with a flair for the dramatic, came to offer benefits.
He turned toward Ye Fan, asking: "Lord Ye, what's the story? Tell me more."
Ye Fan crossed his arms, proudly declaring: "In my life, Ye Fan never yields to others. In all of Company One, only Fan and Zhou may be called heroes."
Fang Zhou listened in disbelief, this kid was hopeless.
He coughed lightly, patted Ye Fan's shoulder, and asked straightforwardly: "Good brother, tell me, how much are we talking?"