10 contribution points were deducted, and then, Fang Zhou received a skill book through his personal terminal.
"Detected that there are available skill materials, you can consume 10 soul power to quickly become a beginner."
"Do you want to start learning?"
Fang Zhou certainly confirmed, "Start learning!"
10 soul power consumed, the soul fire of Fang Zhou's skeleton clone flickered wildly.
Even though he is a skeleton, he can run freely under the blood moon.
Femur, hip bone, kneecap, tibia... his entire skeletal frame worked in concert, and he successfully mastered the fastest burst speed for running.
"Learning skill successful!"
(Apprentice Level, Beginner): Quickly move in one direction, dealing collision damage to all enemies along the way. Distance, speed, and power depend on agility attribute and skill proficiency.
This is exactly the flexible displacement skill that the skeleton clone needed the most!
With the skill, after basic tactical training, several usage methods immediately came to Fang Zhou's mind.
For example, he can raise his long spear and charge at the enemy, using the skill just before hitting to cause massive damage.
Another example, when facing high-agility enemies, he can directly use the charge skill to evade their pursuit.
Less thinking, more doing, Fang Zhou lay down on the bed, closed his eyes, and focused his attention on the skeleton clone.
...
Burial Wilderness.
A robust skeleton, dragging a long spear made of bones, walked lightly towards the depths.
Now, hunting the weak new-born skeletons could basically no longer provide Fang Zhou with any skeleton essence.
Actually, this is easy to understand.
In the outermost area of the Burial Wilderness, the new-born skeletons active here are the lowest tier even within the Skeleton Race, deemed the most worthless among the Undead Species.
When Fang Zhou was weak, every skeleton here was about equal in strength to him, or even stronger. Their bones were also more robust and solid than those of Fang Zhou.
The essence absorbed from such bones would naturally strengthen Fang Zhou's skeletal body quickly.
This is reflected in the attribute panel as an increase in attribute values.
As Fang Zhou's four-dimensional attributes are enhanced, his bones also become more robust and solid than those of these skeletons.
The essence absorbed from their bones would naturally no longer be sufficient to quickly enhance Fang Zhou's bones.
This is reflected in the attribute panel as a decrease in attribute value gains.
Starting from the edge of the Burial Wilderness, the blood moon's glow becomes stronger and the aura of death thicker as he progresses further in.
Similarly, it is more capable of nurturing more powerful undead.
Soon, Fang Zhou stopped walking.
A skeleton much larger than the new-born ones appeared in his sight!
The perception range of a skeleton depends on the strength of their soul fire, and in this regard, Fang Zhou's skeleton clone was far more powerful than an ordinary skeleton.
Therefore, when Fang Zhou had already discovered this skeleton, it was still oblivious, indulging in the blood moon's glow.
Crouch, stealth, flank.
Fang Zhou skillfully played the role of Six.
After getting within ten meters of the skeleton, Fang Zhou stood up and decisively activated the skill.
Raise spear, charge, thrust!
In an instant, the skeleton clone burst forth with extreme speed, the sharp spearhead aimed at the fragile skull of the skeleton.
This skeleton's instinctive reaction speed was significantly faster than those new-born counterparts at the edge.
But Fang Zhou's charging speed was too fast; it only had time to turn its head before its skull was pierced by the long spear.
Its claws flailed twice in vain, trying to pull out the spear stuck in its skull.
Still not dead? Fang Zhou was somewhat surprised.
The toughness of this skeleton's soul fire was far stronger than the easily shattered soul fire of the new-born ones.
He gripped the long spear tightly, gave a twist and pull, and the skeleton's already weak soul fire was finally extinguished completely.
Blue smoke rose, bones piled up.
Fang Zhou eagerly rubbed his bony palms, activating the skill.
A stream of heat far stronger than before poured into his body, lasting a full ten seconds.
Strength +0.1, Soul Power +0.3.
Awesome!
Fang Zhou directly gained a 0.1 attribute increase and a 0.3 Soul Power gain from this skeleton.
According to his speculation, that skeleton which turned to ashes should have been about to advance to Apprentice Middle Rank, thus providing him with such high attribute gains.
Compared to the previous snail-like progress, this is the normal pace for monster hunting and leveling up.
It's foreseeable that Fang Zhou's skeleton clone is about to enter a period of strength explosion, likely reaching Apprentice Upper Rank soon.
This also means that Fang Zhou's main body can receive more four-dimensional attributes and quickly accumulate enough soul power to deduce skeleton series skills.
With just a deeper step into the Burial Wilderness, he achieved such a harvest.
At this moment, the Burial Wilderness appeared to Fang Zhou as a vast treasure waiting for him to excavate and reap.
Crack.
Crack.
Soon, Fang Zhou spotted the second prey.
It was a pair of skeletons entangled in a tussle, gnawing at each other.
His soul fire flickered, indeed, fortunate.
Skeletons are a very low-tier Apprentice-level undead without any self-awareness, with slaughter and devouring being their only instincts.
Therefore, in the Burial Wilderness, typically, a meeting of two or more skeletons inevitably leads to a battle, the fiercest kind, usually with only one skeleton surviving to become stronger.
This single factor is enough to doom the majority of skeletons.
And Fang Zhou just happened to come across a battle scene.
He wasn't in a hurry to intervene, observing the combat styles of the indigenous skeletons from the sidelines.
Compared to the new-born skeletons, these two had sharper fangs and claws, with naturally more powerful biting and pouncing abilities.
Under unrelenting attacks, they soon ended in mutual defeat, one with a mostly shattered skull, the other with all limbs broken, on the verge of deciding the victor.
Seeing this, Fang Zhou decisively jumped out.
He raised the long spear, adjusted his angle, and thrust it out.
"Brutal Strike!"
Sss!
Amidst a sharp whistling sound, Fang Zhou's thrust smashed the two helpless skeletons into debris across the ground, like the proverbial benefit of a fisherman between a sandpiper and a clam.
activated!
Physique +0.1. Spirit +0.1, Soul Power +0.4.
The immense satisfaction made every bone in Fang Zhou's body tremble involuntarily.
Immediately, his burning soul fire blazed more fiercely.
Kill! Kill! Kill!
Turn these feeble skeletons into nourishment for his evolution!
An hour went by.
Skeleton
Apprentice·Middle Rank
Strength 6, Physique 4, Agility 3, Spirit 3
Long Spear (Gray Inferior)
Skeleton Armament (Instinct), Brutal Strike (Master), Charge (Beginner)
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