Chapter 9: Strong Upgrade
"Get lost!"
Gu Xi, who was already annoyed by the appearance of the royal spy, became even more furious when he saw the black-robed cultists swarming towards him.
Without further hesitation, he pointed at a few unprocessed corpses of black-robed cultists not far away.
"Corpse Explosion, Corpse Explosion, Corpse Explosion...!"
Boom, boom, boom!
Under the effect of Gu Xi's Lesser Corpse Explosion, many of the black-robed cultists rushing towards him were blown away.
Luna, who understood Gu Xi's intentions best, saw him acting without reservation and flew to the front line of the battlefield. She unleashed three waves of Banshee Wails on the still-living black-robed cultists.
The power and range of Corpse Explosion combined with Banshee Wail were quite substantial.
In an instant, more than half of the black-robed cultists rushing forward were either dead or injured.
A large number of kill notifications flashed before Gu Xi's eyes like a stream.
[Killed Cultist (Level 2), gained 11 experience points, due to cooperative kill, Contracted Undead gained 8 experience points.]
[Killed Elite Cultist (Level 2), gained 9 experience points, due to cooperative kill, Contracted Undead gained 19 experience points.]
[Killed Cultist (Level 2), gained 13 experience points, due to cooperative kill, Contracted Undead gained 10 experience points.]
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[Ding, total experience has reached the upgrade threshold. Please choose whether to level up.]
[Killed Cultist (Level 2), gained 15 experience points (11 points overflow stored), due to cooperative kill, Contracted Undead gained 10 experience points.]
[Killed Elite Cultist (Level 2), gained 19 experience points (19 points overflow stored), due to cooperative kill, Contracted Undead gained 20 experience points.]
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This situation caused Gu Xi to pause for a moment. He hadn't expected this wave to be so lucrative, directly pushing him to level up.
[Upon leveling up, your level increases to 2, fully restoring health and mana, clearing all adverse statuses, Intelligence +1, and allowing you to choose one skill from the following as a reward.]
[Dark Knowledge: Passive skill, upgradable. Allows the learning of dark magic. As the level increases, the power of dark magic also increases.]
[Meditation Practice: Passive skill, upgradable. Allows the learning of meditation techniques. As the level increases, the difficulty of the meditation techniques that can be learned also increases.]
[Undead Mastery: Passive skill, upgradable. Enhances all undead created, summoned, or contracted by the necromancer, with a 5% higher chance of generating special undead when summoning.]
Glancing at the upgrade prompt and noticing he still had 400 points of mana left, Gu Xi burst into laughter.
"Luna, advance!"
Luna looked back at Gu Xi, noticing him moving forward with the combat team while gathering mana, and understood that he had made up his mind.
So, without further thought, Luna advanced.
After advancing about ten meters, Luna opened her mouth and let out a Banshee Wail, alarming the four to five hundred black-robed cultists standing in front of the abandoned gate.
After this howl, Luna quickly retreated, moving closer to Gu Xi.
The combat team around Gu Xi swiftly moved forward, facing the four to five hundred black-robed cultists head-on.
Before the two sides clashed, Gu Xi, who was summoning souls, switched his spell and pointed at the corpses in front of the black-robed cultists that hadn't yet been summoned.
"Corpse Explosion!"
Gu Xi used up all his mana in one go.
This time, it wasn't just two or three Lesser Corpse Explosions but over eighty.
Initially, Gu Xi targeted the corpses on the ground, but later he directly targeted the black-robed cultists blown into the air.
With wave after wave of Lesser Corpse Explosions, the entire underground space was awakened. More and more black-robed cultists awoke from their positions and charged towards the area where Gu Xi was causing explosions.
After exhausting the last bit of his mana, Gu Xi took a step back and reached out towards the area where the chain explosions had occurred.
With Gu Xi's gesture, a large number of white light spots flew into his hand.
Soul Extraction.
Having depleted all his mana, Gu Xi's face was somewhat pale. Standing amidst the guided white light spots, his body emitted an eerie aura.
As the white light spots gathered together, Gu Xi did not merge these soul fragments into complete souls as before.
Instead, with a turn of his hand, the soul fragments automatically collided together.
Then, without seeking these complete souls or any corpses, Gu Xi pressed his hands down, and the complete souls fell like raindrops onto the freshly blasted corpses.
"Level up, choose Undead Mastery, Summon Souls! Rise for me!"
As a golden light flashed across Gu Xi's body, his depleted mana was quickly replenished, along with his health and status.
[Name: Gu Xi
Game ID: 629SHD2S0FXC30
Class: Necromancer
Level: 2 (2356/5000)
Talent: Not activated
Status: Health (310/310, Hungry), Mana (550/550)
Attributes: Strength 3.2, Agility 3.3, Constitution 3.1, Intelligence 5.5, Perception 3.7, Charisma 3.6
Class Skills: Summoning 1 (36/100), Lesser Corpse Explosion 2 (17/200), Lesser Bone Shield 1 (3/100)
Active Skills: Throwing 2 (61/200)
Passive Skills: Necromantic Knowledge 3, Necromantic Contract 1, Magical Knowledge 4, Basic Science 3, Basic Reading 2, Basic Copying 2, Undead Mastery 1.]
After glancing at his new level status, Gu Xi focused on the souls he had just summoned.
As the white light spots fell like rain onto the corpses, the previously blasted bodies exploded once more.
However, this time the explosions were not as powerful, merely tearing the corpses apart.
Amidst the flying flesh, one skeleton after another crawled out from the remains.
Simultaneously, a series of messages popped up in front of Gu Xi.
[You successfully used Summoning, gaining a skeleton (Level 0), Summoning experience 1 point, Undead Mastery automatically enhanced, added to the combat team, team member +1.]
[You successfully used Summoning, gaining a skeleton (Level 0), Summoning experience 1 point, Undead Mastery automatically enhanced, added to the combat team, team member +1.]
[You failed to use Summoning, gaining Summoning experience 1 point.]
[You successfully used Summoning, gaining a Skeleton Leader (Level 0), Summoning experience 1 point, Undead Mastery automatically enhanced, forming a new combat team, combat team member limit 35.]
[You successfully used Summoning, gaining a Skeleton Warrior (Level 0), Summoning experience 1 point, Undead Mastery automatically enhanced, added to the new combat team, team member +1.]
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