Necromancer

Outside the wall, Felina looked at Lizer and instructed:

"Do not try to be a hero. You are not yet an apprentice wizard. The attacks of necromantic creatures contain the aura of the undead, which will continuously erode living beings until they die.

Fortunately, the levels of these necromantic creatures are relatively low, and we haven't spotted any that exceed the Knight level. If you get hit, immediately use 'Purifying Water' to wash the wound and neutralize the necromantic energy."

The standard for the Knight level is having Strength, Constitution, or Agility reach 3.0 or above. Since these necromantic creatures haven't reached the Knight level, it means their attributes are generally between 2.0 and 3.0.

Gloria frowned. Felina's concern seemed unusually excessive. She looked at the two suspiciously, somewhat uncertain about the relationship between them.

She carefully looked at Lizer, thinking to herself, could this kid have actually won Felina over?

The iron gate of the abandoned mining area was right in front of them. The golden revolver in Gloria's left hand flashed with a tongue of flame...

With a bang, the rusty yellow old lock hanging on the gate shattered, and the residual force of the bullet pushed the right door leaf open inward.

"Crack, crack..."

The rustling sound of bone joints turning echoed as five nearby necromantic skeletons turned their heads to look at the gate.

The eye sockets of their skulls flickered with faint blue soul fires as they waved rusty iron hoes and charged at the group.

Gloria first chanted a spell, casting 'Enhance Resistance' on both herself and Lizer.

To be honest, with this witchcraft, it would be extremely difficult for these sub-Knight level skeletons to break through their defenses.

Then, the golden revolver in her hand continuously spat fire, drawing one skeleton over, while the short sword in her right hand slashed toward another skeleton.

Only then did Lizer roughly realize that Gloria was a wizard specializing in close combat.

Lizer found this truly strange: Felina, who taught Knight combat skills, was a wizard specializing in the necromantic school, while the deputy chief of the police department was actually a violent maniac.

Meanwhile, Felina summoned a skeleton warrior from an alternate dimension to fight one off, while she herself cast the zero-circle witchcraft 'Fire Arrow' with both hands to attack another.

Although she excelled in necromantic witchcraft, the best choice for dealing with necromantic creatures was still positive energy witchcraft.

In Lizer's left hand was the Silver Lightning temporarily borrowed from the police station by Gloria, and he continuously shot at the skeletons' heads.

Unfortunately, his shooting skill was still at the beginner level. With a 70 percent accuracy rate, trying to hit the soul fire in their eye sockets was undoubtedly a fool's dream.

However, his Krypton Gold talent constantly fed back Shooting Proficiency +1, +2, which kept him from giving up on practicing his shooting, while his right hand raised a Knight sword to parry the skeletons' attacks.

After blocking about 10 strikes, Lizer activated the Knight secret skill 'Counterstrike', which he had just analyzed and acquired a few days ago.

A massive force transmitted from his legs to the Knight sword, and the sudden surge of power cleaved into a skeleton's skull, shattering it all over the ground.

At this time, Gloria and Felina had also defeated the other skeletons. However, the one fighting the skeleton warrior was not killed by having its skull shattered; instead, the skeleton warrior was made to tightly restrain it.

Seeing the confused looks from Lizer and Gloria, she said:

"Corpses and skeletons generated in the material world are the best source of troops for us necromantic wizards.

It only takes a very small amount of magic power for a one-time contract, and then we never have to worry about them again. It's just that compared to necromantic monsters summoned from other worlds, they are less convenient to carry around."

She pointed to the faintly visible necromantic monsters wandering not far away and said:

"There are quite a few necromantic creatures here. On one hand, killing them one by one would be time-consuming and laborious. It's better to capture them one by one like this and have me contract them.

This saves time and effort, and the speed will only get faster.

On the other hand, it would indeed be a pity to just kill them. Later, when factories and warehouses are built here, these necromantic creatures can serve as a defense force. After all, I am the security consultant for the factory."

Lizer and Gloria exchanged a glance, both looking at Felina with envy, feeling an urge to learn necromantic witchcraft. Felina continued:

"Furthermore, the necromantic energy particles here are exceptionally active. Later, we can set up some witchcraft arrays here. With these necromantic creatures enveloped within the arrays, over time, they will have a chance to advance to the Knight level."

That meant the factory security guards in the future would all be at the Knight level. Hearing this, Lizer felt greatly excited:

"This necromantic school is simply unreasonable! Then wouldn't it be enough to just send necromantic wizards to fight wars? They don't even know fatigue."

Felina shook her head and patiently explained to the two:

"That's not exactly true.

Both the Principality and the Feting Federation have quite strict restrictions on necromantic wizards. It is not that easy to obtain a source of undead troops; we just happened to find such a place.

In addition, although contracting undead creatures in the material world consumes very little magic and spiritual power, there is still a limit. How could it be so terrifying as to ignore levels and be endless?

Most importantly, undead creatures can only receive the blessings of a small amount of negative energy witchcraft, and it is exceptionally difficult for them to improve their strength. Meanwhile, humans and other creatures can accept the help of a large amount of auxiliary witchcraft and potions to enhance their power."

Lizer felt that learning this valuable wizard knowledge was extremely useful. Gloria also gained a deeper understanding of necromantic witchcraft, so they agreed to proceed according to Felina's plan.

They watched as the skeleton warrior tightly restrained the necromantic skeleton...

Felina chanted the spell for the witchcraft 'Control Skeleton', drawing upon the necromantic energy particles in the void and a trace of her own spiritual power to form a peculiar energy beam, which transmitted through the skeleton's eye socket into its soul fire.

A moment later, the skeleton gave up resisting and became Felina's necromantic servant.

Next came the capture of the necromantic creatures. The contracting of the first one or two was relatively slow, but once Felina had accumulated over a dozen skeletons, as soon as they saw a skeleton, they would swarm forward to pin it to the ground, and then Felina would step up to cast the contract spell.

Later on, the group didn't even need to move. Felina's dozens of skeletons spread out, bringing back one after another. This method of combat left Lizer and Gloria dumbfounded.

Unfortunately, the analysis of the Krypton Gold talent couldn't analyze witchcraft just by watching it once, unlike how it analyzed Knight secret techniques.

These witchcrafts involved the combination of runic characters and the corresponding prerequisite school knowledge. They could only be learned when one possessed this prerequisite knowledge; it was impossible to analyze them just by looking at them once.

Therefore, there had to be instructional scrolls recording the corresponding knowledge as a foundation in order to use the analysis of Krypton Gold to quickly turn them into skills.

The time reached about nine o'clock in the evening. The necromantic creatures on the outskirts of the mining area had all been enslaved by Felina, totaling two hundred and eighteen necromantic skeletons.

This was a powerful force. If they all truly advanced to the Knight level, they could even flatten the small town.

Now, only an abandoned mine shaft remained. The two women asked for Lizer's opinion on whether to finish it all in one go or rest for a day.

Lizer thought for a moment and decided that since they were already here, they might as well get it all done at once.

The deep, pitch-black cave entrance sat at the foot of the Gray Mist Mountain, like a monster opening its dark, giant maw, waiting to devour anyone who entered...