Chapter 31: The Beginner’s Skill Book—An Unexpected Event!-Com Uma Gota de Sangue Eterna, Ainda Assim Sou Invencível!(Devaneios e escritas sem sentido.)

[Summon Space Expansion]: (B) Passive skill, no level, +8 Summon Space.

After upgrading to a B-rank skill, the description of [Summon Space Expansion] remained concise and clear. A two-tier promotion yielded only eight additional summon slots. However, for Su Mubai, this improvement was nothing short of exaggerated!

First, due to his Class Cataclysm trait, the skill effect doubled, increasing from +8 to +16. Then, bolstered by [Death Summoning], Su Mubai’s maximum summon capacity reached a shocking figure.

[Summon Space: 100/340]

That wasn't all. What intrigued Su Mubai even more were the added Cataclysm traits!

[Cataclysm Traits]:
1. The control range for summons is increased by 500%.
2. After your summon dies, it can be revived at full status within the summon space. Each individual summon can only trigger this once per hour.

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This was the third time Su Mubai had seen a Cataclysm trait, and the third time he had been stunned. Both traits were heaven-defying.

The first allowed him to control his skeletons within a radius of 500 meters. In terms of area, this wasn't just a 5-fold increase, but a 25-fold one!

The second trait was essentially a disguised increase in the size of his skeleton army. With this Cataclysm trait, he no longer had to fear specific area-of-effect instant-kill skills used by certain bosses. Even if his entire army were wiped out at once, he could simply open his summon space and instantly replenish his forces. Unless a large number of skeletons died twice within an hour, his combat effectiveness would remain completely unaffected.

"Now, the leveling speed will be much faster."

A flash of joy crossed Su Mubai's eyes as he waved his wand to begin summoning skeletons.

*Hum~*

A pale gray vortex opened, and six skeleton warriors stepped out, their movements perfectly synchronized.

"Go find monsters to grind, and notify me once you find any humans."

Receiving Su Mubai’s command, the soul fire in the skeleton warriors' eye sockets flickered. They hoisted their greatswords and joined the surrounding army of monsters. With the increased control range, the skeleton army’s reach expanded significantly, meaning Su Mubai wouldn't need to relocate for quite some time.

He busied himself for two minutes, waving his wand to summon six high-level skeletons every time the cooldown refreshed. It took three uses of [Death Extraction Feedback], consuming 75 points of Death Energy, to fill his summon space. This time, he didn't stick to the 4:3:3 ratio, as too many skeleton warriors struggled to maneuver effectively against bosses. In the end, Su Mubai summoned one hundred skeleton warriors, distributing the remaining 240 slots equally between skeleton archers and skeleton mages.

After the [Death Extraction Feedback] skill was promoted to SS-rank, its maximum casting distance also increased to 100 meters. For Su Mubai, however, it reached 200 meters! He could lie there without moving and extract Death Energy from the corpses of distant monsters, targeting up to 20 at a time.

However, these common monsters didn't provide much Death Energy.

[Notification: You successfully extracted 2 points of Death Energy from the corpses of 20 common "Wild Ox" monsters.]
[Notification: You successfully extracted 2 points of Death Energy from the corpses of 18 common "Wild Ox" monsters and 2 elite "Prairie Wolf" monsters.]

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Aside from bosses, both elite and strengthened elite monsters provided the same amount of Death Energy as common ones. Fortunately, there was no shortage of corpses here. Su Mubai performed an extraction every thirty seconds, and in less than twenty minutes, his Death Energy was fully restored.

Next came the simple and monotonous process of leveling while lying down. Every ten minutes or so, two skeletons would arrive to hand over items dropped by the monsters. Su Mubai couldn't be bothered to look at this junk; he simply promoted them all once before tossing them into his backpack to gather dust. According to the information in his mind, the imperial city serving as the novice village had an auction house. Hanging all these items there would eventually yield a tidy profit.

A legion of 340 skeletons, relying on their heaven-defying attributes, launched a dimension-reduction strike on the monsters of the Green Meadows. Even bosses couldn't stir up any trouble when faced with Su Mubai's skeleton legion.

[Killed Level 10 Black Iron-rank Boss "Wild Ox Leader", received 50% bonus experience, Experience +1950.]
[Killed Level 10 Bronze-rank Boss "Prairie Wolf Alpha", received 50% bonus experience, Experience +6000.]

The equipment and skill books dropped by these two bosses were mediocre and contained nothing a Necromancer needed. However, one book caught Su Mubai's eye.

[Primary Skill Book]: Increases skill points by one upon use.

"Does this stuff only drop from wild bosses?"

Taking the [Primary Skill Book] from the skeleton archer, Su Mubai thought for a moment and realized the truth. If instance bosses dropped these, they wouldn't be worth much, as normal-difficulty instances had no entry limits and could be farmed repeatedly. In that case, they would be worthless in no time. Wild bosses, however, were rare encounters. This [Primary Skill Book] dropped by the Bronze-rank Prairie Wolf Alpha, which was likely the minimum requirement.

Su Mubai picked up the skill book, his thoughts stirring.

[Cataclysm]
[Target: Primary Skill Book]
[Notification: Please select the promotion tier: Tier 1/Tier 2/Tier 3.] (Click to view details)

Option 1: Promote to [Intermediate Skill Book], no cost.
Option 2: Sublimate to [Advanced Skill Book], cost 2000 gold coins.
Option 3: Cataclysm to [Perfect Skill Book], cost 1000 years of lifespan.

"Wait, the cost for this is that high?"

The cost to upgrade the [Primary Skill Book] truly surprised Su Mubai. Especially the [Perfect Skill Book], which required 1000 years of lifespan! How many skill points would one need to gain to justify that cost? Although curious, Su Mubai couldn't afford it. He shook his head and decisively chose to promote it.

Upon confirmation, the book in his hand became slightly more refined.

[You obtained "Intermediate Skill Book" x1.]
[Intermediate Skill Book]: Increases skill points by 5 upon use.

After the free upgrade, the effect had quintupled. A moment later, the skill book turned into a streak of golden light and merged into Su Mubai's brow.

[You used "Intermediate Skill Book" x1, Skill Points +5, Current Available Skill Points: 6.]

It was still not enough to level up [Death Extraction Feedback]. Su Mubai closed his panel and continued to enjoy the thrill of rapidly increasing experience. However, a notification relayed from his mind forced him to stand up. One of his skeleton warriors had signaled that it had seen the human Su Mubai had mentioned.

At this stage, no other players should be coming here. Therefore, this human was likely the appraiser from Novice Village 9527.

"Running this far... what could there possibly be to sketch in this godforsaken place?"

Sensing the location of that skeleton warrior, Su Mubai curled his lip and turned to walk in that direction. It was almost at the very edge of his control range. He hadn't taken two steps before he suddenly stopped, a grave expression appearing on his face.

[Notification: Your skeleton warrior has fallen.]
[Notification: Cataclysm trait triggered. Your skeleton warrior has been revived at full status in the summon space. This skeleton warrior cannot trigger this effect again for 60 minutes.]