Necromancer cutting down trees

Chapter 8 Covenant Necromancer
"As you can see."

Wang Yue showed Sith her weapons and armor again.

"I'm just a soldier passing by, and I don't understand dark energy at all."

The skull opened its mouth, and black smoke came out of his mouth and floated to Wang Yue's side.

"It's nice to be young, I envy you for having a perfect body."

Seeth didn't seem to hear what Wang Yue said just now, he rolled back to Wang Yue's side, and finally jumped on his shoulder.

"Boy, in order to defeat the evil dragon, we must use all our power. As far as I know, necromancy does not belong to any school. I learned it from a vampire... oh no, an ancient book."

In order to cooperate with Sith's explanation, the black smoke surrounding Wang Yue began to get close to his body.

"See, dark energy has a high affinity for you, which shows that you are very suitable for this new power."

[Experience gained: 800]

[Level up current level: 4]

Black smoke is the dark energy extracted by Sith, directly using it on Wang Yue is equivalent to enlightenment.

Improving strength is called gaining strength in the words of NPCs, and it is gaining experience points for players.

"Xiao Nuo, I didn't expect upgrading to be so easy."

"When NPCs improve their strength, they also absorb and transform the energy of the game world."

This can be regarded as trigger-type experience acquisition, which can be regarded as a task that can be completed immediately.

Seeing Wang Yue in a daze, Sith on his shoulder slammed into his head forcefully.

"Ouch."

Wang Yue covered the side that was hurt by the bump, and looked at Sith angrily.

"Learning begins."

After Sith fell to the ground, he started his teaching. Smoke was sprayed from his mouth, and the surrounding bone fragments were swept by the black smoke, turning them all into white powder.

"Look, I'll only show you once."

The skull rolled on the powder on the ground, and the shape of the magic circle slowly took shape, and finally an enlarged version of the skull appeared at Wang Yue's feet.

"Simple, I remember this shape."

Wang Yue knelt down and picked up a handful of white ash, and drew a miniature skull on the palm of her hand with her fingers.

[Dark Energy Extraction]

The white ash in her hand disappeared instantly, leaving a black skull mark on Wang Yue's palm.

【The mana is full】

"It looks a bit like a mage's meditation, and the effect is obviously faster."

Dark energy extraction is a means of quickly restoring mana, but at the cost of consuming the props used as a medium.

"You boy is such a genius."

Sith was full of praise for Wang Yue's talent, but Wang Yue didn't pay attention to the noisy skull, he was asking about the system's ability to cast spells.

"Xiao Nuo, can I cast spells like a real magician?"

"You just did it."

"What's the difference between this and voice casting?"

"The casting time of voice casting is shorter, but the effect after completion is not as good as using magic circle."

In order to verify the system's explanation, Wang Yue used [Undead Call] to use up half of her mana.

"Oh? A summoner built with dark energy, very good."

Sith looked at the [Elementary Skeleton]. Although the strength of the summoned object was only level 4, it was indeed created using the dark energy that represented death.

"Dark energy extraction."

Wang Yue pointed her palm at the sky, only to see the black light flashing from the skull in his palm, and the dark energy floating in the air was drawn into his palm.

He wanted to test the effect of skills that did not consume props, but the results seemed to be tasteless.

"It works, but the speed is obviously slowed down."

The blue bar representing the mana in the upper left corner of the interface is slowly getting longer, about three times the natural recovery speed.

"Stop showing off, kid, our teaching continues."

Seeing that Wang Yue has learned how to extract dark energy, Sith continued to teach more useful magic.

"It's time for the task reward, it seems to be called contract summoning."

The skull continued to roll on the ground. He first erased the circle of dark energy extraction, and then rolled around the ashes to form a closed circle.

The circle is divided into three parts, Wang Yue stands on the left side, and the middle and right sides are empty.

"Your summoning technique is too ordinary, this is a higher-level summoning technique I have learned."

"A first-order summoning technique?"

Wang Yue raised her eyebrows. If he can learn a first-level skill before level 10, it will be like a tiger with wings added.

"Heh, this is the legendary tenth-order summoning technique, even the 36-pillar demons in hell can be summoned by you."

Hearing Sith's bragging, Wang Yue looked down at the simple magic circle, very disdainful.

The magic circle he boasted about [Contract Summoning] is nothing more than a circle cut into three by a vertical line. It really doesn't show how advanced it is.

"If this skill is really at the tenth level, I'm afraid the demons in hell will never be able to sleep peacefully."

Wang Yue twitched the corners of her mouth, suppressed a smile and continued to listen to Sith's tenth-level skill teaching.

"The three basic elements of summoning are medium, caster and summoning. They represent consumption, negotiation ability, and reward respectively. The essence is a contract."

Sith used his black smoke to show the outlines of several summoned objects of the wizard, including powerful demon warriors, sinister satyr assassins, and weird witch mages.

It also uses dark energy, but wizards can only make existing dark things their servants, and cannot create new creations.

"Someone once told me that necromantic magic can create summoned objects. If we reach a contract with the summoned objects, the summoned objects will evolve as their strength increases."

Sith signaled to Wang Yue to put the [Elementary Skeleton] that he had just summoned into the magic circle.

"Boy, put precious things in the middle, both you and your servants can gain benefits."

The skull hit Wang Yue's waist, which was to make him put the [Bone Spur] in the middle of the magic circle.

"I like the sword quite a bit. I can't fight without it."

Wang Yue immediately refused, because it is impossible to waste weapons on this.

He suddenly thought of the most precious thing in his package, and if he used the [Fifth-Order Bone Fragment], he would definitely have unexpected gains.

"This breath, could it be?"

When Sith saw Wang Yue take out the bone fragment from the package, the well-informed wizard immediately recognized the powerful energy attached to the item.

"The bone piece is of the third order, oh no, at least the fourth order. Your kid is really lucky."

Looking at the small piece of blue quality bone on the ground, even the skull felt a little distressed. He estimated that a kid with elementary strength should waste a lot of energy in casting spells.

"Contract summoning is more complicated, follow me."

Sith jumped on top of Wang Yue's head. It had been brewing for a long time, and Wang Yue's heart sank below him.

[Life and death coexist, mind is one. 】

【Suck my blood, eat my flesh. 】

[The same mind, we know each other's warmth and coldness. 】

As the voice fell, black light waves erupted from the circle under the feet, and the energy went straight to the sky. The bone fragments in the center of the circle were being melted, and the skeleton on the right side of the circle was covered in black smoke.

[Contract summoning has been successful]

【Please name the summoned object】

"It's so dark that you can't see anything. Why don't you just call it Goudan."

Goudan's voice echoed in the mist, the light waves of the magic circle gradually weakened, and the black smoke dissipated, replaced by tall skeletons standing beside Wang Yue.

"Dog, when you were born, the whole mist whispered your name."

Looking at the skeleton that was taller than herself, Wang Yue knew that she had finally found the treasure.

In the upper left corner of the interface, there is a head portrait of a skeleton. On the right side of the head portrait is the name of the word "dog egg". There are two long red and blue bars below the name, representing the blood volume and mana value.

[Dog egg: Necromancer Wang Yue's contract summoner, has inherited the blood template]

【Level: 4】

The skeleton after the contract is still a skeleton, but it's hard to say what it will look like in the future.

"That skeleton butler is not a skeleton?"

[Fifth-order bone fragment] was picked up from the bottom of the bed by him, and the person who dropped it was the [Skeleton Butler] who only showed one glance.

Wang Yue thought for a second, maybe someone else was a vampire in life, and was summoned into a skeleton by a necromancer like him after death.

"I have learned, thanks to your teaching."

"Hmph, this is just paying you back."

The new partner, Goudan, looks smarter than the cannon fodder skeleton, but he is not too smart. He is now following Wang Yue, moving mechanically at a distance.

"Now that we are stronger, can we seek revenge from that evil dragon?"

"The two of us are not enough, we need more helpers to defeat the blue dragon."

[Mission Objective: Help in finding a shelter]

[Task Reward: Trust of the Living Dead]

Wang Yue stepped out of the foggy border, and a new map prompt appeared on the interface.

[Corrupt woodland: robbing the forest of vitality, a tree that can never be cut down]

He saw scattered trees not far away. The skins of these bare dead woods were dry and cracked. The skins of the dead woods were black as if they had been dead for many years.

Ordinary people might let their guard down, but in fact these dead trees are terrifying monsters.

[Dead wood: the fallen tree spirit that sucks the breath of the dead]

【Level: 8】

If the level exceeds level 3, the name of the monster will turn red, reminding Wang Yue not to provoke him easily.

"It's really troublesome, and it's still a famous red monster in a forest. No, why did the color change?"

Wang Yue first saw that the blood bars of the monsters were red, but after a second look, the blood bars turned yellow.

"Xiao Nuo, am I delusional?"

"It's being tested, and there are two pieces of information about the dead wood."

The system immediately sent two reminders.

Tip [-], Necromancer is an active attacking monster, and has a strong recovery ability.

Tip [-], necromancy wood has dark energy affinity characteristics, which is very suitable for building the necromancer's residence.

"I remembered that the weakness of Necromancer Wood is dark energy."

Wang Yue looked at the dead wood forest without borders. They couldn't bypass these high-level monsters, and breaking through was the only option.

"Compared with the skeletons in the mist, these feigning dead trees have extremely low attack power. But the trouble is that their roots have already grown into the soil. As long as there is dark energy in the ground, they will not die easily .”

Sith saw so many trees that he also worried about the obstacles that appeared.

"Hmph, if I were in my heyday, I only need to use ordinary shadow bombs to destroy this piece of rotten wood, what a pity..."

But of course the great wizard has a way, and now he has to think hard about how to go through the woods.

Seeing that the skull was still thinking, Wang Yue decided to try the strength of Goudan.

"Goudan, go and chop down those trees."

Wang Yue pointed to the nearest necromancer tree, and the fearless level 4 skeleton rushed towards the level 8 opponent.

Goudan raised his bony palm as a hand knife, and his legs swayed alternately mechanically. Although he was not moving fast, the "Gudan" stepping on the soil was full of momentum.

"Stupid boy, bring your summon back quickly, it will be wasted if it dies."

Sith hadn't finished speaking, Goudan was already close to the Necromancer Tree, and it slashed at the tree with a knife, and the loud sound resounded through the entire forest.

[Dog eggs cause damage: 2]

Goudan's hand bones failed to leave marks on the Necromancy Wood, but after the attack, the Necromancy Wood was still lifeless, showing no sign of fighting back.

"Don't these trees attack creatures of dark energy?"

In order to verify his thoughts, the skull rolled forward.

Before he got close to [Necromancer Wood], black roots drilled out of the ground to attack, but Sith sensed it in advance and dodged it perfectly.

"Don't be dead, come back quickly."

Seeing that Goudan's damage was only scraping, Wang Yue immediately used summoning to summon another [Elementary Skeleton].

He didn't let his men go into battle immediately, but used bone fragments to draw a magic circle on the dirt.

"Boy, what do you want to do?"

"Didn't you see? I want to contract and summon Goudan No. [-] to speed up the speed of clearing up the woods."

Sith stood in the way of his portrait and blew black smoke at Wang Yue.

"what are you doing?"

"Idiot, there can only be one contract object for elementary strength. If you force the spell, it will be a waste of materials."

This is indeed unknown to Wang Yue. As the producer, he doesn't remember [Contract Summoning] at all. He originally thought it was a common skill, but he didn't expect there to be so many restrictions.

"Xiao Nuo, send me a copy of the skill description."

"Okay, sending."

Wang Yue dropped the bone fragment, stood up and remained silent.

Any profession has the so-called "contract" skills, such as a hunter making a contract with a beast, a mage making a contract with an elemental creature.

According to the skill description, the apex of the "Contract" skill is [Contract Summoning].Through the most primitive way to obtain the purest power, every time a player advances to a higher level, the number of targets that can conclude a contract will increase by one.

"Looking at it this way, Sith may not have lied to me. This is a genuine tenth-level skill."

On the other side, Goudan led the newly summoned skeletons to slash hundreds of times, and finally managed to cut down a tree.

The moment [Necromancer Wood] fell, the other trees around seemed to wake up, the branches grew wildly, and the stumps also became thicker.

"It's getting late."

Wang Yue looked up at the sky, it was already late at night, and the sky was full of stars and the moon.

"Goudan, move the fallen tree over here."

He shouted loudly to his little brother in the distance, and two skeletons, one big and one small, came towards him. They dragged the half-cut [Necromancer Wood] to Wang Yue.

"You go and collect the short twigs, and you slice the stumps with your hand knife."

Huge wood takes a lot of time to process, Wang Yue took out a bone spur and poked at the thick branch.

"Boy, what are you doing?"

"Don't inquire about the necromancer."

Wang Yue already felt drowsy. Although his mental and physical strength were normal, it was the tiredness from his body. He needed to make a shelter for himself to sleep as soon as possible.

In addition to the main occupation, there are sub-occupations in the game. Each player can choose a non-combat sub-occupation.For example, a blacksmith can smelt ore to forge weapons, which is very suitable as a side job for warrior players.

"Fortunately, I know a thing or two about woodworking, and continuing my woodworking career in the game is the only choice."

Based on Wang Yue's current understanding of necromancers, the method of summoning skeletons to fight may require the assistance of inscription masters.

The inscription master can engrave inscriptions with a small amount of mana, and the inscriptions can stimulate a small amount of buffs. This kind of product with great coverage is of great benefit to summoning occupations.

"But for playing games, interest is the most important thing."

After starting to process the wood, the system immediately popped up a prompt.

【Are you sure to make carpentry your sub-profession】

"determine."

After confirming the sub-profession, it can still be changed, but after changing, all the proficiency of the current sub-profession will be lost.

[Associate occupation: carpentry]

[Current proficiency level: 1 (apprentice)]

As long as you keep trying to process wood, you can improve like a weapon proficiency, so Wang Yue immediately started to process the wood in front of you.

He spread the branches all over the ground, then used wood chips as mattresses, inserted the thick branches at the four corners to build them together, and finally spread a circle with thin bark, and the simple [bark tent] was completed.

【Woodworking Proficiency Improvement】

[Current proficiency level: 2 (apprentice)]

As the proficiency level increases, players can learn how to produce props from NPCs or dropped blueprints.

Carpentry can make armor such as shields, but more is to make functional props such as [bark tent], which is useless for players who pursue strength, but it is much more practical for Wang Yue in the game world.

"Sure, boy, this tent is not bad."

Sith was jumping on the wood chips, Wang Yue was exhausted.It took a lot of work to sharpen the branches with the rapier, but now he could finally sleep peacefully.

"Stop jumping, tomorrow we have to cut down trees to clear a road."

Wang Yue closed his eyes, his ears gradually became numb to the sound, and he soon fell asleep.

And in the woods, because Wang Yue forgot to cancel the battle order, the tireless skeleton duo was still working hard to destroy the Necromancy Wood.

　Always wanted to play Diablo II Remastered, but didn't have the time.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)