I'm really a necromancer

Amid everyone's uneasiness, the fleet gradually moved away from the sea area where the fourth-level apprentices of the Nine-ring White Tower fought against the fifth-level blood warlock - "Blood Maker" Petain.

After an unknown amount of time, when no trace of battle could be seen in the distance, the sound of a large number of high-level witchcraft explosions, as well as the shouts and fighting sounds of the fourth-level apprentices were completely covered up by the sound of wind and waves.

Only then did the thousands of surviving apprentices and mortal servants of the fleet recover from the originally solemn and almost lifeless atmosphere.

"Did we escape danger?"

"I don't know what the situation of those senior fourth-class apprentices is like now, or how long they can delay us..."

"You must know that the opponent of the senior fourth-level apprentices is the fifth-level blood warlock who betrayed the academy - 'Blood Maker' Petain. If the seniors cannot delay and allow Petain to catch up, there will be no one in the fleet. One person can fight it!"

"That's right, even Yihua, who is the strongest in the fleet today and can kill the fourth-level Melkor head-on as well as several fourth-level sea clan leaders, cannot possibly compete with the fifth-level blood warlock!"

"It seems that now we can only resign ourselves to fate..."

Although everyone was talking a lot, the overall comments were very consistent and full of pessimistic views about the future.

As for the gap between fourth-class wizard apprentices and fifth-class wizard apprentices, even if many apprentices have not seen it with their own eyes, they still know something about it from previous classes or books——

That is a huge gap that cannot be bridged by just a dozen fourth-class apprentices!
What's more, today's Petain has been killing a lot in a month and accumulated a strong blood plague power.

The fourth-class apprentices in the fleet had just experienced a battle with the Sea Tribe, and their magic power and trump cards had been exhausted.

Under the circumstances, it was only a matter of time before a group of fourth-level apprentices were defeated by Petain.

Most of the apprentices began to pray that the fourth-class apprentices who were responsible for protecting everyone could stay under Petain for a longer period of time.

This made it impossible for Petain to catch up with the fleet in time after getting rid of a group of fourth-class apprentices.

At this moment, Gabriel, who was not far away, after settling some of the injured apprentices, stepped forward and asked Yihua:
"Brother Yihua, what should we do next?"

Hearing Gabriel's inquiry, Yihua, who always felt that he had missed something, pondered for a moment.

For a long time, Yihua, who still couldn't remember what he had missed, could only temporarily put aside what he might have missed.

After glancing at the current data panel, Yi Hua's eyes lit up, and then he looked at Gabriel who was patiently waiting for his reply.

"Tell all the Illuminati apprentices to recover as soon as possible. I feel that I have made a small breakthrough in the previous battle. I will go back to my room for some retreat. If there is no major news, don't let anyone disturb me!"

"As ordered!"

After hearing Yihua's reply claiming that he had made a small breakthrough, Gabriel was shocked and responded quickly. At the same time, he felt in his heart that Yihua was worthy of being the No. 1 apprentice of this year.

After giving the instructions, Yihua immediately returned to his room in the cabin without responding to the greetings and gazes full of reverence and fascination from other apprentices.

Returning to the room, Yihua immediately called up the attribute panel like an ancient golden scroll without even a moment's delay——

"Name: Eva Fercis"

"Karma Level: Neutral Good (99/100)"

"Realm: Third-level Necromancer Apprentice (68/84 runes), Sky Knight (4/100)"

「巫师资质：五等生命亲和（99/99）↑，五等死亡亲和（99/99）↑，五等灵魂亲和（99/99）↑……」

"Skills: Advanced Scroll Making (3/100), Intermediate Magic Crystal Enchanting (95/100)"

"Talent: third-class half-dead witch body (58/100) has fused undead-second-class giant bone skinner, third-class faceless shadow"

「巫术：四等圣光术（3/100），三等生命铠甲（100/100）↑，三等灵魂反哺术（61/100），三等死亡世界穿梭（62/100），四等亡灵奴役（31/100），四等亡灵召唤（11/100），三等死亡之息（49/100），三等亡灵改造术（60/100），二等亡灵转化术（1/100）」

"merit value: 410"

"In the battle with the Sea Clan just now, I gained a lot of merit points. Now the third-level life armor has reached its limit. It's time to break through the wizard qualifications and the third-level life armor to a higher level."

In Yihua's view, Pétain might catch up with the fleet at any time.

With his current strength, he simply cannot defeat Petain. At this moment, he must race against time to improve his strength as quickly as possible.

Thinking of this, Yihua's eyes narrowed. The next moment, he poured merit points into several qualifications that reached the fifth level limit, and immediately began to make breakthroughs.

It was still a familiar process, and there were no surprises along the way.

As a series of soft sounds broke through the bottleneck, Yihua felt as if his body had turned into thousands of energy particles, scattering and filling the room.

In a daze, I don't know how long it took before Yihua came back to his senses again.

Now he only feels that his body is like crystal, transparent from top to bottom without any impurities.

Before Yihua could take the initiative to try out the changes after his qualification breakthrough, Yihua's naked eye perception saw that the surrounding energy particles seemed to have life, converging into a torrent and rushing crazily into Yihua's spiritual sea.

Seeing this, Yihua quickly sank his consciousness into the spiritual sea.

Apprentices with ordinary qualifications can only begin to recover the magic power in their bodies if they enter a meditative state and deliberately absorb energy particles.

Apprentices with fifth-level qualifications, even if they do not enter a meditative state, can passively absorb the surrounding energy particles and recover their magic power at a slower rate than in meditation. At the same time, they can also observe the surrounding energy particles with the naked eye.

As for Yihua, who has now broken through to the sixth level and has 100% energy affinity, he can even devour and tear the surrounding energy at a terrifying speed visible to the naked eye, restoring the magic power in his body.

In Yihua's opinion, if other wizards use the same energy particles to construct witchcraft within a certain range around him, the power of the witchcraft finally released is likely to be greatly weakened, far from achieving the expected effect.

And if the witchcraft with corresponding attributes targets Yihua, its powerful energy affinity will greatly reduce the negative effects of the hit, and it may even be used by Yihua.

In addition to weakening the power of witchcraft of the same attribute released by others, greatly increasing the recovery speed of magic power, and making his own magic power nearly unlimited, after a short trial, Yihua also discovered an extremely rare ability -

Harness energy particles.

To put it simply, without consuming magic power, you can rely on the learned witchcraft model to directly use the energy particles with corresponding attributes to form witchcraft through the witchcraft model.

Or these energy particles can be attached to the body surface and turned into energy armor, which greatly increases the destructive power of melee combat, physical defense and speed.

After understanding all this, Yihua quickly calmed down his rapidly beating heart and turned his attention to the third-class life armor.The process of breaking through the third-level life armor also did not cause any disturbance. The moment the sound of breaking through the bottleneck sounded, Yihua gently exhaled a turbid breath.

Then he opened his eyes and briefly tested the defensive capabilities of the fourth-level life armor.

With the help of the sixth-level life affinity and the rich life energy of the Sky Knight, after the breakthrough, the defensive capabilities of the fourth-level life armor have far exceeded Yihua's expectations.

When he was originally enslaving the dead men and horses, he could only resist two dead spears at most.

Even after breaking through the Sky Knight, he thought that he could only resist five or six spears of death at most, and the life armor would exhaust its life energy and break.

And now, in his estimation, he can even easily resist more than ten spears of death, and even resisting fifth-level witchcraft may not be impossible to try!
Even if his life energy is exhausted after this, he can consume nearly endless magic power to completely restore his life energy through the fourth-level holy light technique.

Calculated in this way, under the almost endless circulation of magic and life energy, as long as the enemy cannot kill Yihua with one blow, he can continue to fight until the enemy is exhausted and dies!

Realizing this, Yihua felt certain and gradually gained the confidence to compete with Petain.

In his opinion, although Petain, a fifth-level blood warlock, was powerful, it was still quite difficult to kill him with one blow.

So he once again brought up the golden scroll-like attribute panel——

"Name: Eva Fercis"

"Karma Level: Neutral Good (99/100)"

"Realm: Third-level Necromancer Apprentice (68/84 runes), Sky Knight (4/100)"

「巫师资质：六等生命亲和（100/100），六等死亡亲和（100/100），六等灵魂亲和（100/100）……」

"Skills: Advanced Scroll Making (3/100), Intermediate Magic Crystal Enchanting (95/100)"

"Talent: third-class half-dead witch body (58/100) has fused undead-second-class giant bone skinner, third-class faceless shadow"

「巫术：四等圣光术（3/100），四等生命铠甲（0/100），三等灵魂反哺术（61/100），三等死亡世界穿梭（62/100），四等亡灵奴役（31/100），四等亡灵召唤（11/100），三等死亡之息（49/100），三等亡灵改造术（60/100），二等亡灵转化术（1/100）」

"merit value: 214"

After briefly familiarizing himself with the power after the breakthrough, Yihua walked out of the cabin without stopping and came to the deck again.

He first looked around, and his eyes flickered slightly when he saw that there was no sign of Petain or the fourth-class apprentices fighting with him.

Without talking to the apprentices around him who were gradually starting to look relaxed, he quickly walked towards the ship's cab.

A third-class apprentice who had just become free and was responsible for driving the wizard ship saw Yi Hua and said casually with a happy face:
"Eh? Is it you? The truth is, there is no sign of Petain chasing him yet. Maybe we have successfully gotten rid of that guy!"

Instead of following what the other party said, Yihua said bluntly to the third-class apprentice:
"I'm actually more curious about how that guy Pétain learned the fleet's route in advance and set up an ambush..."

Hearing Yihua's doubts, the third-class apprentice also frowned, seeming to have noticed something strange, and said bluntly:
"This is indeed a bit suspicious. You must know that the fleet's route was decided just before setting off, and it also underwent many changes in route during the voyage. What on earth did that guy Pétain..."

The words of this third-class apprentice made Yi Hua startled.

Without a moment's hesitation, Yihua realized what was strange and reacted quickly and asked:

"You said that the fleet's route was decided upon departure, and that it was changed several times during the journey?"

"That's right. Is there anything wrong with this?"

The middle-aged third-class apprentice didn't react for a while and subconsciously asked.

But Yihua did not answer the other party's doubts. Instead, his heart trembled and his mood suddenly became heavy.

This is because--

He finally remembered what he had missed!
The Nine Rings White Pagoda Branch located in the southeastern part of the Star Tree Islands has several routes through the Sea of ​​Storms to the Nine Rings White Pagoda Main Campus on the mainland.

The fleet's route to the mainland was decided on a temporary basis when it left the branch. Pétain openly betrayed the academy long before the fleet set off.

Moreover, in order to avoid encountering pursuit, the fleet took risks and changed its route many times during the voyage. Even if Pétain knew the fleet's route in advance, it would not have been possible for the fleet to change its route midway and set up an ambush here in advance!

unless--

Pétain or his secret agent is lurking in the fleet!
Therefore, Pétain was able to know the movement of the fleet in advance and set up an ambush in advance!

Suddenly, Yi Hua recalled the previous scene where Pei Dang appeared in the body of the dying fifth-level leader of the Sea Tribe.

"Could it be that--"

boom!
Before he could express his suspicions, an earth-shaking loud noise suddenly came from the ship's cab, accompanied by the screams of a large number of apprentices.

Almost at the same time as he heard the sound, Yihua's figure flashed, flew out of the cab at the fastest speed, and appeared a hundred meters above the ship.

I saw that one thousand meters away from Yi Hua's No. [-] ship, the ship at the front of the fleet was now filled with broken limbs and flames, and had become dilapidated. The few surviving apprentices on its deck jumped into the sea one after another, trying to escape.

And hundreds of meters above the ship, in full view of everyone, a huge and powerful bloody dragon suddenly formed that stretched for nearly a hundred meters.

"The long bloody dragon, this is the power of 'Blood Maker' Petain!"

"Didn't the fleet escape successfully? Am I not having a nightmare?"

As everyone's eyes filled with shock and horror, the ship at the front of the fleet was completely destroyed by the sudden descending blood-colored dragon, and turned into countless fragments and exploded.

Then the scarlet mist generated by the explosion of the long blood dragon mixed with the blood of hundreds of dead apprentices, dyeing the surrounding sea area a bright red.

Before everyone could deny it, a blond boy wearing a red robe appeared in the sky above the destroyed ship, making everyone's mood sink to the bottom again.

"What on earth is going on? Aren't you being held back by a group of senior fourth-level apprentices? Why did you get there so quickly..."

A young first-class apprentice on a ship closer to Petain said in a low voice with a look of despair on his face.

This sentence happened to reach Petain's ears. (End of chapter)