EFB Chapter 375 Skeleton Warhorse, Deducing the [Corpse Explosion Technique]!
Chapter 375 Skeleton Warhorse, Deducing the [Corpse Explosion Technique]!
Chapter 375 Skeleton Warhorse, Deducing the [Corpse Explosion Technique]!
Fangzhou looked at the projection on the screen again and continued, "The third point is the deduction and improvement of the skeletal skills."
Previously, I was honored with the title of Bone Mentor by Master Sandru, and I naturally cannot let Master Sandru down.
The Skeleton skill set includes various skills such as Skeleton Spear, Skeleton Shield, Skeleton Shackles, and Skeleton Wings, covering elements such as attack, defense, control, and movement.
In addition to the undead army summoned by the necromancer, it also greatly supplements the necromancer's frontal combat power.
I'm now devoting a huge amount of my energy to upgrading all my apprentice-level skeletal skills to the Black Iron rank.
"I might need Sylvanas's help with this part."
Sylvanas replied without hesitation, "No problem, Ark boss."
Since you uploaded these skeletal skills to the Human Union skill library, I have been downloading and learning them in a timely manner, and I have already gained a certain level of proficiency.
I will collect relevant skill materials and knowledge reserves for you according to your instructions, so that you can continue to deduce and improve.
Sylvanas's obedience and competence pleased Ark greatly.
He nodded and said, "Thank you very much for your support, Sylvanas."
With your help, I believe our research will progress much faster.
Fang Zhou thought for a moment, then pulled out the Corrosive Touch and Corrosive Web skills he had previously exchanged from the Human Alliance skill library.
Plague Explosion and other Corruption-based Necromancer skills.
As he demonstrated the spell structure of the corruption and poison skills that these necromancers originally possessed, he said, "In addition, I have another idea recently."
During my meditation a few days ago, I gained a deeper understanding of the zombie race's innate skill, "Corpse Poison Incarnation".
I think these insights can be applied to the development and refinement of the Corruption/Poison skill tree.
Fangzhou continued, "Death and putrefaction are one and the same."
Therefore, we necromancers can easily use the energy of the Corruption attribute to create damage, strengthen our undead creatures, or cast curses on the enemy.
Fortunately, the previous necromancer also deduced some corruption and poison skills, which I can use as a reference.
I'm going to spend some time figuring out if I can develop my own Corrosive Poison skills.
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Sylvanas asked, somewhat puzzled, "But Ark, do you have any initial ideas yet?"
Fangzhou organized his thoughts and replied, "For example, the Corruption Aura could enhance the Corruption damage of undead creatures."
"A wide-range offensive poison cloud technique" or "Violent Nova".
"Even the Rot Curse, which uses the energy of putrefactive poison to weaken the enemy's defenses."
"And there's the Corpse Explosion skill that I believe could become one of our core skills if we could deduce it."
Before Sylvanas could even speak after Fangzhou uttered these words, Master Sandru, who had been listening quietly to the side, suddenly became interested.
He asked, "Corpse Explosion? What does that mean?"
Fangzhou explained, "Master Sandru, I got this inspiration from the skill 'Plague Explosion'."
The effect of "Plague Explosion" is to directly create a ball of putrid energy that damages a large area of enemies.
Its advantages are that the damage is quite noticeable and the attack range is very large.
However, the drawbacks are also obvious.
Its casting speed is very slow, making it easy for others to dodge or create shields to defend against.
It deals significant damage to physical targets, but its penetration through energy shields is very weak.
Fangzhou continued, "Therefore, I thought about how to deduce and improve this skill."
The skeletal skill set gave me some inspiration.
If I could combine the skeletal and putrefactive elements, using the corpses scattered across the battlefield as a medium for casting spells, I could condense the unique skeletal and putrefactive energy of necromancers and then create a violent explosion.
Not only will the casting time be shortened rapidly, but the attack effect will also be difficult to defend against.
If a physical body is used as a medium for casting spells, energy dissipation will be greatly reduced, and the damage caused will naturally increase significantly.
Upon hearing Fang Zhou's words, both Master Sandru and Instructor Su Xinyan showed expressions of shock.
The reason is simple: Ark's idea is far too far-fetched, and even somewhat chilling.
Imagine that on the battlefield between humans and demons, the corpses of demons scattered everywhere could become cannonballs and explosives in the hands of necromancers.
Seeing the corpse of one's companion used as a weapon to attack oneself, even the most chaotic and evil abyssal demon would feel immense fear deep within its heart.
Master Sandru said with a sigh, "Your Dragon Xia Federation has an old saying: 'The Yangtze River's back waves push the front waves forward.'"
I truly feel that now.
Fangzhou, although what you just said was only a preliminary idea, based on my experience, I can sense that your idea has a high chance of success.
The Plague Explosion skill was something I had previously deduced, and I have some insights into it.
If you're willing, I can assist you in researching the Corpse Explosion skill.
Just like you said, if we can successfully fuse skeletal energy and putrefactive energy into one, and use the enemy's corpse to cast Corpse Explosion, then it will be an extremely crucial core skill for all of us necromancers.
With this divine skill as a foundation, perhaps we necromancers could become true grim reapers on the battlefield, overcoming our previous weakness in combat.
As a Gold-rank necromancer, Master Sandru actually offered to help Ark deduce the Corpse Explosion spell, which Ark naturally couldn't ask for.
He continued, "Thank you for Master Sandru's trust and support."
I will do my best to advance this research and strive to achieve a breakthrough as soon as possible.
In addition, I have a few preliminary ideas that I hope you will listen to.
He pulled up some of his previous research notes and explained in detail: "First of all, I think the key to the Corpse Explosion technique is how to quickly convert the enemy's corpse into an energy source."
This requires us to perfectly fuse skeletal energy and putrefactive energy to form a stable energy core.
Specifically, we can try to channel these two energies into the enemy's corpse through special runes and spells, making it a temporary energy storage device.
Once the energy reaches a critical point, it can be detonated through a specific trigger mechanism, releasing enormous destructive power.
Fangzhou continued, "Secondly, we need to design an efficient detonation mechanism to ensure that we can accurately detonate the enemy's corpse at critical moments to cause maximum damage."
This mechanism must not only react quickly, but also be able to precisely control the blast radius to avoid friendly fire.
We can draw upon existing magical traps and mechanisms to design a flexible and versatile detonation system.
"Finally, we also need to consider how to quickly collect and utilize enemy corpses on the battlefield, which involves a series of auxiliary skills and tactical coordination."
Fangzhou added, "For example, we could develop a skill specifically designed to collect enemy bodily fluids and tissues and rapidly convert these materials into an energy source."
At the same time, an effective battlefield cleanup mechanism needs to be designed to ensure that the remaining corpses can be disposed of quickly after the battle, preventing the enemy from using these resources to counterattack us.
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After listening, Master Sandru nodded in agreement: "Your thinking is very clear, and these ideas are very feasible."
We can start from these aspects and gradually advance the research.
I will share my experience and insights from previous simulations of the Plague Explosion skill with you, hoping it will be helpful.
After exchanging some preliminary ideas about the Corpse Explosion Technique with Master Sandru, Fangzhou felt even more confident in successfully deriving the technique.
At this moment, Master Sandru smiled and said, "Ark, after listening to your research plans, I am even more excited about the future of us necromancers."
Don't worry, both I and my little apprentice will unconditionally support your research projects.
Whatever arrangements you make for us, as long as they benefit us necromancers, we will carry them out unconditionally.
Of course, while you were working hard, we weren't slacking off either.
Sylvanas, show the Ark the results of our research project over this period.
Upon hearing this, Fang Zhou and Su Xinyan couldn't help but feel a bit curious.
Master Sandru, as the strongest necromancer among humans, is certainly not someone who lives up to his reputation.
Besides being famous for his archaeological excavations of the Naraku civilization ruins, Master Sandru also frequently innovates and continuously develops and improves the necromancer skill tree.
Now that he was so solemnly having his elven female apprentice introduce their latest scientific research results to Fangzhou, it naturally aroused Fangzhou's curiosity.
Sylvanas stood up, opened her personal terminal, projected it onto the screen, and then said to Fang Zhou and Su Xinyan, "Please take a look, you two."
Recently, under the guidance of our teacher, we successfully improved a universal spell for necromancers: [Summon Mage Mount].
Fangzhou looked up at the projection Sylvanas was displaying on the screen and asked curiously, "Summon a mage mount?"
Isn't this a common skill for Black Iron-level mages?
What does it have to do with us necromancers?
When Sylvanas talked about her area of expertise, her previously stern face immediately became lively.
She pointed with some pride to the projection of the spell structure on the screen and said, "Look."
Although the summoner's mount has the word "summon" in its name, it is completely different from the summoning skills of our necromancers.
It is actually a random summoning contract.
With the help of magic provided by a sorcerer, a mount-like creature is randomly summoned in a multidimensional space centered on a mythological world.
According to the contract between the two parties, the mage's mount cannot directly participate in the battle, but only provides the mage with a means of transportation.
Of course, as the mage's level increases, the summoner's mount also gains corresponding advanced skills that can provide the mage with corresponding spellcasting buffs.
For example, the Gold-tier Celestial Steed can provide magic users with benefits such as reduced mana consumption, increased spell success rate, and mana shield.
Although they themselves won't participate in the battle, the combat power boost from a high-level mage's mount shouldn't be underestimated.
Sylvanas paused for a moment, then continued, "Of course, what kind of mage mount a mage can randomly summon depends mainly on his energy attribute."
For example, a mage with the nature attribute is more likely to summon a mage mount with the nature attribute.
Fire-attribute mages are more likely to summon fire-attribute mage mounts.
As necromancers, we naturally find it easier to summon undead mage mounts.
At this point, Sylvanas looked up at Fangzhou and Su Xinyan and continued, "Based on the research of Mentor Sandru during this period, we have successfully developed a spell structure for summoning a fixed Black Iron-level undead mount."
At the Black Iron tier, undead skeletal warhorses possess the advantages of undead creatures.
Unaffected by morale, maintains undead mindset, immune to negative mind control effects, and can achieve infinite stamina as long as energy supply is guaranteed.
Compared to other living mage mounts with different attributes summoned by other mages, the skeletal warhorse we summon is an extremely high-quality mage mount.
This is true not only for us necromancers, but also for other classes.
Fangzhou nodded, naturally understanding the deeper meaning behind Sylvanas's words.
He had deeply felt this when he participated in the selection of seed students for the hunt in Cave 1.
At that time, even though his physique was far superior to that of his fellow mages, he still felt a deep sense of exhaustion after the continuous battles and long journeys.
Before the recent recruit skills competition, instructors at Haicheng Military Academy subjected the participating soldiers to hellish physical and mental training.
The ultimate goal is to enhance the participants' battlefield adaptability and endurance in combat.
The Summon Mage Mount skill, a common skill for magic users, was developed by the pioneering professionals of the Human Alliance to help physically fragile magic users conserve their stamina and energy in complex and ever-changing battlefield environments, allowing them to fully engage in combat at any time.
However, the mage mounts summoned by ordinary mage classes, while each has its own advantages and disadvantages, are all living beings after all.
Therefore, they are affected by cold weather, need food to sustain their life activities, feel tired from long hours of work, and even develop fear when facing powerful enemies.
These limitations mean that they cannot fully meet the needs of mages in certain situations.
In stark contrast, the skeletal warhorses, as undead creatures, do not have any of the aforementioned problems.
They do not feel cold or hungry, nor do they slow down due to fatigue, nor do they flee from battle out of fear.
If Sylvanas's statement is true, then it means they have successfully created a version of the summon mount skill specifically for necromancers.
This is undoubtedly great news for necromancers.