Undead Three Divine Skills

Death City?

Looking at the prompt that popped up, Gu Xi was also startled.

He clearly remembered learning in class that Death City, along with Death Lord and Death Avatar, were collectively known as the Necromancer's opening Three Divine Skills.

[Death Lord: All wild neutral Undead Creatures (excluding Black Knights and Mummies) will join the player's army. The base joining rate is 50%. For each level the Death Lord skill increases, the joining rate increases by 2%.]

It could be said that with the Death Lord skill, if you had no troops on hand, you could just take a spin through a graveyard or an undead-themed game or dungeon, and come back with your army fully replenished. This was even faster than expanding your forces through Summoning.

[Death Avatar: The player can consume all their mana to summon a Death Avatar on the battlefield. The Death Avatar's level is the player's level + 8, and at certain levels, the Death Avatar will come with various different traits.]

For example, at level 1, the Death Avatar has undead creature attributes; at level 5, it has the Curse Attack Special Skill; at level 9, it has the Non-Corporeal Special Skill; at level 13, it has the Death Fear Special Skill (all enemy troops' morale -1); at level 17, it has the Grief Attack Special Skill (target's morale and luck -2 on attack); at level 21, it has the Life Drain Special Skill; and at level 25, it has the Fatal Strike Special Skill.

It could be said that bringing a Death Avatar along was like having a powerful bodyguard by your side, allowing you to basically walk through anything unchallenged.

To be ranked alongside these two impressive skills as one of the Necromancer's opening Three Divine Skills, Death City naturally had its own impressive aspects.

[Death City: The player controls a personal mobile Undead City. The city's Level Cap is the player's level + 8, and at certain levels, Death City will provide support to the player in different ways.]

For example, at level 1, you can open the gates of Death City to allow the Undead Army within to rapidly support the player; at level 5, you can deploy a Summoning Tower on the battlefield to absorb souls and assist the player's Summoning; at level 9, you can directly transport the City Wall and Moat onto the battlefield, and so on.

It could be said that starting with Death City meant this player was practically an invincible existence in large-scale battles.

After all, they could turn a Field Battle into a Siege Warfare at any time.

This was an ultra-powerful skill that tens of thousands of Necromancers might not even be able to randomly roll at the start.

Gu Xi had never even considered encountering such an opportunity when he was class-changing.

In his mind, successfully completing the class-change and returning this time would already count as finishing the mission.

If he could run into Special Skills like Soul Hunter or Resurrection, that would be a bonus.

But now, with one of the Three Divine Skills placed right in front of him, Gu Xi's eyes turned red.

He drew his Scimitar and raised it above his head. "Everyone, concentrate! Prepare to engage!"

At Gu Xi's command, all the skeletons looked toward Gu Xi.

But Gu Xi ignored them for the moment, instead taking out the Ghoul Qi Beads he had recovered earlier from the Skeleton Head and distributing them to the four Skeleton Heads.

"Quickly strengthen yourselves. We have a tough battle ahead. And don't just stand around—go dismantle the nearby buildings and set up Roadblocks. There might be a lot of enemies. Don't let them get close to here."

The Skeleton Heads had originally intended to hand over the Ghoul Qi Beads they had obtained from the previous battle to Gu Xi.

Now that they saw Gu Xi directly issuing the Ghoul Qi Beads, they simply stopped bothering to hand them over. All the skeletons rapidly strengthened their weapons or bodies, and the battle squads that had lost members in the fighting quickly replenished their numbers from the scattered troops.

Only after distributing everything did Gu Xi have a moment to look over his own troops.

He noticed that during the time he had entered the small building, these skeletons had already been through a major battle.

The enemies were of a higher level, but their Combat Experience wasn't much.

Although they weren't as wooden as the Black Robe Cultists they had killed earlier—who only reacted when struck—they weren't far off.

They only attacked enemies that blocked their advance. If you didn't block them, they wouldn't counterattack even if you chopped at them from behind.

At first, the skeletons had stood in front of these Ghoul Shadows, leading to a significant clash that cost them over twenty skeletons.

It was only after they figured out the Ghoul Shadows' attack patterns that their losses gradually decreased.

But the damage already done couldn't be recovered. Most importantly, these Ghoul Shadows left no corpses after death, which rendered many of Gu Xi's methods useless.

After all, many Necromancer skills required corpses to function.

Without corpses, Gu Xi couldn't even use Summoning, let alone his specialty, Corpse Explosion.

Watching the skeletons busily working, Gu Xi's expression turned somewhat grim.

Just then, a strange sound came from the other end of the street.

Gu Xi looked in that direction and saw about three hundred Black Shadows packed tightly together, charging toward them.

These Black Shadows didn't look particularly special at first glance, but Gu Xi could tell from their movements that something was different.

These Black Shadows were clearly more agile, and most of them were holding weapons of some sort.

However, contrary to normal expectations, the weapons in these Black Shadows' hands were actually the limbs of their own kind.

And at the head of this group, there was one Black Shadow noticeably taller than the rest, carrying a Long Spear made from over a dozen arms bound together.

It was clear that this one was the leader of the Black Shadows.

"Battle Squad, get ready. The rest of you skeletons, what are you still standing around for? Finish setting up the Roadblocks."

Gu Xi kept his eyes fixed on the direction and speed of the Black Shadow troops' advance while commanding his men to prepare for battle.

The battle squads that had just absorbed another batch of Ghoul Qi Beads hadn't seen a significant level increase, but their weapons, equipment, and bodies had all changed.

Some of the skeletons even had a bit of armor on them now, not too thick, but present. Especially the four Skeleton Heads—their armor was already quite complete.

From this, it was clear that Gu Xi's skeletons were constantly growing.

"No corpses, huh? Fine. It's just the beginning. As long as I can get started, I don't care if I lose everything this time, as long as I get a Divine Skill."

Gu Xi encouraged himself inwardly, then raised his head and pointed his Scimitar forward.

"Battle Squad 3, Long Spear, advance!"

Under Gu Xi's command, Battle Squad 3 moved forward quickly, stopping at the unfinished Roadblocks.

This battle squad was armed with Long Spears. After halting, they quickly split into two rows, and under the Skeleton Head's direction, leveled their spears at the charging Black Shadows.

"Thrust!"