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"Get lost!"

Gu Xi, already irritated by the appearance of the Royal Spy, grew angry as he watched the Black Robe Cultists surge toward him. Without a second thought, he pointed at the few Black Robe Cultist corpses lying nearby that hadn't been dealt with yet.

"Corpse Explosion, Corpse Explosion, another Corpse Explosion...!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Under the effect of Gu Xi's Lesser Corpse Explosion, many of the charging Black Robe Cultists were blasted into the air.

Luna understood Gu Xi's intentions best. Seeing him strike without restraint, she flew to the front line of the battle and unleashed three waves of Banshee's Wail at the Black Robe Cultists who were still alive.

The power and range of Corpse Explosion combined with Banshee's Wail were immense. In an instant, most of the charging Black Robe Cultists were dead or wounded.

A flood of kill notifications flashed across Gu Xi's vision like a screen refresh.

[Kill Cultist (Lv.2), gained 11 points of experience. Due to combined kill, Contract Undead gained 8 points of experience.]

[Elite Cultist Kill (Lv.2), gained 9 points of experience. Due to combined kill, Contract Undead gained 19 points of experience.]

[Kill Cultist (Lv.2), gained 13 points of experience. Due to combined kill, Contract Undead gained 10 points of experience.]

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[Ding, total experience has reached the upgrade threshold. Please choose whether to level up.]

[Kill Cultist (Lv.2), gained 15 points of experience (11 points overflow stored). Due to combined kill, Contract Undead gained 10 points of experience.]

[Elite Cultist Kill (Lv.2), gained 19 points of experience (19 points overflow stored). Due to combined kill, Contract Undead gained 20 points of experience.]

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This situation made Gu Xi pause in his actions. He hadn't expected this wave to be so bountiful that it would push him straight to leveling up.

[After leveling up, your level will increase to Lv.2, fully restoring HP and MP, clearing all negative statuses, Intelligence +1, and you may choose one of the following three skills as a reward.]

[Dark Knowledge: Passive Skill, upgradeable. Upon mastery, allows learning of Dark Magic. As the skill level increases, the power of Dark Magic will also increase.]

[Meditation Practice: Passive Skill, upgradeable. Upon mastery, allows learning of Meditation Technique. As the skill level increases, the difficulty of learnable meditation techniques will also increase.]

[Undead Domination: Passive Skill, upgradeable. Upon mastery, strengthens all undead contracted, summoned, or created by the Necromancer. When raising the dead, there is a higher chance (5%) of generating special undead.]

Gu Xi glanced at the level-up prompt, then checked his remaining mana—still 400 points. At this, he burst into laughter instead.

"Luna, push forward!"

Luna looked back at Gu Xi and saw him advancing alongside the Battle Squad, gathering mana as he walked. She knew he had made up his mind.

Without overthinking it, Luna immediately pressed forward. After advancing about ten meters, she opened her mouth and let out a Banshee's Wail, startling the four to five hundred Black Robe Cultists still standing before the Abandoned Gate.

After letting out that cry, Luna quickly turned back and closed in on Gu Xi's side.

The Battle Squad beside Gu Xi swiftly moved forward, meeting the four to five hundred Black Robe Cultists head-on.

Just before the two sides clashed, Gu Xi, who was in the middle of raising the dead, shifted his spell and pointed at the corpses lying in front of the Black Robe Cultists that hadn't been raised yet.

"Corpse Explosion!"

Gu Xi poured all his remaining mana into a single burst. This time, it wasn't just two or three Lesser Corpse Explosions—it was over eighty of them.

At first, Gu Xi targeted the corpses on the ground, but soon he was pointing directly at the Black Robe Cultists blasted into the air, triggering explosions on them as well.

With one Lesser Corpse Explosion after another, the entire Underground Space was jolted awake. More and more Black Robe Cultists rose from where they stood and charged into the range of Gu Xi's explosions.

After draining the last trace of his mana, Gu Xi stepped back and reached out toward the spot where the chain of explosions had occurred.

Under his gesture, a large number of white light particles flew into his hand.

Soul Extraction.

Having exhausted all his mana, Gu Xi's face was now somewhat pale. Standing behind the white light particles he had drawn in, he exuded an eerie aura.

Once the white light particles gathered together, Gu Xi didn't synthesize these Soul Shards into Complete Souls as he had before. Instead, he twisted his hand, and the Soul Shards automatically collided with one another.

Then, without keeping these Complete Souls or any of the corpses, Gu Xi pressed both hands downward, and the Complete Souls fell like raindrops onto the bodies that had just been blown to death.

"Level up, choose Undead Domination, raise the dead! Get up for me!"

As a flash of golden light flickered across Gu Xi's body, his depleted mana was instantly refilled, along with his HP and status.

[Name: Gu Xi Game Number: 629SHD2S0FXC30 Class: Necromancer Level: Lv.2 (2356/5000) Talent: Not Activated]

Status: HP (310/310, Hungry), MP (550/550)

Attributes: STR 3.2, AGI 3.3, CON 3.1, INT 5.5, PER 3.7, CHA 3.6

Class Skills: Summoning Lv1 (36/100), Lesser Corpse Explosion Lv2 (17/200), Lesser Bone Shield Lv1 (3/100)

Active Skills: Throwing Lv2 (61/200)

Passive Skills: Undead Knowledge Lv3, Undead Pact Lv1, Magic Knowledge Lv4, Basic Science Lv3, Basic Reading Lv2, Basic Writing Lv2, Undead Domination Lv1.

After a quick glance at his new level status, Gu Xi shifted his focus to the Summoning spell he had just cast.

As white specks of light rained down onto the corpses like droplets, the bodies that had already been blown apart once exploded again.

This time, however, the blast was far less powerful—it merely shredded the corpses into bloody pulp.

From the flying flesh and gore, one skeleton after another crawled out of the carnage.

At the same time, a stream of notifications appeared before Gu Xi.

[You have successfully used Summoning. Obtained a Skeleton (Lv0). Summoning Experience +1. Undead Domination automatically strengthened. Assigned to Battle Squad. Squad member count +1.]

[You have successfully used Summoning. Obtained a Skeleton (Lv0). Summoning Experience +1. Undead Domination automatically strengthened. Assigned to Battle Squad. Squad member count +1.]

[Summoning failed. Summoning Experience +1.]

[You have successfully used Summoning. Obtained a Skeleton Head (Lv0). Summoning Experience +1. Undead Domination automatically strengthened. New Battle Squad created. Battle Squad member cap: 35.]

[You have successfully used Summoning. Obtained a Skeleton Warrior (Lv0). Summoning Experience +1. Undead Domination automatically strengthened. Assigned to new Battle Squad. Squad member count +1.]

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