Enchanted Equipment

Ordinary enchanted equipment could not be used across tiers either. Black Iron-tier professionals could only use Black Iron-tier enchanted equipment.

But even so, such enchanted equipment could provide a startling boost to its owner's strength.

With Huo Ling's current mana—over one hundred and fifty points—casting zero-tier spells was manageable. Factoring in mana recovery, he could cast nearly a hundred of them.

But if he switched to first-tier spells, that number would be drastically reduced. Even if he drained himself dry, he could only cast around ten.

And in battle, he could not exhaust all his mana at once. Once his mana ran out, he would have no means of attack or defense.

His combat strength would not even match that of an apprentice-tier combat professional.

Take the class monitor seated in front of him, Dantai Yishuang, for example.

Her hairpin, necklace, bracelet, bangle, earrings, and that little shoulder bag on her back—who knew what treasures she had stuffed inside? She definitely had a wand, too.

Those pieces of equipment could at least provide her with a dozen or so different spells. From passive protection and active defense to attacks and escape methods, she surely lacked none of them.

How enviable!

Huo Ling listened to the teacher lecturing from the podium while pondering Dantai Yishuang's equipment, wondering what their enchantment properties were.

Dantai Yishuang also possessed decent spiritual power, and she had constantly sensed a pair of eyes staring at her from behind.

That gaze kept roaming over her body, making her furious.

Dantai Yishuang suddenly twisted around. She wanted to see which shameless lecher dared stare at her so brazenly.

At a glance, she saw Huo Ling several rows back looking at her. Dantai Yishuang glared viciously at him for several seconds.

Huo Ling grew so embarrassed under her stare that he could not help giving an awkward laugh. Only then did she turn away and let the matter drop.

The little rich girl was angry!

Huo Ling smacked his lips and no longer dared look at her so openly. Instead, he turned his gaze toward the other students wearing enchanted equipment.

And what he saw was astonishing. In this enormous classroom, among the several hundred new and returning students, whether apprentices or formal Black Iron-tier professionals—

There were quite a few people with enchanted equipment.

It seemed there really were not many people as poor as him.

Huo Ling shook his head helplessly and pulled himself together again.

Though he was poor now, as long as he worked hard, he would become rich.

What was enchanted equipment? When the time came, he would use one and toss one away!

After class, Huo Ling returned to his dormitory, opened the portal, and continued striving in the Spirit Realm.

His foremost goal now was to obtain several skeleton warriors with Black Iron-level strength.

Today, he expanded his hunting range further and created another fifteen skeleton warriors.

However, these skeleton warriors were relatively weak. Usually, after absorbing the corpses of two or three ghouls,

Huo Ling ordered them to stop absorbing and instead drag the ghouls before the five skeleton warriors whose combat strength had reached the peak of the apprentice tier.

That would save those five skeleton warriors the time of searching for ghouls, allowing them to focus single-mindedly on absorbing soul power, flesh-and-blood essence, and bone essence.

The hunting ground Huo Ling chose today was a large office building, more than thirty stories tall.

The interior was spacious as well. Huo Ling and the five skeleton warriors remained in the lobby on the first floor while the skeleton warriors absorbed essence.

Hmm?

At that moment, Huo Ling frowned. Within his perception, his connection to one skeleton warrior had been severed. It seemed it had been killed by a ghoul.

This immediately put Huo Ling on alert. He checked that ghoul's last location, which was in a room on the eighth floor.

Under Huo Ling's spiritual control, several skeleton warriors approached that location.

Through the skeleton warriors, Huo Ling's spiritual power began to spread out, scouting the room.

This place looked like it had once been a large company. After entering, there was a spacious hall. The tables and chairs that had once been neatly arranged were now piled haphazardly around the room.

There were six ghouls in the room, all remaining quietly where they were without any movement.

On the floor lay the bones of that former skeleton warrior. Its skeleton had been torn apart, scattered across the ground in fragments.

Even its sturdiest skull had been smashed open with a large hole.

It seemed the fatal strike had landed there. The soul fire beneath the skull was the skeleton warrior's only weakness.

Having other parts shattered did not matter much to a skeleton warrior. It could still regrow its bones by absorbing the essence of corpses.

But once its soul fire was attacked and extinguished, its life came to an end.

Through his spiritual scan, Huo Ling quickly found the culprit.

A ghoul—a ghoul that appeared quite powerful.

Its muscles were taut, its skin as tough as old cowhide, and there was even a white mark on its chest.

From those details, Huo Ling could already guess how things had unfolded.

This skeleton warrior had probably found these ghouls and intended to kill them before carrying their corpses downstairs. Unexpectedly, it had run into a tough opponent.

It attacked the ghoul before it, but its attack power was too low to even break through the ghoul's defenses. Then, the awakened ghoul tore it apart.

After guessing what had happened, Huo Ling withdrew the other skeleton warriors, leaving only one behind.

He wanted to test it once more.

At his command, the skeleton warrior raised the bone spear in its hand and viciously thrust it into the ghoul's chest.

The attack landed perfectly, but it did little damage. The bone spear failed to break through its defenses.

The awakened ghoul let out an enraged roar! Then Huo Ling saw the skeleton warrior before it suddenly pounce forward.

Its mouth bit down on the skeleton warrior's armor, making the bony plating creak, while its claws raked forcefully, tearing apart all the armor over the skeleton warrior's ribcage.

Before long, the skeleton warrior had been ripped into scattered pieces. Only its skull remained, its jaws still opening and closing repeatedly, until the ghoul smashed in its cranium with a single slap and extinguished its soul fire.

Seeing this, Huo Ling relaxed. This ghoul was quite strong, but it had not reached the terrifying level of the Corpse King he had encountered in the mall last time.

He estimated that this ghoul's strength was around the Black Iron tier.

It could not yet be considered a Corpse King. That was clear from the previous battle—its roar had not awakened the other ghouls.

However, this ghoul's strength was exactly what Huo Ling needed right now.

If he relied on skeleton warriors continually absorbing soul power and flesh-and-blood essence, it would still take a long time for them to advance to the Black Iron tier.

Wasn't the ghoul before him excellent material for making a Black Iron-tier skeleton warrior?