Advancement

The group of four first approached the Undead Andar.

The guy was still fiddling with his bone collection, seemingly conducting some kind of research. As soon as he saw the four of them approaching, Andar immediately stood up.

"Oh my, isn't this the ultimate survivor I admire most? You're back so soon?"

"This should be the holy emblem you wanted," Xiao Yu said, handing over the emblem in his hand.

"Well done, you're quite fast." Andar said in an exaggerated tone as he took the holy emblem. "Looks like you must have been a formidable character in life, even in death you're still useful."

He nodded in satisfaction, his gaze falling on the holy emblem in his hand. A hint of surprise appeared on his face; the emblem bore the symbol of scales. "It's a Priest of the God of Order. It seems the Light faction is already aware of our plans. We must speed things up now."

Xiao Yu ignored Andar's mutterings and asked directly, "So what about what we agreed on before?"

The agreed-upon topic was naturally advancing to a higher level.

Andar said, "Oh, I almost forgot, then, accept the great blessing of the great Nerull, Lord of Death."

As Andar spoke, he waved his bone staff, and four beams of black light fell upon the four people.

Xiao Yu could feel a strange energy flowing into his body. This energy was incredibly cold, but once it entered his body, he felt a strange sense of comfort, as if he had drunk ten bottles of energy drinks, and his whole body was full of power.

"This negative energy is your reward. Absorbing and transforming it completely will be enough for you to evolve into a new form."

[System notification: You have received Nerull's Gift. You can check the spell's effects in the status bar.]

Xiao Yu immediately opened the status bar.

[Nerull's Gift: Your body is filled with powerful Undead energy, enough to allow your form to evolve. Please select the form you wish to evolve into and click on that status to advance.]

Xiao Yu clicked on the buff, and a list of upgrade options immediately popped up.

Optional Advancement 1: Skeleton Warrior. The Skeleton Warrior is an advanced form of the Skeleton Soldier, possessing a more robust body and greater strength. Although essentially not much different from the Skeleton Soldier, the Skeleton Warrior can transform the absorbed death energy into its exoskeleton or use it to strengthen its existing skeletal system, improving its survivability and combat efficiency on the battlefield. Skeleton Warrior are the backbone of the Undead army.

Upon advancement, you will gain: +2 to health growth, +0.3 to strength growth, +0.1 to agility growth, and +0.2 to bone hardness growth.

You can use necromantic power to condense an exoskeleton, increasing your defense and attack power, or use necromantic power to strengthen your body's skeleton. Evolution bonus: Exoskeleton +1.

Optional Advancement 2: Skeleton Swordsman. Skeleton Swordsmen are Undead Warrior have gained more combat skills. They are unwilling to give up their past and constantly dig into their past memories, gradually recalling their battle memories from their previous lives. Because they focus on developing their skills, their bodies are not much different from their past selves. However, more combat skills allow them to better exert their abilities in battle.

Health growth +1, Strength growth +0.2, Agility growth +0.3, Bone hardness growth +0.1.

Memory Fragments can be activated using necromantic power, or used to enhance existing combat skills. Evolution reward: Memory Fragments +1.

Looking at these two advancements, Xiao Yu was caught in a dilemma. It seemed that the Skeleton Warrior and the Skeleton Swordsman were taking completely different paths. One was to strengthen its own attributes and improve its three dimensions, which was obviously a tank route. This route should be very simple because the attributes are high and the margin for error is also higher. Of course, the upper limit of performance is limited.

The other is to delve into past memories to gain more combat skills, which should be a DPS route. Although still fragile, it can cause huge damage if used well.

After thinking it over, Xiao Yu decided to advance to Skeleton Swordsman. After all, he already had Big Water Cunt, so there was no point in being tankier. Besides, if he encountered Priest who could Dispel, being tankier wouldn't make a difference.

Xiao Yu chose to advance to the Skeleton Swordsman level, and in an instant, a flash of black light appeared on his body.

The power of death within him rapidly flowed throughout his body, impacting the Soul Fire within his skull.

After he completely digested the power of death, he found that his body had undergone some obvious changes. His originally pale bones were now as smooth as porcelain. Although they still looked fragile, they were at least much more presentable. At the same time, he gained another Memory Fragments in his skill bar.

Xiao Yu activated the Memory Fragments directly.

Then suddenly another memory appeared in my mind.

Skill Name: Parry Counter

Skill Description: Increases your parry ability by 1, and allows you to immediately launch a counterattack after parrying an attack.

"This skill seems pretty good," Xiao Yu thought to himself, imagining the specific effects of Parry Counter.

Meanwhile, the other three also completed their advancements.

The Big Water Cunt evolves into a zombie. After evolving, it gains an Enrage skill, which grants a short-term boost to movement speed and strength.

In addition, there is an extra skill called Corpse Poison. After biting an enemy, it will inflict a Corpse Poison effect on the target, causing continuous loss of health. Moreover, if the target dies while poisoned, it will turn into a new zombie.

Furthermore, the zombies' health regeneration speed has been greatly increased, and the best part is that zombies cannot die unless their heads are destroyed.

After listening to Big Water Cunt's self-introduction, Xiao Yu thought to himself, "No wonder they all want to advance to the zombie level; they do look very tough and domineering."

Chenghong Moli changed her class to Ghost. Xiao Yu originally wanted her to change her class to Shadow so she could be a perfect observer recording his game progress. However, after playing as a Ghost for a while, Chenghong Moli seemed to have grown to like the game, so she decided to play with Xiao Yu. Shadow has no combat ability, which is safe, but leveling up is difficult.

So after much deliberation, Chenghong Moli decided to abandon the Shadow build and go for the Control build instead. In the end, she chose the Demon as her advancement between the Fairy and the Demon, and after advancing to the Demon, she gained two new skills.

The first is the Curse skill, which can Curse a target, causing their thinking to be disturbed and resulting in various terrifying hallucinations.

The second is the Possession skill, which allows you to possess the body of a biological target (humanoid creatures only) and control its actions.

Furthermore, evil spirits can advance to become Mind Flayers, which are powerful Undead capable of remotely controlling creatures for their own use, making them extremely formidable.

As for the Sword of the Fallen Angel, to Xiao Yu's surprise, it actually evolved into a Sword of the Fallen Angel Mage.

After advancing, he only learned one skill: Flame Missiles.

According to the description of the Sword of the Fallen Angel, the Skeleton Mage will randomly receive one level 1 offensive spell (choose one from Flame Missiles, Frostbolt, Charged Bolt, Magic Missile, and Acid Splash).

"Holy crap, how did you change jobs? Why don't I have this advancement option?" Xiao Yu asked in surprise.

Although he only learned one spell, the Skeleton Mage's spell is a biological specialty, not a spell, so it doesn't consume spell slots and is very practical. Moreover, there are definitely enough cannon fodder among the Undead, and the skeletons with ranged attacks can hide behind the cannon fodder and output damage safely. That's just too easy and carefree, no wonder Xiao Yu is envious.

The Sword of the Fallen Angel laughed smugly, "Haha, that's because I'm a beta tester. You know, the skeleton's advancement options are closely related to its previous profession and experiences."

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "I thought of that a long time ago, but as far as I know, the skeleton's previous job descriptions don't include any professions related to magic."