One skill point per second, I turn fireballs into forbidden spells.

Chapter 59 Evolution into an Eighth-Tier Necromancer! Limitless Growth!

Lin Yi looked through all eight skills and quickly grasped the characteristics of the entire Necromancer skill set.

The Necromancer skill set has very distinctive design features compared to other skill sets.

Firstly, from the first to the eighth tier, there are as many as five summoning spells.

The range is very wide, from the most ordinary skeleton minions to the Scourge Lord.

Therefore, the characteristic of the Necromancer system is that there are many people!
Outnumbered, they all dared to fight!
Even the lowest-level skeleton soldiers have one invincible advantage over other summoned creatures.

That is, they have no thoughts of their own, no intelligence.

They only know how to follow orders.

Naturally, there will be no unnecessary fear or hesitation!

A summon that is fearless, unaffected by psychological factors, and capable of unleashing its full combat power—that's the terror of the Scourge!
What really caught Lin Yi's eye were three of the skills.

First is the fifth-tier skill, [Rune Infusion].

[Rune Infusion]

[Type: Active Skills]

[Rank: Fifth Rank]

[Department: Necromancer]

[Cost: 8000 Mana]

[Chanting Time: None]

[Cooling time: None]

[Effect: By studying the power of necromancy runes, imbue a weapon with a unique necromancy enchantment.]

[Blood Rune: Enchant a melee weapon, granting it the following effect: When an attack hits, 5% of the damage dealt is converted into health regeneration.]

[Plague Rune: Enchants a ranged weapon, granting it the following effect: On hit, there is a 60% chance to inflict the Plague status on the target, causing them to lose 0.5% of their maximum health per second for 10 seconds. This effect can stack up to 10 times, but its effectiveness is reduced against enemies in higher tiles.]

[Cursed Rune: Enchants any type of weapon, granting it the following effect: On hit, there is a 10% chance to inflict one of the following abnormal statuses on the target: Weakness Curse, Exhaustion Curse, Blindness Curse, Choking Curse, Vulnerability Curse.]

[Weakness Curse: Reduces the target's all attributes by 10% and movement speed by 25%.]

[Fatigue Curse: Increases the cost of all spells cast by the target by 50%.]

[Blinding Curse: Reduces the target's attack hit rate by 15%.]

[Choke Curse: Increases the casting time of all the target's abilities by 30%.]

[Vulnerability Curse: Reduces the target's armor and magic resistance by 20%, and increases all damage taken by 10%.]

[Note: This enchantment effect is exclusive and can be stacked with regular enchantment effects. The duration of the above three rune enchantment effects is 72 hours.]

These three enchantment effects are all incredibly useful.

Don't say anything else.

If Lin Yi wants to make money in the future, he won't even need to fight monsters or sell goods anymore.

Just setting up an enchanting stall in the downtown area.

It's estimated that the city will be packed with customers.

One enchantment lasts for three days, so charging you 58,800 is reasonable, right?

Besides this skill that could give Lin Yi another source of income in the future, the seventh-tier [Corpse Explosion Technique] is also terrifyingly powerful.

Corpse Explosion Technique

[Type: Active Skills]

Rank: Seven

[Department: Necromancer]

[Cost: 10% of maximum health]

[Cast Time: Instant]

[Cooling time: None]

[Effect: Detonates a corpse, dealing dark damage equal to 20% of the corpse's original maximum health to all targets within a large area around the corpse.]

If other corpses are present within the area detonated by the Corpse Explosion spell, a chain reaction will be triggered, causing all corpses within the area to explode, dealing additional dark damage equal to 20% of the original maximum health of each corpse.

[Note: Don't waste a good corpse, and don't squander a bad one either.]

This skill is very sinister.

The first thing consumed is not mana.

It was Lin Yi's own maximum health.

Using Corpse Explosion once will reduce your health by 10%. Furthermore, a hidden condition for casting it is that there must be a corpse present.

However, the skill effect is incredibly overpowered.

Detonate the corpse, dealing damage to monsters within range based on a percentage of the corpse's maximum health before death.

And it will also trigger a chain reaction.

For some people who particularly enjoy summoning minions.

For example, a combination like the Goblin King and his Royal Guard can kill a few elite goblins in the Royal Guard and then use Corpse Explosion to kill the rest of the Goblin Royal Guard.

Then the royal guard goblins who were killed in the explosion also turned into corpses, and the chain of explosions continued.

The goblin king, finally protected in the center, will likely be killed by his most loyal subordinate...

As for the last sentence in the skill notes...

It's a complete joke from hell.

Don't waste good corpses. You mean you can see a corpse with decent potential and use the fourth-tier spell [Resurrection] to revive it and use it as a summoned creature, right?

The rotten corpse was simply blown up, leaving no trace of its remains!
Finally, the eighth-tier skill [Summon: Necromancer Lord] is even more of a heavyweight.

The skill descriptions are all very simple.

There is only one, which summons the Necromancer Lord to fight for you.

Since it hasn't been used in practice, we have no idea how strong it is.

After reading these eight skills.

Lin Yi glanced again at the name of the forbidden spell of the necromancy school.

[Skill points required to upgrade to the next tier: 100 million]

Forbidden Spell: Styx Funeral

The name itself sounds sinister.

Lin Yi then took a look at the modified version of this necromantic eighth-tier skill.

[Skill points required to evolve this skill: 50]

[Currency required to evolve this skill: 100 million Xia Coins]

[Evolved Skill: Summon: Lord of Calamity!]

Unlike the advancement of forbidden spells, in the preview of the upgraded skills, Lin Yi can only see the name of the next-tier skill, but cannot see the specific effects.

However, Lin Yi had already obtained the eighth-tier necromancy skill.

Naturally, it's possible to view the evolved eighth-tier skills and their specific effects.

Command the Calamities, Necromancer Lord

[Type: Active Skills]

[Rank: Eighth Rank]

[Department: Necromancer]

[Cost: 99999 Mana]

[Chanting time: 180 seconds]

[Cooldown Time: Permanent]

[Passive Effect: With supreme authority, command all undead creatures of royal rank and below, with no limit on their number.]

[You have gained a 1-cubic-meter necromancy summoning space. All necromancy creatures under your command will recuperate and thrive within this space. As you specialize in and master this skill, this space will continue to expand.]

[Your Tier 4 skill: Resurrection of the Dead has evolved! You can now select any dead creature with a rank no higher than Emperor, infuse it with necromantic energy, and make it your summon. This summon will retain a certain percentage of its original attributes and all its skills.]

[Active Effect: Summons the true ruler of the Scourge to descend upon the world. This summoned creature is completely under your command, and this skill will permanently expire upon its death.]

[This summon's initial level is LV.1, and its initial rank is Lord. When fighting with this summon, the experience gained from defeating monsters will be distributed to the summon according to the ratio you set.]

This summoned creature initially possesses a Black Iron-grade upgradeable weapon: Soul Elegy.

[After this summoned creature kills a monster, Soul Elegy will harvest a certain percentage of the monster's health, mana, and four main attributes, adding these to the weapon's base stats.]

As the summoned creature's level increases and its rank advances, new active and passive skills will be unlocked.

[Note: My child, on the day you were born, the whole world whispered your name.]

Lin Yi was dumbfounded.

Holy crap, we really need a Lich King now!
And it's infinitely scalable!

(End of this chapter)