CHAPTER 66: CHAPTER 66: EXTREME ENHANCEMENT [SKELETON SHIELD]

Meng Hongzhuang rummaged through her bag and handed a stack of messy materials to Fang Zhou, saying, "My initial thought was that since skeletons are a type of undead creature that values quantity over quality, is there a way through some skills to transform the numerical advantage of masses of skeletons into a quality advantage for certain individuals?

We Natural Summoners have similar skills.

However, transforming it into a skill suitable for undead creatures is indeed very difficult."

Fang Zhou quickly browsed through Meng Hongzhuang’s drafts, and his eyes suddenly brightened.

He had already roughly understood Meng Hongzhuang’s concept.

If you summon 100 skeletons and use a certain skill to make each skeleton sacrifice part of its attributes, all added to a skeleton leader.

Then, the individual combat power of this skeleton leader would be greatly enhanced, thus solving the problem that the Sea of Bones Skill lacks strong individuals.

Though this is just a preliminary idea, the skill materials are not yet complete, and the attribute panel currently doesn’t show any "inference skill" hints.

Nevertheless, Fang Zhou had a premonition that this idea was absolutely feasible.

Thus, he sincerely encouraged, "Hongzhuang, your idea is very good.

Besides the profession skills of the Natural Summoner, you can also refer to similar skills from other professions.

Additionally, Instructor Su Xinyan, as a Golden Tier Undead Mage, can give you a lot of inspiration.

After all, creating new skills from scratch is definitely very challenging.

You only need to provide inspiration and direction; leave the specific inference work to me."

Meng Hongzhuang nodded firmly.

She glanced at Bai Xiaochan, who looked rather pleased, and silently made up her mind.

To lose face but not self-respect, how could she let Bai Xiaochan ride over her and flaunt?!

Feeling the explosive atmosphere between the two little assistants, Fang Zhou was inwardly delighted yet spoke kindly, "Xiaochan, Hongzhuang, you both are my wings.

If one day the Undead Mage profession can successfully rise, your names will absolutely not be missing from the honor roll."

To Fang Zhou, instilling value, painting visions, PKU — these talents came effortlessly to him.

Bai Xiaochan and Meng Hongzhuang, these two innocent assistants, had never seen such tricks?

They were soon inspired by Fang Zhou, their blood boiling, eager to devote themselves to the great cause of revitalizing the Undead Mage profession immediately.

Seeing the timing was just right, Fang Zhou assigned Bai Xiaochan a new task to research control skills and then left the research lab.

On the way back to the dorm, Fang Zhou couldn’t help but feel a sense of relief.

Initially, inviting Bai Xiaochan as a project assistant was simply to better aid his own cultivation.

This was purely a casual move.

But now, it seems, it saves him a lot of time and energy and even brings unexpected surprises.

Indeed, good deeds are rewarded!

...

Back in the dormitory, Fang Zhou opened his personal terminal and browsed through the Human Alliance skill library.

The 12 powerful shield skills listed by Bai Xiaochan had received full endorsement from Instructors Su Xinyan and Lu Hu, both Golden Tier experts.

It could be said that each belongs to the top tier of magic professional skills.

Now, he had to seriously consider absorbing the essence of these shield skills to enhance the Skeleton Shield.

After deliberating for a long time and combining his own combat experience in the simulation battlefield, Fang Zhou made up his mind.

Firstly, [Telekinesis Shield] can effectively defend against indirect attacks; it’s a must.

Secondly, [Frost Shield] comes with slowing and even freezing effects; it’s a must.

Then, [Thorn Shield] has counter-damage effects on physical attacks; it’s a must.

Finally, [Mirror Shield Skill] has a chance to reflect magic attacks; it’s a must.

At the apprentice stage, if [Skeleton Shield] can possess these four magic effects, it would already be quite perfect.

After confirming the skill materials, Fang Zhou immediately exchanged these four shield skills on his personal terminal.

His contribution points were still plentiful, and to better improve the inference effect, Fang Zhou even exchanged for the [Skill Insights] of these four skills.

At a full price of 80 contribution points, through the public reimbursement process, Fang Zhou only had to pay 40 contribution points.

"Detection shows there are sufficient skill materials to perfect the skill, expected to consume 80 Soul Power points."

"Would you like to perfect it?"

Over the past week, Fang Zhou’s time controlling skeleton clones for combat leveled up significantly, speeding up the accumulation of Soul Power.

After silently confirming, 80 Soul Power points were quickly consumed, and the magic structure of the four top-tier shield skills was rapidly mastered by him.

In a burst of inspiration, a more comprehensive and formidable version of the [Skeleton Shield] skill was successfully inferred by him.

"Perfected skill [Skeleton Shield] successfully!"

[Skeleton Shield] (Apprentice Level, Perfection): Channels undead mana to form a bone shield, effectively defending against all direct and indirect attacks, counter-damaging physical attacks at a certain proportion, reflecting magic attacks with a certain probability, and causing paralysis state to surrounding enemy troops when the shield is broken. Defense capability, magic effects, etc., are determined based on spirit attribute and skill proficiency.

Compared to the brief skill description before, the new version of [Skeleton Shield] is significantly more powerful.

It perfectly absorbed the advantages of [Telekinesis Shield], [Frost Shield], [Thorn Shield], and [Mirror Shield Skill], with magic effects reaching their peak at the apprentice stage.

Fang Zhou casually formed a Skeleton Shield, reaching out to feel the tougher texture of this shield than before, and nodded in great satisfaction.

Thanks to his intelligence and the minor help from Bai Xiaochan, Meng Hongzhuang, and others, after possessing the fourfold damage attribute of [Skeleton Flying Spear], he now owned another ultimate skill.

Xiaochan, Hongzhuang, you must continue to work harder!

...

The next day, Fang Zhou entered the Abyss Difficulty [Horn Demon Outpost] again to test the new version of the [Skeleton Shield] skill.

The effect was even better than he had imagined.

Previously, the Abyss Demon Child that restrained him a lot, now, no matter how they exhibited their Magic-Devouring Talent, couldn’t extract any Spiritual Power from Fang Zhou under the protection of a Skeleton Shield.

Even the Horned Demon Boss wielding a Giant Axe couldn’t break this solid bone shield even with a full strike.

And when it pushed against the counter-damage effect of the Skeleton Shield, using its utmost strength to smash the shield, it would be hindered by the paralysis effect caused by the broken shield.

Fang Zhou stood far in the back, watching the helplessly angry Horned Demon Boss, and felt very pleased.

Easily crushing his once formidable enemies, this feeling was truly exhilarating.

After exiting the simulation battlefield, Fang Zhou casually uploaded the latest versions of [Skeleton Flying Spear] and [Skeleton Shield] to the Human Alliance skill library.

Soon, he received a reward of 300 contribution points from the Human Alliance.