Global Game: I, the Necromancer, am the scourge

At this moment, Lord Zi’s raised hand froze midair, eyes bulging, he looked at Lao Tie with an expression of disbelief.

"You, you’ve gained intelligence?!"

Zi Liyuan: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

"Master, ever since I evolved into a Silver Hero Boss, I have possessed intelligence, but it was suppressed by the rules of the Blue Star world and could only enter selective hibernation.

Now that I’ve been promoted to an Epic Boss, the suppression of the Blue Star world’s rules has disappeared, and there’s no longer any need for selective hibernation."

Listening to what Lao Tie said, Zi Liyuan felt the shock came a bit too unexpectedly.

However, considering Lao Tie’s high autonomy during battles, the idea of Lao Tie having intelligence wasn’t completely unacceptable.

What really panicked Zi Liyuan was the fact that he’d made Lao Tie play the role of Holy Warrior several times before, essentially turning him into a suicide bomber.

He just didn’t know if Lao Tie would bear a grudge and then perform a righteous backstab, flinging him back and forth on a spider’s leg. Nôv(el)B\\jnn

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Thinking of certain matters, someone shivered and then coughed to hide his embarrassment, saying,

"Lao Tie, since you’ve just been promoted, go back and get used to your newly surged power. I’ll summon you if there’s anything."

Looking at Lao Tie, who was still half-kneeling in front of him, Zi Liyuan’s hand, which had been stiff in the air, patted his shoulder, and without waiting for Lao Tie to reply, he severed the contract power and dispersed him back to the Summoning Space.

"Doing too many guilty things, the pressure is quite big, huh."

He murmured to himself, but then a shadow reappeared in front of him, which made Zi Liyuan stunned and his eyes bulged again.

"Damn! Didn’t I just disperse you back there? How did you come out on your own?"

A summoned creature, coming out from the Summoning Space without its master’s call—is that even reasonable?

This is totally unreasonable, okay!

"Master, after the rules of the Blue Star world were lifted, I can independently follow the contract power to open a spatial portal and come to the side of my master at any time, so that I can protect you at all times."

Lao Tie’s face, as stern as iron, actually showed a somewhat stiff smile.

"666..."

What else could Lord Zi say?

An autonomously summoned puppet spirit, showing off in a way that gave him a tingling scalp, so just shout 666 and that’s that.

"Alright, Lao Tie, you can look around the manor, it’s relatively safe here, I don’t need your protection for now."

He waved his hand, gesturing for Lao Tie to stand aside, Zi Liyuan stopped paying attention to him and instead looked at his attribute panel.

Just as he was about to upgrade a few core skills, he suddenly realized that only a small fraction of the several billion experience points remained in his experience pool—a figure of 75.31 million.

"Damn, I still had over sixty billion experience points?! How did such a huge amount, sixty-eight billion experience points, just evaporate out of the blue?!"

Zi, full of question marks, immediately opened the system notification interface and began to scroll through the panel.

Scrolling along, he quickly found out where the sixty-eight billion experience points had gone.

That’s right, it was Lao Tie again!

The activation of the Epic Boss template and its transformation into a professional panel caused the required experience points for leveling up to skyrocket, and it just deducted his experience points to pay off the debt!

"As expected, with great power comes great cost, and this consumption of experience points must be several times that of a regular professional."

Since he’d found out where it went, it was all good.

But with the experience pool nearly drained, he would have to put off upgrading his core skills.

"Let’s go, Lao Tie, we’re off to battle monsters and grind for experience."

Having used up all his Contribution Value, he couldn’t exchange it for practical skills for Lao Tie.

Now that the experience points were almost spent, it was back to the routine life at the academy.

Library, eating, running dungeons, sleeping together...

Lord Zi, now a Fourth Order, didn’t need to attend any specialty courses except for some about the Sea of Realms.

Instead, the library at Dragon Academy contained a vast collection of books that not only provided extensive knowledge on the Sea of Realms but also featured Cultivation Techniques from Blue Star!

Zi Liyuan reached Level 100 of the Fourth Order and automatically unlocked the library’s sacred scripture vault, where he could comprehend the many Cultivation Techniques stored within.

The techniques weren’t numerous, adding up to only one hundred and eight, because it was extremely costly to bring them from the Sea of Realms to Blue Star.

Hence, each Cultivation Technique was incredibly precious, especially those of silver-heroic quality.

The "Spell Series Meditation Technique, From Beginner to Burial" he learned was exactly a full set of silver techniques, divided into four complete chapters.

Starting from white-common, progressing to green-elite, then on to blue-rare, until finally reaching silver-heroic, it was the most suitable Cultivation Technique for a caster profession.

Of course, there was an equally complete set of techniques most suitable for melee professions.

"Physical Conditioning Technique, From Beginner to Burial", also in four chapters, ranging from white-common to silver-heroic.

As for the rest of the techniques in the library’s sacred scripture vault, besides these two complete sets, the rest were all individual chapters of varying quality that required personal understanding.

If you couldn’t comprehend them, that meant you couldn’t learn them, and only by attaining beginner level understanding could you then use experience points to level them up.

Lord Zi was clever, and with a stroke of good luck embracing the long black silk legs of the goddess of fortune, unless the techniques were of conflicting properties, he had no difficulty grasping them.

If it wasn’t for the fact that he needed to read each technique carefully, word by word, in order for it to be recorded on his professional panel, he might have been like a gamer who could just slap the book with his hand to learn it instantly.

It took him a week, but out of the one hundred and eight Cultivation Techniques in the sacred scripture vault, except for the three he didn’t learn due to their Holy Light attribute, the remaining one hundred and five were all comprehended and learned.

In addition to his daily dungeon running frenzy in the afternoon, gaining monster experience points, all one hundred and five techniques had been maxed out.

The one hundred and five techniques provided him with 7500 in physical strength, 7800 in Spirit, and 8500 in Spiritual Power points.

This sweep increased Zi Liyuan’s base attributes by about one third.

After cleaning out the sacred scripture vault, he finally settled down in the library to flip through books about the knowledge of Sea of Realms.

Basking in the ocean of knowledge and grinding experience was fleeting.

One day, a challenge letter shattered this rare moment of peace.

Without realizing it, a month had passed, and the challenge arranged by Headmaster Long of Dragon Academy was due.

There were three qualifying challenges in total, spanning three days, with one match each day.

The first was against the boss of the second-year students, the ultra-rare profession—Element Master.

A few days earlier, Zi Liyuan had received detailed information on the Element Master from Cai, the senior who showed newcomers around.

This detailed dossier on the Element Master not only recorded the skills used by the opponent but also included numerous images of the opponent in combat.

At the very least, the information provided by Senior Cai gave him a clear understanding of this Element Master.

This Element Master, as the leader of the second-year students, was ridiculously strong.

Various elemental spells in his hands could be seamlessly connected, even interlinked to merge and create even more powerful hybrid elemental magic.

One could say, this guy alone was equivalent to a mix-type elemental turret, with an attack output off the charts and a defense just as strong.

The multi-elemental fusion Elemental Shield was no less formidable than the so-called strongest defensive Holy Shield Technique.

From the special nature of his profession, Zi Liyuan could infer that this guy must possess life-saving moves from all elemental magic series. Beating him would be no simple feat.

"Element Master, proficient in all magic elements, eh? Capable of casting instant Third Order elemental spells from every series, mighty impressive, but too bad..."

As long as the opponent couldn’t cast instant Fourth Order high-power spells and he attacked continuously, then he simply had nothing to fear!

"Anti-Magic Array," ever heard of it?

Isn’t this just forcing Lord Zi to break the rules and utterly crush the opponent?