Chapter 3 Upgrade

The gray bone knife chopped heavily on the neck of a corpse. The rotten head flew high, spun and fell to the ground two meters away.

"The 34th corpse." Volod was very enthusiastic and took the initiative to report the number of corpses killed along the way.

"Upgraded." Lan Wu said affirmatively, and walked to the corpse to absorb the experience points.

The black magic energy escaped from the corpse and split into two streams, floating towards Lan Wu and Volod respectively. The two quietly absorbed the magic energy, and no one made a sound. After absorbing the last bit of magic energy, Volod couldn't wait to take out another identification scroll from the space bag.

"Take a look at your attributes. We are teammates now, and we should allocate skill points more reasonably."

Lan Wu followed suit and turned around to let Volod stick the identification scroll on his back. After a while, he turned around and took the scroll from Volod.

The basic attributes have been slightly improved. The character level has become 2. But the most critical skill description column was empty, without a single word.

Lan Wu frowned. The level was indeed upgraded. All attributes changed except for the four major resistances. But the skill points and skill trees that should appear after the upgrade did not appear. He held the scroll in silence.

Volod, who had retreated to avoid suspicion, saw that Lan Wu had not spoken for a long time, and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong?"

Lan Wu kept silent and stuffed the identification scroll into his trouser pocket.

Volod was anxious and asked loudly: "Tell me quickly, what happened? What skills did you learn? We are teammates and should have a deeper understanding of each other."

"Do I need to reveal my information?" Lan Wu asked back.

Volod was stunned for a moment, and suddenly lowered his head in frustration: "I'm sorry, the impulse made me lose my mind. All professionals should abide by the principle of never exploring each other's information. As an apology, please accept this."

As he said, Volod took out a short stick from the space bag. The two ends of the short stick were inlaid with a piece of metal, engraved with tiny runes. He handed the short stick to Lan Wu, and forced a smile with forced calmness: "This is the staff I got when I received the gift of the gods. You have no weapon. This staff is for you. If you want to go back to the Rogue Camp, you can see it by walking west. May God be with you."

Putting the staff into Lan Wu's hand, Volod looked at Lan Wu silently, and then walked forward. His back looked a little lonely. The two skeletons he summoned followed closely with bone knives and creaking all over.

"Sorry, I can't reveal my situation now." Lan Wu watched Volod go away, and finally his back disappeared on the horizon.

Vorod's departure made Lan Wu feel a little heavy. Although he didn't admit in his heart that Volod didn't meet his ideal teammate, he was still a friend worth associating with.

Holding this familiar staff, Lan Wu knew that this was the novice staff that the system gave to the necromancer when he was born in the game, even though he didn't have an identification scroll to check the staff's properties.

+1 Skeleton Resurrection (only for necromancers), +50% damage to undead creatures

This novice staff is just a blank product, not a top-quality one. But for Lan Wu at the moment, it is a real top-quality one. +1 Skeleton Resurrection, this skill does not need to be learned, it is a skill attached to the staff. It is just right for him to have no skill tree at present.

"We have to find out why there is no skill tree as soon as possible." Lan Wu pondered and his eyes drifted to the west. Rogue Camp, perhaps only in Rogue Camp can we find out why there is no skill tree.

After determining the next destination, Lan Wu turned and walked west. Just after walking a dozen meters, he stopped again, looked down at the staff in his hand and pondered.

Going to Rogue Camp is not difficult. With a staff with weapon characteristics, dealing with corpses is much easier than at first. But it's not that simple to sneak into the camp.

Akara, in the game, is a nun who believes in the Great Eye and is also a prophet. In the background story, the extremely wise and powerful woman had her eyes gouged out since childhood, but no one can escape her spiritual eyes.

If he rashly enters the Rogue Camp and faces Akara's magical spiritual eyes, can he still maintain his identity as a time traveler?

"I have to get an identity." Lan Wu said to himself, and turned back to the south. The best way to sneak into the Rogue Camp is to find a few survivors in Thor Village and use them to confirm his identity as a necromancer.

As he walked forward, he had to say that this bloody wasteland was once the main battlefield between humans and demonic creatures, and it was indeed a false reputation. Not far away, Lan Wu saw a rotten corpse struggling to crawl out of the mud.

"What Volod can do, I can do." Lan Wu re-affirmed his will in his heart, stepped forward quickly, raised his staff and hit the head of the rotten corpse.

After five consecutive hits, the rotten corpse let out a wail and lost all vitality. The damage to the rotten corpse after having weapons is indeed obviously different. Lan Wu raised his staff and pointed at the corpse. The corpse began to swell visibly. With a snap, a fresh skeleton crawled up from the ground.

Lan Wu looked at the newly summoned skeleton, somewhat speechless. This skeleton was obviously more than two times smaller than the two skeletons summoned by Volod.

This skeleton was only about 1.5 meters tall, with thin bones. Its ribs were incomplete, as if it had been hit hard in the chest and broken. What was even more terrible was the bone knife in its hand... no, it should be said that only half of the bone dagger was left. Lan Wu doubted whether this bone knife, with only the length of the index finger left on the blade, could inflict enough damage on the corpse before the little skeleton was shattered.

The new skeleton was just like the one in the game. Although it was a defective product, it was also quite active. It was carrying the bone knife and wandering around Lan Wu. It ran to the front and then slipped to the back, very lively.

Lan Wu stared at the little skeleton and absorbed the experience points calmly. In any case, with this little skeleton, he finally didn't need to engage in close combat with this kind of corpse that made people unable to look directly at it.

After absorbing the magic energy, Lan Wu took the little skeleton on a mission journey. There were many corpses in the wasteland. Soon, two slowly moving corpses came into Lan Wu's sight again.

The corpses had obviously discovered Lan Wu's presence. They opened their hands full of rotten flesh, spewing a foul breath, and moved towards this side step by step. Wherever they passed, two straight lines covered with black mucus and rotten flesh were left on the ground.

The little skeleton was very active. When the two corpses approached within ten meters, it took the initiative to rush out and meet one of the corpses. The half-broken bone knife fell heavily, chopped on the shoulder of the corpse, and chopped off two pieces of rotten flesh.

With a violent hissing, the rotten hands suddenly fell quickly and hit the little skeleton's chest, pushing it back a step. The other corpse was also attracted by the little skeleton, and its hands scratched the little skeleton's body fiercely, tearing off a bone.

Facing the siege of the two corpses, the little skeleton performed very bravely. It waved the bone knife, was repelled again and again, and pounced again and again, seizing every opportunity to leave a little commemoration on the corpse.

Lan Wu stood in the back, watching the two corpses tearing bones from the little skeleton, and had a rough assessment of the strength of the skeleton he summoned.

At most, it was only one-third of the strength of the skeleton summoned by Volod.

The skeleton summoned by Volod was not bad, and it could kill a corpse with an average of five swords. But he had a hard time hitting a few swords, and the corpse was still alive and well.

After obtaining basic intelligence, Lan Wu quickly stepped forward to join the battle. With his joining, the pressure on the little skeleton suddenly decreased, and the counterattack was obviously much better.

After all, the corpse was only the lowest undead creature in the wasteland. Lan Wu and the little skeleton cooperated with each other and quickly solved the two corpses. But the little skeleton was in a very bad situation at this time.

The left arm was broken at the shoulder, and only two ribs were left to support the body from falling apart. It looked like an irresponsible monster doctor had pieced together this skeleton with scraps.

Black demonic energy slowly escaped from the corpse. Lan Wu glanced at the little skeleton and planned to summon another one, at least it looked more like a skeleton, not a skeleton that was about to fall apart. Unexpectedly, he saw the little skeleton holding a bone knife and standing in front of the corpse. Wisps of black magic energy spontaneously sank into its body.

"Oh? It can also upgrade?" Lan Wu was very interested in this discovery. The two skeletons summoned by Volod before did not absorb any magic energy.

One person and one skeleton just quietly absorbed experience points. The two corpses finally decomposed completely and turned into magic energy. Two groups of black magic energy condensed in the air without dispersing, and suddenly compressed inward, condensed into three gold coins and fell to the ground.

"Uh..." Lan Wu picked up the three gold coins and was speechless. Although he felt very sorry for Volod, a good man who gave him great help, he had to admit that it was too appropriate for others to call him the unlucky Volod. Before, he only got two gold coins for killing thirty-four corpses in a row. Now he works alone and gets three coins for killing three corpses.

Volod's bad luck was simply beyond measure, and even the fifteen bug amulets on him that gave him a 155% better chance of getting magic items were powerless to resist.

Just as he was thinking, Lan Wu saw that the little skeleton had also absorbed all the experience points. At this moment, most of its bones had been completed, and it was no longer as pitiful as before. It was carrying a longer bone knife and was moving around lively, as if it was eager to find the next opponent.

"It's a pity that there is no identification scroll." Lan Wu felt a little regretful. If there was an identification scroll, maybe he could check the properties of the little skeleton.

Suddenly, several black spots appeared in the distance. Lan Wu looked far away and vaguely saw several figures. Looking again, there were more than a dozen red things following behind these people, as if they were chasing.

"Survivors." Lan Wu was refreshed and quickly followed with the little skeleton. The survivors gradually approached. He took a closer look and was a little dumbfounded.

Volod, who had just left alone not long ago, was actually running between these civilians.