The Rise of the Cemetery

It's not the first time the two have met in this situation, so there's nothing surprising about it. The only thing that surprises them is Li Xun's age.

Judging from his handsome and slightly youthful face, he should be under 20 years old! It's just that his complexion was a little pale, he looked too pale and lacked a bit of blood, and his body swayed a little while walking. It seemed that he was another nerd who had been lying on his desk all year round and was obsessed with magic experiments.

Being able to climb up to the ranks of high-level mages and become their companions at the age of 20 can already be classified as a genius. However, this is not too much against the sky. After all, the biggest obstacle to the achievement of mages below the high level is resources, and the biggest constraints above the high level are talent and potential.

As long as a person has excellent mage talent and a big family or power is willing to devote all his efforts to cultivating him, he can cross the sky and become a high-level mage who is arrogant about human relations in basically 10 years. But if you go further, you need to look at the individual's talent potential. Many people spent one or two hundred years unable to climb to the threshold of level 15. The reason is that their personal potential is close, and no matter how much effort they put in, it will be in vain.

Therefore, high-level mages can rely on resources, while archmages need more potential and luck. In the current Klein Continent, talent attributes can already be tested through relevant alchemy items, but the potential is still in a vague estimation state, and it can only be used as a reference, not as a real judgment standard.

Therefore, for a character who may become a high-level mage at the age of 20, the two high-level mages showed more envy of the power behind him, rather than suspicion.

And it turned out to be the case.

Li Xun's two 6th-level spells, "Petrochemical Spell" and "Serial Lightning", were really weak. It could be seen that they had just reached the standard for successful spellcasting. As for the effect, they were nearly half of the normal 6th-level spells.

"A rookie who barely succeeded in advancing!" The two high-ranking mages smiled knowingly.

But the bad effect is the bad effect. Li Xun successfully cast two 6th-level spells without using any magic items, which marked that he had stepped into the ranks of high-level mages. So the two high-level mages hugged him kindly, congratulated him, and awarded him a brand new 11th-level mage badge.

If Li Xun can cast two 6th-level spells with ease and without compromise, then this badge will become a 12th-level spell. Unfortunately, his broken body and sluggish mental strength make him exhausted, so he can only accept this. a result of .

Regardless of whether it is level 11 or 12, he is already a high-level mage, and the conditions for participating in the competition have also been met.

The following is the routine information registration, and Li Xun completed the registration as the contract mage of the Principality of Novus who used to be. From now on, he has become a great free high-ranking mage. After chatting with two high-ranking mages for a few words, he declined their invitation to join the association, and Li Xun got his full set of mage certificates as he wished.

So an hour later, when Li Xun and Siris met again in the hall on the first floor, they had already put on the blue mage robes representing high-level mages, and a golden level 11 mage badge pinned to their chests.

Looking at the exquisitely crafted blue mage's robe with complicated magic patterns, Siris's pretty little face was in a trance for a moment. High-ranking mage! Since then, he has broken away from the ranks of rookies and has become a high-level spellcaster that no group can ignore. The pace of the opponent's progress is getting faster and faster, and I have to work hard to catch up!

Silently encouraging herself, Siris put a sweet smile on her face again. As a reward, Siris gave Li Xun a big hug, which made him feel flattered, and made all the male apprentices in the hall pause for a moment.

Li Xun could fully feel the complex emotions of this beautiful girl in front of him, but he didn't need to do anything, he just needed to give her a warm hug, and she had to explore the rest of the mental journey by herself. It can be said that this kind of telepathy mixed with complex emotions such as envy, resentment, inferiority, and jealousy is exactly what a mage needs to control.

A powerful mage first needs a strong heart. How can the heart be strong without tempering and setbacks?

Li Xun may be able to help her solve it at this time, but it can only make her temporarily forget all kinds of unhappiness, but it can't transform this kind of thing into the driving force for her progress. Only when she has figured it out and thought it through can she truly gather her strength and hold the direction of progress in her own hands.

If something happened here, the two need to separate temporarily. Xi Lisi needs to go to Breland School of Magic to contact her familiar partners and friends to make some preparations for the competition, while Li Xun has to rush to Dagon School of Magic to contact the female thief Elena who is waiting for him there.

The two parted with tears outside the guild's residence, and embarked on different journeys.

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The Undead, Stratholme.

After half a month of exploration and colonization, the terrain trend and the distribution of the indigenous people within a thousand miles near Stratholme have been roughly figured out, and rubbed into different versions of sheepskin maps and sold to the undead mercenaries. In addition, the situation of the original target zombie lord has also been clarified. He seems to be fighting with another lord for a certain item, and the entire territory is involved in the flames of war.

In view of this situation, Skeleton King shifted his center of gravity to another direction when releasing the mission, and was not prepared to intervene in the war between the two lords for the time being. I believe that there is a buffer of thousands of miles, and the turmoil over there will not be involved here in a short time. After all, the high-level undead in the undead world still have various defects in intelligence, and their actions and actions are more driven by instinct.

If it was a human kingdom, and such a large-scale and well-organized large-scale force suddenly appeared next to its own territory, any king would suspend the war and find out the details of this force first. But this zombie lord seemed careless, and the war with another lord was still in full swing. According to the news sent back by Alsace, both sides had even dispatched their own personal guards.

Arthas, who had already gone out, had been wandering in the subordinate territory of that zombie lord under the order of the Skeleton King, and began to turn his head to try to understand the basic situation of the other lord he was fighting with. There will be results.

Since taking root in the undead world, what troubled the Skeleton King the most was not the powerful undead, nor the vast territory, but time. There is no day and night in the world of the undead, and those who live in it are still the undead who live forever if the soul fire is not extinguished, so time has no meaning here at all.

Once a certain undead is stunned, it can often walk in one direction for a month or a few months without a goal or motivation. They can't sense the passage of time at all, and they don't have any basis to judge the passage of time, so the rhythm of undead creatures is generally procrastinated and slow, showing a kind of daze and chaos from time to time.

But since they were incorporated into the cemetery system, there have been concepts of year, month, day, and hour. Each cemetery city mage tower also spent extra mana to transform a timer, which was the first to unify the time in the undead world. The day when the chaotic land was built is the Kaiyuan calendar, and it is extended day by day. And when issuing tasks, a final deadline is set for the completion of each task, and merit points will not be paid after the expiration.

In this way, the cemetery city forcibly instilled the concept of time into the soul fire of every undead mercenary. All tasks are timed in days, and if they exceed the time limit, they will get nothing. Using this method to force the undead mercenaries to run, revitalized the rhythm of the entire cemetery life circle.

Today is February 25, 1st year of the Kaiyuan calendar. It has been nearly 14 months since the cemetery city took root in the world of the undead, and it has also kept pace with Klein Continent in terms of time. Although there is no spring, summer, autumn and winter here, there is only eternal monotony. gray sky.

Compared with the meritorious distribution some time ago, the current Stratholme has entered a period of steady development. The busy undead mercenaries shuttle back and forth in mission halls, hotels, markets and other important places every day, and there are bat demons taking off and landing at the flying spots outside the city from time to time. Some veteran mercenaries in fresh clothes and furious armor swaggered in and out, while the rookies who had just been incorporated into the system crouched shyly at the door of the mission hall, trying to open their eyes wide and get to know such a strange man again. world.

Currently, there are 137 undead mercenaries in Stratholme stable, covering almost all middle and low-level undead races, and the outstanding ones have also been promoted to leadership positions. For example, the undead wizard Plataya is currently serving as the head of Stratholme's mage group, while the green-haired zombie has recruited more than a dozen mid-level and high-level undead with the approval of the Skeleton King to form the first recognized mercenary group. Leader, what you are doing now is also in full swing.

With their current acquisition speed of merit points, it is not enough to feed the redundant newcomers with old ones and new ones, so the speed of expansion is not fast. In order to expand its influence, the green-haired zombie has no pretensions to fight with these rookies, explain the basic rules to them, give them tips on tasks, analyze the current situation of survival, and encourage hard work... In short, if someone goes to the undead mercenary to count The most popular companion, the green-haired zombie must be elected with a high number of votes.

In this way, the two most outstanding performers among the undead mercenaries, a high-level colonizer and a grassroots broadcaster, are working hard in their own ways to manage this hard-won happiness.