With the Unity Ring, Shen Yi can completely ignore the limitations of corpse manipulation.
When Shen Yi's skeleton army grew to a certain size, he was even able to control the corpses of high-level monsters.
The giant forest bear was originally very strong. After it became the skeletal giant forest bear, its appearance did not change much. Only its skin became a skeletal structure, adding a touch of gloom.
Click—click—
The giant bear in Skull Mountain lowered its head, and Shen Yi sat down on its back.
It's a bit... uncomfortable.
Shen Yi sighed, rubbed his bottom, and took another reluctant look at the giant bear from the Skull Mountain Forest beneath him. In the end, he decided not to ride it anymore.
Riding a bear into battle may look cool, but it's a pain in your butt.
In the end, it was Shen Yi's second-best subordinate, the Skeleton Knight, who sat on the Skeleton Mountain Forest Giant Bear.
The Skeleton Demon Swordsman's agility is already higher than that of the Skeleton Forest Giant Bear, so letting it ride on its back actually restricts its movement.
Shen Yi nodded, extremely satisfied.
The Giant Bear of Skull Mountain Forest has extremely high attributes, even surpassing the Skeleton Demon Swordsman in strength. This means that the Shenyi Skeleton Army has gained another bear general... uh, tiger general.
"Unfortunately, we can't use [Devour Evolution] to improve their attributes."
Shen Yi gave it another try, still clinging to a sliver of hope, but gave up after the attempt.
The description in 【Devour Evolution】 clearly states that only Shenyi's "summoned creatures" can use 【Devour Evolution】 to level up.
The Skeleton Demon Swordsmen are Shen Yi's 'summoned creatures'.
The giant bear of Skull Mountain, which was given a new soul and stood up again, was Shen Yi's 'subordinate' and was not summoned by Shen Yi.
It's like how the "Fire Spell Enhancement" effect can never be applied to lightning spells; it's written out on the character panel, and there's no way around it.
Similarly, the inherent skill "One Man Makes an Army" from the "Goblin King's Summoner's Necklace" cannot be stacked with units affected by "Corpse Manipulation".
As mentioned above, only summoned creatures can enjoy the blessing.
Shen Yi felt quite sorry about this.
Apart from that, the other gains were not so impressive.
[Summon Undead] has been upgraded to a level, increasing the number of skeletons summoned to 3. This bonus is even less than my own [Infinite Troops], which at least allows me to summon seven or eight skeletons when I'm lucky.
The good news is that the advanced Undead Summoning ability allows Chen Yi to summon a mid-level undead even if his spell power is less than 100.
This means that Shen Yi can now summon higher-level undead using his extraordinary magical attributes.
The intermediate-level undead is also level 5, with 10 in strength, 10 in agility, and 0 in magic, which is twice as good as the previous blank skeleton minions.
Shen Yi put the Ring of Unity back on and added the attribute points granted by the power of unity to his spell attributes.
"Dead Corpse Summons!"
Click—click—
The nine skeletons slowly stood up.
They appeared to be a size larger than Shen Yi's mid-level undead, and the necromantic flames burning in their eye sockets were even more intense.
[Class: High-Rank Undead]
[Level: 5]
[Strength: 15]
Agility: 15
[Spells: 0]
[Skill 1: Summoned Ones (Undead who have crawled out of their graves and can only blindly follow the guidance; for this reason, they possess absolute loyalty.)]
When Shen Yi raises his magical attribute to 100, the skeleton he summons will be a [High-Rank Undead].
to be honest.
Just by looking at this panel, Shen Yi could quite understand the despair of those predecessors who had awakened as necromancers.
What does this mean?
The high-level undead has a strength and agility attribute of 15 each, and its race is skeleton.
So, in terms of strength, it's about the same as a human with both strength and agility at level 10, maybe just a tiny bit stronger.
At first glance, it seems alright, but upon closer inspection, you'll realize just how terrible this thing is.
Why is Shen Yi able to summon high-level undead now?
First, he leveled up to level 10, and his summoning skeletons skill advanced to the intermediate level.
Secondly, his spell attribute value reached 100 points, which was absolutely impossible to achieve in the early stages.
Reaching a spell attribute value of 100 is no easy feat.
Let's do a simple calculation.
Even if a necromancer reaches level 9 and allocates all attribute points to magic, plus the 2 magic points bonus from job advancement, they will only have a meager 28 points.
Levels 10-19 grant 45 points, with an additional 18 points available for allocation as attribute points. These points have a fixed growth value, meaning that if all points are allocated to magic, the magic attribute value will reach 91 points.
Until level 20, when the fixed growth value for each level increases to 3 points, and the available skill points given per level reach 7 points, the spell power can be increased to 100.
The problem is, who would dare to add attribute values like that?
Even mages who specialize in magical attacks need to allocate some attribute points to agility and strength in order to deal with any unexpected situations that may arise at any time.
Most mages choose to concentrate 70% of their attribute points on spellcasting, and reserve some points on agility and strength to ensure they are not too fragile.
After his 1v1 duel with the giant bear of the mountains, even Shen Yi allocated his available attribute points to Strength and Agility.
A high Strength attribute means he won't be easily defeated, while Agility is linked to dynamic vision and the agility of his movements.
Once these two attribute values are high, you'll be able to handle any danger that may arise at any time.
When Shen Yi needs to summon skeletons, then allocate the attribute points to magic.
Therefore, if a necromancer goes all in and puts all attribute points into spellcasting, they can barely summon a high-level undead at level 20.
There are only three left.
Shen Yi did the calculations and finally looked up to the sky and sighed.
"This profession is a real rip-off..."
In a horizontal comparison, level 20 professionals have already started participating in silver-level dungeons.
Even the weakest monster in the Silver-level dungeon is stronger than the giant bear in the forest that Shen Yi killed.
In dungeons of that level, the necromancer's core skill is the ability to summon three undead beings with the same combat power as ordinary people.
Just thinking about it makes me feel hopeless...
At this moment, Shen Yi was extremely grateful that he had two powerful bonus skills, otherwise he would have had nowhere to cry...
In fact, Shen Yi's path has diverged significantly from that of most necromancers.
Every necromancer knows that Summon Skeleton is an incredibly useless skill.
Most necromancers will prioritize Strength and Agility, and then desperately try to level up to level 10.
Only after acquiring the ability to manipulate corpses did their true path of growth begin.
It was a slow, desperate road with no glimmer of hope in sight...
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