Chapter 20: The Legendary Calamity Mage

In the boneyard, a wasteland far away from the Valley of the Dead, Bruce and his skeletal underlings regrouped.

He took out the crystal ball again.

Looking at the system description on the crystal ball, Bruce’s emotions were particularly complicated.

He wasted half a day and spent so much effort to cover up their traces because of this crystal ball!

To be precise, it was because of a name that appeared in the crystal ball system description—Logris.

At this point in time, the game had yet to begin. Naturally, no one knew what this name meant or who it was. However, Bruce has already had ten years of gaming experience from his previous life, and he knew what the name represented. It was the name of a legendary calamity mage!

In his previous life, Bruce’s birthplace was not near the boneyard, nor had he been anywhere near the boneyard.

He wasn’t really sure if Logris had appeared at the boneyard in the early stages of the game. He could have come into contact with the players.

He only knew that by the middle of the game, the name Logris had already been known by most of the players.

At that time, Logris had appeared as an epic necromancer and entered the players’ field of vision.

Ever since he appeared, this powerful necromancer had led the undead army to invade the territory of the human kingdom, destroying dozens of cities. He had once approached the human kingdom’s Imperial City!

The first epic main-storyline quest that the players of this world received was to fight against Logris and the undead army under his command.

That war ended with the victory of the humans.

However, Logris disappeared on the eve of the end of the war.

By the time he reappeared, he had successfully advanced from epic-level to legendary-level.

After that, the necromancer’s shadow appeared in the subsequent catastrophes of the game world. Logris’s ranking on the calamity rankings had once charged into the top ten.

This was what Bruce knew of the name Logris.

That was why Bruce quickly left the canyon after he saw the name on the crystal.

The black crystal ball, the dark altar, the zombies in the canyon of the dead, and the system description on the crystal ball—all these combined were enough to prove one thing. The zombies were originally created by Logris, the Necromancer!

Logris had used the black crystal ball and the dark altar to turn his zombies into warriors.

Bruce realized that it was mainly why he couldn’t enslave the zombies.

As an undead race created by Logris, the zombies originally had a slave contract with the necromancer, who had the highest authority over them. When another enslavement method clashes with the one it’s been built for, the zombies would automatically explode and end up dead rather than ending up in someone else’s army.

Bruce had no idea how powerful Logris was until that exact moment.

Based on his own gaming experience, Bruce knew with the creation of the zombie race that even if Logris hadn’t reached the “epic” rank, he was at least at the mentor rank (warrior rank) or the hero rank (lord rank).

With Bruce’s current attributes, it was definitely not something that he could fight against.

Therefore, when he realized who Logris really was and what defeating him would entail, he immediately ordered his skeleton underlings to leave the canyon and cover their tracks.

The only problem was that he had taken with him the black crystal ball, which was a dark-gold equipment.

It was extremely valuable!

It was valuable not only for NPCs and future players like Logris. For characters like Bruce, it was even more valuable!

1. The crystal ball could absorb, store, and purify the aura of death. The crystal ball was worth a lot of experience points and attribute points once it stored enough aura of death and absorbed it.

This was something that both Bruce and his skeleton underlings could use.

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The crystal ball could not only store the aura of death, but it could also store mana. Bruce could inject his mana into the crystal ball and store it there until he needed it. He could extract the stored mana whenever he would need it during a battle. It was equivalent to giving Bruce an endless stream of mana points!

Bruce thought of these two uses, and he was very tempted.

In addition to that, the crystal ball had other hidden uses waiting for Bruce to explore!

In Bruce’s hands, this dark-gold item was even more valuable than epic and legendary equipment.

Of course, Bruce would not dare to take the risk and keep it just because of its value.

He knew that if he took this crystal ball, it would very likely mean that he would be targeted and hunted down by Logris. Logris could have left his mark on this crystal ball, allowing him to track the whereabouts of the crystal ball at any time.

The reason why Bruce dared to take it was that he had absolute confidence that Logris would not be able to track him through the crystal ball, mainly because of his [ devour ] talent.

His [ devour ] talent was a powerful one.

It allowed him to cross nearly two major levels and enslave a fierce zombie that was about to break through to the warrior level. This was enough to show the power of his talent.

In addition to that, he also discovered another use for his [ devour ] talent when he enslaved that fierce zombie.

Whenever he devoured the enemy’s energy, he would absorb the essence of the enemy’s bones as well, and this made him stronger. Any enemy who does not really resist would then fundamentally be made his underling.

Naturally, his [ devour ] talent could not let an inanimate object come back to life, nor could it absorb inanimate objects to strengthen itself.

However, it could remove all the marks on the inanimate object, and instead, put a mark on it to signify that it belonged to him.

Using the talent, he could forcefully remove the mark on certain equipment, so that the equipment that previously belonged to another master would recognize him as its master.

Only then did Bruce dare to take out the crystal ball, when he was sure that Logris could not track him through it.

Only then was he brazen enough to leave the canyon with the dark-gold equipment.

Bruce had originally planned to enslave the weakened elite skeleton swordsman to obtain its class template.

As a final result, not only did he obtain an elite skeleton swordsman underling and its elite class template, but he also obtained a large number of experience points and attribute points in the Valley of the Dead!

He also obtained Logris’s crystal ball, which was considered god-level equipment.

This battle was not in vain!

After having his skeleton underlings spread out and watch their surroundings vigilantly, Bruce opened his attributes panel.

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[ name ] : Bruce

[ race ] : Spectre-skeleton

[ level ] : Level 26 (4,418/60,000)

[ status ] : health 1,480, mana 180

[ attributes ] : strength 94, agility 55, vitality 118, spirit 18

[ talent ] : Devour (only talent)

[ skill ] : Space-splitting Slash

[ Omni Points ] : 5

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After his level had increased from Level 20 to Level 26, Bruce’s four-dimensional attributes had greatly improved.

From strength 32, agility 28, vitality 35, spirit 6, strength 62, agility 46, vitality 65, and spirit 6.6.

The rewards from the battle at the Valley of the Dead alone were enough to give him over 100 attribute points.

Adding the two together, he now had his four-dimensional attributes.

Compared to a few days ago, Bruce’s strength attribute had increased nearly threefold. His agility attribute had increased by nearly two times. His physique attribute had increased by more than three times, breaking through 100 points.

Even his spirit attribute, which was the hardest to increase, had increased by as much as 18 points.

Looking at his current attributes panel, Bruce was somewhat satisfied.

Although his rank was still in the advanced class, in terms of attributes and strength, he had already far surpassed the elite skeleton. He was confident that he would be able to fight even a ferocious zombie.

“Next…It’s time to switch to the elite class and hunt for an elite skeleton,” he muttered. The soul fire in his eyes flickered slightly.

Just as Bruce was about to close the attributes panel and start the class change from the skeleton swordsman to the elite skeleton swordsman, his movements suddenly stopped.

“This is…”

He realized that at some point in time, a row of data appeared at the bottom of his attributes panel.

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[ Omni Points ] : 5 points

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Omni points?

He was a little lost.

Bruce focused his attention on the attributes panel and saw a small “+” sign behind his four-dimensional attributes and “Space-splitting Slash” skill.

If he wanted to, he could add his 5 Omni points to his four-dimensional attributes or skills at any time.