A week has passed since the day Liu Fang got the necromancer system and summoned his first undead skeleton, the small snake.
During that time, many things happened in his village. Some Immortals came and took the one teenager who was found to have spiritual roots.
Many people went to see the appearance of the Immortals as they were seeing it for the first time. But Liu Fang didn't joint in the fun.
He quietly stayed in his small place, chopping logs like nothing happened. Unbeknownst to the villagers, he was quietly getting better in his day to day life.
And he also found out the functions and abilities of the necromancer system.
First of all, it was not like what he read on novels. The necromancer system only allows him to summons and owns only 5 undead skeletons at most.
And every one of them would start from the ground level, even if they were powerful creatures when they were alive.
Then come the surprising thing. Liu Fang can upgrade every one of them undead when they meet the criteria.
And upgrading them would bring him more benefits, like point states. Which would help him upgrading his own body and mind.
And most importantly, the magical power was the greatest thing.
Without enough magical power, he could not summon his undeads. And at the moment, he could only own two undeads.
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As usual, Liu Fang was chopping the logs of his fellow villagers.
However, there was something different about him today. Even though he looked the same, skinny body. Underneath the dress, his body was starting to define muscles and his skin covering bones body was nowhere there.
Chop.
Plop.
With the one last hit, he completely cut the log into two thin pieces.
When he turned around to get more logs, he realized that there was no more logs. He was all out of logs.
Seems like I have to go into the woods, once more. With a sigh, Liu Fang put up the axe on his shoulder and came out his small gate.
Walking slowly, checking the surroundings and feeling the soft and cool wind, he headed towards the direction of the forest, cooling himself.
And when he arrived deep enough in the forest, he looked around once more to check for anything and anyone.
After clearing that there was no one, he summoned the undead snake.
Whummph...
In just a second, a skeleton snake appeared in front him. It was the same undead snake that he owned.
But, when it appeared this time, it was clearly different from the first time.
It's length was longer than before. From just a small about 1 meter to 1.5 meter long.
At first, Lou Fang also could not understand why the u dead snake was getting stronger each time he summons it.
After some digging, he found out the reason. Whenever he ordered the snake to fetch him something from the forest, it absorbed the essence of many dying things. Like the essence of the drying leaves, or remains of the dead animals. Any many more.
But, not all of the essence was useful to its growth. Only some particular ones. And Liu Fang still didn't know what was it.
Looking at the undead snake that was getting larger and larger, Liu Fang smiled.
"Looking at its body, it looks like it won't be too long before it reaches the bronze rank." He opened the data of the snake.
[Undead: Flower Snake.
Name: ?
Rank: Unranked.
Abilities: ?]
Before becoming a rank undead, undead skeletons could not have any particular abilities except for some basic movements.
Huh....I don't even know when it will become a rank undead. I hope it happens today.
Then, he looked at the undead snake still at the same spot and said. "So, you won't move unless I tell you to...?"
"Okey, go and absorb those essences you need." Je pointed towards the deeper part of the forest and ordered.
With missing a bit, the undead snake slithered away swiftly.
"I hope when you return today, you will reach the bronze rank and gained some sentience." Liu Fang shook his head and turned his attention to a nearby.
He walked up to it and started chopping down.
Since it was dying dry tree, he managed to cut it down quickly. Then, he turned to another tree and started doing the same.
That process lasted for about half an hour. During that time, he managed to cut down 10 trees, five of them were dead and dry trees and the other five were dying green trees.
And the reason why he also cut down those green tree were to just left them inside the forest. So that when he come back in future, he won't need to cut down more trees and it won't take him much time. And the other fact was that they were dying.
After doing that, Liu Fang sat down on the ground, catching his breath.
He put the axe down besides him and with one hand, he wiped off the sweats from his face and forehead.
Leaning back at the tree, he rested for sometime.
When he felt like his strength was coming back to him, he stood, ready to start the process of cutting down trees.
Suddenly, he sensed his undead snake coming back to him, running back at it'd full speed.
Liu Fang was alarmed when sensed that. Immediately, he thought of some kind of creatures were chasing after the undead snake.
At that speed the snake was running back, he knew he didn't have time to run away.
Embracing himself, he tightly gripped the handle of his axe and was ready to face whatever that was after the undead snake.
However, when he saw the snake in front him, he breath a sigh of relief. There was no creatures chasing after the snake. Instead, it was something that was worth celebrating for.
The undead snake's skeleton was glowing all over. Not with some white light, but with scarlet blood light.
Knowing it was the sign of undead skeleton being in the process of transformation, Liu Fang quickly put it back into the dimensional space, where the undead snake could do it safely.
Smiling, he hurriedly dragged away a dead tree that he cut down a few minutes ago. Then, he quickly left the forest, heading back to his house.