In the castle's bedroom, the body of the old butler Pipps had not yet been disposed of. Lomo is constantly receiving the system's first gift package.

The so-called gift package is to systematically evaluate the necromantic magic contained in Lomo's body and promote him to a real necromantic mage.

A character panel was generated in Lomo's mind:

[Name: Lomo Saldin]

[Identity: Baron of the Kingdom of Svolo]

[Territory: 167 acres]

[Population: 0]

[Territory and population increases will bring new gift packs]

【First Entry Gift Package Bonus Content:】

[Promoted Hero Class: Necromantic Mage]

[Level: Apprentice Mage]

[EXP: 125/500]

【Skill: Corpse Gas】

【Skill: Carrion Poison】

【Skill: Summoning Skeletons】

[Skill: Manipulating Skeletons]

【Skill: Soul Fire】

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Countless basics of necromancy kept popping up in Lomo's mind, then turned into permanent knowledge and muscle memory.

Some of the linguistic knowledge involved in the magic is woodland elves, humans, and leyline dwarven languages, which are also imprinted in Lomo's mind.

In addition, there is also the herbalism, alchemy, and unstructured inscriptions about necromancy.

Lomo had a pinprick pain in his brain. It seems that the memories in my mind are constantly wriggling, making way for new ones.

After a long time, the pinprick pain was slightly relieved, and only a faint burning pain remained.

Luo Mo examined his knowledge as a necromancer, and secretly sighed in his heart, even if he was an apprentice mage, the things to learn were really complicated. It is no wonder that many people call the mage a true polymath in this world.

There are at least a dozen skills to be mastered, whether they are combat, daily or purely theoretical.

It's just that Luo Mo looked at it for a long time and didn't find any defensive skills.

This seems to be the weakness of the necromancer, whose defense is too weak and can only rely on the protection of summoned skeletons or zombies.

Once there is carelessness or distraction, he will be easily killed by a person whose strength is much lower than him, just like that Mercado that night.

Lomo was sure that Mercado's strength was strong, as he could summon dozens of skeletons in one go, at least at the level of a mid-level mage.

And Villanica, who killed him, was a low-level mage at best.

Sometimes, a low level kills a high level, and you just need to wait for a suitable opportunity. Children can pick up axes and hack sleeping adults to death, this is the real world.

So, although he has now become a necromancer, he still can't be taken lightly, the necromancer may be strong at the offensive level, but at the defensive level, the necromancer is an ordinary person.

After absorbing this knowledge, Lomo became a little weak, and he walked to the simple dining table in his bedroom and opened the delicious breakfast that Pips had brought for himself.

When the meal was first served, Lomo was worried that Pips had poisoned the food. However, now that Luo Mo's knowledge of herbology has been systematically studied, there is nothing to fear from an ordinary person's clumsy poisoning methods.

Lift the lid of the tray, and inside is a bowl of oatmeal, a piece of meat steak with a rich aroma that looks like beef. There was also a bowl full of vegetable soup. It's so full, I don't know how Pips kept the soup from spilling when he brought it over.

In terms of stewardship, Pips does have a special point, otherwise he would not have been able to stay in the castle for more than ten years.

The mixed aroma of these foods made Lomo's fingers flutter. However, the smell of Peps's corpse wafted from the smell of decay.

This taste... It made Lomo even more excited.

The necromancer smells this smell like a drunkard smells wine and a wolf smells meat.

Nothing excites Lomo more than eating next to a corpse. He devoured all the food on the table, and burped contentedly.

After a full meal, Lomo stood up and began to deal with Pips's body.

For a necromancer, fresh corpses are one of his most valuable resources and a source of his strength.

So instead of hastily burying Pips, he dragged his body to the other side of the castle.

Speaking of which, the castle is very old, having stood for decades as the residence of Baron Saldin to the north of the town of Crow.

The castle has a total of four floors and covers an area of about 500 square meters. The ground floor consists of a master bedroom, thirteen guest rooms, five bathrooms, and four living rooms with enlarged balconies. Due to the scarcity of personnel, most of the rooms are unavailable, and almost all of them are in an idle and abandoned state.

Except for the west side of the second floor, where Lomo lived, most of the walls had peeled off, and the hallways and rooms were covered with dust.

On the whole, the whole castle is deserted and dilapidated, old and in disrepair, worse than the small bungalows in the village in the previous life.

Lomo followed the stairs and dragged Pipps to the east side of the third floor. It was once the residence of Mercado.

At this point, the Merck man was dead, but most of his belongings were still there. Mercado covered some of the windows on the east side with a black cloth, so that no light could penetrate at all.

Standing in the aisle and looking inside, the shadows were heavy, lifeless, and indescribably eerie.

In the past, Lomo hated this kind of place, but now it has become the best place for him to live.

Lomo pulled Pips' calf into the darkness, pushed open the third door on the right, and walked in.

Inside, it was dark. Lomo snapped the thumb and middle finger of his right hand, and a faint soul fire, also known as a ghost fire, ignited at his fingertips. This ghost fire consumes very little necromancy, and when it burns, the white fire is mixed with blue-green, which is both beautiful and easy to use. Of course, ordinary people will find this ghost fire a little scary.

Then, he stretched his finger forward, and several ghostly fires emanated from his fingers in turn, scattering around the room, instantly illuminating the convenient darkness.

This is Mercod's former studio, with a long table for corpses in the middle, a desk, a chair, and a workbench. In the left corner are stacked cauldrons, flasks and herbs for alchemy, which have not yet been used.

As soon as he remembered that Mercado was in this place, spending his own money to refine poison and medicine, but planning to destroy the entire Saldin Manor, Luo Mo's heart suddenly ignited a wave of anger, and he wanted to pull Mercado up and kill the corpse to vent his anger.

He also noticed that on the right side of the wall was a bookshelf full of books.

Looking at these books, Luo Mo's heart suddenly moved, the mage's books were his most valuable treasure. Now his fortune remains here, waiting for Lomo to dig it up.

However, Lomo did not have the time to read the books at the moment, so he slammed Pips onto the dissecting table and pulled some materials out of the corner. Corpse wine, rotting grass and graveyard moss. Of course, there's also a little bit of Demon Emperor Grass, which locks in the magical energy contained in the herbs.

These were all bought by Mercado before, and they were all spent on the money of the estate. These herbs are so expensive that they almost drain the estate's savings.

Lomo cursed Merktor as he mixed the herbs proportionally into a mortar, soaked them in corpse wine, mashed them into a paste, and stuffed them into Pipps's mouth in one go.

After completing these pre-movements, Lomo pressed his hand to Pips' heart.

The heart is the first organ of a person's development, and it is also the organ that holds the soul.

Then, with a slight movement of his lips, he whispered a mantra.

Suddenly, Pips's corpse began to shake as if it had been electrocuted. The manic and dark soul was pulled from the corpse by Lomo and sucked into Lomo's body in a steady stream through spells and rituals.

The power of the necromancy surged wildly in Lomo's body, constantly nourishing every organ of Lomo.

After a long time, the ritual finally came into contact, and Pips's body became dry and black, and was squeezed dry by Lomo, and he couldn't even recognize his own mother.

At the same time, a line of information appeared in Lomo's mind:

[EXP +50]

Seeing this information, Lomo breathed a sigh of relief. The knowledge that is stuffed into the mind is indeed applicable to this world.

The system has improved a visual experience bar for his mage promotion path, so that he can not only see his own growth intuitively, but also avoid detours based on the feedback of the experience bar.

With another 345 XP, you can be upgraded to a mid-level mage.

There are two ways for a necromancer to be promoted, one is to keep killing, and then with the ritual just now, extract the power of the necromancy.

It's simple and violent. A necromancer fed with a human head, bloodthirsty and powerful. Of course, it is because of this method that the necromancer is considered a heresy by the kingdom. Necromancy has also become a taboo.

The second is the same as Villanica's elemental mage, through continuous learning of knowledge, and then through a large number of magic ores, potions and enchanted crystals to study and verify.

With the blessing of resources, smart mages do more with less, stupid mages do more with less, and that's it.

And in both ways, there is a huge premise, and that is money.

Without the money to buy enough materials, either route will not go far. The cultivation of talents often requires a lot of investment, and this principle is common in any world.

Generally speaking, poor mages tend to sell themselves to the Mage Society and rely on the organization to grow. But Lomo is a necromancer, and that won't work.

In other words, you can only make money through the manor itself. But the manor is now in ruins, with only land, not even people.

Lomo sat down in a chair and put his hand to his forehead,

Before today, there was at least one old butler, but now he was the only one left.

There is still a long way to go if you want to start again.

But at least the baron status is still there, and the framework is still there, so it's not a big problem.

Thinking of this, Lomo stood up, his two fingers clasped slightly, and immediately two ghostly fires attached to Pips.

With a 'boom', the ghost fire burst into flames, and Pips was soon drowned in a nether fire.

Even Lomo couldn't stand the stench of the burning corpses, and he forced himself to endure the discomfort and wait for the corpses to burn out. Once you've made sure it's correct, walk out of the room and lock the door.

Next, he was going to take a shower, and after dawn, he was going to the town hall of Crowe to explain the situation.

What happened in the past two days needs a reasonable explanation, or the town will get him in trouble.

The rhetoric must be thought out in advance, and this level must be passed.