Chapter 36: Retardation and Weakness

Locke didn't want to waste a few months.

As an intermediate mage skeleton, Locke has mastered two necromantic magics, three to be exact, bone spear shooting and bone shields, and one is the necromantic magic soul perception that all undead creatures master.

Bone spear shooting and white bone shield are two undead magics, one attack and one defense. Soul perception, on the other hand, is an auxiliary type of undead magic, and it is also the undead magic that any undead creature can naturally master as soon as it is born, and it is the innate magic of undead creatures.

Of course, soul perception is not exclusive to undead creatures, but is essentially a secondary magic of the spirit type. As long as the creature has the required mental power, it can master this soul perception magic.

After thinking about it for a while, Locke planned to continue his studies and research on new necromancy.

In the undead plane, mage-like undead creatures want to master undead magic, except for a very few who rely on other ways to comprehend it, the vast majority of them rely on their own slow research and mastery.

In other human realms, there is a systematic inheritance of magic, and magic apprentices can learn magic through the guidance of mentors, the inheritance of specific knowledge-based magic scrolls, and even reading written mage codex or books.

These conditions for learning magic are basically not present in the undead plane. Therefore, there is naturally another way for undead creatures to master magic.

In fact, every mage-type undead creature has been imprinted in the soul fire of the basic inheritance of necromantic magic since it was first born, and Locke is no exception.

Of course, these inheritances are extremely basic and simple, and it can be difficult to learn to master necromancy through the inheritance from the soul fire, and it will take a lot of time.

However, for undead creatures, the most important thing is time, and it takes years, or even decades, to study a low-level undead magic, even a low-level undead creature with very low intelligence can master it.

The amount of undead magic knowledge inherited in the soul fire is related to the strength level of the undead creatures. Different types of mage-like undead creatures have different inheritance of necromantic magical knowledge.

For example, when Locke was promoted to the rank of a first-level undead creature, he learned from his soul fire about the casting spell and some simple information about the first-level undead attack magic bone spear shooting. And the magic information inheritance that Locke got when he was promoted to the second and third level undead creatures was the cursed necromancy retardation and weakness. And the undead magic that Locke inherited when he was promoted to the intermediate undead creature was the white bone shield that Locke had mastered.

Rock Locke, the two more commonly used undead magic spells, the Bone Spear Shot and the Bone Shield, has been able to perform them freely, while the two curse-oriented necromancy Locke have not yet studied them. Because, in the undead plane, the magic effects of these two curse types are not satisfactory, and they have almost no effect on undead creatures, and Locke did not take time to master them.

However, these curse-type necromancy have, among other planes, have a great impact on the living.

Originally, because he didn't refine the treasure stele and didn't think about leaving the undead plane, Locke didn't spend time learning these two undead magic. But now, Locke has a lot of free time, and after refining the stone tablet, Locke is also ready to be summoned to other planes at any time, and now he has time to master these two necromancy.

Locke learned more information about the two cursed necromancies from the Soul Fire Legacy than the other two necromancy. Passing on more information also means that these two cursed types of necromancy are more difficult to master.

Fortunately, comprehending undead magic, in addition to consuming mental power and undead magic power, also requires wisdom, and these three are not lacking in Locke. Other mid- and low-level undead creatures are less intelligent, and it is much more difficult to comprehend some complex undead magic than Locke.

Slowness and Weakness, the two curse-like undead magic spells, and some related information, Locke already knew about it. Locke had also studied retardation for a while, but he gave up on continuing the study because it was too complicated.

If it weren't for the fact that these two necromantics were more difficult to master than the others, Locke would have taken the time to practice mastering them on the way to refining the stone tablets.

Locke stood still, his senses sinking into his soul and beginning to recall detailed information about the Retardation Technique.

Complex spells flashed in Locke's soul fire. Because souls exist in the form of soul fire, undead creatures don't need to chant magic spells like some low- and middle-level human mages do. Undead creatures of any level perform necromancy in a silent manner.

It didn't take long for Locke to learn everything there was to know about retardation.

This kind of curse-type necromancy also requires the cooperation of other creatures, which is also one of the limitations.

That doesn't stump Locke, though.

Locke's soul perception spread out, and no other undead creatures appeared within a radius of more than a hundred meters.

Although there are many undead creatures roaming around here, it is unlikely that there are many of them that can be perceived at all times.

Locke immediately searched nearby, and in less than a minute, an undead creature appeared in Locke's soul perception.

This is just a first-level undead creature, and when Locke appeared in front of it, this first-level undead creature instinctively did not resist. A low-level undead creature naturally has no ability to resist when it encounters a mid-level undead creature.

However, Locke naturally didn't look down on the soul fire of this first-level undead creature, but planned to use this undead creature to study and experiment with necromantic magic retardation.

Driven by Locke, this low-level undead creature walked forward unhurriedly according to Locke's instructions. Locke, on the other hand, followed behind the undead creature, preparing for the necromancy retardation.

The soul fire in Locke's skull flickered, but it was preparing for undead magic.

In the fire of his soul, Locke silently chanted a long list of magical spells.

With the silent recitation of the magic spell, Locke's spiritual power was also constantly consumed, although it was not consumed, but it also made Locke sense the obvious weakening of his spiritual power. Locke was sensing the actions of the undead creatures while casting spells.

Fail. Because the actions of this undead creature were not affected in any way.

Locke didn't care about the failure of the first spell cast, the difficulty of the retardation technique, and Locke also knew it. When Locke was promoted to a second-level undead creature, Locke also studied the retardation technique for a few days, but there was no progress in the slightest.

Locke began to chant again, and the result was the same.

Fail.

Another failure.

......

Time passed, and Locke performed the Slowness technique over and over again. In the process of casting the spell, the magic power in Locke's body did not decrease in the slightest, but the spiritual power was constantly consumed. Although it is not consumed much at one time, but it is added up again and again, and Locke's spiritual power is also rapidly consumed.

In the blink of an eye, hours had passed, and such a long period of continuous and uninterrupted spell casting had only been experienced by Locke when he was studying the magic of the White Bone Shield. At a low level, even if Locke wanted to cast spells for hours in a row, his mental power would not be able to support him.

Hours of practice had almost exhausted Locke's mental power.

As a result, Locke had to stop casting spells and prepare to meditate, regain his depleted mental power, and continue to study retardation.

And the first-level undead creatures that Locke has been tracking have also been in instinctive fear, and can only move forward instinctively according to Locke's drive. He couldn't understand the intentions of the powerful undead creatures, and he didn't know what fate he was about to suffer.

Immediately, Locke stopped following the undead creature and began to meditate on the spot.

After losing his soul perception of Locke, this undead creature breathed a sigh of relief and continued to wander in the realm of the undead.

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